esikich

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by esikich 2mo ago
Your brain also is physical. Electrochemical gradients flow between physical molecular constructs. Isn't it just chemistry? Do you attribute it to physics or some whole-is-greater-than-the-parts idea?
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by esikich 2mo ago
How often are you testing those backups? What kind of monitoring do you have? Do you pay attention to it? Skip any of those and it's just a prayer.
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by esikich 2mo ago
Even the 5 senses are arbitrary. Sensing where your body is positioned, where it's boundaries are, whatever tickling is, whatever itchy is, whatever sour is, whatever salty is, green, blue, etc. When we say 5, we are just saying where
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by esikich 2mo ago
You've just described Mary's Room - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
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by esikich 2mo ago
Tell me why only human brains are capable of whatever thought, conscious, or experience is (if you can define them) and I'll congratulate you on solving the hard problem of consciousness.
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by esikich 2mo ago
"Philosophy is an intrinsically human thing. It has to be." What is philosophy? Thinking? Reasoning? Thinking about thinking? You're asserting that only a human brain can think and reason? Surely other animals can as well. Co
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by esikich 2mo ago
I think I might. In a past life I was a full time musician and had tons of time to kill. I was able to just go to places and simply exist. It wasn't to read or work or write or meet anyone (everyone was at work after all), it was simpl
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by esikich 2mo ago
And our nerves are a series of electrochemical impulses. There are nerves that do optical processing before it hits the brain. It's not obvious, and that's what's frustrating around here. "Computers can't possibly e
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by esikich 2mo ago
Good Lord no. Sudafed is nothing like Adderall and Adderall is nothing like caffeine, for starters. I was on a low 10mg time release dose of Adderall for about 6 years. I had a lapse of insurance and could no longer afford it. I weaned myse
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by esikich 2mo ago
Nah, he was a scapegoat so the rest of big pharma could continue to do the exact same shit he did. He was just too noisy about it. "Justice served, we got all the bad guys!"
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by esikich 2mo ago
I can't imagine any elevator just uses a set algorithm. I'm sure after installing, technicians work with facilities for a period to dial it in as every building will have different needs and traffic patterns.
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by esikich 2mo ago
It very well could be the case that people get more upset about waiting for the car than total travel time when they are already in the car. Ie, pick them up sooner even if travel time is longer. In fact, I would bet that this is the case.
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by esikich 2mo ago
It seems like you are talking about Kant's "thing-in-itself". We can't know any more about an apple than an LLM can. We experience it through our faulty senses. We do not experience the actual apple. This is still open a
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by esikich 3mo ago
You'll always have manufacturing and construction. I've never heard of an electrician boom bust cycle. It's infrastructure. It's always in demand.
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by esikich 3mo ago
Yes, but not all - it has been a long time in my experience that frontier LLMs have written nonsense tests.
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by esikich 3mo ago
No, of course I didn't publish it.
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by esikich 3mo ago
Huh?
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by esikich 3mo ago
Have it run fuzz and test suites. Get with it man. Most of my LLM projects have massive test suites that do a far better job then I ever would have.
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by esikich 3mo ago
In the early days of LLM coding, it seemed to be much better at Python for whatever reason. I was never a big Python guy, but I got better results so I ran with it. That definitely doesn't seem to be the case anymore. Last week I asked
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by esikich 3mo ago
You do understand that unless you live in a relatively warm metropolis this is literally not an option right?
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by esikich 3mo ago
Not to mention a lot of things get solved/decided over beers at happy hour. Coworkers shouldn't be your best friends but you're a fool if you're not friendly with them. Like you said, people aren't robots and a busi
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by esikich 3mo ago
I've worked with fleets of company phones and mobile devices, people absolutely do this.
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by esikich 3mo ago
Pixel 6 - 40-50Hz
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by esikich 3mo ago
I don't believe this for a second. The anesthesiologist is obligated to tell them this, they meet and discuss this kind of thing with the family/patient. It isn't a breach of protocol, the doctor and surgeon would also have b
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by esikich 3mo ago
How were you expecting it to know what your system setup was? Did you ask it for some bash commands to get it the info it would need to get unstuck? Or were you just expecting magic?
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by esikich 3mo ago
Is this what you do? Because I'm at least an intermediate with astrophotography with a camera, and even airplanes are a total non issue. If you're so deep into the sky that you actually need many minutes or hours on the same spot,
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by esikich 3mo ago
That's what I don't understand, how are they ruined? If you're so deep that you need minutes or hours of exposures, that satellite will blip past the frame so fast it's not going to matter. And if the exposure time is le
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by esikich 3mo ago
That's unrectified LEDs flashing at mains frequency, not PWM.
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by esikich 3mo ago
I don't see how this can be true especially if you have a fancy telescope tracking something, take 3-5 whatever many shots in succession and stack. It's astrophotography 101.
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by esikich 3mo ago
My grandpa used to say "we're not building a piano" when doing things like building a quick shelf or something in the basement and be done after a quick measure and a few cuts. My other grandpa would spend an entire day measu

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