betenoire

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by betenoire 2mo ago
Same, I was one of them, too. It used to feel like a place you'd discover things. Now we are led to them.
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by betenoire 2mo ago
Google Reader going away felt like the beginning of the end the internet as I knew it. I miss websites
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by betenoire 3mo ago
exactly how I feel every time I weed the yard. I'll end up with a pile of weeds, look over my work and see weeds everywhere still
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by betenoire 6mo ago
I think you are misunderstanding the term "deterministic". Running on deterministic hardware does not mean an algorithm is deterministic. Create a program that reads from /dev/random (not urandom). It's not determis
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by betenoire 6mo ago
just text !== syntactically correct code that solves a defined problem There is a world of difference between translation and generation. It's even in the name: generative AI. I didn't say anything about magic.
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by betenoire 6mo ago
Said another way, compilers are a translation of existing formal code. Compilers don't add features, they don't create algorithms (unrolling, etc., notwithstanding), they are another expression of the same encoded solution. LLMs a
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by betenoire 7mo ago
I was thinking of our natural reluctance to adopt newer and better tools because of our comfort and expertise with old ones. I know I should have experimented with LLMs sooner, but leaned into my instinctive "VIM has gotten me this far
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by betenoire 7mo ago
> arrested development is the dark side of strengths in the sense of Positive Psychology I see some correlation here to hesitancy in adopting LLMs for coding.
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by betenoire 8mo ago
Right, it doesn't help pay the bills to be right in the long run if you are discarded in the present. There exists some fact about the true value of AI, and then there is the capitalist reaction to new things. I'm more wary of a l
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by betenoire 1y ago
I understand there are probabilities and shortcuts in weather forecasts.... but what part is non-deterministic?
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by betenoire 1y ago
what? I don't see ads unless the creator themselves are doing it, and even then it's two clicks on the right arrow button and we move on
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by betenoire 1y ago
I'm with you, I enjoy the craftsmanship of my trade. I'm not relieved that I may not have to do it in the future, I'm bummed that it feels like something I'm good at, and is/was worth something, is being taken away.
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by betenoire 1y ago
In my experience, it's xml-ish and HTML can be described the same way. The relevant strength here is the forgiving nature of parsing tag-delimited content. The XML is usually relatively shallow, and doesn't take advantage of any t
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by betenoire 1y ago
counterpoint, and I know it's not apples to apples, but have you ever used an old terminal app? Buffering the key strokes and then applying them _once_ the menu was ready was awesome. You could move so fast through an app
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by betenoire 1y ago
I do both of those, it's a constant battle in my own head. I'm always reminding myself that it's ok to make music just for my own enjoyment, and that don't need a potential monetary angle for some hobby. I'm not jus
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by betenoire 1y ago
"magic quotes" have entered the chat :D
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by betenoire 1y ago
I think they understand that, and are referring to more nuanced side effects. Logging, for an example, is a side effect, same with even using a date function. Hitting an API endpoint without cache may be functional if the response never cha
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by betenoire 2y ago
Really? You don't think there is a middle ground? Are the cops watching this fight or hearing about or later?
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by betenoire 2y ago
almost is the key term here, yes, it depends on the situation causing the panic.
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by betenoire 2y ago
you can't think of an example where it doesn't? I can. I'm not saying there is any virtue to it, but panic can subside without having had negative side effects on anything other than your mood
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by betenoire 2y ago
both "screwed up" and "perfect" are judgements calls/perspectives, and panicking isn't going to change things (panic doesn't necessarily make something worse either)
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by betenoire 2y ago
"perfect" is a weird word to use in stoicism, but I do think it can be used to justify that things "are the way they are" and shrug it off with some visualization.
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by betenoire 2y ago
agreeing to change and agreeing how to change aren't the same thing at all though
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by betenoire 2y ago
thank you!
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by betenoire 2y ago
the imgur link is bad, but I hadn't noticed the prompt tucked away in those reference images and that helps. Thanks (I had asked for a rock climber dangling from a rope, eating a banana, and they were wildly nonsensical images)
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by betenoire 2y ago
Here is the demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/ChenDY/NitroFusion_1step_T2I I'm unable to get anything that looks as good as the images in the README, what's the trick for good image prompts?
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by betenoire 2y ago
I don't know why you are being downvoted. My father was a cop, went through the academy when I was 15. I distinctly remember him explaining to me about how they are taught to lie to get people to cross their stories up.
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by betenoire 2y ago
Police lie all the time, but this is police _implying_ a lie. To me it (clearly?) read as if they were keeping their cards close to their chest, not saying either way.
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by betenoire 2y ago
Grouping humans into 16 categories is pseudo science. The idea that we have traits and tendencies is not, and these things help us understand our own biases if we choose.
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by betenoire 2y ago
> shape’s volume dwindles to zero, while its surface area grows infinitely large I think it's easy to grok when you get it, but that's certainly counter-intuitive on the surface, no?

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