im3w1l

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by im3w1l 2y ago
Have you heard of Centaur chess? A human and a machine would team up to find the best chess moves against another similar team. It's not a thing anymore. Computers have advanced so much that humans can't really contribute in any m
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by im3w1l 2y ago
The design encourages trying multiple values, and most people visiting the site probably don't even know their bf%
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I would go even further and say that any equality comparison of float numbers has to be a one-off special case. You need to know how much error can arise in your calculations, and you need to know how far apart legitimately different number
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I disagree with this. The buck stops with WMF. They write the rules and they are the ultimate arbiters of edit wars. They are the ones ultimately responsible for granting and taking away privileges from users. If something is written on wik
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by im3w1l 2y ago
The sober mind has been trained to carefully construct grammatically flawless sentences for the teacher. Hence the sober mind is hesitant, fearful and prone to second guessing itself. The drunk mind he knows it not matter. Tempo and rhythm
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by im3w1l 2y ago
What if the function is written in assembler and takes some pointer to some opaque memory region? void (*)(char *) and void (*)(void *) and even void\( )(struct SomeStruct*) where SomeStruct is declared but never defined could all be correc
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Unfortunatly trying to keep it on the downlow just serves to enable it. We have seen this in many communities that tries to hide wrongdoing. Dirty laundry needs to be aired.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
> In Rust, because the type system is sound Unfortunately, it's not. Now I do think it will be eventually fixed, but given how long it has taken it must be thorny. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues&#
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I think this is more of an edge case than you give it credit for. (External linkage) functions, and their callsites, are quite special as they straddle the boundary between actual machine and virtual machine. The calling convention makes fa
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by im3w1l 2y ago
> very rare cases in C where something is technically Undefined Behaviour, but in practice works and is recommended. In the bad old days, such cases were very common. I think complaining about it is a part of the process that slowly reso
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I agree it's probably a mistake but I can also see another possibility: But first, consider the CCP. The CCP has nearly 100 million members. That's a lot of people. More than many countries. It's not a very exclusive club. Cl
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Until AI chips become abundant, and we are not there yet, cloud AI just makes too much sense. Using a chip constantly vs using it 0.1% of the time is just so many orders of magnitude better. Local inference does have privacy benefits. I thi
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by im3w1l 2y ago
So if one were to hypothetically stay in a temperature controlled and artificially lit environment could this seasonal cycle get messed up? And what consequences might that have?
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I agree with you that it's important to avoid using such a bad strategy as feel good vibes, which could easily happen if one is careless. However it might suffice to find a strong justification, rather than a pure quantification. One w
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by im3w1l 2y ago
People don't respect traditional Chinese medicine because it's not rigorous enough. Modern Chinese research is well regarded though.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Imagine, if you will a bed of gold embroidered and wrought with the most excuisite works. Above the bed however is a sharp sword suspended on a single hair of a horse's tail. Would you avoid relaxing on the the bed because the sword ma
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by im3w1l 2y ago
For a person it doesn't matter. But the context here is gangs, and for organizations it could make a difference. $2B can be split many-ways and still have significant money for everyone.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
I responded to your quote, which didn't restrict itself to airline pilots. There are also people flying their own planes for fun. And military pilots. Both of which may pull risky stunts in real planes. https://en.wikipedia.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
It's a nice sounding quip, but I don't agree at all. The pilot putting themselves in risky situations will acquire a superior skill. Which will partially, but not nearly fully, compensate for the risky situations they put themselv
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Some of the proposed schemes seem acceptable from that point of view, in particular 1, 3, 10, 25.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
It's quite surprising to me how the US still has the penny. Like its value is less than the cost of carrying it around.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
The way the market is typically modeled, temporary moves are not a thing.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
The lesson is that in a win/not win contest, you want to do something no one else is doing. Maybe things go your way or maybe they don't. But you avoid the risk of being narrowly beat.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Well it's quite common to assume a channel has failed if its inactive too long, with periodic keep-alive messages to ensure it doesn't go inactive in the case where there is nothing to say.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Acquisition cost is basically an auction. Different casinos try to outspend each other on advertising. If the lifetime value of an average customer trends down then the acquisition costs will come down too.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
We don't actually know if quantum physics has real randomness or not. Quantum collapse is an unsolved problem. > I could see early attempts at [introducing randomness] causing a form of LLM schizophrenia because the neural network
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Cambride Dictionary explicitly includes books in its definition "involving or relating to a connection between a person and someone they do not know personally, for example a famous person or a character in a book: " Maybe I shoul
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Books also build intimate parasocial relationships. People feel a sense of loss when finishing a book.
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by im3w1l 2y ago
Single core computers yes. Single core containers though..
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by im3w1l 2y ago
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