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by eternalban 3y ago
> Where have all the hackers gone? To a newspeak school to unlearn precise terminology. So to translate OP, "soil, surface, and atmosphere" apparently refer to semantics , syntax , and runtime . ("Pedantic" is a fa
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by eternalban 3y ago
Thanks for the ref. A few passages in the beginning chapters make me wonder what he would make of US today, specially whether he would recognize the 'conversion' regiment that he deems "as sure as a steam-roller" as havi
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by eternalban 3y ago
"[In SAIS,] Linebarger was known to end class with a maxim: 'The essence of psychological warfare is shock and surprise.' To illustrate his point, the professor then "took the glass eye out of its socket, flipped it up
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by eternalban 3y ago
Good overview of the two approaches: https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/why-are-lstms-struggling...
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by eternalban 3y ago
Two things happened in '00s in relation to this question. One, on demand computing infrastructure (cloud), and two, the scaling requirements of a new breed of networked services. The germinal change in response to these shifts was that
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by eternalban 3y ago
Somewhat. One important issue is distinct approaches to social systems . The somewhat archaic, and human psychology sensitive, American system is contrasted with (pseudo-)rationalist and "objective" European approach. For example
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by eternalban 3y ago
> the fetters of medieval scholasticism — a vain attempt at verbal precision & > computer science would consist mainly of the indeed black art how to bootstrap from [using only language as an interface to machines] Dijkstra was ma
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by eternalban 3y ago
That's true to some extents but you left out the other side of the equation, one of the most important aspects of an entrepeurial society: social mobility . It is the upper class in Europe that does not believe in social mobility . L
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by eternalban 3y ago
Because we don't use the metric system. The metric system instills a false sense of equivalence of levels where as the imperial system makes it clear that there are hierarchies, even in nature, and it's better the higher you go. T
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by eternalban 3y ago
So far it it reminds of the worst days of code embedded in templates. Once these things start getting into multipage prompts they will be hopelessly obscure. The second immediate thing that jumps out is 'fragility'. This will be t
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Cellular Respiration(en.wikipedia.org)
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by eternalban 3y ago
> purely cultural oh, I got one to admit he was "intimidated" by Java. Note: there is a subset of developers who have either hit one of Java/JVMs limitations, or, subscribe as a matter of professional judgement and taste t
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by eternalban 3y ago
"In this essay, we assert that an emergent ability of LLMs is to humanize technology, a term that we use to imply making technology more human-centered, accessible, and responsive to human needs and values. We make this argument by ca
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by eternalban 3y ago
OP:> "I know there was this 10-minute period where I totally look like I'm a bad employee — but really, I'm a good employee." > Will there be a partially private middle class, a fully tracked underclass and a mostl
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by eternalban 3y ago
> The comparison to the Google Books antitrust falls down completely, Google had a dominant position because it had the resources to scan all books. Anyone can build a collection of almost all open source code. Copying a file is not the
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by eternalban 3y ago
No one is arguing with you. You were making an argument based on a misinformed software category assertion and the error was pointed out. So r/fyi/til maybe?
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by eternalban 3y ago
Kafka is not a "db engine". zk is a "db engine" in the same way 'DNS' is a "db engine".
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by eternalban 3y ago
In a twist, congressional aides secretly use GPT-4 to tear apart Sam's testimony ..
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by eternalban 3y ago
Americans used to have an inferiority complex vis-a-vis Europe (in general) and English. WWII put an end to that. People the world over started aping Americans, including the English. It is (strangely) after US decides to officially be
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by eternalban 3y ago
But writing “source code” is definitively not “software engineering”. It has a name: programming . A software engineer is the person that creates a system from software mostly using software . AI-assistant engineering makes sense. P
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by eternalban 3y ago
Because Hollywood has been promoting* that accent. * Review films made in the past 2 decades (that’s roughly when I began noticing the trend). Invariably, an English accent is used to imply authority or superiority (of some kind). Why this
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by eternalban 3y ago
Just read The tale about the snowflake that did not melt . Lovely little story. Thank you for sharing all this bounty!
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by eternalban 3y ago
- Nobody - cares if your lonesome project is not accepting PR or even better stands denuded of any pretense of README, etc. For these it is sufficient to have a OSS license named and you’re good to go. And if you ignore PRs — and you are un
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by eternalban 3y ago
Protocols to the rescue, potentially.
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by eternalban 3y ago
> And who hired them? Is there no money trail? This is the most galling aspect of that article - crickets on who paid them to do the deed. The companies named are obviously front company for hire. The clients are telecomms that require F
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by eternalban 3y ago
> The rush to privatize everything in Russia came from the West - particularly the US. The US encouraged Putin's protege Yeltsin to use tanks to shell Russia's parliament - which was celebrated on US news shows, in government e
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by eternalban 3y ago
Related: The Roman Law of Slavery , 1908 https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/buckland/R...
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Foreign Groups in Rome During the First Centuries of the Empire (1927) [pdf](jstor.org)
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by eternalban 3y ago
This empirical data was gathered in context of poor connectivity in society. So the 'default' that you propose, I assert, is a default for a specific societal regime. As an abstract model, I propose hierarchies of patronage &
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by eternalban 3y ago
> 'You are an expert statistician' .. "You are <q><x>" likely shrinks the possibility space to items (auto-)categorized to be 'near' <x>. <q> could be filtering on 'quality'

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