empath75

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by empath75 2y ago
How do you test if a person knows something?
902.
by empath75 2y ago
I use copilot to write boilerplate code that I know how to write but I don't feel like writing it. When it gets it wrong, it's easy to tell and easy to fix.
903.
by empath75 2y ago
Most people buying macs don't care about specs, they care about _what they can do_.
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by empath75 2y ago
I agree that the ads miss their mark, and I think a better ad would have instead focused on how it could have _prevented_ the awkward situation to begin with, rather than awkwardly helping you cover it up after the fact.
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by empath75 2y ago
There's basically two places where I see it as being useful -- as part of an automation pipeline where you need some translation layer from natural language to structured data or vice versa, and when the user knows it's an LLM and
906.
by empath75 2y ago
Layoffs happen even in well run companies.
907.
by empath75 2y ago
"Discovery" probably isn't the right word, but the important part isn't knowing that something is there, the important part is telling the rest of the world about it.
908.
by empath75 2y ago
They specifically minted coins with a cross on the back to make it easier to split into halves and quarters.
909.
by empath75 2y ago
People do depend a lot on the benevolence of the butcher and the brewer and the baker, because while regulation and inspections and laws and so on are there to stop out and out sociopaths from killing people in pursuit of profits, a lot of
910.
by empath75 2y ago
The LHC wasn't built to discover the higgs. Another primary motivation was looking for supersymmetry and dark matter candidates. But really it was more general than that. Every time we've built a bigger collider we've foun
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by empath75 2y ago
We know what they did because a _lot_ of scientists desperately wanted to find supersymmetry and various dark matter candidates with the LHC and they've found absolutely _nothing_ and didn't actually just "make some shit up&q
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by empath75 2y ago
> It is one the best predictors of job performance (up there with a work sample test), income, reaction time, how much schooling you'll get, how likely you are to commit crime, how long you'll live. People say stuff like this a
913.
by empath75 2y ago
Keep in mind that this statue was broken and reassembled several times so it probably doesn't look very much like the original Chinese version any more. In particular, the wings aren't original.
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by empath75 2y ago
What does it measure?
915.
by empath75 2y ago
There is such a simpler explanation for this. You can get better at IQ tests by practicing and studying. For a long time IQ scores were seen as an important measure of your value as a human being, and more importantly, were used to gate a
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by empath75 2y ago
One way to think of non-detection is as evidence that we're looking in the wrong place. Another way to think of non-detection is as evidence that it doesn't exist.
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by empath75 2y ago
They also made a massive deal with MLS that led to Messi coming to the US, and they've done a terrible job of getting an mainstream attention for that, even though it's a _great_ viewing experience -- you can watch every game, inc
918.
by empath75 2y ago
Seems like a hard problem to solve, because even if you mark some block of code as DO_NOT_OPTIMIZE it still is likely to pull in code from elsewhere that probably has been optimized. Seems like you might have to actually just write the rel
919.
by empath75 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OPsH8PK7xM This video I think makes it obvious why that's true in a pretty intuitive way. I posted it a few days ago as a link and it never got traction. SAT is the equivalent of being
920.
by empath75 2y ago
Developers are so used to going through leetcode nonsense to get jobs that they're assuming that this is some kind of genuine but poorly written test to test literacy. The way something like this was administered, was that tests return
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by empath75 2y ago
> “Prevention of disease is obviously something we should strive for. But it’s not going to be cheap. We will have to pay for those who survive,” That was the message they really went with, huh. Tobacco companies were culling old peopl
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by empath75 2y ago
I don't mind the format, but the article itself was basically nothing you couldn't get from 5 minutes of looking at wikipedia.
923.
by empath75 2y ago
Depending on when you bought it, it was a pretty risky play until AWS came out and got traction. Their retail business _still_ doesn't make money.
924.
by empath75 2y ago
I can visualize stuff just fine in general but I never visualize _anything_ when I'm programming, and I don't know what it would add if I did.
925.
by empath75 2y ago
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/48043 They've been working on it for a while so they can get rust into the linux kernel
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What P vs. NP is about [video](youtube.com)
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by empath75 2y ago
Every business in a competitive market is "barely profitable", that's how capitalism works. If a company is raking in massive profits that's a sign that the market is distorted somehow -- a monopoly, collusion, regulati
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by empath75 2y ago
There is no natural regulation system for the earth, and the earth makes no attempt at homeostasis. It has been tipped over into states almost completely inhospitable for then-existing life more than once.
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by empath75 2y ago
No, you use it to simulate things that we don't have efficient perfect models of -- like the actual world. Everyone is correct that using this to simulate counterstrike is pointless. This is not video game technology, this is autonom
930.
by empath75 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly right. What they need is a giant dataset of agent data and audio and video from real world locomotion.

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