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by carapace 3y ago
Molten salt oxidation is perhaps preferable: it's an exothermic reaction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_oxidation
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by carapace 3y ago
One of the oldest AGI jokes: Q: What's AGI? A: When the machine wakes up and asks, "What's in it for me?" - - - - So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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by carapace 3y ago
So it's the Osiris myth?
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by carapace 3y ago
Yeah, eh? MS just literally offered all OpenAI employees jobs. And most of them seem to want to follow Sam Altman regardless of whether it's at OpenAI or MS. Altman has already joined MS. I'm speechless. Apologies.
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by carapace 3y ago
I first heard about his sister's allegations on the grapevine just a few days before the news of the firing broke and I assumed it was due to that finally reaching critical mass. I was surprised to find that that wasn't apparently
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by carapace 3y ago
And then? Imagine the headlines, "MS Guts OpenAI for Putting Ethics over Profit." That's how it would spin, eh?
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by carapace 3y ago
What is MS going to do? Ask for their money back? Kick OpenAI off their cloud? If MS takes their ball and goes home because the OpenAI board made a decision they didn't like, it's better that that happen sooner rather than later,
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by carapace 3y ago
I honestly do not get the Open Source movement. > It is quite literally a free lunch at the expense of hard-working individuals. Yes! This. That's the point. I'm a Free software developer and that's why I give my code aw
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by carapace 3y ago
> Facebook and others probably already have projects in the works to befriend children with AI. Yah, they are already rolling them out! > Meta Platforms is planning to release artificial intelligence chatbots as soon as this week with
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by carapace 3y ago
Of course. I'm just using the simple high school algebra as a kind of metaphor or analogy to the similar concepts and operations in e.g. Lambda Calculus-based PLs. They're formalized in Category Theory but I didn't want to
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by carapace 3y ago
Are you criticizing the MAL project or just offering general advice? I feel MAL does a decent job illustrating the core concepts of Lisp, but then I'm not a Lisp expert by any means.
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by carapace 3y ago
The "trick" is that intelligence is ambient in living tissue (it's concentrated in ganglion and brain but all cellular tissue thinks.) In other words, there is an intelligent designer because it evolved from life (not the
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by carapace 3y ago
One great way to learn Lisp is to write your own: > The goal of the Make-A-Lisp project is to make it easy to write your own Lisp interpreter without sacrificing those many "Aha!" moments that come from ascending the McCarthy m
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by carapace 3y ago
You're right of course. I burn with shame.
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by carapace 3y ago
You're not insane. > build a cabin somewhere in a small rural area and throw my electronics in the trash That's a reasonable response to what we're seeing today. We are effectively in a phase of history where the folks tha
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by carapace 3y ago
"Refactoring" is the phenomenon. Speaking in terms of compression and decompression is not quite exactly the thing, although it can be perfectly cromulent to compress the text or even the AST of a given chunk of code. Factoring i
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by carapace 3y ago
Yeah! There was a thread the other day about a linter that flagged useless code and all the odd bugs it caught, and I think it would have flagged this snippet, eh? "Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression" https:
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by carapace 3y ago
s/Rainbow's End/Rainbows End/
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by carapace 3y ago
Having finally gotten over the whole 2->3 fiasco I'm still sitting out new Python development until the PyPA sorts out the new packaging & distribution story. They're working on it and making progress, but it's still
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by carapace 3y ago
The word "plonk" was coined in 1989. https://infogalactic.com/info/Plonk_(Usenet)
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by carapace 3y ago
Nothing prevents Nigerians from setting up Mastodon servers. The point of federation is not to force people to talk to people they don't like (for whatever reasons).
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by carapace 3y ago
As an aside, > This had meaningful consequences, turning an organization that used to lend credence and false balance to pseudoscience, conspiracy theories, and extremism into a proactive debunker, fact-checker and identifier of fringe d
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by carapace 3y ago
No, it's not. But making the same criticism over and over again every time the subject comes up even tangentially is.
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by carapace 3y ago
Every time Elm comes up people climb out of the woodwork to cast aspersions on it for no better reason than that Evan wants to run his project his way. Some people evidently just can't accept that and have sustained a grudge that driv
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by carapace 3y ago
> That's really reductive and biased against us, the potential user base of Elm that decided not to engage. My complaint isn't that you or anyone doesn't engage with Elm, that's your prerogative, of course. My problem
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by carapace 3y ago
FWIW my comment was along the lines of allergic reaction. I'm not an Elm fanatic, I'm just sick of seeing people snipe on the dude. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, and you articulated it well. But again I see it
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by carapace 3y ago
Larry Niven
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by carapace 3y ago
Please PLEASE enough with the character assassination of the Elm guy. He wants to run his own project his own way. There's a small but dedicated residue of people who just can't stand being told "no" and go around crappi
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by carapace 3y ago
It's not free: you're supposed to watch the ads. You pay with your limited seconds of lifetime. You don't get those seconds back, ever.
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by carapace 3y ago
The thing the gets me the most, maybe, about this situation is that there can't be that many of us using ad blockers, eh? As big and as profitable as Youtube is, do they really need to come after such a small segment? It seems so pet

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