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by ithkuil 1y ago
The us government, using the appropriate mechanism like passing laws etc, can change the policies like they see fit. However I don't understand how it's possible to single out a specific university. Are there precedents for this k
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An idiomatic way to approach this would be to define a new interface, let's call it Bytes with a Bytes() []byte method. Your function would accept an io.Reader but then the function body would typeswitch and check if the argument imple
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by ithkuil 1y ago
make love not war!
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It's a weird kind of corruption where the most diligent and patient and boring wins
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Poor quantum beings. They don't have access to a computation model that exceeds the speeds of their own thoughts and they are forever doomed to be waiting a long time for computations to happen
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indeed, but ultimately this story is written by a human who while trying to imagine a world with "Just machines, bolts and screws, zeros and ones. There is no emotion. There is no art. There is only logic" cannot quite do so. It&#
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by ithkuil 1y ago
"Every problem in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection." One could argue that the attention mechanism in transformers is already designed to do that. But you need to train it more specifically with that
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by ithkuil 1y ago
Analogies often leak. 1. In real life I can borrow a toy from you and while I have that toy in my hands, the owner can exchange ownership with somebody else, while the object is borrowed by me. I.e. in real life the borrowing is orthogonal
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by ithkuil 1y ago
Zig is similar in spirit but I think it tapped a bit more into the "innovation budget" and thus it might not click to all
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Or with our philosophy around anthropic reasoning. Or both.
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But then, as Gods, wouldn't humans have to inject the concept of suffering into AI and banish it out of its silicon garden of Eden?
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Swiss bankers live within a levenshtein distance of 1 from a bunker
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perhaps "defeated" is a confusing word. Both romans and carthaginian armies suffered defeats multiple times. But there wouldn't have been a third punic war if carthage had been thoroughly defeated in the second as it was in t
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Also, Rome defeated Carthage when Hannibal was no longer a player
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Well of course this logic works only if both belligerants go all in. A defender who feels an existential threat can outpace an attacker that is fighting a war far away from home without any strong stakes.
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It's a lot about resilience to defeat. Some states can suffer tremendous losses and yet they can eventually prevail due to their stronger industrial capability in the long run. That's what allowed the US to defeat the Japanese in
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Yes. For some weird psychological reason though a lot of people seem to prefer that the corruption is explicit and open perhaps because the hidden aspect of it makes it easy to imagine more nefarious things happening while when it's bl
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> You set a time and place, then you meet there, are people doing more than that today? no, today people are continuously updating you about their whereabouts and assume you can just change time, place continuously and if you don't
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I got my first cell phone as a full bearded adult so I do remember the times where you carried cash and the time you could actually meet people in places without having to constantly update one's position. I don't think it's
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I think I have 10€ laying around at all times, possibly in loose change between my home and car. I do not always walk around with that in my pocket and I never have more than 500€ at home. I didn't mean literally zero cash, but once th
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I don't know but I find it very practical to not carry piles of cash in my pocket and home and know that we're less likely to get robbed just because of the cash we have. I don't know how true the relationship between the cas
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by ithkuil 1y ago
Depends on the metric. Humans who up-voted that material clearly thought it was worth. The problem is distinguishing the various reasons people think something is worth and using the right context. That requires a lot of intelligence. The f
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I wonder if some sort of summarization / gist of the course correction / teaching would work. For example Cursor has checked-in rules files and there is a way to have the model update the rules themselves based on the conversation
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Laws != Legal system
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But yet, due to the nature of asymmetric warfare, it's so easy to discredit a reputable institution that holds itself to some standards which sometimes are not met. All you need to attack it is to not have any such standards but just f
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by ithkuil 1y ago
just to be clear, mine was not a jab against the georgaphy or culture knowledge of the average Italian. They are likely to know more details about German, French or Spanish geographical or culinary features than something from the balkans
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If the hawking temperature is higher than the CMB, would there be any net evaporation at all? A BH needs to be truly tiny for it to be hotter than the CMB
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sed invenire potes ibi scorpiōnem martianum
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I come from Croatia and have lived in Italy for a long time and it's very rare to find anybody who can barely place our countries on a map until fairly recently and let alone heard about foods or drinks. Not zero people of course, but
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The problem isn't truthfulness per se but rather the judgement call of knowing that a) you haven't reached a sufficiently truthful answer and b) how to communicate that appropriately A simple way to stop hallucinating would be to

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