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by glitchc 1y ago
If you don't know who Geoffrey Hinton is, I suggest you make a trip to Wikipedia post haste. Our modern LLM renaissance wouldn't exist without him.
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by glitchc 1y ago
No one is good at picking winners. Governments, like VCs, are best when they spread the wealth across many different projects.
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by glitchc 1y ago
I wanted to upvote you originally, but I'm afraid this is not correct. A GPU is not a barrel processor. In a barrel processor a single context is switched between multiple threads after each instruction. A barrel processor design has a
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by glitchc 1y ago
The latest DP standard has higher bandwidth and can support higher framerates at the same resolution.
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by glitchc 1y ago
That is an excellent metaphor, thank you for sharing.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Bravo! I don't think it can be put more plainly than that. > So what are stablecoins really trying to do? Circumvent regulation? Implement something the banks just aren't willing to do themselves? They allow businesses to act l
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by glitchc 1y ago
Your objection to the first question is already captured in the ones that follow. Try to put some more thought into it, yeah? Okay, I'll tone down the snark (it's only there because you got my back up). Ultimately as you think abo
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by glitchc 1y ago
You'll need to wash your legs after.
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by glitchc 1y ago
I'll try once more. There are children starving globally every day. How many of them are you saving personally? If not all, why not? How many should we save collectively? And which "we" should be responsible for which childr
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by glitchc 1y ago
I can tell from the ad hominem that you have confused pop philosophy for the real thing. A book on ethics might be a good start. I suggest Blackburn. We'll just leave it at that.
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by glitchc 1y ago
In the world we've built, mainstream success isn't defined by ability or quality, but rather polish and marketing reach. Marketing works because the average human is pretty shallow. Would it be different if we started over? Maybe.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Beliefs separate from values.. that's a strange dichotomy. Do you harbour beliefs that conflict with your values?
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by glitchc 1y ago
Thanks! I've noticed this for descriptions of political individuals, entities and current events in offbeat parts of the world, where coverage of such in mainstream media is slim to non-existent.
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by glitchc 1y ago
The counterargument is : If there are no consequences, what is the incentive to bear responsibility? Ultimately this argument does not have a clear answer because it's driven by beliefs, not facts.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Agreed, of course. All captured in the etc. Nothwithstanding these factors, the debate still boils down to who's responsible for the kids' well-being: Them or society.
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by glitchc 1y ago
> For many/most students, the home is not particularly conducive for doing homework a variety of reasons. I think this speaks to the parents and the type of home environment that they create. This is one of the major sources of disa
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by glitchc 1y ago
Wikipedia has plenty of propaganda. It's often at the fringes of knowledge, in niche subjects where there isn't yet an established group of proponents and detractors. It can be quite subtle too, will fool most laypeople, even thos
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by glitchc 1y ago
No, it can also vary on the input. The -ffast-math flag in gcc is a good example.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Any time the language specification is undefined, the compiler behaviour will be probabilistic at best. Here's an example for C: https://wordsandbuttons.online/so_you_think_you_know_c.html
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by glitchc 1y ago
Comma is not a defined operator. Do you mean intersection?
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by glitchc 1y ago
Dawkins in The Selfish Gene demonstrated through experiments that society collapses when everyone is an asshole. It also collapses when everyone is nice. There's an optimum ratio (~23% assholes to the rest) that leads to long-term sust
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by glitchc 1y ago
> LLMs, by their very nature are probabilistic. Probabilistic is NOT deterministic. Although I'm on the side of getting my hands dirty, I'm not sure if the difference is that different . A modern compiler embeds a considerable
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by glitchc 1y ago
It's simple: Those who think that human perception is 2D are wrong.
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by glitchc 1y ago
First, we had bespoke computer systems where the hardware and software were tailored to solve specific problems. Then, as computers became commoditized, the hardware was more standardized and software interacted with it through an abstracti
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by glitchc 1y ago
Why not launch a new startup focused on building an open smartphone? This is HN after all, with the right pitch someone will throw money at it.
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by glitchc 1y ago
Capitalism works because the worker feels they deserve better and will go to the open market to get it. Some workers may choose to become their own bosses. The free market makes it possible. Hypergrowth is an extreme, but so is a communist
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by glitchc 1y ago
Yes. Run the sideloaded apps in a VM. Modern phones are powerful enough to do that.
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by glitchc 1y ago
I have a solution: Ask the AI to play music while it codes for you.
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by glitchc 1y ago
All third-party oracles are simply contracts on other blockchains. The new blockchain is yet another third-party oracle for the contract to interact with.
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by glitchc 1y ago
I still have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro collecting dust somewhere.

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