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by contravariant 5mo ago
What's the LLM equivalent to email and a basic webpage?
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by contravariant 5mo ago
That's just a baseless assumption. To use AI well you should do the things that allow you to use stuff well . You shouldn't just use it any way you can because you assume that 'not using it at all' is not the best optio
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by contravariant 5mo ago
You've somehow confused using AI well with using it extensively. Sometimes using something well involves not using it at all.
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by contravariant 6mo ago
I'm also pretty sure 14 points font is a bit outdated at this point, 16 should probably be a minimum with current screens. It's not as if screens aren't wide enough to fit bigger text.
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by contravariant 6mo ago
Oh that's annoying, seems to me there wouldn't have been an issue if you just merged B into A after merging A into main, or the other way around but that already works fine as you pointed out. I mean if you've got a feature s
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by contravariant 6mo ago
Huh interesting, my mental model is unable to see any difference between them. I mean a branch is just jamming a flag into a commit with a polite note to move the flag along if you're working on it. You make a long trail, leave several
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by contravariant 6mo ago
I think being connected is easy enough, being non-cyclic is trickier I suppose. If you do it badly the shape of the maze is going to depend on the order it's generated in. I imagine some people may have looked into it.
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by contravariant 6mo ago
I'd probably go with something like the wave function collapse algorithm. It should be possible to make it generate trees with somewhat uniform probability.
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by contravariant 7mo ago
Since it's AI and Microsoft I can believe that someone who doesn't know what they're doing would be given a mandate to promote AI under any means necessary at the cost of some other team's reputation. But it's an
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by contravariant 7mo ago
The fact that they chose to publish the ad _under someone else's name_ is so tone deaf that I just can't understand what they were thinking.
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by contravariant 7mo ago
Oh that's neat, though I might split this into two functions in most cases, no need to entangle opening the file and counting the words in a filelike object. That's two neat tricks that I'm definitely adding to my bag of pyth
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by contravariant 7mo ago
I dislike loading files into memory entirely, in fact I consider avoiding that one of the few interesting problems here (the other problem being the issue of counting words in a stream of bytes, without converting the whole thing to a strin
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by contravariant 7mo ago
For reasons I never quite understood python has a collections.Counter for the purpose of counting things. It's a bit cleaner.
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by contravariant 7mo ago
There's bound to be a way to turn a stream of bytes into a stream of unicode code points (at least I think that's what python is doing for strings). Though I'm explicitly not volunteering to write the code for it.
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by contravariant 7mo ago
The phrase "when it is detected" makes me nervous.
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by contravariant 7mo ago
I can't really think of a polite way to phrase this, but I'm not surprised throwaway mobile apps do benefit, while relatively mature python packages do not. That matches my estimation of how much programming skill you can reasonab
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by contravariant 7mo ago
> Note that a more complete model would multiply each term by P(track)_j — the common-mode detection-tracking-classification factor developed in the previous section — but the standard WTA formulation assumes perfect tracking. I'm
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by contravariant 7mo ago
The paper is just listing studies that happened. There might be a political agenda behind it, but identifying a study about cannabis use for PTSD and drawing conclusions about the results is what you would expect this review to do. Leaving
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by contravariant 7mo ago
They have some more useful figures in the paper, but for a lot of things they're essentially saying there is not enough evidence to support using cannabis yet . The strongest claim is the lack of significant effects for anxiety, ptsd
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by contravariant 7mo ago
I won't call you an idiot, but assuming that all cases are simply people being sad is a bit simplistic. Some people are going to be more susceptible to depression, for whatever reasons, and improving someone's surroundings is prob
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by contravariant 7mo ago
Why shouldn't the reference implementation get JIT? Just because some other implementations already have it is no reason not to. That'd be like skipping list comprehensions because they already exist in CPython.
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by contravariant 7mo ago
At this point pandoc, that way I can at least be sure I can translate it to whatever format I need.
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by contravariant 8mo ago
If 'we' really cared about the improvement of models all of them would be public. Anything else just proves someone prefers making money to improving the models.
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by contravariant 8mo ago
My preference would be free, single payment, subscription. Probably in that order. I don't mind micropayments as a _method_ to achieve any of those, but I don't like them as a replacement for ads. And I don't accept the premi
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by contravariant 8mo ago
Should people expect high quality journalism if revenue is based on the number of views? Good journalism costs money, people should expect to pay. Though I'd point out that publishing news is now cheaper than ever, and people were mo
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by contravariant 8mo ago
There's a particular part in the discussion that rubs me the wrong way (which is more about micropayments as alternative to ads, rather than micropayments themselves) It tends to go something like, if not micropayments then ads, if not
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by contravariant 8mo ago
So they've taken causality, emergence and consciousness and combined them into one simple to measure number? And now they're making philosophical statements about the implications. You know what, fine, be that way if you must.
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by contravariant 8mo ago
Eh depends what you mean I suppose, but a small dense cluster with enormous outliers is not a great sign usually. Almost nothing has (effectively) unbounded variance, so most things are under statistical control in a sense. With some nota
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by contravariant 8mo ago
Honest signalling is still a thing. In fact it's rather common, it's one of the reasons most poisonous animals actually look poisonous.
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by contravariant 8mo ago
> All the people responding saying "You would never ask a human a question like this" That's also something people seem to miss in the Turing Test thought experiment. I mean sure just deceiving someone is a thing, but the

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