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by fooker 1y ago
It doesn't. Apple makes the best hardware, period. It makes sense that people are willing to overlook subpar software for top notch hardware.
872.
by fooker 1y ago
Isn't that why Siri is worse today than it was thirteen years ago?
873.
by fooker 1y ago
Yeah that stuff generated embarrassingly wrong scientific 'facts' and citations. That kind of hallucination is somewhat acceptable for something marketed as a chatbot, less so for an assistant helping you with scientific knowledge
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by fooker 1y ago
Yep, that's how the internet works now unfortunately. Decentralization, hosting your own stuff, is great until you run into DDOS attacks and have to make maintaining your server a full time job. Sure you have the skills (or can acquire
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by fooker 1y ago
Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google. I know it's still not justified, but it's the easy solution that works for preventing DOS attacks.
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by fooker 1y ago
It's more about government not regulating companies than people. The part about people says there has to be good reason to restrict people, which doesn't really mean much.
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by fooker 1y ago
Neat doublethink. "Right to compute" but does not provide anyone with any right, waives away potential future regulations for tech companies. BUT who could possibly need an escape hatch from AI regulations? Likely not Nvidia or Go
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by fooker 1y ago
You don't need SSA for LLVM. Just emit load and store instructions, and it'll be converted automatically. What SSA gives you is substantially easier analysis and optimizations on the intermediate representation, so much that all c
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by fooker 1y ago
Yes, I'm sure you got a compiler job without touching LLVM. Doesn't mean it's good advice for someone getting into a field where LLVM is the technology used for 90% of the jobs.
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by fooker 1y ago
Sure if you want to build a lisp clone. Anything else, you're better off starting off with LLVM. Especially if you want a compiler job.
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by fooker 1y ago
French had several hundred years of established literary tradition when English was still 'descending'. Not that it matters, given that we are talking about this in English, which has become the lingua franca in an amusing twist o
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by fooker 1y ago
We would need impractically high voltages to minimize power loss over long distances. Maybe something like microwave transmission or cheap superconductors will solve it.
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by fooker 1y ago
Ah you don’t seem to understand the depravity of the modern American medical system. It’s not as bad in the way you think, and significantly fucked up in a different way. If you do not have insurance, you tell them you don’t. They’ll give y
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by fooker 1y ago
Didn't realize that, thanks! I wonder if the future of screen reading applications is bypassing these issues + avoiding parsing weird websites by just doing AI driven OCR.
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by fooker 1y ago
Yep, it's either dogs or r̸u̸s̸s̸i̸a̸n̸ chinese bots.
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by fooker 1y ago
I meant it as an example of--road to hell paved with good intentions and "and naively failed to recognise the damage they were doing". But you do you.
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by fooker 1y ago
It silently fails to work, very often. Anthropomorphizing a bit, it just won't follow the link, and make you think that it did. Not an exact science yet.
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by fooker 1y ago
There's an interesting question here. Would a single human/entity learn more in ..say.. three million years or would short lived ones evolving over three million years and then ~20 years of education learn more? The current AI tec
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by fooker 1y ago
It'll take you thirty minutes to port the shaders with a modern LLM. I am not joking. I have done this. Shaders are pretty simple. You'll have some weird artifacts but thats more because of platform differences than translation er
890.
by fooker 1y ago
It does seem to rhyme with how function calls work under the hood. When people say equivalent, it is usually not in the mathematical sense, which would be meaningless here because all forms are turing complete anyway. Take equivalent as--si
891.
by fooker 1y ago
The major issue is that approximately one person in the world understands it well enough to make it work in practice, and that kind of tech debt can't really be pushed too far.
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by fooker 1y ago
SSA is not about hiding states. It's about naming intermediate states so you can refer to them in some way.
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by fooker 1y ago
One of the few pumped hydro facilities in the US had a catastrophic flood
894.
by fooker 1y ago
Because you don't have perfect foresight. Something that loses money now can be the next big thing. ChatGPT is the biggest recent example of this. I had seen chatbot demos at Google as early as 2019.
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by fooker 1y ago
Well, there was this wild two year drama where they had people fight and smear each other over whether wasting energy for LLMs is ethical. https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/google-ai-chief-says... That made
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by fooker 1y ago
Can someone explain if this is still the RCS problem or a similar one? My impression was that every problem a quantum computer solves in practice right now is basically reducible from 'simulate a quantum computer'
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by fooker 1y ago
I don't understand the modern US trend of putting unqualified people in charge. It's not just the republicans though, seems like a deeper cultural issue. There has been close to zero scientists in charge of policy in the last seve
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by fooker 1y ago
Here's an interesting question: Wikipedia was a mind blowing improvement over a shelf full of Britannica encyclopedia, or several floppies of Encarta. What's the next improvement over Wikipedia that changes things to a similar ext
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by fooker 1y ago
>I would strongly wager it's vastly more likely that these Chinese vehicles do not meet US safety standards This was correct a few years years ago. It's actually the opposite nowadays, most of these cars are safer than the typi
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by fooker 1y ago
My point was - even if you knew everything about the hardware and could measure performance with absolute precision, it is still a hard problem for compilers for many many reasons.

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