dzamo_norton

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by dzamo_norton 1y ago
And if we left a population of SOTA LRMs on an island for long time, would we return to find that they had done the same?
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by dzamo_norton 1y ago
Something like Robin Hood in the final analysis?
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by dzamo_norton 1y ago
I am subjected to periodic performance reviews, you know.
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
There was that "smart contract" idea back when immutable distributed ledgers were in fashion. I still struggle to see the approach being workable for anything more complicated (and muddied) than Hello World level contracts.
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
That sounds pretty heavy on theatre and pretty light on insight!
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
My cupboard server at home is 2007 vintage ThinkPad I inherited from my father's discarded machines. The battery is gone and the CPU fan is shot so the processor sits at about 80 degrees C and gets thermally throttled very aggressively
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
Et tu, Mozilla?
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
ClearCase. You just triggered my PTSD!
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
Oh we can have something stronger than almost a guarantee, I have first hand anecdotes of documents from the financial services sector being fed to ChatGPT for polishing. They weren't trade secrets but their classifications were INTERN
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
Offer a 100% money back guarantee if the user finds that the software is not fit for purpose :)
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
"We'll fix our hardware bugs in software" :)
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
You've gotta be nuts not to be psychotic in a world like this one.
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
Thanks, I had no idea I was flirting with posting abusive content!
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
You can go one better. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/02/harassing-botnets-with-zipb...
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by dzamo_norton 2y ago
N choose 2 = N! / 2!(N-2)! = N(N-1) / 2.
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
Even if you are a data person. The ASF doesn't mind overlap between projects [1], it spreads its bets and lets the market choose the winners. 1. https://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works/#incubator
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
> all smelled of old nicotine and damp Nicotine is odourless.
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
Pretty strong cult vibes :/
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
I agree, Little Boys or Fat Mans per second would be make me think more of physical power and less of kill rate.
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
I wonder whether the problem could even become sufficiently well defined to admit any agreed upon loss function? You must debate with the goal of maximising the aggregate wellbeing (definition required) of all living and future humans (and
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
We get multiple hits from Google (though not always ranked by merit). We can scan a few and we often find forum style threads containing valuable elaboration or criticism of the primary material.
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
It would take excruciating gymnastics to justify a claim like this. And I'm not a fan of either entity.
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by dzamo_norton 3y ago
Is making bricks out of oil as bad as burning it?
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Come back to Debian (testing, if you want new package versions).
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Musk's ideas are both good and original. But the ones that are good are not original, and the ones that are original are not good.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
A file of SQL code is commonly referred to as a script.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Touché.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Normally a question like "I need last quarters sales aggregated by region stat" would be trivially answered with a pivot table or OLAP cube built from a general purpose data warehouse. But there are also ad hoc reporting requireme
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
Absolutely, this can be seen in the broker's spreads.
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by dzamo_norton 4y ago
> which can do all these things and can even serve as a laptop If it could only also serve as a smartphone I'd have one already.

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