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The issue that spawned the Python Regex split (2008)(bugs.python.org)
3 points by bbor 2y ago|2 comments
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by bbor 2y ago
Fascinating stuff -- the clearly gifted programmer seemingly came in out of the blue with thousands of lines of changes, which to this day have yet to be adopted into core python (though they do get a shout-out at the top of the official `r
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by bbor 2y ago
…source? I’ve literally never once met a capitalist leftist, only ones that still use the word to avoid alienating people, e.g. Sanders. No offense but I think this is a case of echo chambers in work impeding our discourse —- leftism is a
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by bbor 2y ago
Idk deleting a comment is kinda the definition of censorship. It’s not governmental censorship, but that’s not the only kind, just the worst one. Censorship is justified sometimes of course, tho I’m both sad and surprised that our two kin
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by bbor 2y ago
There are people trying this, both in simulated spaces and real ones - look into the “embodiment” camp if interested to see how they’re doing! There’s many experts who think AGI is unreachable without this, and I think the unexpected intuit
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by bbor 2y ago
Fair enough, well put to both of these responses! I’m certainly biased, and can see how the events that truly scare me (after already assessing the technology on my own and finding it to be More Important Than Fire Or Electricity) don’t mak
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by bbor 2y ago
I have no data, but I whole-heartedly agree. Well, perhaps not “scam”, but definitely oversold. One of my best undergrad professors taught me the adage “don’t expect a model to do what a human expert cannot”, and I think it’s still a good r
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by bbor 2y ago
Great question. Im very confident in my answer, even though it’s in the minority here: we’re not even close to exhausting the potential. Imagine that our current capabilities are like the Model-T. There remains many improvements to be made
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by bbor 2y ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65246394 there are both in-depth studies and anecdotal evidence that suggest hate speech has been growing under Mr Musk's tenure. https://www.socialmediat
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by bbor 2y ago
Of course, Tim Onion is primarily on Bluesky, other than to occasionally rile up Musk
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by bbor 2y ago
Oh man, you're in for a treat. Look up some videos on youtube, the classic being John Oliver's 2017 piece; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q . He's adjacent to the newly mainstream right, yes, but h
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by bbor 2y ago
Hmm NBC seems to imply that they purchased "Free Speech Systems", which is the parent company for the entire operation. Of course, who knows what they'll actually get other than the domain and copyrights -- Jones will just mo
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by bbor 2y ago
Great writeup, thanks! That Kadinsky quote is what set off alarm bells for me, as it seems like a quintessential failure case for laypeople understanding LLMs -- they take some basic, vague insights produced by a chatbot as profound discove
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by bbor 2y ago
Well... Markus J. Buehler is the McAfee Professor of Engineering and former Head of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He directs the Laboratory for Atomistic and Mole
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah it’s intuitive, but it’s the first confirmation of such a thing! Yay, science. They discuss the previously-plausible theory that echolocation provided local momentary info only, and didn’t translate into long term spatial memories. A s
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by bbor 2y ago
Ooo love this rabbit hole. I’ve always used “disclaimer” as “warning”, and would definitely use it for a conflict of interest, but technically the legal field uses it specifically for asserting a lack of liability (ish). Certainly interesti
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by bbor 2y ago
RAG! AFAICT it doesn’t do OCR off the shelf, but surely you could hook up Nougat/Tesseract/TOCR without too much difficulty and start parsing any PDFs that’s aren’t parsed yet.
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Wikipedia's list of 1401 Infobox Templates(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by bbor 2y ago|2 comments
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by bbor 2y ago
You ever start a new job and stumble upon some technical insanity hidden behind a smooth interface? That's how I feel about this page. Thought y'all would get a smile out of it. Some time long ago, some wiki editor said "What
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by bbor 2y ago
Well damn, that’s a lot more specific and empirical than I was expecting given the title. Fascinating stuff, talk about a useful setup for studying the issue! “AI is useless to many but invaluable to some” (as mentioned in the abstract) is
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by bbor 2y ago
I find it telling that “EdTech” is naturally assumed to be “classroom tools”. Talk about a lack of vision. The fine people at OMSCS are pioneering a fantastic new future for higher education, and it goes way beyond flash card systems and po
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by bbor 2y ago
Well put, all around! If it makes you feel better, state-funded education has, as a rule, pretty much always been babysitting. As we fight together for a brighter future, I think it’s important to know that we’re building something new and
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by bbor 2y ago
Fair enough, well said! I'm fighting a philosophical battle that's somewhat orthogonal to publishing writing, so "it's a virtue" is already a win for me. For any passers-by who might not realize, this kind young man
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by bbor 2y ago
Great convo, love all the details on both sides! There's shockingly little long-term study of executive dysfunction because it's so new, so I understand your dubiousness. I never read that before about neurotransmitter reuptake, b
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by bbor 2y ago
Well, it’s an inherently manipulative practice, no exceptions. If you sold something people truly wanted, you wouldn’t need a huge ad campaign, and if you did run one, you’d grow past it soon enough. Only a stuck/sinking firm would thr
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by bbor 2y ago
It’s less “reasoning” and more “market forces”. This is not intended as an endorsement of the absurd invisible hand of the market. In fact, quite the opposite: any successful firm is expected to leave the “lifestyle business” stage ASAP and
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by bbor 2y ago
Love the overall message, and you’ve obv got the HackerCreds to back it up, but I’ll throw an obligatory “what does it mean to force oneself to do something?” IMHO the idea that you can ‘force’ yourself to do things puts a moral/norm
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by bbor 2y ago
If I had to sum up the reason in one word, it would be laziness. Wild to read this from a modern perspective. It's like reading about women being shamed for being 'hysterical', or religious peasants blaming their natu
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by bbor 2y ago
Oh hey, this person! The 'Books as software' post has made the rounds on here a few times since its publication in 2006, if I recall correctly, and it's always a controversial+fascinating conversation. They're certainly
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by bbor 2y ago
To be clear: INFTech is a for-profit (I think…?) firm out of Shanghai, and MAP is an international FOSS collective ( https://m-a-p.ai/about ). Speaking generally, a lot of software engineering worldwide is done in English,

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