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by eximius 3y ago
What I want: PRQL (which they do eventually mention at the very bottom) + a database that supports something like protobuf defined tables. I'm half convinced that after my current gig I'll do a startup based on that idea. I just w
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by eximius 3y ago
Again, I think the disagreement is not whether it has learned to approximate a sorting algorithm, but whether that qualifies as reasoning and, if it does, in what sense.
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by eximius 3y ago
Eh. I still consider them stochastic parrots. My concessions lie elsewhere, primarily in the vocabulary. We refer to algorithms like quicksort as 'reasoning' about the input. So it's fine to use the same sense of the word to
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by eximius 3y ago
Part 1: what are n-grams Part 2: it's using embeddings (but a lot of words without actually saying it) Part 3: sufficiently trained NNs can sort things, which isn't statistics ----- I actually found some of the article interesting
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by eximius 3y ago
I can't help but wonder if they were legally allowed to do this bullshit anyway. If I failed to migrate my account, are they allowed to deny me access to the product I paid for?
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by eximius 3y ago
Disclaimer: I think this change is extremely dumb and alienating to their core users in a feeble attempt to fix a problem that doesn't exist. That said, you kind of identified why they're only rewarding historical nitro users. Bec
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by eximius 3y ago
Maybe strictly definitionally, but comparing the connotations of the two, I assume people don't actually truly randomly guess.
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by eximius 3y ago
Guessing has a very mild implication of thought or estimation from a model of understanding of the subject in question. Hallucination, on the other hand, is evocative of a less reasonable/rational source.
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GradIEEEnt Half Descent(youtube.com)
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by eximius 3y ago
Personally I advocate for modular monoliths with the boundaries set by gRPC services. Monoliths are fun to bash, but I'd rather have a monolith than poorly done microservices. The problem is that Ruby encourages (or, perhaps, doesn&#x2
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by eximius 3y ago
Like any good magic trick, it's an illusion. While you're looking over here, I've secretly built an unmaintainable monolith! Tada!
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by eximius 3y ago
It's somewhere in between. I know of second hand stories where folks were unintentionally strung along by the IRS. They'd get a notice that they underpaid by $X and it had been Y days with Z% interest being applied. So they send i
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by eximius 3y ago
So, 'update regulations when new information comes to light'? It is frustrating that common action often precludes such common sense sentiments due to the friction of interests or bad actors.
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by eximius 3y ago
This is a fascinating blind spot I didn't know I had! Difficult to do much with as so many request/response load balancing software is inherently push based, but it's a great eye opener.
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by eximius 4y ago
Is the implication that each nonperturbative term represents a specific kind of field interaction? Thus would there be a finite set of nonperturbative terms that, if exhaustively found, would render the trans-series convergent?
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by eximius 4y ago
LLMs have randomness, but they are not random. LLMs probably won't generate new words, for example, so they could not have written shakespeare based on contemporary writings.
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by eximius 4y ago
That raises an interesting point. On the one hand, novelty is in the eye of the beholder, if you will. What has been done before might still be new to many. On the other, randomness is built in and language has a remarkable capacity for uni
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by eximius 4y ago
Rebuttal: No, it isn't.
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by eximius 4y ago
well, it will also probably not be true because it's a dumb statement.
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by eximius 4y ago
> By implementing a gradual type system, Nickel allows producers of Nickel libraries to enrich their code with helpful type annotations without making all of the code consuming those libraries verbose or cumbersome. Those seem like diffe
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by eximius 4y ago
Why does it need to be gradually typed? If there was the equivalent to Rust doc generation that said `fn configuration(config: Config, pkgs: Packages) -> Configuration` "Implement this function in `/etc/nixos/configur
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by eximius 4y ago
Flakes may be a step in the right direction, but I admit I've somewhat halted my journey after finally grokking how to use nix channels and configuration.nix. I haven't done any packaging or gotten into flakes as a unit of composa
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by eximius 4y ago
The language is in a weird place. The language itself is okay, but you're often trying to use the language to compute a result that meets an interface that is never defined. There is very poor ability to reason about the 'types&#x
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by eximius 4y ago
Considering the original demon cores were held apart by a screw driver, the answer is technically yes. It's still a horrifyingly unsafe thing to do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core#/media/File:Ti
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by eximius 4y ago
Would you prefer it be more threatening language...?
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by eximius 4y ago
That is, admittedly, something Rust has not prioritized. I think it was probably the right decision given how successful the cargo approach has been in terms of bootstrapping a language community. There are some very talented people thinkin
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by eximius 4y ago
'hard' is not the goal, so much as "don't skip inherent complexity". It turns out things were already hard, Rust just has the tools to make it tractable to deal with all of it instead of ignoring it.
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by eximius 4y ago
Yeesh, I just want some web components, okay? (But not Web Components, those... Those are not good.)
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by eximius 4y ago
Aw, I was hoping this would be some weird AwesomeWM swarm. I'm.. not exactly sure what that would be, to be honest. Some Plan9esque networked WM?
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by eximius 4y ago
If the complete lack of product roadmap is anything to go by... no.

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