fenomas

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by fenomas 5y ago
MIT requires copies to retain the original copyright notice and license info.
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by fenomas 5y ago
I follow you, but disagree. If P is meaningless, we can't say anything useful about it - even "!(P&!P)" doesn't necessarily hold! As for your specific argument, it begs the question. If you assume that a sufficiently
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by fenomas 5y ago
Counterpoint: the question is meaningless. A "Turing test" is basically a notional thought experiment - useful to reason about, but in actual practice it's nothing more than a person reading some text and making guesses about
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by fenomas 5y ago
OpenAI's rules on chatbots are pretty straightforward, and pretty limited - it sounds like they basically don't want anything that isn't scoped to a specific goal, like reading a customer service script. https://be
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by fenomas 5y ago
A Turing* test is a black-box test that only considers the subject's output. It specifically doesn't try to answer questions about how the subject works internally, like GP asked. That's the whole point of the thing!
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by fenomas 5y ago
> telling people a program is alive or sentient when it's not is spreading a false hood. If you think my comment was doing that, I think you may be misremembering the Dijkstra quote.
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by fenomas 5y ago
This seems like a very simplistic position on a rather subtle topic. I don't know of any good reasons to doubt that an arbitrarily large chatbot could pass an arbitrarily hard Turing test. If that's so, where is the bright line be
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by fenomas 5y ago
I don't really follow. What does it specifically mean to say that a chatbot has no internal experience, or can't understand a concept? Like, if I disagree with you about those claims, what observable things about the chatbot show
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by fenomas 5y ago
Yeah, it's just propelling itself forwards through water. It's not swimming!
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by fenomas 5y ago
Content from 2001 would have been in Flash v5 at the latest - more likely v4, and AFAIK are both pretty fully supported by modern emulators. As such, it sounds like the "lost" content the article discusses is lost in the sense tha
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by fenomas 5y ago
Very neat app! One other bug report: I have a "programmer" badge for mentioning a programming language in my about page, but such isn't the case. Not sure which part of my bio it might be mistaking for a language? edit: found
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by fenomas 5y ago
I'm only a casual at 3D, but my experience has always been that no two format implementations ever quite work the same way. Unless apple is proposing to elevate some existing implementation, that already has interop across various pl
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by fenomas 5y ago
> at which point you can really only evaluate all possible combinations You only need one counterexample, and in this case you can easily find it. E.g., you can note that the duckie in GP's solution can be swapped for the pinwheel+w
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by fenomas 5y ago
(a) I didn't downvote you. (b) setInterval and setTimeout fire off the same event loop; they can only occur at the same fixed times. Why do you think one is more reliable? Just repeating that it's the case doesn't convey any
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by fenomas 5y ago
I understand that, but the answer is the same. setTimeout isn't needed as a fallback (since RAF is widely supported), and it's not better time-wise (since the code we're talking shouldn't run when the document isn't
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by fenomas 5y ago
I think a few topics are conflated here. The part of the code that draws pixels into a canvas (or tells webgl to draw) should always be called from RAF - there's never a reason to do that more often than the screen refreshes. And sin
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by fenomas 5y ago
Separating accounts is a fine principle, but for anything social (github, twitter..) some people have good reasons for doing their work from their existing personal accounts. E.g. evangelists, folks in devrel, those whose jobs include contr
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by fenomas 5y ago
Ah, great point. I remember hearing about a case like that, though I also don't remember which specific service it was.
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by fenomas 5y ago
I agree with most of this, but I'm curious about the specific case of Github. If I join a company, are there any big dangers to just having them add my personal GH account to their organizations or private repos, and then if I leave th
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by fenomas 5y ago
requestAnimationFrame is much better here. If you're just drawing into a canvas, there's no reason to do that every N milliseconds - you want to do it once per screen refresh, which is what RAF is for. There's also the added
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by fenomas 5y ago
There's no recursion involved with RAF or looping with setTimeout. In either case the "anim" function doesn't invoke itself, it calls a scheduling function and passes itself as an argument.
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by fenomas 5y ago
Yeah, he talks a lot about this in his essays - one quote I liked was "a good mystery is one you'd read even if the end was missing". He was definitely rebelling against the classical mystery format, where every clue must be
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by fenomas 5y ago
> this anonymous blog post https://selamjie.medium.com The author's name is right there in the URL.
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by fenomas 5y ago
There used to be a great column in alt-weeklies called The Word Detective, that dealt with tons of these I've the years (to insure promptness, port out starboard home, etc). The author (one Evan Morris) always reminded people that acro
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by fenomas 5y ago
I don't think that's correct. Outside of writing, his career was spent in an oil company.
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by fenomas 5y ago
The quote is from 1940.
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by fenomas 5y ago
This reminds me of a quote from Raymond Chandler, describing a chess game: > ..seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elab
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by fenomas 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow. In ECSs that I'm familiar with, entities are integer IDs, not class objects. So adding or removing components (roles) to an entity doesn't make use of any language-level features, it's just calls t
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by fenomas 5y ago
This seems like a pretty reductive take. An Ubisoft-sized company, having all the relevant data and having a huge incentive to learn everything that can be learned from it, is surely going to have some idea of the scope of the problem. I
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by fenomas 5y ago
What does that have to do with anything? I mean, it takes no effort at all to copy/paste AGPL code into a proprietary project. But you're still not supposed to do it, right?

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