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by dmurray 2y ago
> but CRDTs work because the same computation on two peers is guaranteed to produce the same result. LLMs can’t guarantee that. This doesn't seem like a hard requirement. It's a nice property for some academically interesting p
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by dmurray 2y ago
Advanced, sure, but the leadership has always been dodgy. They've had seven leaders since 1993 (before which they really did have a military junta in power). Three of them ended up impeached or jailed for corruption or wrongthink [0],
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by dmurray 2y ago
> new gTLDs introduced in the last few years command just 11 percent of the market for new domains, but accounted for roughly 37 percent of cybercrime domains reported between September 2023 and August 2024. > .com and .net domains ma
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by dmurray 2y ago
If I'm reading it right, there are very few "upsets", where a hyena the scientists model as lower-ranked exerts dominance over a higher one. That suggests that even if every hyena doesn't know the total ordering of the p
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by dmurray 2y ago
> I've come to a similar conclusion. Do not write a comment in a code review, instead, write a test that would catch whatever danger you want to warn about. And if you cannot find a way to express your concern as a test, the return-
606.
by dmurray 2y ago
This is pretty good! An LLM is actually the right tool to generate this kind of copy that demands a given style but is ultimately soulless.
607.
by dmurray 2y ago
This is both completely true and completely nonsense in the context. If the numbers are independent, no matter what the distribution, the odds of the nth measurement being a record setter is 1/n. And as above, if you've measured 1
608.
by dmurray 2y ago
> The social hierarchy of hyenas is even more rigid and predictable, with a depth of more than 100 layers I would like to read more about this. The largest known hyena pack [0] is about 130, with most being smaller. So we can say this cl
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by dmurray 2y ago
This doesn't seem newsworthy outside Korea. We see a lot of headlines like this - are they indicative of climate change? There are twelve months in the year and at least four directions to report weather extremes (hottest, coldest, wet
610.
by dmurray 2y ago
> For what it’s worth, human height is also Gaussian, and that’s correlated with workplace success. Height is generally not considered to be Gaussian and this is exactly the kind of statistics mistake the author seems to be accusing empl
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by dmurray 2y ago
Right, this whole debug_assert thing is just a tiny bit of syntactic sugar. Everyone starts their C/C++ programs with a dozen lines of #define that wouldn't be necessary if only the authors in the 1980s had the foresight to design
612.
by dmurray 2y ago
I think you can make some argument about why this isn't possible at 50:1 odds. A plausible "decompressor" is at least, say, 30 or 100 bytes, so the random file needs to have 30 bytes less entropy than you expected, which happ
613.
by dmurray 2y ago
No. Any sane engineering team would have built it that way in the first place, so they almost certainly don't have the competence to change it now, or possibly even to understand your question.
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by dmurray 2y ago
I would watch the movie adaptation of a book I enjoyed, or vice versa, but I wouldn't read a book in translation that I'd already read in the original, and I don't think many people would. (I might read the original after the
615.
by dmurray 2y ago
The article doesn't deal with what happens when the queue gets bigger than one. It looks like a second car would queue on the main road, blocking traffic. To eliminate this you could turn the buffer into a whole extra lane with room fo
616.
by dmurray 2y ago
Sounds interesting! The first year you learn how hard it is, you spend 80% of your time on compliance documentation and 80% of your budget on tooling. You still don't have a satisfactory product or a mastery of filling out the forms. I
617.
by dmurray 2y ago
Billions a year seems like a great deal for the US, compared to the benefit it gets from trading with China. You'd need to be claiming it's worth trillions a year in order to even consider cracking down on it.
618.
by dmurray 2y ago
TBL's work has also mainly been in the field of communications, of course.
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by dmurray 2y ago
In both scenarios it would perform poorly on that. If the chess specialization was done through reinforcement learning, that's not going to transfer to your new variant, any more than access to Stockfish would help it.
620.
by dmurray 2y ago
This seems quite likely to me, but did they special case it by reinforcement training it into the LLM (which would be extremely interesting in how they did it and what its internal representation looks like) or is it just that when you make
621.
by dmurray 2y ago
My mistake, but I completely stand over my words: it's cool if someone sends scammers to talk to the disembodied voice of Lemmy Kilmister, not cool if Vodafone or O2 license his likeness to do the same thing.
622.
by dmurray 2y ago
> no-one like (for example) Tim Berners-Lee is. Alexandra Freeman [0] or Lionel Tarassenko [1] might fit your criteria as technocratic appointments to the peerage - just how "like" TBL do they have to be? Sir Timothy seems like
623.
by dmurray 2y ago
How few people need to vote to appoint someone before they're considered "unelected'"? The 805 Lords? The 538 of the US electoral college? The 121 Cardinals of the Conclave? The 101 of the American Senate? The 27 EU Comm
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by dmurray 2y ago
This is cool when some independent hacker / artist does it as "Lemmy". When a big telecom does it, the second thing they do with it is to fuck up the spam detection so bad that every third phone call I make gets answered by &
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by dmurray 2y ago
> The US, especially, seems to by trying to help Ukraine win, but not win so hard that Russia collapses, and it's not obvious that a level of support exists that would satisfy both outcomes I've always thought the US wanted Ukr
626.
by dmurray 2y ago
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret.
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by dmurray 2y ago
> If you believe the next year will be dryer than normal, you will buy more futures than normal. The point is that you, the farmer, don't need to take a view on whether the next year will be drier than normal. You just buy $X worth
628.
by dmurray 2y ago
> RFID. Have 64 antennas and multiplex them to detect which piece is on which square (idk much about RF so this felt tough) The professional-level boards by DGT use RFID and retail for about $500. I looked into building a competitor some
629.
by dmurray 2y ago
We also have ed, the standard Unix text editor.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Is VLC really "complex software" if you just want to use it as a media player? Double click your media file, it plays. Play, pause, volume controls are where you'd guess they are. There's plenty of complexity underneath,

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