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by dTal 2y ago
"We'll discuss content generation in part three." https://xkcd.com/741/
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4DiM: Controlling Space and Time with Diffusion Models(4d-diffusion.github.io)
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by dTal 2y ago
If that is your attitude, why bother with the sudo group at all? Just run as root. (For what it's worth, I think most people would not lose much security from running as root, and the obsession with sudo is so much security theater, fo
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by dTal 2y ago
So, rephrasing: fair trials in the USA are actually a comforting myth, and you won't get one. Occasionally they will do one to keep the myth alive, but the reality is that due process is dead, and if the DA accuses you of something you
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by dTal 2y ago
ChatGPT's opinion on the matter is completely worthless, unless it was also trained on an accurate description of its training process (it wasn't). Language models do not even have access to their own "thought process" -
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by dTal 2y ago
Yes, it is very much a shame for important cultural works to be accessible only to those with money. Once upon a time it was considered such a social problem that governments allocated funding to civic institutions where copyrighted materia
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by dTal 2y ago
I wouldn't worry too hard about the coffee cup lid. It's almost certainly made of PLA (polylactic acid). Nobody's making flame-retardant consumer appliances out of PLA.
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by dTal 2y ago
+1 to LÖVE, it's a capable rapid prototyping tool. I learned programming on QBasic, but if I were starting out today then LÖVE is the tool I would want to be handed.
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by dTal 2y ago
Insofar as this is a philosophically meaningful assertion, it isn't true. LLMs live in a universe of words, it is true; within that universe, they absolutely have world models, which encode the relationships between concepts encoded by
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by dTal 2y ago
How can this possibly work without at least some maneuvering rocket fuel? If the catapult is on the ground, any ballistic trajectory it can achieve intersects the ground. You can blast stuff into space, sure, but orbit? And the closer to a
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by dTal 2y ago
All of this assumes the rain is falling perfectly vertically. Some trigonometry will show that in the case of a tailwind , where the rain is at your back, a scenario is possible where there is a finite speed beyond which going faster will
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by dTal 2y ago
But surely this is true of everyone, not just the "doss fag" Official Door Banger In Chief? Or was work allocated such that every single student had something to do first thing in the morning, so that the Door Banger was the only
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by dTal 2y ago
Translation: It appears that milk was delivered to the dormitories first thing in the morning, after the same fashion as "the milkman". Distributing said milk was a separate duty from waking up the students, but occurred around th
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by dTal 2y ago
Of Mice And Men paints a portrait of this type of lifestyle.
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by dTal 2y ago
That jumped out to me as well, particularly given the otherwise high quality of the writing. It's an example of what I perceive as a more general phenomenon - spelling errors, particularly confusion of uncommon homonyms[note], appear t
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by dTal 2y ago
Okay, these options are far enough down the slippery slope to present a compelling argument that the whole thing is a Bad Idea. Short hop from here to suppress_yawns=true, and then breezing through enthusiasm_multiplier=1.4 on to enable_AI_
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by dTal 2y ago
See also: The Daredevil Camera, a neat hardware project with a 16x16 array of MEMS microphones, notable if nothing else for the delightful blog post that documents it: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/29/the
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The Daredevil Camera (2016)(ribbonfarm.com)
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by dTal 2y ago
'bc' was first released literally half a century ago. If that is still the state of the art, I think it is absolutely fair to sound the alarm that something is VERY wrong with our modern software development practices. We shouldn&
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by dTal 2y ago
That would be a defensible (if unpopular) position - see VHEMT - but usually the people saying this are arguing against the ethical consequentiality of anthropogenic ecosystem damage ("the planet will be fine") which is very harmf
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by dTal 2y ago
Bold to assume that police drive a comfortable 10mph under the speed limit.
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by dTal 2y ago
On Linux, a simple solution for this particular use case is to run a VNC server inside xvfb. You get total isolation between your real desktop, and your "sandbox" - no embarrassing notifications! Of course you can't drag wind
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by dTal 2y ago
"Evolve" here is a neat word for "countless trillions of creatures die preventable deaths or otherwise fail to reproduce over geological time". If your terminal goal is to "finally stop caring about micro plastics&q
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by dTal 2y ago
Let's work it out: 1 in 10 are lefty, 1 in 1000 have Downs. Supposedly 50% of people with Downs are lefty, therefore: P(A) = 0.001 P(B|A) = 0.5 P(B) = 0.1 P(A|B) = P(B|A)xP(A)/P(B) = 0.5x0.001/0.1 = 0.005 = 0.50% So the chanc
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by dTal 2y ago
It doesn't really work like that. 1) The model outputs a ranked list of all tokens; the probability always sums to 1. Sometimes there is a clear "#1 candidate", very often there are a number of plausible candidates. This is j
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by dTal 2y ago
>obviously [the atomic bombs] actually did bring about immediate capitulation Not at all obvious: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-stone-kuznick-hi... (this op-ed is the first thing that popped up on
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by dTal 2y ago
Hm. According to Wiki, "As of November 2022, efforts to identify either the origin of this character or its purpose before the 1960s have not been successful." While your rationale was used to argue for its inclusion in ASCII, a
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by dTal 2y ago
It's slightly less (or more?) impressive when you see that it thought for 45 seconds (!), and basically hand-executed the code to see what it did. I'd love to know how many tokens that actually took. Worth remembering that LLMs ca
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by dTal 2y ago
Ah yes, the classic "I have nothing to hide". Just know that you are being cowardly if your response to an authority figure exceeding their legal authority is to immediately capitulate. Go ahead and make your life easier in the pr
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by dTal 2y ago
>Unprofitable technologies don't have the stakeholders who would defend them. I think this is the key observation. I have no doubt that the referendum mentioned in this thread was unfairly biased by Chernobyl. But if nuclear were a

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