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by bloaf 3y ago
This is literally why VBA+excel are so pervasive: it’s a way to slap together a UI with no/minimal code. There is a vision of a future where non-CS engineers could function with an interface that’s basically a Jupiter notebook with “im
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by bloaf 3y ago
I've seen APL in use in industry for industrial simulation tools. I thought it was a pretty cool technical decision because of how good APL is at exactly the kind of vector math they were doing (I even offered to join their team just
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by bloaf 3y ago
I'm a little confused about how planning is different from vector reachability, which, from what I understand, has Ackermann complexity rather than EXPTIME. Can anyone help me out with the constraints on "planning" that allo
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by bloaf 3y ago
I think the "obvious" comment was a bit snarky, but out of curiosity, I posed the question to the Groq website which currently happens to be on the front page right now. (It claims to run Mixtral 8x7B-32k at 500 T/s) And ind
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by bloaf 3y ago
I have created the words: - Slimy Palm - Momfia - Sand-T-Rump - Stinkadult - Cheesus vs Jesus - Surfing Blues Brothers - Gnomeo and Juliet - Game of Thrones = Pornstar + Sword Fight - Putin = Stool (with poop emoji) + Russia
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by bloaf 3y ago
I am reminded of the scene in Idiocracy[1] where we see the receptionist picking conditions from a board containing a few dozen colorful icons. There certainly is a sense in which you could abstract e.g. medical diagnostics in a way that m
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by bloaf 3y ago
My three points are meant to be taken together. You might say that the toolmaker's job is to make a foolproof tool that does its job completely independently of the user's skill. But my third line denies this possibility in the c
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by bloaf 3y ago
Nero was the first Roman Emperor to use a ghost writer for his speeches, and it was considered the death of literacy. To be worthy to wield power over an empire, people said, one ought to be able to organize and express their thoughts. To
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by bloaf 3y ago
And it is a shame. The current AI explosion is the poorer for it, due to the greater difficulty of extracting the text from PDFs.
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by bloaf 3y ago
Even reading the signs is non-trivial, I drive several stretches of road where an access road runs parallel to a highway, and the 20mph lower speed limit signs for the access road are clearly visible from the highway and only slightly farth
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by bloaf 3y ago
Right, and I think the distinction he draws between this and engineering is interesting. My experience (as an engineer) is that engineers get paid to manipulate the world around them in precise, predictable ways. As such, they tend to cult
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by bloaf 3y ago
> Most older people don't do arts/sciences when they retire from work. This isn't my experience. I know a bunch of old folks doing woodcarving, quilting, etc. Its just not the kind of arts you've got in mind.
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by bloaf 3y ago
But "which methods, semantics, and modeling tools are preferred" is probably what you're trying to learn.
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by bloaf 3y ago
This is like criticizing someone's technical ability after they finished a Bob Ross painting course. The point was joyful self-expression. You can go make your own painting with no happy little trees if you want.
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by bloaf 3y ago
Write newspeak for goodthink.
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by bloaf 3y ago
Whether the Israeli's decisions are reasonable is a completely separate topic, and I think the answer is less clear. Because Palestine has no bargaining chips, a peace deal will involve Israel making unilateral concessions to Palestine
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by bloaf 3y ago
> Bill Clinton lamented Bibi's election I'm not saying Israel is blameless. But you must recall Bibi was literally elected because Palestinians began a wave of suicide bombings right before the Israeli elections, which swayed
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by bloaf 3y ago
> Neither has peace (Oslo). The peace was immediately undermined by groups who did not want to stop fighting. Look, the wikipedia article on the 1996 palestinian general election following the accords literally says, quote: The
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by bloaf 3y ago
I disagree. Palestinian terrorism is objectively counterproductive and driven by unreasonable domestic politics, not reasonable geopolitics. You can't be a successful politician in Palestine with a position of "lets make concessi
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by bloaf 3y ago
You're missing the point. If you're a politician, "making drug addicts not poison themselves" is a nice-to-have, but "making drug users not victimize others" is basically mandatory. Zero political parties are
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by bloaf 3y ago
Back in my day, when the Internet was good, we did.
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by bloaf 3y ago
https://www.projectprakash.org/_files/ugd/2af8ef_5a0c6250cc3... They studied people with treatable congenital blindness (dense congenital bilateral cataracts)
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by bloaf 3y ago
It's also worth remembering that blind humans who can recognize squares by feel do not have the ability to recognize squares by sight upon gaining vision. I suspect the model is bad at these kinds of "reasoning" tasks in the
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by bloaf 3y ago
I still type "yum install" instead of dnf, so I don't really use any of the newer distribution mechanisms.
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by bloaf 3y ago
I've tried a variety of linucies, but I keep coming back to Fedora. It frequently works the best "out of the box". It typically has the newest stuff. Googleability isn't quite as good as Ubuntu, but it's rare that
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by bloaf 3y ago
I think you can see the same thing about many sites that got popular around that time. People forget, but early reddit was pretty racist. For every lovely flash animation on sites like albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, etc, there were dozens of
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by bloaf 3y ago
With the laws Florida is toying with around trans youth in education, you think people here would be more understanding of the desire to be able to give the government's regulations the finger. Saying that the cost of giving persecuted
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by bloaf 3y ago
The evidence is weak, but currently leans towards "parents can and actually do a better job than the professionals." This includes parents with low incomes, and includes parents with low educational achievement. You categoriz
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by bloaf 3y ago
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-most-dangerous... This article makes a case that the statistics of small sample sizes has bamboozled many different well-intentioned groups, including the small school move
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by bloaf 3y ago
I've seen a lot of people hating on LOC as a measure of complexity, but I think there is a signal in the noise. I think it does a pretty good job of identifying if you're fighting your tech/language or doing things the "

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