bradley13

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by bradley13 3y ago
CS and ML are my field, although I'm no longer active in research. I always made a code archive available. Want to replicate? Download and run. This should be standard now, in the age of GitHub, GitLab, et al. If a paper discusses an i
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by bradley13 3y ago
Having just done some soldering yesterday, may I say: I am a bit appalled at the idea of soldering irons having (or needing) firmware. Mine, I plug it in, it gets hot, and I solder things.
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by bradley13 3y ago
You're right: low performing kids get the attention and resources. The kids doing well "don't need help." Which is just wrong. The gifted kids are far more likely to contribute significantly to our future. Boring them, s
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by bradley13 3y ago
As long as your evil prompt is not permanently changing the LLM, this is harmless. If you want to know how to do <bad thing>, the information is out there. You can trick an LLM into giving it to you, so what? One commenter says it cou
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by bradley13 3y ago
Web standards are a part of the problem that few people think about. Existing rendering engines grew along with the standards. However, the standards (especially CSS) have become so absurdly complex that implementing a new engine would be n
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by bradley13 3y ago
He's not wrong: to-do apps don't provide any sort of motivation. On the other hand, at least for those of us with unreliable memories, lists are essential. However, it is too easy to spend too much time with the lists. They are ju
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by bradley13 3y ago
Seems obvious enough: a static website runs no server-side code to generate content, because the content is already complete. Perhaps more debatable, but I would also say no client-side code should be used. Just HTML, CSS, and static media
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by bradley13 3y ago
Um...I think his point is clear? First, you understand your data, and decide how to represent it. Only then can you write code to work with that data. Poor programmers dive into methods and algorithms, and then try to force their data to ma
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by bradley13 3y ago
Why? Old languages must remain around for legacy support. However, it's hard to see the point of shoe-horning all those modern features into an old language. I write a lot of Java, and really, almost everything since Java 8 should not
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by bradley13 3y ago
The requested URL did not exist, so the server must return some response other than 200. It could be not-found, it could be forwarding, or it could be something else. However, 200 (success) is simply wrong.
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by bradley13 3y ago
Honestly, this is true of most creative activities. Playing an instrument? Singing? Painting? Drawing? Almost everyone has some sort of creative activity they enjoy. The enjoyment comes in part from the lack of pressure. The activity doesn&
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by bradley13 3y ago
Seems like more of what we've seen: a quantum system is really good at...simulating a quantum system. Water us wet, whoopie.
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by bradley13 3y ago
Great, if cynical article. If you have a company that chases fads, you need to work for a better company. Find one where the older developers aren't 30-something. Usually, gray hair brings a certain immunity to fads.
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by bradley13 3y ago
Schumer knows nothing about the topic. He does have corporate consultants helping him out, with wallets in hand. This is being driven by the big companies, seeking to erect barriers to competition.
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by bradley13 3y ago
May vary by country, but we added both of our adult children on our safe deposit box. They should have full access regardless.
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by bradley13 3y ago
According to the article, "rising labor costs are the bulk of increased construction costs". Yet we are talking about cost increasing by hundreds of percent. The question the article does not really pose is: how much of that labor
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by bradley13 3y ago
Trying to attribute intelligent intent where there is none. ChatGPT just puts tokens in order, following amalgamated examples it has seen. When it screws up, we call it a hallucination. With careful prompting, you can get it to screw up in
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by bradley13 3y ago
Interesting article. It pretty much shows that Copilot is just a dumb text-completion engine. Copilot really is just regurgitating texts that are in someone's repository (or, possibly, a combination of repositories). ChatGPT, for all i
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by bradley13 3y ago
Can confirm. While I don't do many websites anymore, I used to, and have since Google was the new kid on the block. I recently put up a new site, and...nothing. As the author said, I finally had to force each individual page to index.