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811.
by foldr 1y ago
Lots of scientific fields have seen breakthroughs in the past decade. Doesn’t mean that any random smart person can jump in and start doing groundbreaking research.
812.
by foldr 1y ago
In research you have to succeed before your competitors. It’s not research if it’s already been done.
813.
by foldr 1y ago
What this misses is that research is a competitive endeavor. To succeed as a researcher you don’t just need to know the bare minimum required to do research in your field. You need to be able to do it better than most of the people you’re c
814.
by foldr 1y ago
“The Parrot VM aims to be a universal virtual machine for dynamic languages…” That’s how the people working on the project characterized it.
815.
by foldr 1y ago
Parrot was intended to be a universal VM. It wasn’t just for Perl. https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-parrot-vm/2126925
816.
by foldr 1y ago
And of course the ill-fated Parrot VM associated with the Perl 6 project.
817.
by foldr 1y ago
Ok, but what does that have to do with LLMS?
818.
by foldr 1y ago
I should think the vast majority of companies operate without data on the value added by specific product features. The cases where you can assign a dollar value to a specific feature are the exceptions, not the rule. It's not necessar
819.
by foldr 1y ago
>Go is unsound (Go slices...) What are you referring to here? Go's current slice implementation could only possibly introduce unsoundness via data races. Even there, I think you might actually need to muck around with an interface v
820.
by foldr 1y ago
You can just expose two different functions, one of which takes a byte slice and one of which takes an io.Reader. Given how the code works (it starts by buffering the input stream), the second function will just be a few lines of code follo
821.
by foldr 1y ago
I mean the movie came out shortly after this event: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis I don’t think you are correct that a movie that was made today couldn’t make comedic references to recent world ev
822.
by foldr 1y ago
Are you talking about this scene from Airplane 2? I don't remember a scene with 'Arabs' going through security in the first one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFJCeUWDyY
823.
by foldr 1y ago
The episode was also made at a time when it was fashionable to hold the view that the country was gripped by a kind of irrational hysteria about child sexual abuse. Monkey Dust's 'pedofinder general', from around the same t
824.
by foldr 1y ago
Airplane is mostly physical humor and dumb wordplay. 90% of the jokes would be fine as-is. There are a few you'd have to update, but that's hardly surprising for a movie released 35 years ago. You could have said the same in 1980
825.
by foldr 1y ago
Little Britain was always crap and completely mainstream and non-edgy. It's a series of one joke sketches based on familiar stereotypes. I don't want to 'cancel' it, and the occasional sketch gets a titter out of me. But
826.
by foldr 1y ago
Software engineers earning enough to achieve financial independence are generally employed by FAANG or (indirectly) by venture capitalists who have more money than they know what to do with. With all this money sloshing around, it takes onl
827.
by foldr 1y ago
Could you expand on that? What failure modes are we talking about exactly?
828.
by foldr 1y ago
It was a characterization of the position of the post I was originally responding to, not your position. I don’t think anyone in this discussion has claimed that brains are uniquely suited to producing intelligence. The point was just that
829.
by foldr 1y ago
'Analogous in the morphology sense' is actually a more specific concept than 'similar'. But either way, we still don't know if they're analogous, or similar, or whatever term you prefer. Anyone who actually und
830.
by foldr 1y ago
Engineers don't usually get to decide which features to build.
831.
by foldr 1y ago
We really don’t understand the human brain well enough to have confidence that the mechanisms that cause people to respond with “I don’t know” are at all similar to the mechanisms which cause LLMs to give such responses. And there are quite
832.
by foldr 1y ago
No, it’s actually more common to do this in British English than in American English, so it’s a “Britism” if anything. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Brit...
833.
by foldr 1y ago
It’s very unclear what point you’re trying to make with the linked article. First of all, it’s not an example of HIV research, so what could it have to do with links between left wing politics and HIV research? Second, there isn’t anything
834.
by foldr 1y ago
The Wikipedia article doesn't conclude any such thing. It notes that he sent lots of sexually suggestive letters to his gay friends. It also argues, somewhat unconvincingly, that he didn't do this only with men — but that just s
835.
by foldr 1y ago
I think the concept of a stable gender-based sexual preference that’s part of your personal identity is relatively recent. Of course people were aware that there were men who liked having sex with other men, but that’s not really the same t
836.
by foldr 1y ago
I don't see the need for a label as those are primarily used by living people to self-identify. He seems to have flirted with other men. Whether he had sex with them, or was primarily sexually interested in men, is something that we ca
837.
by foldr 1y ago
I think the far-fetched part of Segdwick's argument is the claim that James's sexuality is an interpretative key to his work. That James was sexually interested in other men to some extent is pretty obvious. That does not necessar
838.
by foldr 1y ago
We know that it's not just our modern language coloring our reading of it because Henry James's family wanted these passages removed from the published versions of the letters, precisely because they didn't want them to be &#
839.
by foldr 1y ago
Yes, but that doesn’t really have anything to do with the number of lexical roots that roughly correspond to English ‘snow’. We wouldn’t say that English has five words for snow because of ‘snow’, ‘snows’ (plural noun), ‘snows’ (verb), ‘sno
840.
by foldr 1y ago
Shockingly bad journalism here. The 'hoax' that Pullum wrote about was the specific claim that Inuktitut has a lot of words for snow. This is false, and the referenced paper agrees (pointing out that "discussion of lexical el

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