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by foldr 5d ago
Repairing an aperture mechanism on a regular camera lens is a pretty specialised job, so it's not exactly surprising that repairing a much smaller and more delicate mechanism is outside the reach of most repair shops.
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by foldr 5d ago
>Unless one of the models did actually have one eye with eyelashes and one without for the iPhone shoot. This is just because the eye without eyelashes is on the side of her face that's in shadow. That means there's less contra
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by foldr 5d ago
The woman in the background is slightly out of focus. It's a great look for most of us.
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by foldr 7d ago
Of course they can. My point is that mathematicians may increasingly find themselves in the same position as academics in the humanities. Mathematicians themselves will be able to see the inherent value of the work they're doing (just
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by foldr 7d ago
I can’t help but feel a little schadenfreude. STEM folks may soon find themselves masters of skills as esoteric as translating Ancient Greek poetry or analyzing 18th century novels. The ability to construct complex mathematical proofs will
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by foldr 9d ago
So is Casablanca art or propaganda? IMO 'art' and 'propaganda' are largely orthogonal concepts. Something can be art but not propaganda, propaganda but not art, neither, or both.
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by foldr 9d ago
Didn't the US also used to lecture China on how it would never be an economic superpower if it didn't adopt liberal democracy and US-style free market capitalism? I think the world is less and less interested in the concept of sec
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by foldr 10d ago
Sure, but the LLM is free to construct a representation of the chess board and update it as it goes along. It is not in any way banned from using a virtual board, or whatever representation of game state it pleases. AFAIK, current models wi
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by foldr 10d ago
You don’t need to teach a human anything except the rules of chess and the details of a particular chess notation. No special skill or training is required to make a sketch of a chess board. Surely there is no chess player who, if confronte
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by foldr 10d ago
>Brexit was obviously going to happen a good decade before the referendum Come off it. Neither the referendum nor the referendum result were inevitabilities.
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by foldr 10d ago
The point is that the referendum was an unconditional 2015 Conservative manifesto promise, and was going to happen anyway, regardless of how Cameron's renegotiations with the EU went (sources here: https://news.ycombinator.c
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by foldr 10d ago
That's what a human will do if they already have a physical board to look at. But if someone, say, posed you a chess exam question via FEN notation, or as a sequence of moves in algebraic notation, you'd sketch a visual represent
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by foldr 10d ago
>[The Conservatives promised a referendum] iff the renegotiations with Brussels failed, which they did. No. The Conservative party promised an EU membership referendum by 2017 in its 2015 manifesto. That was not conditional on a failure
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by foldr 10d ago
This potential deal for Canada comes with compromises which would obviously be unacceptable to the UK (e.g. no full voting rights).
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by foldr 10d ago
I haven't tried it myself, but people seem to report that the illegal moves surface eventually. It just takes longer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49720751 Nothing is forcing the LLM to play 'blind'.
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by foldr 10d ago
I don't know. My understanding is that current models will eventually fall into making illegal moves in longer chess games, and that no amount of prompting reliably gets them to stop doing so.
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by foldr 10d ago
Humans don't need a lot of training and finite tuning to make only legal moves. An intelligent adult could simply read a short summary of the rules of chess and then, if they were careful, play a very bad game of chess without making i
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by foldr 10d ago
The issue with the models isn't that they play a bad game, but that they persist in making illegal moves. An average intelligent human can be told the rules of chess and then play chess, badly, within the rules.
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by foldr 11d ago
One use case I’ve found is for a lock that you don’t need to acquire. For example, you need a lock to read a cache entry, but if you can’t acquire the lock after a few spins, you can just proceed without the cache. For fine-grained lockin
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by foldr 13d ago
I certainly wouldn’t go anywhere near Twitter these days, but the question is how much of that is to do with engineering failures and how much is to do with the overall change of culture and moderation practices that Musk has introduced.
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by foldr 13d ago
Very much this. If you have 3000 engineers (and all the associated non-engineering roles that inevitably come with that) then you have guaranteed that no problem will ever be easy to solve. Possibly you might be able to solve some extremely
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by foldr 16d ago
The iPhone 18 Pro main camera is f/1.48, which is half a stop wider than the f/1.78 main camera on the 17 Pro. An f/1.48 fixed aperture would probably not be ideal (less depth of field, more revealing of lens aberrations) so
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by foldr 17d ago
That's a non sequitur. But you see, this is the exactly kind of thing that a high school literature class could usefully dig into. We know that Orwell was thinking of the Russian Revolution when he wrote the book. Many events in the st
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by foldr 17d ago
I think you're quite confused about what Animal Farm is. It's a short work of fiction. It's not something that you'd "cite" in support of a particular point, and it wasn't written with the intention of mak
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by foldr 17d ago
One of the main reasons to encourage kids to read fiction is to expose them to stories outside their current experience. We don't get kids to read Treasure Island because they can inherently relate to a story about 18th century pirates
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by foldr 17d ago
Sounds like a problem of unrealistic expectations. I read Animal Farm when I was a kid and enjoyed it. No-one told me that it was going to profoundly change my life, and it didn't. Neither did my chemistry class, or my math textbooks
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by foldr 18d ago
>The war is at a complete standstill and it will last for another horrible decade if no concessions are made. There is a slight hope that the current Russian regime will collapse before then and be replaced by one that doesn't want
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by foldr 18d ago
US motives are currently inscrutable, but the US is sending military hardware to Ukraine, whereas China is sending dual-use hardware to Russia. You can see an itemised list of US contributions at the following link. It's not nothing.
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by foldr 19d ago
>A man from the past might consider the current mainstream democratic party "far/extreme left" Surely not. "Far left" would mean public ownership of the means of production and the abolition of the capitalist eco
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by foldr 19d ago
If you're just looking for the general concept of what 'far right' means and why the AfD is a far right party, then the Wikipedia article covers it. >It wasn't a semantic argument The poster seems to agree with my int

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