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by bloaf 1y ago
This doesn't follow, at least not in my understanding. Consider the following: Qualia are "what it 'feels like' to experience some sensory input." Up until recently, most LLMs were "once through" meaning
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by bloaf 1y ago
So I think there are a few subtle things packed into the Pope's statement. First: A lot of Catholic morality derives from the postulate that man was specially made by God and "in God's image" which gives man an inherent,
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by bloaf 1y ago
I feel like there are a few ways in which science could be advanced by AI models. 1. We have the sense that "science progresses one funeral at a time." An AI model could be used to recognize situations where a single viewpoint is
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by bloaf 2y ago
> And no, the US isn't "poised to withdraw from NATO". Nobody's even talking about that. Trump, the current president of the US, is. https://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-happen-us-leaves-... Con
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by bloaf 2y ago
It is not at all obvious to me that those scenarios are irrelevant today. * The US is poised to strongly take Israel's side in a conflict with Iran, which could easily evolve into either a misadventure, oil shock, or WW3 * The US is po
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by bloaf 2y ago
This isn't really true. Even mature, sophisticated attempts at making hierarchical classification systems (e.g. the UDC[0]) don't claim to have created a system where each document gets a unique leaf on a tree, and indeed instead
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by bloaf 2y ago
Sharepoint tries to push people towards tags, but doesn't always succeed.
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by bloaf 2y ago
For an example of harder-than-np-complete, I was shocked to find out how hard vector reachability is after being presented with a vector reachability problem and assuming I could just look up a reasonable-time algorithm. I incorrectly assum
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by bloaf 2y ago
There are some choices you can make that seem innocuous but dramatically increase the chances of lethal outcomes, like using corn or coconut. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXnSYfv6bCA https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by bloaf 2y ago
This is not at all obvious. Freezing veggies involves washing, cutting, and blanching processes and vegetables may be subjected to ultrasound during freezing to accelerate the process.
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by bloaf 2y ago
That's why I gravitate towards the 'hyper-palatable' label vs 'hyper-processed', to me it captures a more plausible set of criteria (engineered via fat/sugar/salt addition to maximize its appeal, etc) that
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by bloaf 2y ago
This is a shortsighted view. There are plenty of counterpoints, from things like documenting slaughterhouse practices to conservatives implementing policies while simultaneously limiting research into the outcomes of those policies. Obviou
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by bloaf 2y ago
Truly, the Tao was alive in that company. https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html
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by bloaf 2y ago
This guy’s videos are consistently great, they get a lot more technical than most other edutainment without getting bogged down.
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by bloaf 2y ago
So there is a pretty obvious analogy in chemistry: activation energy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_energy The ELI5 version is that atoms are all trying to find a comfy place to be. Typically, they make som
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by bloaf 2y ago
I’ve been running some LLMs on my 5600x and 5700g cpus, and the performance is… ok but not great. Token generation is about “reading out loud” pace for the 7&13 B models. I also encounter occasional system crashes that I haven’t diagno
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by bloaf 2y ago
So I’m going to play the devil’s advocate and say that concise code has a readability advantage in that you don’t need to keep track of intermediate variables or other state across hundreds of lines of code or multiple files. This was/
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by bloaf 2y ago
Don’t forget “Windows Live Mesh/Windows Live FolderShare/Live Mesh/Windows Live Sync/Windows Live Folders/Windows Live SkyDrive/SkyDrive/OneDrive” To be fair, they have mostly settled on OneDrive after the
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by bloaf 2y ago
I am a reasonably competent python coder, yet when I see stuff like this I regard it with the same suspicion as a switch in the "more magic" position. https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html
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by bloaf 3y ago
There has been no period in the past nearly 100 years[0] when these two groups have not been fighting. I'm not assigning anyone "victim" status. I'm saying Israel is trying to end the conflict, and has run out of other
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by bloaf 3y ago
There is a great reason for doing it: nothing else has worked. Unilateral withdrawal from Gaza led to the tripling of rocket attacks. Multiple peace offers have been rejected. Limited Israeli retaliation and extensive international aid ha
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by bloaf 3y ago
The Palestinians have a well documented history of using children in combat. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_child_suicide_bombers_b...
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by bloaf 3y ago
I believe my first "computer" could have been the toy version of the Tomy Tutor: https://www.nostalgianerd.com/tomy-tutor/
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by bloaf 3y ago
https://www.dolthub.com/ So I get what you're saying, but at the same time that means your business data can't ever include formulas. I've worked in areas where the formulas were business data (i.e. modelin
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by bloaf 3y ago
I think the current buzz in the VR space is the "Bigscreen Beyond" which eschews all of the nice-to-haves in order to make the headset as light as possible, and the result is surprisingly compelling.
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by bloaf 3y ago
I had an opposite experience. I was doing some new-to-me graph work in tcl and had just assumed the tcl standard library wouldn't have any graph algorithms. Come to find out I was wrong, and ended up saving myself a bunch of time not
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by bloaf 3y ago
I think this kind of haystack recall is going to be extremely valuable to large enterprises with massive volumes of standards/practices/technical documents. The status quo is that you have employees ingest and internalize this mat
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by bloaf 3y ago
Imagine a scenario where you've got a database of timeseries data, say stock prices. Each price trend is identified by the stock ticker, and your users have an excel spreadsheet of several thousand equations in terms of the stock tick
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by bloaf 3y ago
The biggest drawback of SymPy is the need to pre-define all your symbols. That makes it more difficult to handle scenarios where you're taking formulas as input because you either need to parse the equation yourself to figure out wha
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by bloaf 3y ago
Its a shame, because there is a lot of really cool stuff you can do when you're able to work with your code in algebraic terms. Just as one simple example: Suppose you have defined some expressions that describe how to read/write

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