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I am biased because this is my research area, but I have to respectfully disagree. Actor models are awful, and the only reason it's not obvious is because everything else is even more awful. But if you look at e.g., the recent work on
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s/happiness/health/ and then I think we have a more reasonable starting point. (And I mean health in the holistic/whole person sense, not in the limited sense of how well your biological machine is running.) I think this
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Hasn't it already been trained on what is effectively the entire contents of the scrapable internet? There isn't another 10x to be had there, let alone 100x. I assume that whatever future improvements we get from improving algorit
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> GPU support If you haven't tried cuNumeric [1], you really ought to. It's a drop-in NumPy wrapper for distributed GPU acceleration. Would be interesting to see if it works for this. [1]: https://github.com/nv-
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I know this probably isn't intended for performance, but it would be fun to run this in cuNumeric [1] and see how it scales. [1]: https://github.com/nv-legate/cunumeric
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A few practical suggestions: Many people here have contact info in their profiles. If you find a good (dead) comment thread, you can contact the people involved directly. I suspect many of the people here would be willing to continue the co
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> Files added to your Dropbox account from another device or that are shared by another user will default to online-only. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this completely breaks the sync model if you use more than one computer. It used
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Here are a few of the prominent past HN posts: Dungeons and Dragons’ new license tightens its grip on competition https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34264777 An Update on the Open Game License (OGL) https://new
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I'm writing a science fiction novel series. I blog about the writing process here: https://exanderproject.com/ Note: the first book is currently unpublished, but I'm happy to offer beta reader copies in exchange f
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I recently saw a "3% cost of living" charge at a restaurant (in California). This same restaurant provided suggested tips of 18, 20, and (I think) 25%. At a certain level I think this is just dishonesty. They want to raise prices,
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Experiences can vary a lot. For example, we're bootstrapping a CS research group at SLAC; our goal is to do fundamental CS research. Depending on where you land, that may or may not be typical of your experience. A lot of labs are scie
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While we're here, Dragonmount is a DRM-free ebook store for certain authors published by TOR: https://dragonmount.com/store/ But the vast majority of traditionally published books are not available (legally) DRM-f
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As a computer scientist (you can check my publication record through my profile) and an (aspiring) novelist, I disagree. A lot of papers are just poorly written, full stop. It is also true that science literature contains a lot of jargon
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When I asked for a squirrel with a hoodie, it gave me one with two heads: https://i.imgur.com/UIBXXvj.png We're definitely at the point where these tools can do amazing things, and yet they still manage to make bizarre
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Yes, Lisp was the first memory-safe programming language. And the rich data model is part of that. Fortunately this is something other languages have been borrowing from for a while now, and explicit nullability via Option and the like is p
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As the sibling noted, Python has a built-in AST parser [1] which I believe (not 100% sure) is used in libraries like Numba to JIT Python functions [2]. But fundamentally, the difference between built-in and provided as a library is not real
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What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)(elliottslaughter.com)
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In case it's not obvious to everyone reading here, no one recommends using the cry it out method on infants younger than six months. For younger infants, you should always respond as quickly as possible. Our doctor recommended that we
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Four-legged animals don't have the same degree of birthing challenges as two-legged ones because of the way the birth canal is shaped. Consider for example how horses are able to be up and walking (both baby and mother) of some number
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This seems to be misreading the situation to me. The Kickstarter's $41M total was boosted dramatically by merchandize. You can calculate the numbers yourself: the four highest cost tiers (the ones that include the monthly swag boxes) a
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Of course it's not just a lottery, it's a lottery weighted (at least to some degree) by a variety of factors like the game itself and the marketing you put into it. The point I think people usually mean to make is that the odds
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I don't know if you're serious, but they've been taking donations for (literal) decades at this point: https://www.bay12games.com/support.html
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On the other hand, they already migrated GFM once (to CommonMark), so it's not wildly unimaginable they might do it again. There is precedent. (Of course, it would have to take off first. Adoption is problem #1.)
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So this is what happened to the energy that had been going into CommonMark. I'd been wondering, because the spec releases for CommonMark have been slowing down for quite a while [1], and it felt like certain issues just never saw atten
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I mean, you can already do all of this (and more) in Pandoc's Markdown dialect, which is CommonMark-compatible. The main things you're getting here are sanding down some of the sharp corners that CommonMark has, in exchange for so
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Maybe I'm naive, but what stops indie studios from creating cinematic universes? The props, sets, visual effects, etc. are primarily what's expensive, not the size of the (in-your-head) universe. If anything, I would expect indie
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What I'd really personally like to see is space opera with better storytelling. But the impression I've got is that the sorts of films that do best as indies are ones where the props are cheap. So in other words, mostly contempora
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Oh, hey. I was just looking at this article the other day. I think this article makes some good points, but it's a little too absolutist about this data. As far as I can tell, if you are an author or industry professional , you can ge
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I'm happy to talk about my process, though "process" is being pretty generous because it's very haphazard. Where it starts for me is the feeling when you get to the end of a good book, and you keep telling yourself stori
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I personally like Typora ( https://typora.io/ ). It gets about as close to that state of flow as you can get, and it supports Markdown syntax. I use a Git workflow to track my writing, which definitely isn't for everyone

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