danbruc

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by danbruc 6mo ago
Now waiting since 16 years for the release of Miegakure [1][2][3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miegakure [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yW--eQaA2I [3] https://xkcd.com/721&#
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by danbruc 6mo ago
The question that started this wasn't about clocks. It was about what happens when you remove every cultural assumption from timekeeping and ask: what's left? This still measures the time of day in seconds since midnight. It sti
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Assuming I know what I want and am somewhat competent at describing it, I would guess ten times the final length should be plenty. If you are exploring different options, you can of course produce an unlimited amount of videos. But that is
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by danbruc 7mo ago
How many seconds of video did they generate per day for those $15,000,000, i.e. what would it actually cost me to generate, say, a three minute music video for my garage band? This should probably take into account how many attempts I would
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Do they also publish the raw output of the model, i.e. not only the final response but also everything generated for internal reasoning or tool use?
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by danbruc 7mo ago
How effective is property based testing in practice? I would assume it has no trouble uncovering things like missing null checks or an inverted condition because you can cover edge cases like null, -1, 0, 1, 2^n - 1 with relatively few test
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Its independence war for Israel everyday since its 1948. It is not an independence war, it is colonialization and occupation. And the Zionists at the time knew that and used this terminology themselves. 1948 was not an independence war, i
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by danbruc 7mo ago
No, my judgment of not great code is not based on what the code does - and if it does so correctly - but on how the code is written. Those are independent things, you can have horrible code that does what it is supposed to do but you can al
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by danbruc 7mo ago
It has not been formally verified which is essentially the only way to achieve code without defects with reasonable confidence. There are several studies that have found that there are roughly between one and twenty bugs per thousand lines
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by danbruc 7mo ago
I don't know, I would assume it works but I would not expect it to be free of bugs. But that is the baseline for code, being correct - up to some bugs - is the absolute minimum requirement, code quality starts from there - is it effici
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by danbruc 7mo ago
What actually stood out to me is how bad the functions are, they have no structure. Everything just bunched together, one line after the other, whatever it is, and almost no function calls to provide any structure. And also a ton of logging
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by danbruc 7mo ago
I randomly clicked and scrolled through the source code of Stavrobot - The largest thing I’ve built lately is an alternative to OpenClaw that focuses on security. [1] and that is not great code. I have not used any AI to write code yet bu
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Where does this obsession with the simulation hypothesis come from, it has been so widespread in the last years? It is more or less pointless to think about it, it will not get you anywhere. You only know this universe, to some extend, but
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by danbruc 7mo ago
You can only get a thousand - take both boxes - or a million - take only the second box, zero and one million one thousand are not possible - or at least unlikely - because that would require a misprediction by the predictor but we assume a
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by danbruc 7mo ago
The thing is, you can not chose once you are in the room. The fact that an [almost] perfect predictor exists implies that your choice must already be fixed at the point in time the predictor makes its prediction. Or the other way around, if
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Lunch break reminder popup?
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by danbruc 7mo ago
A flawless predictor would indicate you’re in a simulation [...] No, it does not. Replace the human with a computer entering the room, the predictor analyzes the computer and the software running on the computer when it enters. If the dec
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by danbruc 7mo ago
The existence of a flawless predictor means that you do not have a choice after the predictor made its prediction, the decision must already be baked into the state of the universe accessible to the predictor. It also precludes that any tru
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by danbruc 7mo ago
So there was no extension of the functionality over time, all the formats have been supported from day one?
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by danbruc 7mo ago
How did we end up with printf - within a loop - being Turing-complete? Was it designed that way from the beginning? Were new features added over time until we got there?
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by danbruc 7mo ago
No, because if I want something to happen everyday at 12 o'clock, I have to wait for one day, if I wait for 24 hours, I will be off by an hour for half of the year.
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by danbruc 7mo ago
That is one of the first results I found and it is probably a great resource if you want to dive into the topic, but it also lacks an image of the rectangular - or rhombic - grid on top of the hexagonal tiling which I think is visually much
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Hex math is weird. Since there are 6 directions instead of 4, there's no simple mapping between hex positions and 2D x,y coordinates. There is, a hexagonal grid is isomorphic to a [skewed] rectangular grid, i.e. it can also be indexe
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Why are people even having problems with sharing their changes to begin with? Just publishing it somewhere does not seem too expensive. The risk of accidentally including stuff that is not supposed to become public? Or are people regularly
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Let us ignore the specific case of Jeff Bezos and Amazon, let us look at a generic founder starting a company that turns into a billion or trillion dollar company making the founder a billionaire. The founder founded the company but the bil
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by danbruc 7mo ago
I guess the percentage of crashes due to hardware is high because people with faulty hardware are experiencing the vast majority of crashes. It is not that simple, it does not only depend on the hardware but also the code. It is like a ra
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by danbruc 7mo ago
The mathematics of QM works extremely well. Yes but also absolutely not. The evolution of the wavefunction when nobody is looking is unitary, which among other things means it is time-reversible. That math works extremely well and predict
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by danbruc 7mo ago
But isn’t it conceivable, because the original quantum state contains probabilities of different outcomes, that one imprint might correspond to “up” and another to “down,” [...] [Zurek’s theory] predicts that all the imprints must be ident
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by danbruc 7mo ago
Do I get this right? Wave function collapse due to measurements is not real, the wave function evolves unitarily all the time. But as quantum states get amplified into the macroscopic world, superposition states are somehow amplified asymme
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by danbruc 8mo ago
GNU Taler also has a middleman, the exchange. And they play more or less exactly the same role as my company X is supposed to do, exchange money for tokens that are handed to websites when you visit them and which they can then redeem. And

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