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by glitchc 2mo ago
I think the OP's logic applies. Every author is hoping their book is a best-seller and/or wins awards i.e. the approval of others.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Nothing special about OpenAI to deserve a buyout.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Short answer is yes. Most grandparents resisted computers, internet, cellphones or online banking until the network effect left them with little choice but to participate. You also see them glom onto popular platforms (Faceboook, WhatsApp)
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by glitchc 2mo ago
> The only route for a tourist to use UPI is via third party apps, which charge a markup for loading money (3%). Or a credit card.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Yes, except it only worked some of the time on some of the distros (mainly Ubuntu/Debian variants of a certain vintage).
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Faster solutions to SVP impact the security of all lattice-based schemes.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
> people assume SVP is much easier to solve, closer to 2^{.29n + o(n)}. Since when? Can you cite the relevant paper(s)?
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Isn't open source not the ingredients but the recipe?
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by glitchc 2mo ago
It's not a monopoly in the console market. There are two other competitors all of whom have roughly equal market share. And they are all walled gardens so Sony is not doing anything differently from its competitors.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
I don't see the point. It's a private, for-profit entity that controls a walled garden platform that they invented, developed and commoditized. It was always a walled garden, never advertised as anything otherwise. All video games
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by glitchc 2mo ago
100% beef is a trademark.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
They are likely studying individuals that retired without getting fatally stabbed or shot on the job.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
One possibility is to mount the trebuchet on a tiltable platform and tilt it to a suitable elevation, say 45 degrees.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Can we say for certain that doing so would not have an unintended side effect, given how complex the biodome is? If not, then likely no.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Why would they be when they see the hypocrisy of the chattering classes? How many celebrities or billionaires have curtailed their own lifestyles while pitching for climate change? Has the number of luxury jets and superyatches gone up or d
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Nothing wrong with stating the sources up front. They are clearly pro-labour and pro-union. It helps to know where the authors stand. Would you rather the authors were buried under seven layers of shell companies?
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Hemingway wrote the same way. Here's a famous example from the Old Man and the Sea: Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. The reason is simple: Short senten
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by glitchc 2mo ago
What you are referring to is called the pre-travel distance. There are mechanical key options with very short pre-travel, such as the Cherry MX and Kailh Silver switches. They're mainly used for gaming. https://keychron.ca&#
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by glitchc 2mo ago
There were already prior reported cases of the phenomenon. Einstein provided the mathematical foundation explaining it, in particular that the discharge is quantized, indicating that it came from an electron. Millikan proved it a couple of
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by glitchc 2mo ago
The writing's already pretty good, even Terrence Tao calls it flawless, if you read the slides. That's not where the LLM requires help.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
My perception is different. I start from the axiom that AI is a massive compressed corpus of knowledge. That it can find solutions suggests to me that the solutions were already known, but simply lacked publicity. This is less about discove
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Thanks for sharing. Regrettably his conclusion on proof exposition increasing in importance reflects the broad trend in every field: When someone (or something) else is doing the actual work, all that's left for the original folks is t
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by glitchc 2mo ago
> If we continue with Einstein, the photoelectric effect does not aperar in real life. Of course it does. How do you think your phone camera works?
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Moral critics save a lot of lives by not doing. Sometimes not doing is the best moral option ex. I will not kill or I will not exploit. And it does not come cheap. Someone who says "I will not work for Facebook" is taking a stand
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Sam Bankman-Fried is an effective altruist (or was anyways, not sure what he is after they denounced him). The list of effective altruists reads like a who's who of scummy people. https://www.wired.com/story/deaths
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by glitchc 2mo ago
As per the article, he formed a trading company without any background in investing, and once his investments tanked, he sold the stocks for pennies on the dollar to a financial firm, leaving investors holding the bag while pocketing tradin
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by glitchc 2mo ago
Read the bio. Found it (emphasis mine): > While at Columbia, he co-founded the university's effective altruism (EA) chapter.[5] Just another smart, yet ethically challenged, individual. Nothing to see here.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
I'm not sure I follow the thrust of the article. The author starts off with talking about clean code, but then compares OO with procedural code. It's not the same thing, and of course we've always known that OO abstractions c
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by glitchc 2mo ago
"Hard" in hard science means rigorous methodology and experimentally verifiable predictions. Psychology achieves neither, ergo it is a soft science, or more precisely, opinion masquerading as fact.
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by glitchc 2mo ago
> The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the freedom is more about being able to lean on other people to do that. Most people can't justify the time commitment needed to read and then modify the code f

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