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by bloaf 8mo ago
This thing was done in 2 weeks. In the orgs I've worked in, you'd be lucky to get HR approval to create a job posting within 2 weeks.
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by bloaf 8mo ago
"I have no tools because I've destroyed my tools with my tools" is a phrase I think to myself at least weekly.
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by bloaf 9mo ago
We all know there has been a replication crisis across many different disciplines of science. I think that the set of things we actually know about nutrition and health is a lot smaller than the experts think. However, the problem is that
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by bloaf 10mo ago
> Nowhere else can you get scientific computing, a GUI toolkit, a high level embedded software environment, a HiL/SiL toolkit, a model based simulation environment, a plotting and visualization toolkit and so much more in a single c
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by bloaf 10mo ago
I have a computer running fedora with a 5080 GPU. The newer games all work fine (e.g. cyberpunk 2077, BG3). The really old games mostly work fine (e.g. system shock 2, original Deus Ex) . The in-between games... are really hit-or-miss (
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by bloaf 10mo ago
> The harms engendered by underestimating LLM capabilities are largely that people won't use the LLMs. Speculative fiction about superintelligences aside, an obvious harm to underestimating the LLM's capabilities is that we cou
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by bloaf 10mo ago
> When you have a thought, are you "predicting the next thing"—can you confidently classify all mental activity that you experience as "predicting the next thing"? So notice that my original claim was "prediction
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by bloaf 10mo ago
And the big players have built a bunch of workflows which embed many other elements besides just "predictions" into their AI product. Things like web search, to incorporating feedback from code testing, to feeding outputs back int
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by bloaf 10mo ago
Everyone is out here acting like "predicting the next thing" is somehow fundamentally irrelevant to "human thinking" and it is simply not the case. What does it mean to say that we humans act with intent? It means tha
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by bloaf 10mo ago
I'll make the following observation: The contra-positive of "All LLMs are not thinking like humans" is "No humans are thinking like LLMs" And I do not believe we actually understand human thinking well enough to mak
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by bloaf 10mo ago
As someone who regularly looks up things I read "a while back," her experience is very common and insanely frustrating. There always do exist magic combinations of words that you can put into google that will find the thing you&#x
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by bloaf 11mo ago
On android, KDE Connect felt great for basic copy/pasting/file transfer between devices. https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ On iOS, KDE Connect feels like its running a potato sack race with both arms tied behind its bac
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by bloaf 1y ago
So tcl handles it somewhat more elegantly, I think. It also has a set function, but does not require any special quoting because it uses the $ prefix to denote "get the value of this symbol": set a 5 puts $a #prints 5
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by bloaf 1y ago
> Rye also has left to right flow so it adds left-set-word. In Rye all assigned words with set-words are constants and they are used by default. So we also need a "mod-word", that is the double colon that you noticed, and left-
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by bloaf 1y ago
Certainly: I can tell the rye devs like the idea of everything being a function. But in their very first "language basics" section, they introduce assignment not as a function call, but as some kind of magic that happens when y
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by bloaf 1y ago
I checked the Rye homepage, and it has "dialects" which allow more familiar math infix notation. In that sense it is very tcl-y, tcl technically being a lisp. Looking at their rather confusing looping mechanisms, they probably co
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by bloaf 1y ago
Most radio stations are simulcast online, so strictly speaking you can get the same content without an fm tuner https://radio.garden
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by bloaf 1y ago
I think it is important to remember that "decades" here means <20 years. Remember that in 2004 it was considered sufficiently impossible that basically no one had a car that could be reliably controlled by a computer, let alone
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by bloaf 1y ago
You're not thinking like a salesman. The value of vague is that you can make your product sound like it is the fulfillment of that prediction in ways that you can't do if the prediction is too concrete. No one is quite sure what
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by bloaf 1y ago
So I think the author is right regarding current sales pitches, but also wrong about the long term impact. There is nothing on the market today that would be anything but an incremental improvement in an already existing capability. Howeve
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by bloaf 1y ago
There are definitely sites which block firefox, even though they work fine in firefox. Most of the time, the block can be bypassed with simple user-agent spoofing.
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by bloaf 1y ago
I don't think its nearly as cut-and-dry as that. Even if you tried to make tests to differentiate world-model from non-world-model, all you'd end up concluding is: If the AI has a world model, its world-model doesn't have
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by bloaf 1y ago
This is great. For a long time I've had a gut feeling that there must exist a synthesis between pure functional, array, and data-oriented programming that gives you the best of all worlds: Type safety, concise-to-the-point-of-terse co
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by bloaf 1y ago
> The Church's understanding of morality draws heavily from natural law theory. This is true, although I do want to draw a bit of a distinction between the churches understanding-qua-official-teaching, and understanding-qua-what-act
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by bloaf 1y ago
It sounds to me like you're drawing distinctions without a difference. Aquinas, in his Summa, makes a series of assertion-of-fact about souls. Specifically, he claims that the soul explains (or "is the principle of") certain
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by bloaf 1y ago
> Vitalism is utterly foreign to anything found in Aquinas or Aristotle. This is simply not true, and I've quoted the passages from Aquinas that explicitly assert metaphysical differences between living and non-living matter in th
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by bloaf 1y ago
I am quite familiar with Ed Feser, I refer to his writings often. Indeed, Aquinas is using the soul the way that modern scientists use "dark matter". Except where the modern problem is unexpected rates of universal expansion, Aqu
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by bloaf 1y ago
> No, it just claims that human souls are created differently than animal souls That's... not much different than what I said (which was that humans are extra special)? I think it was in the early 1900s that the church Magisterium
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by bloaf 1y ago
I did elaborate, in that very post. I read Aquinas and realized that the whole ancient conception of a soul is tied together with the ancient concept of vitalism. Within vitalism you need something to explain why living matter is different
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by bloaf 1y ago
I won't deny that there are watered down versions of the Thomistic soul that are agnostic with respect to the physicality or super-naturality of things like digestion, but Aquinas himself is quite clear: > The lowest of the operatio

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