dwattttt

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by dwattttt 6d ago
> its use in machine learning (or elsewhere, I suppose) is itself a form of empiricism in that what it is is essentially a repeated observe/measure error/adjust cycle. "Empiricism" implies that the technique is based
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by dwattttt 7d ago
> as purely empirical as the gradient descent loops Are you suggesting that gradient descent is an empirically found and not understood technique? It was originally proposed by Cauchy in 1847, its properties are very well understood. You
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by dwattttt 9d ago
I was so primed to expect crazy I had to reread the article and your comment to notice "this bit of English isn't that crazy". For those who won't read the article, either the word "a" or the word "an&quot
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by dwattttt 11d ago
That's a better thing to discuss, and I'd expect there to be better bugs to talk about to go with it. Stack exhaustion in an unrealistic environment should be fixed, but a "stop everything" bug it ain't.
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by dwattttt 11d ago
You're specifically frustrated about unbounded stack recursion exhausting the stack, triggered by multiple thousands of directories? It doesn't sound like this is about multi-thousand-deep directory structures, it sounds like it&#
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by dwattttt 12d ago
When you put it like that, it seems like it's too dangerous to offer that kind of access! Maybe Google shouldn't sell it.
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by dwattttt 13d ago
But can they compete with my shade grown software? It does result in a 40% markup, but there's no putting a price on being raised in a loving environment, is there.
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by dwattttt 14d ago
GP is not presenting these as evidence for an approach, just notable facts that weren't initially obvious.
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by dwattttt 15d ago
Valve is certainly increasing the viability of Linux as a platform for gaming, but I can't see developers targeting Wine or Linux for a major game over Windows directly. Not for a decade, if ever.
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by dwattttt 16d ago
The billions of times aren't repeated times for the same person, it's because it's been done for the first time billions of times. This is the "choose a user's initial profile picture". They're not randoml
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by dwattttt 16d ago
But multiplied by the number of times it'll run on the planet, and you have a surprisingly big impact.
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by dwattttt 16d ago
Images that are meant to be 2d (E.g. a photo of something on paper) isn't going to look 3d. I guess this approach will just have to let anything flat through?
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by dwattttt 16d ago
They can choose to work their allotted 0 hours any time of the day they choose. Has to be at home though, mandatory "do not work" from home orders apply.
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by dwattttt 16d ago
There's a fair bit out there about their launch circumstances. From memory they weren't entirely in control of the timing.
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by dwattttt 16d ago
The 'ol "analog hole". Never been able to patch that gap.
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by dwattttt 20d ago
> you know its type, you know its complete value, but you don't know which instance it is. Is it an incoherent view to consider there to only be one instance? I understand Rust considers () its "unit type" a ZST. Reading
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by dwattttt 20d ago
Actually thinking back, I get _more_ content, because there's a notable number of access screens that just don't function with JS off, leaving the whole article available.
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by dwattttt 20d ago
Pieces that people aren't revolted by will be fine. Readers aren't revolting because of a flood of high quality writing though.
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by dwattttt 20d ago
A tacit agreement that while people _should_ have these rights, they all can't have them.
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by dwattttt 21d ago
Are you impugning the good name of the Ig Noble awards? For shame!
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by dwattttt 21d ago
Somehow I don't think you've tried, if you think all I get is blank content.
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by dwattttt 21d ago
Or disable JS altogether, and enjoy many sites working much quicker. Many others fail & need to be selectively allowed, but it's been worth it.
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by dwattttt 26d ago
I'm not super certain you're interested in answers, but assuming good faith: > https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/main/library/core/src ... How large a percentage of the logic c
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by dwattttt 27d ago
A linker could do this, but "clever" isn't the adjective I'd use when something randomly breaks due to it not working to standard.
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by dwattttt 1mo ago
> Not having arrays of bits. Pascal had PACKED ARRAY[0..N] of BOOLEAN but that was lost in later languages. It's useful to have that as a language construct, because most modern CPUs have good hardware for dealing with bit strings,
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by dwattttt 1mo ago
Locally. Under many circumstances. But always? That's not a universal law, as it's a part of a larger system that may perform more poorly if this leg provides more traffic.
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by dwattttt 1mo ago
To address this similarly to my sibling reply, I don't have a definition of intelligence that provides value here. And your loose definition isn't doing a lot of help either, beyond perhaps noting: that Google search bar _is_ simi
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by dwattttt 1mo ago
Would you ask either of them to review a PR? Or a calculator to eat a banana? Or an LLM to calculate prime factors? These aren't interesting questions. As much as any definition is in use here, we're not going to get much value ta
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by dwattttt 1mo ago
Happily, I don't need to define "intelligence" here, because it's squarely in "I know it when I see it" territory. It's notoriously hard to define. I also don't ascribe intelligence to a pocket calcul
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by dwattttt 1mo ago
String concatenation will generate "original text" by that definition. Obligatory "yes, I know that's not what an LLM is", purely pointing out the metric.

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