einpoklum

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by einpoklum 2mo ago
In the past, people would post advice on how to do something clever and useful yourself. Now, people post suggestions on how to talk out the side of their mouth to coax ther magic-8-ball slop generator to say something useful.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> it's MUCH cheaper and faster and does an excellent job on simple ones. OCR should be: 1. Privacy-respecting, i.e. running on your own machine without network communications. 2. Fully open-source. 3. Gratis. The first one is a must
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
How does this perform with non-Latin and non-LTR scripts? Say, Chinese, Arabic, Devangari, Adlam, etc.?
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
If people don't learn, and write, and converse, about new tech, the LLMs will not have raw material to learn their slop from. And I am quite worried that this is the direction we're going in, with the lake of insight being sipped
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> I can keep asking LLMs to explain a complex topic until I get it. Or you'll be confused by the slop it generates, which is very conversational but may be just false. Or - you could "get" something wrong and believe it to
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Instead of the department of energy striving to promote energy conservation and sustainable, non-polluting electricity generation, it is feeding the LLM craze. New department motto: "burn, baby, burn".
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
I believe you may be basing your figure on current Data Center power consumption. But - it's estimately to grow significantly: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/doe-data-centers-... also - 1 year is
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
> don't have a real justification. Oh, but the ju$tifi¢ation is all too real for having that kind of "common sense".
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
This seems fascinating, and I am only sad I haven't the time to actually get into a full treatise like that. The style of writing - at least initially - is quite approachable, even if the sentences tend to run on a bit. Not much is swe
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
The actual quote: > Our full-featured agent autonomously solved 9 Erdős problems out of 353 attempted, including two questions that had been open for 56 years Note _had_ been open, not _have_ been open. Can you clarify?
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
Also, have there been examples of researchers not affiliated with OpenAI (or another LLM creator), who have done something similar? Another question I have is whether or not OpenAI 'simply' hired capable combinatorics researchers
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
Quick, before the bubble bursts and everybody gets fired.
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
That page was overwhelming and visually tiring for me, especially with the animation, so I gave up on it, sorry.
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
You mostly don't sync any such data. Prepare some file (or a few files, including an .ics for itinerary or what-not) with information about your trip, a few days in advance, and copy the file(s) to the phone. That's it. And if you
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
Too bad you could not bring that judge up on charges of judicial misconduct - if he indeed told you that the charge against you had no merit, but decided to punish you anyway because he did not approve of your demeanor. ... or otherwise, th
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
> If you want to use non-systemd tools, use a non-systemd distro, that is your choice. No, it is not my choice, because I'm not talking about my PC at home, but rather what organizations use - commercial companies, universities, sch
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
We moan about Microsoft's horrid choices with its operating choices, already for, what, let's say 40 years now? 45? When they cut it out, start using standards, stop forcing crap onto their users (not all of Windows is crap; a lot
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
You're the one who brought up init systems. Like you said, systemd is a huge project; an init system is just one of its components. > he systemd project has many different components but they're independent They _are_ dependent
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
It's not even "max security". We are talking about those big tech corps which are infamous for sharing all of your private information with the government, and analyzing it so as to manipulate you in to buying things, and pos
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
Ok, well, you have a point, in that you might see the old way of doing things and you might see the new way. This is, however, one of the detriments of the language's commitment to backwards-compatibility: Old-C++ code is (almost witho
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
D: "I want to be free" by Milton Schulman. H: Milton Friedman. D: Why are they all called Milton? Anyway, I've only got as far as Milton Keynes. H: Maynard Keynes. D: I'm sure there's a Milton Keynes. H: Yes, there
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
> But many people don't have that much time to learn the new features Because they spend so much of their time struggling with the pain points of the older code. > but can't intuitively understand what it's doing For (m
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
You need to remember _less_, rather than more, when you use this kind of vocabulary types. Think about std::optional. Before that (and if you didn't write something like it yourself), you had to, for each class, remember the bespoke se
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
The example is problematic, in that: 1. click() should not be a member of the widget. A widget does not click; a user clicks a widget. A click can change a widget's state, but the state might change because of other effects, e.g. press
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
My approach to reducing the compile time of code which uses a class is moving the functionality out of the class and into standalone functions; or at least moving the method definitions into a non-header `.cpp` file.
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
Waste of computing resources, and mildly distracting. This reminds me of compiz.
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
I got 1.
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
I have a nagging suspicion that most/all of those people spending a lot of time generating code using LLMs and blogging about it were not really very influential or inspired coders before, and are now raised to stardom of sorts due to
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
I like how that website has not just a "Dark" and "Light" mode, but also a monochromatic "TTY" mode.
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by einpoklum 3mo ago
> AI is just a tool "To the man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail." [1] There is no such thing as "just" a tool. ---- [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument

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