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by bmitc 2y ago
> The source of his confusion That's a fairly strong claim when referring to one of the greatest physicists and deepest yet wide ranging thinkers of the 20th century.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Ah, I guess that makes sense. According to a quick search, it seems ground-penetrating radar didn't reach common use until the 70s.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I'm not sure. What is to be gained over leaving a bomb buried, if you know about it? Because then, it could go off at any time versus doing a controlled detonation or remotely disarm it.
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by bmitc 2y ago
When I read the headline, I was wondering why in the world a bomb was being taxied on a runway, like on a cargo plane. However, now I'm wondering how a bomb wasn't discovered when the airport was built. From the video posted elsew
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by bmitc 2y ago
"No low balls. I know what I have."
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by bmitc 2y ago
But many times, such top-down structure cannot work, especially if your program interacts with external systems, such as hardware. In such systems, you need a model in your program that is very similar to biological systems. For example, a
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by bmitc 2y ago
Yes, to rescue two other people stranded on the ISS who were supposed to return home weeks ago.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Calling Python's design "poor" is hubris. Not in the least. Python is a poorly designed language by many accounts. Despite being the most popular language in the world, what language has it significantly influenced? None
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by bmitc 2y ago
Pretty easy to say when you got an app that prints money by stealing data.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Check this course out: https://www.edx.org/learn/coding/university-of-british-colum... I think you'll really like it. It uses Racket and is based upon the How to Design Programs book. It is absolutely perfe
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by bmitc 2y ago
No, asyncio's implementation exists because threading in Python has huge overhead for switching between threads and because threads don't use more than one core. So asyncio was introduced as a single threaded solution specifically
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by bmitc 2y ago
In F#, it would just be let results = files |> Array.Parralel.map processFile Literally that easy. Earlier this week, I used a ProcessPoolExecutor to run some things in their own process. I needed a bare minimum of synchronizati
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by bmitc 2y ago
No way that's possible or even desirable with Python's OOP and mutable nature and scoping structure.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Easily is an overstatement. Multiprocessing is fraught with quirks.
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by bmitc 2y ago
That's not really correct. Python is by far the slowest mainstream language. It is embarrassingly slow. Further more, several mainstream compiled languages are already multicore compatible and have been for decades. So comparing agai
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by bmitc 2y ago
The tech community loves shady people and plain doesn't care. Look at where Musk is today. He's been lying and being an idiot for years. It's not like people didn't know about Altman. Yet, he somehow landed these extreme
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by bmitc 2y ago
There was PR article after PR article about how he originally had no equity/stock in OpenAI.
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by bmitc 2y ago
No, it doesn't. You can read more when that was first posted to Hacker News. If I recall and understand correctly, they're just using the output of sublayers as training data for the outermost layer. So in other words, they'r
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by bmitc 2y ago
How exactly does a blog post from OpenAI about a preview release address my comment or make fancy autocomplete comparisons untenable?
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by bmitc 2y ago
In my opinion, the risks are from people treating something that is decidely not AGI as if it is AGI. It's the same folly humans repeat over and over, and this will be the worst yet.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I continue to be surprised by the talk of general artifical intelligence when it comes to LLMs. At their core, they are text predictors, and they're often pretty good at that. But anything beyond that, they are decidely unimpressive. I
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by bmitc 2y ago
How hard is it to get an LCD panel professionally cut with holes in it?
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by bmitc 2y ago
I don't think that's true, certainly not in my experience. My LG OLED has burn in for something that's rarely on the screen.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> In usual conversation “is your phone unlocked?” could mean 1 or 3 Is that really something that gets confused often or any more often than any other disambiguation in the English language?
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by bmitc 2y ago
I've never heard of this disambiguation. An unlocked cellphone has always meant (1). A rooted or jailbroken phone means (2). For three, why would it make sense for manufactures to advertise a phone with/without a lock screen? It d
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by bmitc 2y ago
That's actually insanely cheap for a font as well.
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by bmitc 2y ago
From looking at the game since I didn't know what Palworld was, most of the characters are indistinguishable from Pokemon.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Isn't that a lot of work and a negation of the purpose of fast shipping?
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by bmitc 2y ago
That may or may not be counterfeit.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I experience that as well. But the way I see to combat it is that working from home gives me more energy to go out on my own terms like taking classes, volunteering, etc.

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