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by bcoates 1y ago
Maybe torment nexus was taken
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by bcoates 1y ago
There's two obvious "legitimate" reasons to use credit: to smooth out expenditure volatility (a big purchase like a house, an emergency) and to smooth out income volatility (a temporary lack of a job). If you are suddenly san
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by bcoates 1y ago
Calling it a tax is about as enlightening as calling government insurance programs "ponzi schemes". A tax is a deadweight loss in one sector that (hopefully) funds something else in a (hopefully) net-worthwhile way. Calling a faci
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by bcoates 1y ago
But if you read the article, it doesn’t? bnpl makes its money off charging merchants a few points higher service fees than cards, which for a lot of merchants is worth it to close the deal. (Unstated in the article is that richer people wit
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by bcoates 1y ago
https://youtu.be/p2B7yYLn6Kg
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by bcoates 1y ago
Oof. My pool pump uses 0 watts, do I qualify? Not sure actively subsidizing recreational novelty uses of electricity is doing anything to save the planet
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by bcoates 1y ago
Serious question: has anyone here ever based a purchasing decision on energy star labelling? (As opposed to efficiency/power cost/TCO in general, specifically refusing to buy non-logoed goods)
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by bcoates 1y ago
"It looks like you’re trying to write a term paper at 2am the night before it’s due, do you want me to just put out some LLM slop and hope for the best?"
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by bcoates 1y ago
Clippy's popups were useless, but his chat interface actually worked fine (within the domian of MS office questions) things like "how do I add page numbers" or "count the paragraphs in my document") The pre-clippy
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by bcoates 1y ago
Are these GPU DCs entirely passive cooled? I'm surprised it's not cheaper to modulate all those compressor motors they presumably already have
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by bcoates 1y ago
All heat that is lost must be replaced (we must input enough heat that the device returns to T_initial) Hotter objects lose heat faster, so the longer we delay restoring temperature (for a fixed resume time) the less heat is lost that will
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by bcoates 1y ago
In the formal, information-theory sense, they literally don't, at least not on their own without further constraints (like band-limiting or bounded polynomial degree or the like)
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by bcoates 1y ago
Unless I'm missing something holding it hot is pure waste.
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by bcoates 1y ago
No, Wittgenstein's rule following paradox, Shannon sampling theorem, the law that infinite polynomials pass through any finite set of points (does that have a name?), etc, etc. are all equivalent at the limit to the idea that no amount
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by bcoates 1y ago
Ok, yeah, doing a little googling that makes sense. I kind of feel that the article author was burying the lede by saying this was about ML optimization where apparently regularization is the norm(so to speak lol) and basis selection is the
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by bcoates 1y ago
There's something I'm fundamentally missing here--if the standard basis and the Berenstain basis describe exactly the same set of polynomials of degree n, then surely the polynomial of degree n that minimizes the mean square error
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by bcoates 1y ago
Yeah, exactly. You don't need literal pipes
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by bcoates 1y ago
Why is the SQL syntax so unnecessarily convoluted? SQL is already an operator language, just an overly constrained one due to historical baggage. If you're going to allow new syntax at all, you can just do from customer left join
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by bcoates 1y ago
They convert text to embedding vectors and vice versa. So text->text transformations, autocomplete, adding a text input or output to another model (image generation/scene description), vector similarity search, things of this nature
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by bcoates 1y ago
Re:introvert/extravert I suspect it's the reverse. Extraverts, broadly, aren't afraid of picking up the phone and calling you to chat about the email they sent you three minutes ago while driving and also on mute in a zoom; i
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by bcoates 1y ago
That seems to indicate a catastrophically low bus factor--people get sick, take vacations, sleep, quit, etc. If you’re blocked on an IC doing anything other than finishing their task you've got a bigger problem than them going out of p
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by bcoates 1y ago
It’s honestly a little surprising that LLMs are good at information retrieval from their training set at all. (Specifically, it's not a surprise that they hallucinate-it's a surprise that sometimes they don't at rates better
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by bcoates 1y ago
Yelp reviews for doctors are all about how nice the doctors act and how much they tell the patients what they want to hear. It's not like people leave an "I died, 1 star" review.
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by bcoates 1y ago
That's a recipe for a tool that impresses the hell out of new/casual users but doesn’t work. It’s the same reason you should never choose an oncologist using yelp reviews.
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by bcoates 1y ago
You'll want to save money by shopping in bulk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train
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by bcoates 1y ago
Right, and then if you do literally anything with the output other than print() to a tty, it’s an escaping/injection attack. any_func(f"{attacker_provided}") <=> eval(attacker_provided), from a security/correctness
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by bcoates 1y ago
For me it's windows 7, if nothing else for being the first and last major Windows where Universal Search worked well. The Windows 8.x line gets some credit for having the strongest pen interface integration, which regressed significant
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by bcoates 1y ago
The expression (x) is eagerly evaluated in both cases, cuz that's how Python works. You can defer the format call but Python fundamentally doesn't have an equivalent of lazy/compile time flag argument evaluation and this does
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by bcoates 1y ago
Putting down my marker on the opposite. Once you're targeting a version of python that has t-strings, decent linters/libraries have an excuse to put almost all uses of f-strings in the ground.
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by bcoates 1y ago
No, it's exactly the opposite--f-strings are, roughly, eval (that is, unsanitary string concatenation that is presumptively an error in any nontrivial use) to t-strings which are just an alternative expression syntax, and do not even d

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