bertylicious

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by bertylicious 2y ago
Disclaimer: I wholeheartedly hate all the systems they call AI these days and I hate the culture around it for technological, ecological, political, and philosophical reasons. I won't future-proof my career against LLMs at all. If I ev
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by bertylicious 2y ago
I'm very much impressed with this. I have never seen a programming language that allowed me to de/serialize functions. Let alone calculate the inverse of a function. If you're saying one or more languages with these features
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by bertylicious 2y ago
This depends a lot on what an eval step actually is. Could you give us an example or a reference to compare it to?
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by bertylicious 2y ago
Seems like people down-voted you for this "outrageous" opinion, but I agree. The people that do all the important work in our society (nurses, garbage collectors, cleaners, customer support, etc.) should get the highest income.
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by bertylicious 2y ago
The idea itself is so regressive and shaming, I don't find it surprising at all that the political right is drawn to it.
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by bertylicious 2y ago
I made the same mistake once. The only thing that helped against this burning sensation was washing my hands with benzine cleaning solvent. I reckon Schnaps would also have helped.
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by bertylicious 2y ago
Yes, I'm familiar with latex. That's why I was asking. Using an LLM to reformat/restructure your matrix data makes sense to me and this was the missing detail from your original post. I would be too paranoid about hallucinati
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by bertylicious 2y ago
Do you mind revealing the name of your "financial servic application" so we can stay clear of it?
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by bertylicious 2y ago
How do you generate "all the latex" in a latex document with "natural language"? What specifically did you generate? The whole research paper? What "boilerplate" are you talking about?
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by bertylicious 2y ago
This is what Horkheimer and Adorno called "instrumental reason" ("instrumentelle Vernunft").
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by bertylicious 2y ago
What do you mean not available? It's the same vaccine for men and women AFAIK. Or do you mean it's usually not paid for by health insurance? I (male) don't remember if I had to pay for the vaccine myself when I got vaccinated
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by bertylicious 2y ago
I wanted to see how it looks and what exactly it does without reading too much. Since you're offering a free trial I went for that. It was annoying that I had to create an account first, but I can see how that might be necessary. But n
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by bertylicious 2y ago
> I very strongly suspect that my non-verbal (performal) IQ is much higher (around 130) than my verbal IQ (around 100). I very strongly suspect that you're overestimating yourself.
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by bertylicious 2y ago
> A better way to implement CQRS is to separate commands/queries from their handlers and utilize an in-process messaging service to dispatch the command/query objects to their respective handlers. I hate this pattern from the v
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by bertylicious 2y ago
I really recommend doing the "Build your own git" challenge on CodeCrafters in order to gain a deep understanding of git internals. https://app.codecrafters.io/courses/git/overview
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by bertylicious 2y ago
> freedom produces more wealth than totalitarianism - which the US won > The problem with China is that the argument is much harder to win > What gets me is that this is not something to win on the battlefield Authoritarian state c
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by bertylicious 2y ago
Banksy doesn't really exist and all his paintings are actually an elaborate marketing campaign we don't understand yet.
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by bertylicious 2y ago
The title very much sounds like clickbait even if the article didn't turn out to be.
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by bertylicious 2y ago
I don't agree. One can easily imagine how the "a bool for every edge case" approach won't scale for long when extending an existing code base. Regardless if the language or IDE makes you see the names of the booleans or
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by bertylicious 2y ago
That's exactly the kind of thing I always hated about .net -- how the absence of a REPL forces me to create an executable for even the tiniest things. LINQPad solves this beautifully. Not sure if index ranges are inclusive or exclusive
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by bertylicious 2y ago
> If we come into contact with a significantly advanced life form it would certainly lead to ineffable destruction. This is such a very human thing to say. Why are you humans always projecting your own insecurities onto others like that?
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by bertylicious 2y ago
"Async void methods will crash the process if an exception is thrown" This is news to me. AFAIK one of the problems is that exceptions in that method will go unnoticed because they never reach the root thread when they occur. They
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by bertylicious 3y ago
Edited: wrong parent
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by bertylicious 3y ago
I reckon there were a lot more "firsts" involved in Apollo 11 or the JWT mission.
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by bertylicious 3y ago
You don't even realize how objectifying your wording is, do you?
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by bertylicious 3y ago
How do you mean? Do you mean source code? What's vague about that?
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by bertylicious 3y ago
Fair point. Maybe the term engineering has a tradition of being used in contexts that are not associated with hard science. Another example: the term "software engineering" was invented to point out the lack of scientific foundati
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by bertylicious 3y ago
Am I the only one appalled by the audacity to call the writing of vague instructions for an AI "engineering"? However many levels of indirection there might be at play.
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by bertylicious 3y ago
I've been using swipe for years now on my Android phones (currently a pixel 5). I hold the phone in one hand and use the thumb of the same hand to swipe. Feels much more effortless than "actual" typing. Especially when compar
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by bertylicious 3y ago
s/baby boomers/elderly/gi

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