epidemian

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by epidemian 2y ago
Yeah, i agree that, on principle, generative AI should be a good got for these kinds of things. But, the results are... idk, uncanny. At least to me. For example, if you were to ask a human artist to draw this image with two crabs, and this
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by epidemian 2y ago
> For example, if I tell you that I can visualize more than 3 dimensions, then how could you verify or disprove that? I don't really know. The first thing that came to my mind would be to ask to draw/model different cross-secti
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by epidemian 2y ago
But that'd be sort of a chicken and egg problem, right? You can't build an audience unless you're willing to scream into the void :)
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by epidemian 2y ago
I don't see the causal dependency between these things. Could a probe to Europa be sent while still having housing problems in some countries? And could it be sent after having those housing problems addressed? I think the answer to bo
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by epidemian 2y ago
> Drivers live or die by their rating. Refusing to give good reviews harms the drivers who are already barely scraping by. I drive on Uber part-time. In my city at least, rating is not such a big deal. The vast vast majority of people gi
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by epidemian 2y ago
Username checks out :) Saludos desde el otro lado del charco! And, to contribute something to the discussion: yeah, here in Argentina we have a similar situation. Import taxes are stupid high for some (most) products, making them prohibitiv
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by epidemian 2y ago
The article has nothing to do with the philosophical idea of the simulation hypothesis. It talks about how large portions of the software industry are engaging in a sort of simulation of actual work. The idea of "startup cosplay"
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Are We Living in a Simulation?(olano.dev)
4 points by epidemian 2y ago|4 comments
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by epidemian 2y ago
Or South America :)
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by epidemian 2y ago
My computer is not very powerful. Running games or resource-demanding programs on a virtualized Windows would be a significantly worse experience than running them on a bare-metal OS.
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by epidemian 2y ago
Why would it stop being a thing? I've had dual-booted until a couple of years ago, when i decided to ditch Windows for good, since i wasn't playing videogames, and the few i may wanted to play were playable on Steam. If i had need
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by epidemian 2y ago
You'd still need to interface with the JS APIs, wouldn't you? For example, an API like `Element.prototype.addEventListener(string, callback)` wouldn't make much sense in Rust, IDK about Go. Sure, you can make it work, but you
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by epidemian 2y ago
Not only that. The DOM API and general browser APIs are designed with JS semantics in mind, and for JS. Just like the UNIX APIs are designed in C and expect to be called from C. So even if you get other languages working alright on browse
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by epidemian 2y ago
Ok, i'll concede that you have a very good point there. Trust can be (and is being) exploited. I guess for me, so far at least, some sites feel much more legit and human that the obviously bot-ridden mess that are the likes of Twitte
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by epidemian 2y ago
Maybe us? I mean us as in a network of trusted individuals. For example, i've been appending "site:reddit.com" to some of my Google queries for a while now —especially when searching for things like reviews— because, otherwis
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by epidemian 2y ago
We can adapt. There's already invite-only and semi-closed online communities. If the "mainstream" web becomes AI-flooded, where you'd you like to hang out / get information: the mainstream AI sludge, or the curated
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by epidemian 2y ago
Yeah i absolutely agree. The saddest cases for me are languages like Java, which comes with working arbitrary-precision integers on its standard library, but using them feels so second-class compared to the "primitive" types like
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by epidemian 2y ago
It's a pretty common feature on high-level languages. Python, Ruby, Lisp(s), Haskell, etc, all use arbitrary-precision integers by default. Even JavaScript has integers now (since 2020), not as the default number type, but with the `n`
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by epidemian 2y ago
IDK about France (where Thibault is from, and IDK if he lives there), but where i'm from, you would have a very comfortable life earning 5k every month, so his self-imposed 60k/yr salary doesn't seem unreasonable at all. At
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by epidemian 2y ago
I've also been using Linux and the terminal ~15 years, and these things i keep forgetting and relearning every now and then. About Ctrl+A in particular, it never sticks in my memory, since i find typing the Home key to be more intuitiv
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by epidemian 2y ago
[author of the post here] thanks for the very thorough reply! it's fascinating to see the techniques used to improve LLM outputs :) i'll reply to some specific points, but i think your main argument of trying to find ways of worki
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LLMs are not even good wordcels(demian.ferrei.ro)
9 points by epidemian 2y ago|3 comments
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by epidemian 2y ago
But that would not convey to the user the idea of the interface being a work-in-progress.
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by epidemian 2y ago
"free beer" means something very different to "free speech". That's what the phrase refers to.
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by epidemian 2y ago
In this hypothetical scenario, we wouldn't know if they have known of our existence for a long time, and maybe even taken precautions like installing some proxy killer probes in case we had a stupid crazy idea like trying to launch a g
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by epidemian 2y ago
Out of curiosity: is your statement based mainly on the Liu Cixin series? Or is there some more depth to it? If so, could you give some pointer to the more in-depth analysis of this hypothesis?
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by epidemian 2y ago
I started with Jekyll's default, Minima[1], to get something working right away. But then i tweaked lots of stuff, copying things i liked from other blogs[2], so it no longer resembles that default look. [1]: https://jekyll.
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by epidemian 2y ago
I appreciate the clarification, as well as the initial comment TBH. And i agree actually, that doing this kind of computer-assisted search is indeed "real" maths, or at least a part of it; a useful tool. I think a comment on Lobst
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by epidemian 2y ago
Lovely visualizations! Thanks for linking :D I was thinking about generating a graph of connected nodes like the one you did. But TBH, i really like the ones on Wikipedia[1], and didn't really feel like making something of equal qualit
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by epidemian 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I meant the post to be more of a personal story. Of what i, personally, wanted to explore when learning about the Kaprekar constant, and of realizing that my interest is more on the "programming" side of t

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