danielbarla

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by danielbarla 1y ago
> Nobody had to teach me that delicious things include Oreos and not cardboard. Well, no, that came from billions of years of pre-training that just got mostly hardcoded into us, due to survival / evolutionary pressure. If anything,
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by danielbarla 1y ago
> First point: if you imagine that the brain is doing something like collapsing the quantum wavefunction, wouldn't you say that this is a functionally relevant difference in addition to an ontologically relevant difference? I can im
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by danielbarla 1y ago
> In response to this, Searle argues that it makes no difference. He suggests a variation on the brain simulator scenario: suppose that in the room the man has a huge set of valves and water pipes, in the same arrangement as the neurons
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by danielbarla 1y ago
I think a lot if comes down to the domain, language and frameworks, your expectations, as well as prompt engineering. Having said that, I have had a number of excellent experiences in the past few weeks: - Case 1 was troubleshooting what tu
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by danielbarla 1y ago
I think the gist of your argument is "they should have just kept their separate, original, gendered surnames", and I agree, that is generally the path of least resistance. Nevertheless, the issue is real in the sense that many cou
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by danielbarla 1y ago
TigerBeetle is plenty interesting, though if half of SpacetimeDB's [1] [2] claims are true, it's even more interesting for me. (The title of this post has "_a_ most interesting database", while the article has "_the
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by danielbarla 1y ago
I used a 2019 MacBook Pro for quite a while, and it was my first (and so far only) dip into Apple-land. While I appreciated the really solid build quality, great screen, etc, the battery life was pretty abysmal. We're talking easily un
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by danielbarla 1y ago
You're completely correct in your two points, however people _do_ regularly assert that LLMs cannot possibly generate anything novel: "they are just regurgitating and recombining the original". I mean, sure. But so am I (in w
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by danielbarla 1y ago
I mean, I think the truth is somewhere in the middle, with a sliding-scale that moves with time. I got limited access to the internet in the Netscape Navigator era, and while it was absolutely awesome, until around 2010, maybe 2015 I mainta
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by danielbarla 1y ago
And certain types of games have a _ton_ of ancillary applications. For flight simulation, I rely on 2-3 additional contollers, some of which I am fairly certain either won't have driver support, or at the very least will have some majo
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by danielbarla 1y ago
The prices are pretty shocking for me too (Hungary). I don't use taxis much due to the city being pretty walkable, and there being good public transport, but a quick check says that taxis here have a base fare of 3.16 USD, after which
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by danielbarla 1y ago
It's genuinely insane what quality of learning material is available these days for free, and how conveniently it is packaged. Kudos to Inigo.
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by danielbarla 1y ago
I get the argument, and sure, it's viable in certain circumstances. But it's a few weeks _per area / topic_. In my opinion there are enough areas in a typical engine that you could study them for a year and not get through th
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by danielbarla 1y ago
Agreed, though getting to that point of understanding is what takes time. Also, there are literally dozens of similar topics where a solo dev should be happy to take any help they can get, IMHO. I'm sure audio is similarly easy, as is
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by danielbarla 1y ago
> I genuinely believe making games without a big "do everything" engine can be easier, more fun, and often less overhead. I am not making a "do everything" game and I do not need 90% of the features these engines prov
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by danielbarla 1y ago
Sure, through sponsorships and adverts. But like all such things, it's an extremely limited number of people who have the right combination of talent, training, perseverance, looks/charisma and probably luck to get that amount.
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by danielbarla 1y ago
Well, if we're talking about the same thing, there are laws that the banks and fintechs are bound by. These carry hefty fines for the bank and potential jail terms for their employees if not followed to the letter, including things lik
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by danielbarla 2y ago
My guess is that it's either extremely hard or impossible to sail _up_ the river, and locals don't want the hassle of having to arrange for transport on the way back. It's a slightly different thing with canoes, and there&#x2
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by danielbarla 2y ago
There are a large number of courses for both digital and traditional painting on platforms like Udemy, many of which are insanely good value when they go on sale.
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by danielbarla 2y ago
Indeed, and I think your comment throws some light on the depths of the topic. It's easily one of the most profound topics, and is worth exploring in and of itself (even if in this case the blog post author came off extremely tone deaf
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by danielbarla 2y ago
While the tone of the post might come off as childish, I don't think it should be dismissed quite so off hand, because I think there's a lot more behind it than one might think. I cannot but help think that there's a fair bit
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by danielbarla 2y ago
This is likely true in many instances and types of problems, where you are working on novel issue, and just need to think deeply. On the other hand, I routinely encounter simpler problems where I can metaphorically "see" a page of
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by danielbarla 2y ago
In my previous job, the company followed the country's laws pretty much to the letter. Simply being on call gave some small fraction of my "hourly rate" (despite being a full time employee), which actually does add up, since
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by danielbarla 2y ago
I'm not the parent poster, but this was a fairly common misspelling of the name a few years back. I guess it makes more sense to a lot of people than the fairly obscure name and reference that Godot actually is [1]. > The name &quot
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by danielbarla 2y ago
For several years now I have commuted almost exclusively by biking and walking to & from work, and I can say that both the pedestrian and biker populations have a small but very noticeable number of idiots in them who just don't se
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by danielbarla 2y ago
The economics of this topic have always been interesting to me, especially when compared to various other fields. What is there to incentivize people to enter STEM fields, and especially research? As a point of comparison, there are ~540 pr
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by danielbarla 2y ago
I think a crucial aspect is to only apply chatbots' answers to a domain where you can rapidly validate their correctness (or alternatively, to take their answers with a huge pinch of salt, or simply as creative search space exploration
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by danielbarla 2y ago
Indeed, and the variance on this number is surprisingly large. From [1]: > The mean half-life of caffeine in plasma of healthy individuals is about 5 hours. However, caffeine's elimination half-life may range between 1.5 and 9.5 hou
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by danielbarla 2y ago
This is a problem highly targeting mobile OSes, to the point where sites like [1] exist. The norm is superficially free / cheap games which are pay to win-ish, and the days of simply paying a slightly larger price upfront and just gett
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by danielbarla 2y ago
This looks like a fun project, but that's about where I'd draw the line. A few issues right off the bat: - In all such comparisons, people conveniently leave out build and research time/costs. I suspect that at least a few hu

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