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by fipar 4mo ago
You seem to be arguing as if I'm saying AI can't think or have memory. Now, my opinion is it currently can't think, but it certainly has memory. However, LLMs don't have memory. That's what I (and others on this thr
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by fipar 4mo ago
I had heard (o rather, read) about the hippocampus before, but I don’t understand how that relates to my claim that the models have no memory.
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by fipar 4mo ago
Not the model though. The model really only takes input text and produces output text. Memory within a conversation is achieved by the harness adding the conversation (or parts of it) to the input text. The LLM itself has no memory, it’s th
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by fipar 4mo ago
You know that thing about the answer to any headline that’s a question being almost always “No”? I’ve been fully remote for 17 years and, before that, did short periods of remote work as early as 2003. The first junior I remember being onbo
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by fipar 4mo ago
Besides the productivity boost (and I know you already mention a boost to your well-being), this is one of the simplest yet effective things you can do to improve your cardiovascular health. I had a heart attack at 40 and 30 mins a day is t
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by fipar 5mo ago
Or Mr Krabs' fear of robot overloads keeping technology at bay in the Krusty Krab!
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by fipar 5mo ago
They will also lie and produce output saying it is based on tool execution, without having actually used the tool. Yes, another layer to cross-check, say, “in kubectl logs I see …” with an actual k8s tool call can help, that is, when the cr
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by fipar 6mo ago
Yup! That's what I was thinking about. In fact I did read this right before posting (though I had found it at https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history ) but only to validate that it had been in a NJ diner, so
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by fipar 6mo ago
And people not even from the states (like me) know about NJ diners because one saw the birth of Unicode :)
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by fipar 6mo ago
My first “electric guitar” as a kid was my acoustic with an earphone taped to the bridge and plugged to the mic in of my boom box. It was also my first “fuzz pedal” because the sound never came out clean :)
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by fipar 6mo ago
On my 33mhz (I'm almost , but not quite sure about the frequency) 486 SX (yeah ...) it ran OK until the levels where you'd get a lot of monsters. In those, I had to zoom in to the smallest possible screen size and even then it wa
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by fipar 6mo ago
Yes, that’s it!
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by fipar 6mo ago
The code is only a (very important) part of this type of program. The samples are critical and (for the time being anyway) can't be generated by AI. Especially important if you want orchestral instruments that sound realistic. Just thi
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by fipar 6mo ago
Thanks for the clarification, I guess my memory is very bad after all! :) Do you remember if that was a recent addition? Full disclosure: I was quite the newbie back then and most of what I "new" about SQL Server was what the more
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by fipar 6mo ago
My experience at the time was that it was perceived as not serious enough and lacking important features. If my memory isn't very bad, I believe as late as 2000 SQL Server still only supported AFTER triggers. In my experience in the la
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by fipar 7mo ago
You can still rip CDs with Apple Music. In fact, that's the only use I have for that app (I recently lost a hard drive with music and I'm in the process of backing up all my CDs again).
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by fipar 8mo ago
You may be thinking of Don Knuth
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by fipar 8mo ago
Or with telnet (the client)
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by fipar 8mo ago
I took it as a napkin rounding of 365/7 because that’s the floor you pay an employee regardless of vacation time (in places like my country you’d add an extra month plus the prorated amount based on how many vacation days the employee
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by fipar 8mo ago
If you ever want to try using it, I recommend this page: http://www.goodmath.org/blog/2006/09/12/manual-calculation-u...
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by fipar 8mo ago
When traveling abroad, it always surprises me when I’m asked for my id when buying alcohol. That’s only a thing in my country when you’re in the age bracket in which it’s risky to tell your age just by your looks, but after that, I haven’t
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by fipar 9mo ago
Yes, though in the case of driving, if I prefer driving on the left, I'd have to move, since I live in a country where you must drive on the right, but to use org-mode instead of markdown, I just ... use org-mode? I'm afraid I don
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by fipar 9mo ago
Thanks! I had actually seen that, but didn't realize that org does remove the leading comma when you extract a block to paste it somewhere else, which is great, because it means I need one less function. Now I just need to keep my past
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by fipar 9mo ago
I agree about the duct tape, which I also use often around the house, so maybe that's why I like org-babel :) Just wanted to say that I share data between different blocks in different languages through files and env variables (I add :
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by fipar 9mo ago
I use org a lot, in fact, it's my daily driver. I also have to deal with MySQL, and, if using the vertical output (what you get if you finish a query with '\G' instead of ';' it makes pasting into an org file a pain
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by fipar 9mo ago
What if you're building a product for other people like you to use? I think this is very common, like people building tools for trackers vs Ableton/Live/etc style DAWs, or those writing software only targeting the OS they u
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by fipar 10mo ago
“ As ironic as it sounds there's a certain security to being on stage that insulates you from having to hang out with people while still scratching the itch to go out.” It does not sound ironic to me, and it reminded me of “To know the
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by fipar 10mo ago
Those 1-6am meetings are crazy. I’ve been fully remote for over 16 years now and my only 1-6am meetings are incident response, if I’m on call. And I’m a nobody; that you have to do that makes it feel even crazier to me. I admit I was a bit
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by fipar 11mo ago
Your comment reminded me of this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in...
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by fipar 11mo ago
"Go ahead on Mr. Businessman You can't dress like me" Jimmy Hendrix, If 6 was 9. Has another relevant spoken word bit about waving his freak flag :)

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