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by bbminner 10mo ago
I have not looked into the HM algorithm much, but is there (an educational or performance wise) advantage over implementing a (dumb) SAT solver and expressing a problem as a SAT problem? It always seemed like the "natural representatio
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by bbminner 10mo ago
I would not say that this is due to a social media bubble - HN is the only social media i use, i have friends along the political spectrum, and still i can relate to many of the points that the author raised. At one point, I found myself in
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by bbminner 10mo ago
True! And yet, oddly enough, I'd argue that this obviously bad advice is, in a way, the expected online (corporate?) etiquette, that is being, for some odd reason, applied in the real world. It is akin to situations that several comics
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by bbminner 11mo ago
While llms accept json schemas for constrained decoding, they might not respect all of the constraints.
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by bbminner 11mo ago
I am surprised by how many people seemingly independently come up with a completely indescriptive "bad day" label - for the lack of a better one. Good that things are working out for you. Recently found that, on top of meds (that
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by bbminner 11mo ago
I've heard that to ship hl2 (or anything really) they had to stip some of that flatness somewhat.
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by bbminner 11mo ago
Seriously though, i doubt that "the rich across the globe" conspired to ban emergency currencies. I'd be curious to see a more in depth analysis of what are factors driving such local economies vs centralized currencies. Is i
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by bbminner 11mo ago
How come they eliminate competition? What if inheritance taxes are progressive?
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by bbminner 11mo ago
But the same applies to the person you are talking to - it is their job to reach out to you if they need help. It is not your job to prove anything to them by reaching out when (your heightened vigilance picks up that) something is off. I a
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by bbminner 11mo ago
I have been trying to manage other people's feelings and reactions for as long as i can remember. That's a self-soothing fantasy of sorts. With this mindset, you are naturally drawn to people who need such emotional management - a
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by bbminner 11mo ago
I think the artcle might be missing one core premise of ACT - that it is not meant to help you to deal with negative emotions it the moment all that much. The book on ACT I'm reading (happiness trap - from the founder of the technique)
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by bbminner 11mo ago
If people are talking about important personal matters, one might fall into the trap of thinking that one can understand another fully by asking more questions. Some authors argued that love and empathy starts precisely once you hit this bo
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by bbminner 11mo ago
Right, sql optimizers are a good example - in theory it should "just know" what is the optimal way of doing things, but because these decisions are made at runtime based on query analysis, small changes to logic might cause huge c
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by bbminner 11mo ago
I'd make a weaker statement - tinkering helps aquire (your personal) taste - not necessarily a good one.
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by bbminner 1y ago
Ah, I expected a graphics paper :)
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by bbminner 1y ago
It is difficult to understand the examples you described about "not reacting naturally" without a conocrete example of "thing A not working" and then "your thing working" in the same setup. A concrete real exam
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by bbminner 1y ago
Could you provide an example conversation that showcases the quality? For example either inferring states of npcs and re-ranking response options? Kind of reminds me of the social interaction puzzle in oblivion :)
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by bbminner 1y ago
Now that 90% of the work is done, it is only 90% of the work that remains :)
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by bbminner 1y ago
I suppose that's because higher level VPs at large companies have broad goals and even broader notion means. It is not necessarily bad - allows to fiddle with different approaches before locking in on a specific technique. Wasteful? Ye
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by bbminner 1y ago
Afaik the win of columnar storage comes from the fact that you can very quickly scan the entire column across all rows making very efficient use of os buffering etc. so queries like select a where b = 'x' are very quick.
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by bbminner 1y ago
Oh, my honest apologies then, Greg! :) I am not a native speaker myself. And as far as i can tell, the phrasing is absolutely grammatically correct, but there's some quality to it that registers as LLM-speak to me. I wonder how the cau
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by bbminner 1y ago
Re ending - while it probably alludes to the fact that we need community to feel better - expecting another person to be able to help you with your emotional state (or expecting from yourself that you might be able to fix someone's emo
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by bbminner 1y ago
Am I the only person who can sense the exact moment an LLM-written response kicked in? :) "sharing some of the test results/numbers you have would truly help cement this case!" - c'mon :)
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by bbminner 1y ago
Oh, that's the only way to write a good paper - first you write 1.5x pages to figure out what you want to say, and then, with this knowledge, you replace entite confusing paragraphs with short sentences focused on exactly that. When i
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by bbminner 1y ago
A real history of AI should start with Pierre-Simon Laplace developing a closed form solution to least squares in 18th century :)
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by bbminner 1y ago
I bet that the recent wave of VPN bans implemented in Russia also uses this tech. For example the mechanism of how suspicious websocket endpoints are being "knocked" by the firewall itself or how suspiciously traffic heavy ssh con
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by bbminner 1y ago
In the meantime, Russia erected a copy of the great Chinese firewall with DPI and everything - blocking YouTube, foreign news, most voice chat apps, most vpn traffic, and even actively dropping ssh connections when too much bidirectional su
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by bbminner 1y ago
Oh, i thought it was a satirical critique of how arbitrary promotion criteria can be. Turns out someone is seriously claiming that someone else "doesn't not feel the right way" about the work they do, and THAT is their core p
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by bbminner 1y ago
While I can share the sentiment, my small experience teaching (and studying the same area for over a decade) suggests that giving students a trivial formula to play with "as is" helps motivate its future usage well. It is difficul
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by bbminner 1y ago
Oh, it does sound exactly like a harpsichord, good point!

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