danbruc

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by danbruc 8mo ago
I pay $19 per month to some company X, and company X distributes this money to all participating websites I visit during that month, in return I get ad-free access to all the content. And this is implemented in a way that no website learns
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by danbruc 8mo ago
60 Minutes - The German prison program that inspired Connecticut [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOmcP9sMwIE
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by danbruc 8mo ago
I was wrong about the law of excluded middle, that is not an issue. Intuitionistic logic rejects it, because it says P or not P is definitely true, whether or not we have any proof for P or not P. But that is not really relevant here, the r
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by danbruc 8mo ago
Well, what does random mean? Unpredictable, right? Why is it unpredictable? Because the outcome is not determined by anything else. [1] So random just means not determined. And instead of caused I would say determined, because caused is a p
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by danbruc 8mo ago
Not sure what you mean here, but non-random + non-caused is the very definition of free will. Now describe something that is non-random and not-caused. I argue there is no such thing, i.e. caused and random are exhaustive just as zero and
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by danbruc 8mo ago
I think free will exists just because we can imagine a math object into being that is neither caused nor random. Can you? I can only imagine world_state(t + ε) = f(world_state(t), true_random_number_source). And even in that case we do no
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by danbruc 8mo ago
In that case it should not be stated as a fact, it should then be something like the following. While prior research found significant productivity gains, we find that AI use is not delivering significant efficiency gains on average while
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by danbruc 8mo ago
The learning aspect is not the relevant part for the [potential] contradiction, let me shorten the two quotes. AI assistance produces significant productivity gains [...]. We find that AI use [...] [is not] delivering significant efficie
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by danbruc 9mo ago
That itself sounds contradictory to me. I assistance produces significant productivity gains across professional domains, particularly for novice workers. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging
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by danbruc 11mo ago
From school you are used to think of function in their explicit form y = f(x) but you can easily turn that into the implicit form f(x) - y = 0 or more generally f(x, y) = 0. With that you can plot the graph of f(x, y) either as a 3D sur
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by danbruc 1y ago
But only if you are looking at the revised goals, if you look back at the original goals, things look different. It was supposed to fly around the moon with people on board two years ago.
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by danbruc 1y ago
.NET supports this because [Visual] Basic supports it. This can be used from C# - and other languages - but there is no nice syntax supporting it. // This also supports multidimensional arrays, that is why the parameters are a
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by danbruc 1y ago
That is why the comment says hypothetical scenario . ;-)
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by danbruc 1y ago
What would happen in a hypothetical scenario where Microsoft cut off everything [1] they can for all of Israel - no Azure, no Office, no Outlook, no Exchange, no SQL Server, no Windows, no Xbox, no ...? Depending on how many things they can
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by danbruc 1y ago
I do not understand how this could possibly work. From a camera with RGB filters we get essentially three different integrals over the spectrum per pixel, how would we recover the spectrum from that? Even assuming you can account for the sp
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by danbruc 1y ago
For point one the reason is of course that π(p) has a [global] minimum at 2. Actually showing that is not that easy because the involved integrals have no closed form solution but in principle it is not too hard. The circumference of the ci
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by danbruc 1y ago
To the dead comment Israel agreed to the UN partition in 1947, and then Arabs started a war to kill all the Jews there. You do not even understand what the UN general assembly does, it expresses majority opinions, it does not make legally
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by danbruc 1y ago
But the solution to that is not making some other people disappear in order to make some room for Jews. And they have already stolen half of Palestine and turned it into their own state and that state is - despite its illegal origin - now i
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by danbruc 1y ago
That does not seem like nearly enough money to make a bad policy decision because of the money and that policy is probably much older than the arms deals.
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by danbruc 1y ago
Because the goal of the Zionists has always been to conquer all of Palestine and the State of Israel has been following those foot steps since day one. From the river to the sea. This has been declared illegal under international law more t
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by danbruc 1y ago
The German policy of more or less unconditional support for Israel is plain stupid. This policy exists because of the horrors that Germans have inflicted upon Jews but it now supports similar [1] horrors inflicted by Israelis upon Palestini
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by danbruc 1y ago
And you should not but I think it is still useful. You will probably not even become consciously aware of the difference but Cat.Name will be ever so slightly easier to read than Cats.Name and maybe that difference in cognitive load is what
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by danbruc 1y ago
I think that is the correct way to do it, you iterate over all the cats picking one cat at a time and it becomes quite obvious when you join a table to itself forcing you to do this. I am not writing that many SQL queries and I am certainly
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by danbruc 1y ago
1. Strictly speaking, we’re not naming a table, we’re naming a relation. And a relation is a set, hence plural. 2. It reads well everywhere else in the SQL query: SELECT Employee.Name , Manager.Name FROM Users AS Emplo
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by danbruc 1y ago
But if they think the bubble is the idea that "Modern AI will significantly transform business and the global economy, and that it'll lead to massive unemployment for knowledge workers", then—in my opinion—they're just
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by danbruc 1y ago
Where is the comparison of the power usage between the two modes, is this not the entire point of the exercise?
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by danbruc 1y ago
No, it is supposed to tell the truth and that is what is advertised, matching your persistence is what it sometimes actually does. But people are using it because it sometimes tells the truth, not because it sometimes matches your persisten
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by danbruc 1y ago
Then it's not maths fault it tries to find an answer that matches your persistence, especially since I'm sure somewhere in its training set alabamer exists. It is not supposed to find an answer that matches my persistence, its s
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by danbruc 1y ago
In case of the river puzzle there is a huge difference between repeating an answer that you read somewhere and figuring it out on your own, one requires reasoning the other does not. If you swap out the animals involved, then you need some
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by danbruc 1y ago
Well, what is the difference, the ad budget fraction of the price is like a tax. I think given a choice most people would prefer to get their stuff a bit cheaper and not contribute to the ad budget. But we pay it and then the companies hand

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