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by gwd 1y ago
How interesting would it be if every PhD thesis had to have a "replication" section, where they tried to replicate some famous paper's results.
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by gwd 1y ago
> Smile to Feel Better Effect > Claimed result: Holding a pen in your teeth (forcing a smile-like expression) makes you rate cartoons as funnier compared to holding a pen with your lips (preventing smiling). More broadly, facial expre
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by gwd 1y ago
> I think the answer is pretty obvious given that LLM's can't learn at runtime - can't try out some reasoning generalization they may have arrived at, find that it doesn't work in a specific case, then explore the pro
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by gwd 1y ago
So I do think there are two distinct types of activities involved in knowledge work: 1. Taking established techniques or concepts and appropriately applying them to novel situations. 2. Inventing or synthesizing new, never-before-seen techn
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by gwd 1y ago
> Pattern matching questions on a contrived test is not the same thing as understanding or reasoning. Do submarines swim? I don't really care if it gets me where I want to go. The fact is that just two days ago, I asked Claude to
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by gwd 1y ago
> Parts can be loaded via separate calls, and it divides something that would be otherwise a monolith into subsequent small calls He's not saying don't use Javascript; he's saying that instead of having those small calls s
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by gwd 1y ago
> only to discover it doesn't include the fields you want anyway because it is assuming it should only be used for the specific table UI It sounds like you're complaining that a server isn't shipping bits that it knows t
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by gwd 1y ago
Thanks for that. So there are basically three things he mentions: 1. Emulsifiers actually make the texture better 2. The flour they use has had some extra steps 3. They can use industrial machinery to smash their shortening and flour toget
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by gwd 1y ago
There are lots of tools that it's not reasonable to expect a random home kitchen to have -- expensive grinders and mixers, mortar and pestle, double boilers, marble rolling pin to press out pastry, etc. But a kitchen scale is just a h
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by gwd 1y ago
Speaking as an American, this is a part of American culture that's so weird -- using a pre-made mix as a base for a recipe that it's not designed for. That recipe looks like it just has flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and sal
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by gwd 1y ago
Anki's storage format is SQLite (or was a few years ago). That made it really lovely when I wanted to import the contents (including the view logs) of Anki deck I'd been using for a decade into a custom system I was designing. J
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by gwd 1y ago
> "the more you know someone, the less you like them." That is completely the opposite of my experience. Even the handful of people who, after I got to know them, turned out to be unprincipled or toxic, I actually liked them a
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by gwd 1y ago
I mean, context is everything. Whether "dickhead" is unacceptable really depends on the culture of the workplace communication. If the response to someone calling you a "dickhead" is that you tell them twice to "f
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by gwd 1y ago
One of the problems with their "better / worse" statistics: Bad interactions tend to outweigh good interactions. I think the rule of thumb is that 4:1 good/bad ratio in a relationship is "breakeven" where the
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by gwd 1y ago
Right -- see, I basically maxed out "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" in high school. (That is, I practiced with it regularly until it couldn't find any particular problem with my typing, and resorted to giving me practice typin
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by gwd 1y ago
So "push" and "pull" as English verbs are basically opposite; and he's describing them as opposites in the previous post. But in this post he describes "push" this way: > We are taught to do “discovery
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by gwd 1y ago
> He DID NOT come in legally. So here we have what I think is some of the nonsense of the current laws. My understanding is that how you generally apply for asylum is: 1. Show up in the country one way or another 2. Apply for asylum So,
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by gwd 1y ago
So did you actually get any faster? I switched to Colemak pro'lly 15 years ago, and while my fingers certainly move around a lot less, I don't think my top speed on typeracer.com has improved over what I was able to do on QWERTY b
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by gwd 1y ago
You apparently haven't been keeping track of all the madness. First of all, the immigration laws aren't rational. The states aren't "legal" and "illegal", but "documented" and "undocumented
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by gwd 1y ago
I took "I can see a good reason why it failed" to mean, "There was an obvious flaw in the craftsmanship of the game": The story wasn't good (if it relied on story), the mechanics weren't good, the graphics were
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by gwd 1y ago
> we can't have SQLite because there's only 1 implementation Well now there are [1] at least [2] three [3] implementations, right? [1] sqlite.org [2] https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql [3] https:&#x2
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by gwd 1y ago
One problem with his survey -- The Lizardman Constant: > Researchers have demonstrated repeatedly in human surveys the stylized fact that, far from being an oracle or gold standard, a certain small percentage of human responses will reli
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by gwd 1y ago
Kind of weird that NOP actually slows down the pipeline, as I'd think that would be the easiest thing to optimize out of the pipeline, unless instruction fetch is one of the main limiting factors. Is it architecturally defined that NO
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by gwd 1y ago
A couple of years ago we bought a 50-year-old-house and gutted it. We had professionals do the stuff that required expertise or a lot of time / skills (electricians, plumbers, plasterers, etc), and did most other things ourselves. At
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by gwd 1y ago
Oh, I see. I mean, yeah, the relationships between slices and arrays is somewhat subtle; but it buys you some power as well. I came to golang after decades of C, so I didn't have much trouble with the concept. I'm afraid I can o
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by gwd 1y ago
OK, what happens now if you have an error opening one of those files, return an error from inside the for loop, and forget to close the files you'd already opened?
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by gwd 1y ago
Well no, the second "if" statement is a red herring. Both of the following work: bar, err := foo() if err != nil { return err } if err = foo2(); err != nil { return err } and bar, err :=
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by gwd 1y ago
Anyone want to try to explain what he's on about with the first example? bar, err := foo() if err != nil { return err } if err := foo2(); err != nil { return err } The above (which declares a new va
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by gwd 1y ago
So sometimes you want it lexical scope, and sometimes function scope; For example, maybe you open a bunch of files in a loop and need them all open for the rest of the function . Right now it's function scope; if you need it lexical s
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by gwd 1y ago
Weird, someone posted something here talking about an API that would track individual words and then feed them into an LLM; I wrote a response, but it seems the comment was deleted? At any rate, hope you all don't mind if I post my co

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