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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   I always explain this with binary digits. You can always construct a new one from the diagonal by flipping each bit. I think the smaller domain {0,1} instead of {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9} keeps people from getting distracted and trying to find a
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   I thought it was legal to film police?
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   You've moved the goalposts from, "we should assume that predictive text models are sentient," to, "we should be wary of programs explicitly designed to interact unpredictably with other computer systems," something
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   > What could go wrong? Great question! These are predictive models that accept a text query, do some matrix math, and then return some text. At what point in that server-client relationship does this algorithm jump the rails and run amok
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   > That definition seems arbitrary to me; many humans wouldn’t pass this test. What part of this is arbitrary, i.e. random, whimsical, or biased? This is a fairly comprehensive working definition of "agency". "Internally ge
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   Sure! Why not? Quantum foam imagining quantum foam. I love it. I still wouldn't consider an LLM god-like. I mean, if it eats its own son, then maybe. (Titan of a reference there.)
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   I'm using agency in this context to mean: (1) a strong desire to achieve one or more clear goals, beyond survival, and (2) taking concrete steps to achieve those goals. > How do you know agency is not simply the output of a large la
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   > It seems these godlike AIs are already frighteningly cheap and easy to replicate. "godlike"? Really? I'm not religious, but this seems like an overreaction for something that has no agency.
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   by cjohnson318 4y ago

   I clicked around to an old Fluxus Blogger site and I saw a bunch of comments from about 2018 and I thought, "Yay! People are still into Fluxus!" but then I read the comments and realized they were all spam. I miss the old internet
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    > I do embedded so it's just never been necessary. Oh that's cool! I've never worked on that side of things. I assumed SQLite was used in embedded stuff, but I guess not.
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    SQL is a unique case. It's important enough that you should know the basics, but it's easy enough to learn that it doesn't really deserve a whole class, unless you're teaching students to build databases, which is defi
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    I think that even when systems are extremely accurate, the mistakes that they make are very un-human. A human might forget something, or misunderstand, but those errors are relatable and understandable. Automated systems might have the same
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    Antisphere, a novel and useful surface without Pi(english.elpais.com)

    2 points by cjohnson318 4y ago|0 comments
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Ah, you're exactly right.
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    I love notebooks until I have to find something in them.
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    I think you can buy cheap and get by if quality is not a goal. I buy expensive art materials because I have used cheap materials and I can really, really tell a difference in the quality. I buy mid-grade Ryobi instead of Dewalt tools becaus
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Hundred percent. You're not competing with Python, you're competing with Pip.
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    I'd rather not jump to conclusions or put words in your mouth. If you believe this is propaganda, then you believe that you know who is responsible for it, and why it benefits them. So, who is pushing this, and why?
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Propaganda is a strong term that suggests an ulterior motive. What is the ulterior motive here for calling Nalanda a university?
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    I agree, I kept looking for an example of solving the problem that the post opened with: "how much longer until XYZ happens". Maybe I missed it?
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    No, you’re not this upset over sarcasm; you’re just backtracking.
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Conservation and awareness of our natural resources is not a "left-wing progressive" thing. Exhibit A: Ducks Unlimited. A lot of very right-wing hunters contribute millions of dollars every year to preserve natural habitats. They
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    For my wife, it was the fact that our kids all had tongue and cheek/mouth ties. As soon as those were cut, they nursed normally. We'd asked at the hospital if our kids had tongue ties, and their rubric was, "Can your kid make
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Oh, okay, cool. I thought that just referred to punctuation, and LTR vs RTL systems. Thank you!
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Okay, thanks!
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    Ask HN: Advice on Writing Bilingual App?

    1 points by cjohnson318 4y ago|4 comments
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    A while ago I got some Excel CSV exports that I couldn't read as I normally do. I tried several formats that I knew were associated with Windows systems. I ended up looking at the raw bytes and I noticed that every other byte was somet
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Call me when Excel doesn't randomly insist that things are dates.
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    Aside from all the talk about the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, etc. I found Apple to be very conservative and buttoned up, which I found very reassuring. I've never worked anywhere else in the FAANG-sphere, but it seemed like t
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    by cjohnson318 4y ago

    He's on Instagram too! Lots of good insight and commentary.