horizion2025

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by horizion2025 1y ago
I think you should drop the "stochastic text transformer" label you have probably heard applied, and instead think of them as neural networks that they are. Reason being that the term says absolutely zero about capabilities but cr
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by horizion2025 1y ago
I think teletext is what triggered my interest in computers etc. It was one of my first experiences with anything computer like. When I was around 9 years old I was visiting my grandmother just the day she was having her new TV delivered. T
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by horizion2025 1y ago
Java's new philosophy (in "Loom" - in production OpenJDK now) seems to be virtual threads that are cheap and can therefore be plentiful compared to native threads. This allows you to write the code in the old way without prog
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by horizion2025 1y ago
As to the complexity: It is complex because it is very low-level. In JavaScript (using that as an example but I suspect Python is the same) they build in async/await keywords such that they are in cahoots with the Promise class. C++ ta
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by horizion2025 1y ago
What I've seen so far suggest they were just ignorant and victims of confirmational bias etc. You can see that when they won some cases they wrote internally something to the effect of "Final we can put to rest all those concerns
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by horizion2025 1y ago
A big issue is that the British post office could itself act as the prosecutor. Other entities reporting a crime need to convince the public prosecutor before there even is a case, but due to hundred years old traditions the Post Office had