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by elcritch 2y ago
> Few things are more personally relevant than not getting tortured and executed by your neighbors because you were granted no defense against spectral evidence. As @arkey points out, this happens with atheistic beliefs as well. By numbe
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Even without other tokens before it the LLM is probably showing the probability of dice rolls based on its training data. I’d guess humans tend to prefer “3” or “4” as it’s nearer the avg/median and feels fairer. AFAICT, the LLMs aren’
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by elcritch 2y ago
> There's a lot of overlap there and my personal feeling is that they likely share similar causes Autism and adhd definitely appear to share traits, and I suspect there's a shared cluster of genes affecting certain aspects of n
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Certainly a biased view of religious home schoolers. Most of my religious friends who homeschool are college educated and many have postgraduate degrees. Some do disbelieve evolution, or at least disdain it a bit. Pretty much all of them ar
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> and less connected to the world around them. Sounds like Americans were literate back then. I also suspect that most were _more_ connected to the world around them. Not the broader world, but the immediate world around them.
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It's not all that tasty. After visiting Europe I always find American foods to be grossly sweet. It's a race to the bottom that you only notice if you get out of the cycle for a bit.
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Fascinating that with such a simple simulation you can see grain boundaries like those in metals forming. Look at the second image, those are almost identical to what they looked like in our material science courses.
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What? Nah C++ is some template based language. The real object-oriented evolution of C is Objective-C. ;)
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Well if the point is that Zimbabwe starts playing games and corruption starlink can ignore them. Sure the Chinese could play Zimbabwe’s game, but then they’d likely be more expensive and worse quality by blocking things the government doesn
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Oddly "hackers" are the ones who often revive defunct hardware or give users back control over their devices. Things like DRM laws seem to only enhance corporate interests.
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First I heard of it but Chimera sounds very interesting from an IoT / Embedded Linux perspective. I've been looking for a while for Linux distro that's easy to build from scratch and customizable.
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Hmmm, I could imagine microplastics, PFAS, artificial dies, excessive and unhealthy amounts of sugar would all have a deleterious effect on IQ. Perhaps even specifically pre frontal cortex, etc. Though that goes against Europe hitting the d
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Worse the parent says 2-3 μg/dL or 20-30 μg/L right?
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Another bit I discovered is the quality of resistors. Pretty much any op amp circuit will use resistors. Often the resistors limit the static offsets. Don’t stick with 1% for analog circuits as 0.1% precision resistors are cheap and come wi
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by elcritch 2y ago
Great write up. And definitely skip the 60 year old models. Also valuable to look for is ESD protection. Many op amps have good 2kV static shock protection. Really sucks to have cascading failures due to touching your circuit and blowing an
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by elcritch 2y ago
Ah ‘fieldNames’, looks very similar to Nim’s ‘fieldPairs’. It’s an incredibly handy construct! It makes doing efficient serialization a breeze. I recently implemented a compile time check for thread safety checks on types using ‘fieldPairs’
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I don’t think mirror bacteria would do that well. They’d have to survive all the other handed chemicals already out there and to be able to use the other handed proteins and sugars for food to become pests. Furthermore immune systems can cr
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by elcritch 2y ago
Having supported team members where we were all running this setup there was constant fiddling with docker. Containers would freeze and often required restarting docker directly. Especially with WSL on windows. It’s slick when it works.
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Otherwise you make good points. Companies like Intuit using AI as a justification to lay off lots of devs will face issues later when it comes about that it doesn’t scale.
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> LLMs, if tuned for software development, present an opportunity … to produce software of unprecedented quality and with as yet unseen features and usability. Given that I can barely get LLMs to produce an error free couple of functions
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I kinda want one, but big enough for a small window. Get a view without getting distracted.
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At the same time many people’s livelihood can be made with a WP instance and some plugins for subscriptions or similar. Similarly much of the world’s engineering is also done by poor farmers. Part of me relishes it.
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The West still leads in overall R&D. Even TSMC advanced nodes ultimately rely on western equipment and technology. New advancements in AI and vaccines were western as well. China has made impressive bounds in R&D but still lags in m
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by elcritch 2y ago
Hey thanks! That's awesome and great to see other implementations. Figuring out test cases is half the battle and I've really only done the basics. I'll definitely look to stealing things. ;) > Looks like the licenses are
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Nice! It's pretty cool what you can make in a few thousand lines. Though Flex isn't my favorite as I prefer full CSS Grid. So I ended up making a CSS Grid layout library that I'm proud of in pure Nim (1). Though I'll hav
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That's my belief on why ADHD has such similar levels of prevalence (between 5%) around the globe despite drastically different cultures and varying genetics. It's great for the group as a whole as the ADHD members tend to be natur
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Additionally calling C++ from other languages is a pain and you're forced to make a bridge C API. Doing so from Go is even less than ideal from what I gather. It requires using cgo and forces Go to interface with C call stacks, slows d
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My favorite serde format is Msgpack since it can be dropped in for an almost one-to-one replacement of JSON. There's also CBOR which is based on MsgPack but has diverged a bit and added and a data definition language too (CDDL). Take J
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It looks like it, but LLMs still lack critical reasoning by and large. So if a client tells them or asks for something nonsensical it won’t reason its way out of that. I’m not worried about software as a profession yet, as first clients wil
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I recall reading a study showing that MISRA actually tended to _increase_ the average number of bugs in software projects.

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