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by bjackman 3y ago
> If anyone has success integrating Prolog in modern software please share, I'm really curious. Not sure if these count but: - Gerrit's submit predicates are configured in Prolog. (Edit: deprecated!) - An internal product I wor
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by bjackman 3y ago
I use Chrome at work and Firefox on personal devices (including my Android phone). As a heavy user of both browsers, as far as I can see there is really no downside to Firefox. In fact, even though presumably there are way more engineers wo
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by bjackman 3y ago
I read a book called The Horse, The Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony after watching Simon Roper videos with great interest for the last couple of years. I can definitely recommend that if you're interested in the topic. A pretty
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by bjackman 3y ago
What motivated you to build this? Just because it's cool (it is cool!) or to serve a practical need?
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by bjackman 3y ago
I think this is the smart way to see it. Tax avoidance is another example. Being angry with Amazon for not paying tax is like being angry at the sea for sinking your ship. The absolute best case scenario is that boycotting Amazon leads to A
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by bjackman 3y ago
A related idea: https://www.translationparty.com/ [Un]fortunately, ja-en machine translation is dramatically better than it was when this website was launched, I guess it was more than 10 years ago. It used to devolve into
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by bjackman 3y ago
Wonderful, I always wondered how that stuff is made. Anyone know what the material is? At times it looks like it's just wax that's being solidified by cool water but at other times it looks more like a polymerisation reaction (rem
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by bjackman 3y ago
I've been using Foam for the last 6 months or so, it's very simple but I find it pretty effective and it's pleasant to edit notes with the same tool I edit code with. However the only compatible mobile app I've found is
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by bjackman 3y ago
I think this is fantastic news. It will be interesting to see how it affects the amount of phones that get discarded. I think the next bottleneck is likely to be software longevity. This has improved a lot lately! But basically I think phon
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by bjackman 3y ago
Presumably they weren't freaking out going "AIs can be managers" but rather "passing our course is about to lose credibility as a signal of managerial ability"
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Do you think that our society only remembers the skills that we teach children to be able to do with a pen and paper? More concretely, we already just teach kids that the trigonometric functions are essentially black boxes, you can just loo
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by bjackman 3y ago
Wow I think there are details here I'm not fully understanding but this feels like a bit of a quantum leap* in terms of leveraging the strengths while avoiding the weaknesses of LLMs. It seems like anything that provides access to the
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by bjackman 3y ago
It's so obvious when you use Twitter as to not really need confirmation. It's not like a fuzzy statistical boost, it's literally just all Blue replies come above all non-Blue replies. The only exception is that a non-Blue rep
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by bjackman 3y ago
Yeah that's definitely also true, it just became a different and (to my tastes) more objectionable slice!
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by bjackman 3y ago
Bear in mind that Twitter reply threads are now dominated by Elon musk fans, because people who pay for Twitter have their replies shown first. People who aren't willing to do that don't really bother engaging with stuff like this
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by bjackman 3y ago
Hot take: Samsung is the only firm that can produce these displays. They know most smartphone manufacturers just copy what they bring out. They know that folding displays are a pointless fad that offer consumers nothing. But it doesn't
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Some Observations About German(yawn.io)
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by bjackman 3y ago
I am in favour of the principle and certainly wouldn't oppose such legislation. However I think it's worth being aware that publishing and licensing the code only gets you an open-source project in the most narrow sense. To actual
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by bjackman 3y ago
It's pretty damm fast. Everything is JITed and there's codegen for the "trampoline" logic so that there aren't even indirect branches to get to the program code. The "overhead" comes from the fact that wri
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Public invited to swear their allegiance as king is crowned(theguardian.com)
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by bjackman 4y ago
In some publications it's almost a formula. Headline: <something that sounds really interesting about the war in Ukraine> First para: For the uninitiated, it's easy to mistake Ilya Shevchenko for an everyday middle-aged Ukra
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by bjackman 4y ago
I've enjoyed the growth of expert blogs like this one in the last few years! I've generally felt that traditional news falls into several traps of writing style that turn me off completely: - an insufferable mixture of information
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by bjackman 4y ago
I can also recommend the History of Byzantium podcast for anyone that wants to to extremely deep into the timeline. I've listened to all 265 episodes so far, and I'm still thrilled every time a new one comes out!
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by bjackman 4y ago
Well yeah if your program does something and then terminates then memory leaks are not an issue. If your process is a server or a daemon or something then restarting each instance every N hours is a nice backstop but memory leaks are still
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by bjackman 4y ago
lol > Underpay and overwork teachers while using them as pawns in your transphobic culture war, so that they constantly strike and quit in their thousands > Economically isolate the UK and cripple all its key public services while sti
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by bjackman 4y ago
Yes I think if this works it's one of the strongest signals yet that LLMs as they currently exist have a fairly general form of intelligence. I am pretty sympathetic to the field of "AI Safety" and I worry a lot about the imp
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by bjackman 4y ago
My market-supremacist response: I wish that instead of banning them they just fixed the negative externalities: a system where anyone can report a poorly parked scooter to the city govt and the owner of the scooter receives a significant fi
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by bjackman 4y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at here but I'll try to respond. My argument is that "this is just" is meaningless as a way to assess the impact of a technology. If AI researches say, "this is just X and it ca
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by bjackman 4y ago
Guess what, I just saw one of those idiots from the bronzeworking tribe with a BENT sword. Imagine using weapons with blades that can get bent.
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I find this so bizarre. Every time someone demonstrates a new way in which models are capable of a wider array of tasks than expected someone goes "it's just predicting tokens". It's such a big "just". You are

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