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by eximius 1y ago
Considering they are probably the largest component of R&D expenses... yes, _if_ you think R&D should be tax-subsidized in some way.
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by eximius 1y ago
Maybe. But I think this is a useful time to engage in the conversation about what we do as a semi-post-scarcity society and how we should treat people under that framework. If we _do_ replace all the jobs, how should we, as a society, treat
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by eximius 1y ago
Ah, shame. `foo := someFallibleMethod()?` would have been nice for when you don't want to handle/wrap the error. I'm not super strongly against the constant error checking - I actually think it's good for code health to
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by eximius 1y ago
Those are not the comments I'm talking about. There are some in this thread that are derisive due to its focus on qualitative theory and predictions instead of a mathematical foundation.
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by eximius 1y ago
There is so much anger in this thread because someone is making qualitative predictions instead of quantitative predictions (except there are some statistical predictions, albeit based around correlations to existing observational phenomeno
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by eximius 1y ago
In relation to cosmology, that's mostly correct?
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by eximius 1y ago
Is there anything inherently requiring the three stage cosmological theory to bring about the Blowtorch theory? I find the Blowtorch theory very compelling - but the cosmological/evolution argument seems qualitatively... less scientifi
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by eximius 1y ago
So, addition under a particular elliptic curve is isomorphic to multiplication under integer modulo groups... But for some reason the author keeps referring to the underlying group as "Diffie-Hellman" instead of the process operat
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by eximius 1y ago
For you, perhaps. For me, the former is denser, but crossing into a "too dense" region. The JSON has indentation which is easy on my poor brain. Also, it's nice to differentiate between lists and objects. But, I mean, they&#x
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by eximius 1y ago
I don't disagree. I'm furious with these people. They're close to me. They aren't stupid... just not paying attention and skeptical due to a combination of propaganda (fake news!) and rightful incredulity at the state of
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by eximius 1y ago
Yes and no. It seems obvious it was the advertisement but I know people who voted for Trump that are otherwise fairly liberal. They were either grossly uninformed, misinformed, or simply _didn't believe_ the reporting about various iss
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by eximius 1y ago
As I read the paper, you would be able to detect it in a couple of ways 1. possibly high loss where the models don't have compatible embedding concepts 2. given a sufficient "sample" of vectors from each space, projecting the
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by eximius 1y ago
This really feels like trying to use Go for a purpose that it is inherently not designed for: absolute performance. Go is a fantastic case study in "good enough" practical engineering. And sometimes that means you can't wring
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by eximius 1y ago
Completely true, but comparable with lots of other coffee drinkers habits. I make mine half chai concentrate from a local restaurant and half 2% milk in small portion sizes of about 120 calories, so I don't feel _too_ bad about it. I m
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by eximius 1y ago
I drink chai lattes instead of coffee. Never could get on board with the bitter, brown bean water.
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by eximius 1y ago
I have no problem with 'OpenAI', so much as the individual running it and, more generally, rich financiers making the world worse in every capitalizable way and even some they can't capitalize on.
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by eximius 1y ago
Again?
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by eximius 1y ago
I'm very curious what this math pretest looked like, whether it was "proper" high level math or, like, computing some trig problems. Folks who have aptitude with algebra or number theory or topology, I'd expect that to b
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by eximius 1y ago
If you can't stop an LLM from _saying_ something, are you really going to trust that you can stop it from _executing a harmful action_? This is a lower stakes proxy for "can we get it to do what we expect without negative outcomes
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by eximius 1y ago
The three things I wish were more standardized in the languages I use are 1. Stacktraces with fields/context besides a string 2. Wrapping errors 3. Combining multiple errors
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by eximius 1y ago
VS Code + Github Copilot (Editor Inline Chat) + GPT-4o
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by eximius 1y ago
It really seems like the sheriff and jail ought to be able, and morally obligated, to ignore such an ask/order from ICE if they know it to be legally invalid.
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by eximius 1y ago
I'm still pretty pessimistic on all this. Just today, I had what should have been an obvious win for an LLM coding assistant to help me. I was writing a go function that converts one very long struct into a second very long struct. The
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by eximius 1y ago
Is Amazon a product or a place to sell other products? Does that make Amazon not a winner?
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by eximius 2y ago
Tariffs make things less globally economically efficient. Sometimes that is the goal for specific industries. Economic efficiency is not the ultimate goal. But no other country has blanket tariffs on so many other countries.
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by eximius 2y ago
"Things are hard, so don't try"? Seems like it's just advocating for cowardice hiding behind moral grandstanding.
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by eximius 2y ago
Welp, now I know my weekend project.
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by eximius 2y ago
By a similar argument, most frameworks are the same, most JS package upgrades are the same, etc, etc. It's still small incompatibilities adding up. It's still work.
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by eximius 2y ago
React today looks very different from React from 10 years ago. Easily as different as being a different framework. So, there is some nuance, but the logic isn't dead quite yet.
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by eximius 2y ago
I guess you're saying that non-inference time training can be that "sleep period"?

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