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by creata 1y ago
> WebAudio is a frigging clusterf*ck Out of curiosity, what issues do people have with WebAudio since audio worklets became widely supported?
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by creata 1y ago
> then why wouldn't you just commit suicide? I'm trying not to upset the people around me.
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by creata 1y ago
Life used to be even worse than this, though. I know it's going to be deeply unpopular -- it always is -- but I never understood how reasonable people don't find bringing children into this world to be an act of abject cruelty.
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by creata 1y ago
People can complain about false positives and also about false negatives.
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by creata 1y ago
The font stack is just "Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;" so either one of those or a system font is the culprit.
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by creata 1y ago
There are mathematical definitions of the terms "real number", "rational number", etc., but there is no mathematical definition of the word "number". > we can approximate it with better and better precision
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by creata 1y ago
Are there any public benchmarks for Perc? Or any hints as to what's going on inside?
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by creata 1y ago
"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" is one of those titles that gets imitated a lot for some reason. Maybe even more than "Goto Considered Harmful".
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by creata 1y ago
If you're talking about reactions to the murder of Charlie Kirk, I really don't think anonymity is the problem here, because the opinions I've seen people express anonymously aren't much different to the opinions I'
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by creata 1y ago
People should be able to say things without those things following them around for the rest of their lives. > As in real life. No, your proposal is very different to real life. In real life, the things you say will eventually be forgotte
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by creata 1y ago
I agree with you, but it's funny that someone else could say the opposite (i.e., that Kiwifarms shows how anonymity lets people get away with saying and doing horrible things) and still sound reasonable.
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by creata 1y ago
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but does this argument continue to make sense for desktop applications, which don't typically use much CPU unless they're currently focused, but do use the same amount of RAM regardless of wheth
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by creata 1y ago
I don't think I'm falling for the ELIZA effect.* I just feel like if you have a small enough model that can accurately handle a wide enough range of tasks, and is resistant to a wide enough range of perturbations to the input, it&
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by creata 1y ago
Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but I think you mean arithmetic, not mathematics in general.
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by creata 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_density_function#V... Affine transformations just scale the probability density by a constant, so a uniform distribution is still uniform.
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by creata 1y ago
> As I understand them, LLMs right now don’t understand concepts. In my uninformed opinion it feels like there's probably some meaningful learned representation of at least common or basic concepts. It just seems like the easiest
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by creata 1y ago
Fwiw, I don't think anyone should ever be killed, but nobody's entitled to anyone's sympathy, and it's not messed up that many people find it difficult to sympathize with Kirk, given the political positions he preached.
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by creata 1y ago
> If people democratically decide to reduce democracy, is that not the will of the people and thus democratic? If someone decides of their own volition to become a slave, is that not their free will? Most of us believe that certain right
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by creata 1y ago
For anyone curious, the precedence is based on the name of the operator: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#syntax-precedence
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by creata 1y ago
Obviously I'm talking about potential regulation, not individuals walking up to the bank and asking them nicely.
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by creata 1y ago
> the geocities version of the early web that consisted of enthusiasts being online not for commercial interests but for fun LLMs are making many of the enthusiasts who were online just "for fun" feel sick for contributing to t
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by creata 1y ago
Source? This post is very clearly written by an LLM. It has that distinctive cadence. I'm not sure why it's on the frontpage. (I'm starting to think it's a joke I'm not getting...)
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by creata 1y ago
Generating C is fine tbh. Lots of respectable language implementations do that, or did that at some point in their life. V has plenty of other issues, though.
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by creata 1y ago
> it’s hardly reasonable to say that they’re not allowed to use what ever technical options they can to prevent that fraud. Of course it's reasonable? You can give someone a job and also ask them to do it a certain way.
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by creata 1y ago
How are websites blocked in India? Do you need a VPN or can you just use a different DNS server?
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by creata 1y ago
Here's another one by Gosper, with the famous quote: > Abstract: Contrary to everybody, this self contained paper will show that continued fractions are not only perfectly amenable to arithmetic, they are amenable to perfect arithm
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by creata 1y ago
> What is the point saying, “disease X affects 5% of the population by definition”. As a heuristic for identifying when something deserves attention?
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by creata 1y ago
> The vast majority of people in the US who receive psychiatric care do so voluntarily That's true, but that's not what the parent comment claimed. They didn't say a majority receive psychiatric care involuntarily, they
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by creata 1y ago
> That list of logos you all have - are those paying customers today? Doesn't look like it. The first list of logos is standards bodies. The second list of logos is integrations.
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by creata 1y ago
> You probably haven't heard about the ones that are succeeding at doing cool stuff because people don't gossip about charitable successes. People do gossip about charitable successes. Anyway, aren't capital-R Rationalists

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