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by dvt 3y ago
> It's simplistic but he's basically printing money. Upvoted you, but I disagree. This is classic survivorship bias. You see the 10% of cases where this works, and you don't see the 90% of cases where the owner goes into c
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by dvt 3y ago
> having batteries included for things like HTTP is a win for any language I actually kind of disagree with this. I was a super early Go contributor and helped a tiny bit on the HTTP library (back then it was the core `http` package, now
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by dvt 3y ago
I wish this kind of low-effort lazy AI "content" would stop making it to the top of HN day after day. In any case, the piece is clearly an ad for Apricot. The examples cited in the article are so pedestrian, it's hardly even
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by dvt 3y ago
I know everyone's going to complain about the price (which is ridiculous), but I think Teenage Engineering is the last company around that has that sleek Apple aesthetic and extremely premium feel. I get giddy every time I see them o
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by dvt 3y ago
Just to nitpick your nitpick, much of Spain still speaks different dialects (if not different languages entirely). So speaking Catalan is a different thing than speaking Galician, which is very different than the Basque language. There&#x
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by dvt 3y ago
> I mean, your choice of picking Columbus's first voyage just reeks of bias too, so it's getting pretty stinky here. But isn't that literally what Columbus day celebrates? His first voyage to the New World, not the man him
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by dvt 3y ago
> You praise Armstrong for being an explorer, for going to the Moon, thus putting him in the category of "mostly pretty brutal bounty hunters". I think you're just being purposefully obtuse here, as I don't think I&#x
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by dvt 3y ago
> It's kind of weird to laud one specific explorer, yearly. Not really any more weird that celebrating a politician yearly, or a civil rights leader yearly, or a religious figure yearly. I don't think it would be weird at all t
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by dvt 3y ago
I'm not sure I get the snark in your comment. I grew up in Eastern Europe (Romania), and now I am privileged enough to have dual EU/US citizenship.
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by dvt 3y ago
> in its pastoral state to tribal people But this is the bon savage trope, which itself is quite problematic.
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by dvt 3y ago
He was famously bankrolled by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
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by dvt 3y ago
I'm genuinely curious, I wasn't trying to hand-wave anything. I think it's probably a cultural zeitgeist, but in my opinion it's interesting how Columbus was so specifically targeted (when there's inarguably much wo
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by dvt 3y ago
The relatively modern hate-boner for Columbus is kind of weird, and I'm not exactly sure why it's reached such prominence. I'm not Spanish or Portuguese, but I fail to see why lauding explorers is a contemporarily bad thing,
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by dvt 3y ago
I don't mean to get in the weeds here, but this is still bad, as the Padé approximation[1] (which is what you're actually really looking for) is magnitudes better than the Maclaurin series (which is just a special case of the Ta
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by dvt 3y ago
I genuinely don't understand how anyone can use something like this and seriously think "oh yeah, this is revolutionary." It's almost complete garbage and can't do anything remotely interesting. # a method t
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by dvt 3y ago
I think we can stretch the meaning here; after all, a pantheon is a group of important people, and pollinating seems like an important job :) I think pandemonium usually has a negative connotation, but it's also good.
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by dvt 3y ago
Awesome discovery, and I absolutely love this alliteration: > planet’s pantheon of pollinators
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by dvt 3y ago
> All of the lithography machines have the same setup inside because only one company makes them (ASML). I've definitely read papers where universities fiddle with the internals of ASML machines, including the optics, to try out dif
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by dvt 3y ago
That's like saying "all carpenters use the same hammers, how can one be better than the other?"—there's a lot more than goes into chip manufacturing than just the lithography machines. Not to mention that the lithography
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by dvt 4y ago
> That place where anyone can download things freely? This is incredibly reductive. Property rights exist on the internet, too. Like how someone can own a domain name or the copyright to a photograph or short story.
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by dvt 4y ago
"Hey man, I just make the meth, I don't sell it." The point I'm trying to get across is that, at least to me, it seems incredibly irresponsible and borderline unethical.
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by dvt 4y ago
> Within a matter of months, lawsuits had been filed against generative AI companies Stability AI and Midjourney for copyright infringement [...] But these aren’t Schuhmann’s concerns. He just wants to set the data free. Maybe it should
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Reflexivity (Social Theory)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dvt 4y ago
> So I can easily imagine a near future where the web will be flooded by LLM output or at least by content heavily inspired or edited by LLMs. To be fair, we're already there, and we've been there for at least 10 years now. I&#
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by dvt 4y ago
I've had "visual snow" since forever, but it's very mild, and more acute when light exposure delta is high (e.g. turn on/off a light). I suspect it's because I also suffer from migraines, which started around p
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by dvt 4y ago
> but unless the unicorn is literally an exact replica of something from it's training set, it clearly has "knowledge", and it's weird that you'd try to deny that Speaking of weird, that's a very weird def
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by dvt 4y ago
> familiar with Microsoft, nor with academic or industrial research labs The idea that Microsoft Research would publish anything remotely damaging to Microsoft is beyond naïve. I mean, one of their core tenets is "Ensure that Micr
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by dvt 4y ago
Well, for one, humans are obviously at least more than a fancy Markov chain because we have genetically hard-wired instincts, so we are, in some sense, "hard-coded" if you forgive my programming metaphor. Hard-coded to breed, mu
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by dvt 4y ago
> trivial and unique Python programs would output if they were run, despite GPT-4 not having access to a Python interpreter itself Trivially explained as "even a broken clock is right twice a day." I skimmed the paper, as it wa
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by dvt 4y ago
I can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time: on one hand, yes, there's certainly a lot of Kool-Aid being drank by the AI folks. Even on HN, I constantly argue with people that genuinely think LLMs are some kind of magical black box

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