caditinpiscinam

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Fly Up the Delaware(inquirer.com)
2 points by caditinpiscinam 3mo ago|0 comments
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by caditinpiscinam 5mo ago
We have various methods of measuring individual intelligence (which are pretty sketchy imo). But do we have any way to measure or quantify the intelligence of the larger structures that mediate our thought? How do you measure the intelligen
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by caditinpiscinam 5mo ago
Generative AI is the average of all human knowledge
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by caditinpiscinam 6mo ago
UI note in case the creators of this site are reading: having a right-click on the site logo open a special logo-download menu is probably the wrong choice. If I right click on your site logo it's because I want to open your homepage i
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by caditinpiscinam 6mo ago
A whole new type of "vacuum tube"
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by caditinpiscinam 6mo ago
That data center is in the Memphis suburbs, 5 miles from the airport, in the third largest city in the state. Wouldn't call it rural
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by caditinpiscinam 6mo ago
That's still assuming that they're competing as consumer tools, rather than competing to discover the next miracle drug or trading algorithm or whatever. The idea is that there'd more profitable uses for a super-intelligent c
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by caditinpiscinam 6mo ago
Was "emptional" intentional, or a typo? Apparently it's a real word. > From emption + -al Adjective (obsolete, rare) Capable of being purchased
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
I think a lot of developers look at Typescript and come away thinking that a static type system is something you can retrofit onto any language. These devs ask why anyone would still want to use a dynamically typed language, as though stati
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
That seems like too much for a single person to do, but I can also see how having too many controllers all trying to coordinate amongst themselves could be bad. How do airports determine the optimal number of controllers to have at a given
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
This is the article I saw, but I agree it seems like its going much faster in the video https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/air-canada-crash-at...
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
Damn that's awful. I read elsewhere that the plane was only going 24mph when it hit the truck, and I didn't understand how the collision could have been that damaging, but I wasn't taking into account how much momentum a plan
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
Surely all of behavior and consciousness are encoded in the connections between cells. I think the question you want to ask is how much those connections are determined by DNA.
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
Am I right in thinking that even if you had all of the connections and weights mapped out for a brain, the specifics of synaptic plasticity are still pretty poorly understood?
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
"William and Mary" -- Roald Dahl https://user.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~ucoluk/yazin/William_and_Mary...
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
It surprises me how many applications don't give you the option to see your password in plain text as you enter it. The messaging around password security is that we should be making them complex and unique, but then password UIs make
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
You say progress, I say enshittification. What this article says: *The median apartment rent in Austin has dropped X% over the past 5 years* What this article does not say: *Apartments in Austin cost X% less to rent now than they did 5 year
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
Nah. Python gets it right; all high level languages should operate this way. Division by zero is a bug 90% of the time. Errors should never pass silently. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. IEEE floats should be a
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
There are no non-confusing options, but some of those are still clearly worse than others. What should sorted([3, nan, 2, 4, 1]) give you in Python? A) [1, 2, 3, 4, nan] is an good option B) [nan, 1, 2, 3, 4] is an good option C) An error i
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
Respectfully, I disagree. If NaNs were meant to represent unknown quantities, then they would return false for all comparisons. But NaN != NaN is true. Assuming that two unknowns are always different is just as incorrect as assuming that th
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
We've all heard the phrase "the sum of all human knowledge". I've been feeling more and more that generative AI represents the average of all human knowledge. Which has its place. But a future in which all thought and
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
This reminds me of conversations around plagiarism that come up when working with students: that question of "this other person expressed this idea better than I can, why can't I just use their writing"? Because I want to kno
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
Same. I vaguely remembered "fulmen" from Latin class but I didn't know there was a derived English word. > from Latin fulminatus, past participle of fulminare "hurl lightning, lighten," figuratively "to thun
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
You could put up a divider separating the drivers from the passengers... like in a taxi
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
I think you raise a valid point about the bias inherent in these models. I'm skeptical of the distinction that some people make between punching up vs down, and I don't think it's something that generative AI should be perpet
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
I don't think older British lady is in the cards for me but I get your point. One of my friends has a dog (a very cute little yorkie) who I take on walks fairly often. Let me tell you: I get so many people coming up to me wanting to
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
I agree that it's a sad state of affairs, and a self-fulfilling prophecy. Maybe I can explain my perspective in a little more detail. In my typical day at work (teacher), I spend hours talking with dozens of people. A large part of why
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
It makes me sad that my reaction to this piece is so cynical, but I really think that 90% of the "how" in this article is "be an older British lady". If you're missing that vital piece you'll quickly meet many
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
For what topics is it the best source of information?
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by caditinpiscinam 7mo ago
For me, Flock installing these cameras and other people taking them down are two sides of the same coin. One group puts cameras up in public without people's knowledge or permission, the other group takes cameras down without people&#x

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