dmarchand90

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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Excellent ig nobel prize contender here
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Yeah they tried this in the late 19th and early 20th century. The problem (actually very similar to real strongly typed languages) is everything gets very verbose and impractical for ordinary people. Actually you could argue that we have in
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Really cool stuff! Do you have any recommendations of where we could learn more?
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
The nice thing with ChatGPT is they've established a viable funding model through paid subscriptions from day 1. On the other hand I predict that we will see the next ten years as a 'golden age' of steadily improving performa
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I think it's the lack of examples. Also, because this is very cutting edge, I'd like to know a bit of the technology behind it to know the strengths and limits. E.g. is it based on hard Coded grammar and thus a bit stiff and dumb?
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
In clean code there is a chapter about eliminating useless comments. I think this has some merits. Think of the following made up example: sum = sum_two_numbers(number1, number2) Probably doesn't need a comment. The other argument is t
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Perl and python have opposite philosophies with regards to standards. Python prefers a standard "pythonic" way, while perl had its "there is more than one way to do it". It would seem that having a standard is more popul
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
All of this reminds me of the the old fake infomercial "live forever as you are now" https://youtu.be/xg29TuWo0Yo?si=yvFa-vFIEqD-Swx4
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Oh for sure! But you wouldn't argue to do this exclusively though
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Yeah this logic would have us writing everything in assembly and only using textbooks.
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For me this translation is extremely easy to understand: What is the maximum amount I can pay in cash? At this time, you may pay for all purchases in cash. For cash purchases above € 10,000, the seller must conduct a customer due diligence.
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
How important is this rule really? Particularly when the title gives the main message. I ask because auto translation is almost perfect for at least all the European languages. I agree maybe there should be a bias towards English but this s
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Works for me
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
My solace lies in the realization that there's an uncountably infinite number of real numbers between zero and one. This means every moment possesses its own unique infinity if we choose to see it. "If we take eternity to mean not
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Ask HN: Do you feel like you know or have met someone from the community?
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I suspect the divide may end up similar to that between a start up and a large company. Yes, some problems are better solved by a single person. But others benefit from a division of thought even if there is some bureaucratic overhead.
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I suspect the real value is more from an architecture and caching perspective. Architecture as in you may have multiple GPT instances being prompted to look at a problem from different angles: "Analyse the problem as a pessimist",
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Asking users who live in New York. How much does this matter? Is the commute from Brooklyn or Queens reasonable? If so how are the prices? The Bronx has a bad reputation (as a foreigner) but is that even true?
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I would guess if you look at all the literature in the world the majority of cases that have a word repeated a large number of times its either a prayer, e.g. catholic Rosary "Hail Mary, full of grace...", or madness, e.g., the
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Ugh so embarrassing, thank you
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Hard to say. The answer has been a bit contaminated since the late 1700's because of Gibbon's attacks when he wrote "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". I strongly suspect that the results would be exactly the same, m
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I found the section where they ask "what would happen if Rome didn't fall" and then they speculate on China for a while to be very annoying. We know the answer. Because only half the empire fell. Constantinople continued anot
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
Damn, looks like it's a no then :(
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I believe that, contrary to popular belief, the implementation of this system would lead to a substantial increase in productivity in the long run. Here's why: Currently, a significant proportion of research results in various fields c
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The important thing to understand is that only the scientific publications in Nature matter. These articles are written by world-class scientists and are taken very seriously. In contrast, the journalism section is akin to any random newspa
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What makes me excited is there is very good theoretical work, using 'standard techniques ' that shows it either is a superconductor or will have very good properties in designing one. Cold fusion, the EM drive, time traveling neut
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The big difference is that standard theoretical techniques have indicated the compound to be promising from an electronic structure point of view and confirmed that it would be tricky to synthesize just right. Cold fusion always was depende
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It's a great question. I don't think anyone has a certain answer but it's definitely a real risk. The quick example is graphene which has all kinds of interesting properties, but, as far as I can tell, no practical applicatio
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Yes but that's not the question either. Chatgpt can probably publish in a journal already. The question is whether it can make impactful work. This is very unclear if most people could do even if working on it 100%
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by dmarchand90 3y ago
I'm still not persuaded that we can really know what's going on "in there". Agreed that it only has an extremely limited short term memory (~2k tokens or whatever) but ultimately what goes on between the weights of the n

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