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by dTal 1y ago
I'm not aware of any particular UI convention that's in Windows that isn't available in, say Plasma. Day to day usage is extremely similar, and where they diverge it's usually because 1) Plasma has a feature that Windows
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I wish I could upvote this twice, and I will go further. Computing as a whole has a human factors problem. The people most able to fix this problem - programmers - are also the people who least recognize that there is a problem to fix. Inde
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by dTal 1y ago
To the tech savvy, there is essentially only one advantage to running Windows, and that is the ability to run Windows-only software. In all technical respects - control, performance, flexibility - it is inferior to the alternatives. Don&#x2
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by dTal 1y ago
Focus is distinct from convergence - convergence is how much you have to cross your eyes to look at something, but focus is where muscles squish and stretch your eyeballs to change the distance of your retinas from your pupils. Just like a
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by dTal 1y ago
I disagree, it's a very insightful comment. The problem is that any information about any internal processes used to generate a particular token is lost; the LLM is stateless , apart from the generated text. If you ask an LLM-characte
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by dTal 1y ago
1 a day, 2 a day... does it matter? It's still 2-3 orders of magnitude higher than a culturally similar country with strong gun control.
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by dTal 1y ago
The rate is about two mass shootings per day in the USA. I would not call that "exceedingly rare". The rate in the UK, a country with strict gun laws, is about 1-2 a year .
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by dTal 1y ago
> it looks smart to people despite being quite mechanical Note that brains themselves are also "quite mechanical", as is any physical system or piece of software. "Looks smart", in the limit, reduces to "is smart
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by dTal 1y ago
Philosophically speaking, sensory data is no more "external" or grounded than words are. You do not see - your eyes see. You do not hear - your ears hear. You cannot truly interact with the world except at a remove, through variou
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by dTal 1y ago
LLMs learn to translate without explicit Rosetta stones (pairs of identical texts in different languages). I suspect they would learn to translate even in the absence of any identical texts at all. "Meaning" is no more or less tha
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by dTal 1y ago
Allowing it to cool below the phase transition point of the melted plastic will cause it to release latent heat, so there is a theoretically possible corner case where maintaining it hot saves energy. I suspect that you are unlikely to hit
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by dTal 1y ago
I think you do fear death, given that you plan to live until it is physically impossible for you to do so painlessly. If you don't fear death, an easy and reliable way to avoid suffering in your old age is to painlessly commit suicide
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by dTal 1y ago
>they can make their own mind up On what basis can they do this? No human is born with a magical algorithm in their brain that can sort good ideas from bad. The only scalpels we have are those which we collect. Critical thinking must be
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by dTal 1y ago
It is clear from context that the original comment is using "indiscriminately" in a sense of "without due care; thoughtlessly". Your first reply comes across as simply contradicting it, i.e. asserting that actually these
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by dTal 2y ago
>That's a tricky line, because it's on the path to: "You have the 'freedom' to vote for whoever you like, just as long as they're a Communist who will loyally implement Communist policies." Well, yes. I
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by dTal 2y ago
I dunno, the "tool" that LLMs "replace" is thinking itself . That seems qualitatively different than anything that has come before. It's the "tool" that underlies all the others.
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I see no particular reason to discriminate even from the get-go. Nor was addressing loneliness even the goal.
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>The fact that it was ever seriously entertained that a "chain of thought" was giving some kind of insight into the internal processes of an LLM Was it ever seriously entertained? I thought the point was not to reveal a chain
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by dTal 2y ago
Another fantastic reason to strictly only install apps from F-Droid.
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If, like me, you've always lamented that Jurassic Park sequels failed to update their dinosaurs with the science - particularly given the original's emphasis on relating dinosaurs to birds - then you may enjoy this short clip from
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by dTal 2y ago
The barometer is "nice to have". The compass is non-negotiable. It is extremely useful once you get used to remembering that you have one. Example: you have arrived at a train station in a new city. You have planned your route - y
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by dTal 2y ago
"Standard" wireless charging (Qi) requires a reciever 30x44mm, too big for a smartwatch. Custom wireless charging, like bluetooth earbuds, requires a custom charger. And we're back to the custom charging cradle. Might as well
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by dTal 2y ago
What's old is new again! https://augmentedperception.github.io/deepview/compLFMPI/
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Your point is a bit undermined by the fact that two out of your three examples are cannabis extracts, where cannabis proper - literally a leaf - is still very much illegal and has to be "laundered" through chemical processes to ma
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"Heuristic" and "algorithmic" are not antipodes. A heuristic is a category of algorithm, specifically one that returns an approximate or probabilistic result. An example of a widely recognized algorithm that is also a
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I would suggest that giving up control of your entire computer to get a few more pixels on some crappy (paid!) streaming service is the Pyrrhic victory. If everyone refused this Faustian bargain, then the services would be forced to adapt.
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by dTal 2y ago
Because you don't own the device, and the real device owner (Apple) is not working in your best interests. If you resent this kind of thing, put a penny in a jar every time software that you've paid for makes your life worse; when
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by dTal 2y ago
Side note: Call me a treehugger but the use of the word "unimproved" to refer to the last remaining shreds of wildlife not yet paved over and replaced with Starbucks strikes me as the most dystopian fucking shit.
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The "deep state" does (did?) sort of exist - it's everyone in government who does ordinary work that isn't turned over for fresh earth every four to eight years. That is, the domain experts. The regular joes that Musk is
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You would be distributing the videos. Meta is not distributing the things they torrented. No, LLM weights don't count.

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