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   by davedx 1y ago

   I think the death of our craft is around the corner. It doesn't fill me with joy.
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   by davedx 1y ago

   Right! I speak English and Dutch, so I can read maybe less than half of German. It's just enough to be tantalising but not enough to really understand it. Likewise with Swedish.
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   by davedx 1y ago

   Then just to muddy things you also have the Low Lands, which aren't in Germany, but they do speak a Germanic language there. ;)
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   by davedx 1y ago

   Also accounting! In English: "assets and liabilities" (Old French derived). In continental languages: "actives and passives" (medieval Latin accounting vocabulary).
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   by davedx 1y ago

   The username was emon.fusk@xai.com apparently. I heard as punishment he's been promoted
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   Bayes Is Not a Phase(dynomight.net)

   3 points by davedx 1y ago|0 comments
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   by davedx 1y ago

   > This is indeed twice as fast as the vectorized implementation, but, disappointingly, the naive implementation with loops is even faster. On CPU or GPU?
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   by davedx 1y ago

   This has me wondering, if not that, then what is python designed for?
9. 459.▲
   by davedx 1y ago

   Sounds kind of like the infinite tape machine....
10. 460.▲
    by davedx 1y ago

    All this has happened before All this will happen again World without end Alhamdulillah
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    by davedx 1y ago

    I mean the Zero Data reasoning directly cites previous work on the same principle. That in particular seems like a significant step forwards though - one of the main critiques of current methods is "humans don't learn by ingestin
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    by davedx 1y ago

    So this weekend we have: - Continuous thought machines: temporally encoding neural networks (more like how biological brains work) - Zero data reasoning: (coding) AI that learns from doing, instead of by being trained on giant data sets - I
13. 463.▲
    by davedx 1y ago

    I’ve been working on KYC recently, curious to hear what the problems with it are in your opinion?
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    by davedx 1y ago

    I’ll give that a try. Thanks
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    by davedx 1y ago

    Yes, I 100% agree. My career has been Java/C++ -> php/JavaScript -> typescript/python. Types are a godsend
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    by davedx 1y ago

    Ha. I just finished a huge rewrite at work from sync SQLAlchemy to async SQLAlchemy, because the async version uses a totally different API (core queries) to sync. So this implies if I want type checking I need to use a different ORM and st
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    by davedx 1y ago

    Can mypy type check SQLAlchemy somehow? That's what caused me to give up on Python type checking recently
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    by davedx 1y ago

    What might, possibly, redeem Python in my eyes as a potential language for making production applications (something that today, it is most certainly not) would be if the type checker worked across the broader ecosystem of common Python pac
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    by davedx 1y ago

    One thing that struck me was the lavish praise heaped on the ECS of the game engine being migrated away from; this is extremely common. I think when it comes to game dev, people fixate on the engine having an ECS and maybe don't pay en
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    by davedx 1y ago

    For sure. I've worked at orgs where we disabled package vulnerability scanners because they created a constant stream of upgrading busywork. So many "vulnerabilities" are things like "JavaScript prototype pollution in th
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    by davedx 1y ago

    [flagged]
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    by davedx 1y ago

    Working on an EU domiciled PaaS
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    Historians dispute Bayeux tapestry tally after lengthy debate(theguardian.com)

    1 points by davedx 1y ago|0 comments
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    by davedx 1y ago

    ...extensive setup? Last year I went hiking in Switzerland, so I mailed a couple of different maps of where I was going and picked them up from the print shop in town, which took me...... 30 minutes? The times I've used my phone for
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    by davedx 2y ago

    Right! They also explained in that series that the Scots were economic migrants there for the steelworks work. Great series too.
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    by davedx 2y ago

    This planet is 2.6x larger than Earth and has concentrations of DMS "thousands of times stronger than the levels on Earth". It would take a lot of cometary impacts to seed the entire ocean with that much. From the paper [1]: >
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    by davedx 2y ago

    Some speculation On DMS: - DMS is a very specific configuration that’s rarely the endpoint of non-living chemical cycles. - The simplicity of DMS doesn’t make it less indicative of life—it actually makes it a very selective molecule, which
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    by davedx 2y ago

    > Or they've reached their technological plateau millions of years ago. Like we did 50 years ago. What a bizarre thing to say, considering this very discovery leans on decades of science and engineering over the past 50 years!
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    Nvidia expects to take $5.5B hit as US tightens AI chip export rules to China(theguardian.com)

    3 points by davedx 2y ago|0 comments
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    by davedx 2y ago

    Geocities was going strong in the late 90's too! My first homepage was hosted there on Tokyo Towers.