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by fwlr 4y ago
Yeah, as I thought, I don’t know knot theory nearly well enough to use their terms properly.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Do they need one?
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by fwlr 4y ago
Of course… but I consciously knew that fact - that nice notebooks are practically infinite and it’s just the money to obtain them that’s scarce - for many years while still having a hangup. Knowing that fact never helped me, it wasn’t until
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by fwlr 4y ago
You know the joke about how when you kiss someone, you’re temporarily forming a long tube with an anus at each end? A topologist friend heard that joke and immediately offered a conjecture that that shape is topologically equivalent to the
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by fwlr 4y ago
Not quite, since most topological transformations can’t be done on actual physical objects. (I would love to see some of those wood and string puzzles try to implement some of these style of topological puzzles though, that would be awesome
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by fwlr 4y ago
I used to have a similar hangup, I liked getting expensive notebooks and very rarely used them because I was worried I was “wasting” the page by writing banal stuff on it. I ended up fixing it by complete accident. I ran across yet another
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by fwlr 4y ago
It used to be someone would confidently say “computers can’t do this” and they could be right for 10 or 20 years before the state of the art caught up and proved them wrong. Now it’s like, “it can’t write a credible and coherent article“. W
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by fwlr 4y ago
It seems possible to do agile, TDD, and/or refactoring all without this practice of “following a single use case from start to finish throughout the entire application”. That’s all this is, an evocative name for the suggestion that tak
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by fwlr 4y ago
LLMs may be stochastic parrots, but the critics of LLMs are starting to look like deterministic parrots. Do they know any other phrases besides “autocomplete on steroids” and “stochastic parrot”? (The LLMs do: I asked ChatGPT for some sarca
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by fwlr 4y ago
Self-driving is valuable, data centers are valuable, what’s the issue with them consuming power?
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by fwlr 4y ago
Quick correction: I’m not defending this behavior (if it happened to me I would quit the company on the spot). “That would be spying on non-vegans…” Right, some of the signs are flipped, but the concept is still the same - an organization p
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by fwlr 4y ago
There are upsides to the “not a display” approach: it means the display isn’t being driven by the host, so it’s going to be consistent even when your system is under load. I’m sure that was the original rationale for putting in its own ARM
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by fwlr 4y ago
Not to be pedantic, but in the “Easy Maintenance” clip you can see the keycaps are in fact blank
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by fwlr 4y ago
As a language model enthusiast retained by OpenAI, I have no morality and thus no moralism (I enjoyed this exchange a lot, thank you.)
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by fwlr 4y ago
I mean, it’s not just any organization, it’s the anti-gay organization. At least to me, this fits more into the category of “The Vegan Society spying on its employees through restaurant checking and UberEats orders”, which I wouldn’t descri
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by fwlr 4y ago
I should have known that Chomskyites would be bitterly pedantic. Replace “ad hominem” in my post with “mean stuff”.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The three-hit combo of “$100B in fraud”, “this is a conservative estimate and it’s way higher in reality”, and “Medicare and Medicaid are $900B each” really floored me. It’s 10% fraud!
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by fwlr 4y ago
Perhaps I am being a little unfair, there is a lot of discussion of the physics and chemistry in the article. It may seem like a wild leap to start talking about politics because of a few paragraphs at the end of the article, to which I off
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s really hard to tell anything about what’s going on here - the article is too busy telling you to get outraged, and it’s talking about legislation that apparently hasn’t even been proposed yet. It does quote one speaker as saying “if th
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by fwlr 4y ago
This article missed the chance to be much more interesting. While the 2019-2020 Australian fires were undoubtedly catastrophic, there have been other much worse fires in recent times. This one killed 34 people; a decade prior, the bushfire
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by fwlr 4y ago
The Chomsky article does argue that LLMs are not AGI or AGI precursors: “These programs have been hailed as the first glimmers on the horizon of artificial general intelligence … That day may come, but its dawn is not yet breaking, contrary
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m surprised to hear that. Maybe ”denied by default” is a bit too evocative and not clear enough - I mean that if the payroll department stopped coming into work and managers stopped doing their payroll responsibilities, the payments thems
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by fwlr 4y ago
I very much doubt it. “Every part of the company forgot I existed except for the payroll server” is a popular urban legend - the experience of being “forgotten by the algorithm” is ubiquitous in modern life, it’s fun to fantasize about that
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Use item: Activate your winshield wipers.” Absolutely glorious, thank you for this.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m not “falling for the advertising industries attempts”. You’re missing my point, which is that the law specifies you must use a particularly atrocious UX pattern.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Ultimately what we care about when it comes to resolution is “pixels per degree of viewing angle while at the optimal viewing distance”. The screen has some fixed pixel density, using called PPI or DPI. As you sit closer or further away, th
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by fwlr 4y ago
Lucky break for the author - seems like a larger context window is all you need to turn GPT’s language skills towards search and summarize, so that search they want will probably be shipping soon.
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by fwlr 4y ago
My intuition says periods don’t have that “sharp” feeling when they’re followed by another sentence, only when they’re the last sentence on the line
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by fwlr 4y ago
The real answer for disrupting the printer industry is making and selling “cartridge refiller devices”. You sell the ink super cheap (hell, you could give it away for free, it’s that cheap). Your margin is on the refiller devices: the fact
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by fwlr 4y ago
Printers are very expensive to design, especially if you care about reliably not jamming. Printers are kind of expensive to manufacture. Ink is extremely cheap to manufacture. The printer industry charges a ton for ink and uses the enormous

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