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by drbig 2y ago
Thanks for the replies. Points of view are valuable.
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by drbig 2y ago
Why link a tweet when Reuters has an actual article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nintendo-expects-sell-135... (title: "Nintendo to make announcement on Switch successor by March-end"). Is it because th
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by drbig 2y ago
Seems we're starting to pay a lot more attention to the spillover phenomena. Good. My believe is that it's, and's ever been, very common we just didn't notice much. And the "oh shite" mode here is the tail end,
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by drbig 2y ago
The title of the paper is actually `The Matrix: A Bayesian learning model for LLMs` and the conclusion presented in the title of this post is not to be found in the abstract... Just a heads up y'all.
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by drbig 2y ago
Um, no. Did a test and the results are neither scary nor wowing me now: 1) Easy mode: Cityscape of Naples, Italy; Bot 100% match, nice, I guess. 2) Mid-mode: A road in Glenoak Hills, CA; Bot says Malibu, CA... Never been there. 3) Hard-mode
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by drbig 2y ago
Concurring that Inkscape today is awesome, while it definitely was not a decade ago (how the time flies... and decade ago it was already... ten years old or so!). Disclaimer: I'm an engineer not a UX/UI designer, and I use Inkscap
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by drbig 2y ago
> Theoretically, not being able to solve graph connectivity seems like a big issue. Empirically, not being able to count is a fatal flaw. Thank you for capturing the state so eloquently. I've asked Bard about how to dilute hydrogen
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by drbig 2y ago
I believe it wasn't ever, but there were paper adaptations that used GURPS as the base.
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by drbig 2y ago
Indeed Americans are even worse than Europeans in "(dis)missing the rest of the planet". Have no idea how selective the default is on the other side of the planet, though I can only hope it is _less so_. Inventions and discoveries
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by drbig 2y ago
The stainless effect is due to a very, very thin oxide layer - stainless is basically "pre-rusted". Now if you damage that layer it will rust just like any other steel (any steel alloy is still mostly iron!). So pretty good for yo
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by drbig 3y ago
0) If there is any distinction between the training phase and the query phase then it cannot, ever, be an AGI. 1) LLMs at their core are an auto-complete solution. An extremely good solution! But nothing more, even with all the accoutrement
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by drbig 3y ago
Thanks for the opinion! I have Starmaker on the shelf, bought lifetimes ago and... never read. Likewise I have not read Herbert not Tolkien... And now I think I'll slot the Starmaker and then perhaps Dune for the upcoming summer balcon
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by drbig 3y ago
> 1080p is mp3 128 Good chuckle here and """I'm offended!!!""". I'm not. mp3 128 in video is a crappy 480p stuff - bearable, but not _enjoyable_. 1080p on an appropriate display would kinda work as
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by drbig 3y ago
And Mhz for CPUs? :-) As much as numbers are universal they seem to be quickly fatiguing the general public... if there isn't a _perceptible_ improvement! Regardless of units; and I like that about non-engineering - normal people: if i
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by drbig 3y ago
Instead looking at smartphone screens, it seems to me we're approaching the "CD moment" - in case of screens it's the DPI. Can't see a pixel with a naked eye? Not even when a water droplet forms a lens? If so then p
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by drbig 3y ago
Another aspect (take): > Probably 30 if I had to guess. So he'd be in his 60s and with billions USD stashed. Can you come up with a retirement plan like that? Parole, shortened stay? Or rather: He'd be killed/die in the pr
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by drbig 3y ago
And that range sounds sensible. My take, cynical at the root - unfortunately, is that "heads I win, tails somebody else loses" defines the low end of the premise; whereas the 100 years (times 5 for a good measure) defines the utte
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by drbig 3y ago
This should be polarizing! Amazing not flagged yet. Quick opinion: > sentence of 63 to 78 months No, too short. > which recommends a sentence of 100 years in prison Um, too long.
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by drbig 3y ago
Seems that the notion of `uniformly` is the key aspect here, i.e. "the sets are ordered" in my intuitive notion. So if the first one you've picked is red, then the only way for the next one to be green is if you started in th
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by drbig 3y ago
It's a CISC. A "simple one". Case closed, next!
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by drbig 3y ago
Usage-context same stuff link-to-code: https://github.com/drbig/ricons/blob/master/symsquare.go#L61... (it's an example too, sorry). The point is that my opinion is that `declarative` is pretty neat
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by drbig 3y ago
Yeah the Data-Driven part is obvious but the development/design... Approach? Way? Serendipitous in some sort of a backwards-way that I have personally already gone that way ~a decade ago, with even func/interface-first, and the fi
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by drbig 3y ago
And I have learnt the basics (and some of the Advanced, as per the article) of Python before numpy even existed. Mixing external libraries, however useful!, with the language itself is not good. "Batteries included" would be very
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by drbig 3y ago
Cool and overall sane, so lemme just pitch in from my perch on the critical side: *Advanced* > Can use advanced Python libraries like numpy, pandas, matplotlib. You're a data scientist and this is not "Python". > Can us
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by drbig 3y ago
At least here in Poland you can buy a sim card no questions asked, but it will not work until you register it - an action that requires you give up PII, including a valid PESEL[1]. I assume the legal basis for all of this is "terrorism
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by drbig 3y ago
I vaguely recall that the sperm cell's "tail" wasn't actually a "snake like whip", that would move like a... snake, but actually a 3D spiral that's much closer to Archimedes' screw in both shape and m
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by drbig 3y ago
I love how asked about weather it told me it doesn't have access to real-time weather, so I then asked what it can do, and it replied with weather forecast I asked for but couldn't read because immediately it replaced it with &quo
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by drbig 3y ago
Going this deep down I'll only add that "assumptions", i.e. "none will try 100% of their weight on anything if they have no idea what they are doing" are poor, and that it never ceases to amaze me that a squishy hum
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by drbig 3y ago
Thanks for discussing! I overall agree. First lemme be explicit that I didn't imagine anyone sane who has not been to a gym ever - or even in a long time - to plop in ~100% of their weight for anything. Warm up and going there in incre
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by drbig 3y ago
I'd like to share a different approach, however limited it is I find it still surprisingly useful: For an adult male the test is to: - Bench press 80% of your weight - Squat with 100% of your weight - Dead lift 150% of your weight Yes,

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