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by geon 10mo ago
PBS Space Time released a video with that story yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-Q5r3THR3M
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by geon 10mo ago
It would make more sense to preserve the ratio if possible.
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by geon 10mo ago
It is working great as long as it is adhered to and budgeted.
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by geon 10mo ago
The argument isn’t that all slop is AI, but that all AI is slop.
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by geon 10mo ago
Poor education doesn't make it new knowledge. If anyone was taught this in highschool, it must have been established practice for decades at least.
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by geon 10mo ago
A lot of plants work like that. Apples very rarely come out tasting great if the tree is planted from a seed. You need to clone a good known apple tree from cuttings instead.
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by geon 10mo ago
> Also, what's the connection to the high yield ones? The high yield seeds are created by cross pollinating certain varieties. When the high yield seeds are planted, the new seeds should be eaten -not re-planted- since they will giv
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by geon 10mo ago
> I would say that "I/O is done inside `foo` before returning". It is not. The documentation and the type very clearly shows this: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.21.0.0/docs/Prelu
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by geon 10mo ago
I’m pretty sure that was an issue specifically with the old implementation, and not something still left to fix.
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by geon 10mo ago
> manipulated and distorted to justify firing competent people If you have that kind of office politics going on, that's the issue to be solved. >toy with people's lives and livelihood as if it was nothing. If the employee l
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by geon 11mo ago
> But it’s hard to be sure this isn’t just the copying-human-text thing. It would be logical that the copying-human-text machine is just copying human text.
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by geon 11mo ago
Some people think a 100 gib database is ”big data”. That can fit in ram on consumer grade hardware.
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by geon 11mo ago
Microservices are a great solution to the problems you run into at high scale. But they come at great cost. If you don't actually HAVE the problems they solve, do everything in your power to avoid them. If you can just throw money at l
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by geon 11mo ago
It looks pretty linear to me: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/465601/ps5-vs-xbox-series-x... Also, it’s a 5 year old console. I’m surprised they are both going this strong.
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by geon 11mo ago
The xbox series x has sold almost 30 M units. It seems alive and well to me. Yes, the ps5 has sold like 85 M units, so it has the larger market share, but the xbox is "killed"? Please. > It could generate real-time graphics far
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by geon 11mo ago
The server would keep a copy of the virtual dom during the session. Each change would be diffed and the diff sent to the client to apply. The client would only apply apply changes from the server, not change the dom on its own, so they woul
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by geon 11mo ago
Like a Kalman filter?
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by geon 11mo ago
Is there a library that can work with JSX? I'd like to render JSX on the server and only send the diff to the client. I started writing some experimental code, but it was a lot of work. https://github.com/geon/rea
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by geon 11mo ago
This is why I can't understand current VR goggle design. Why aren't there any lightweight wired display-only goggles? Stuffing all the hardware in the goggles seems mindbogglingly stupid to me. Poor performance, high weight and hi
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by geon 11mo ago
> but you can hardly say we've ruled the world terribly. "Terribly" is definitely a fair assessment. > who has ever ruled it better? Blatant whataboutism. > instead of conquering them "I protected them in so man
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by geon 11mo ago
For Alpha Zero, the "better data" was trivial. The environment of board games is extremely simplistic. It just can't be compared to language models. The problem with language is that there is no know correct answer. Everythin
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by geon 11mo ago
> Dial-up modems reached their full 56kbps potential in 1997 That's simply not true. Modems were basically the same tech in the dsl era, and using light instead of electricity is a very gradual refinement. > we're probably s
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by geon 11mo ago
The LLM architectures we have now have reached their full potential already, so going further would require something completely different. It isn’t a matter of refining the existing tech, whereas the internet of 1997 is virtually technolog
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by geon 11mo ago
It doesn't have to be very novel at all. Anything but the most basic TODO-list app.
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by geon 11mo ago
Having seen LLMs so many times produce incoherent, nonsensical and invalid chains of reasoning... LLMs are little more than RNGs. They are the tea leaves and you read whatever you want into them.
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by geon 11mo ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/s/K2xme9A0MQ I once bisected to find a bug in a 6 month old commit. An off-by-one error in some array processing. I fixed the bug there to confirm. But on main, t
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by geon 11mo ago
Blame doesn’t help when the same code has been changed multiple times since the bug was introduced.
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by geon 11mo ago
Or in the words of Larry Niven (The integral trees) East takes you Out Out takes you West West takes you In In takes you East
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by geon 11mo ago
There are cases when you need to store the result of a function regardless of if it succeeded or threw. Like if you need to tell the user that an error occurred. In those situations, a `Result` can make a lot of sense. Arguably, `Result` ca
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by geon 11mo ago
So a cancelable function must poll the `cancelRequested` function, and return the error `Canceled`, right? https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/Io.zig#L1... https://git

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