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by ithkuil 2y ago
Fair enough. That got me thinking: I guess the dualistic viewpoint can be graded on a spectrum. Some people may hold the "absolute dualist" position, where no matter how much advances we make in reproducing cognitive abilities, th
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by ithkuil 2y ago
On one extreme we anthropomorphize our current primitive generation of language models and concede them way more intelligence than they have likely because we're biased to do so since they speak "well". On the other extreme w
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by ithkuil 2y ago
BTW I wrote a gdb-protocol speaking software debugger component for the esp8266 (before xtensa wrote/published their own) I had to reverse engineer a lot of details (number of registers, Layout of the stack frame in various kinds of in
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I.e. it's not that light it's fast but rather it's us who are slow
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Xtensa is an interesting "instruction set" because it's not one single instruction set but it's a "parametric instruction set" (hence the name which hints at "extensible") When instantiating an xtensa
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by ithkuil 2y ago
the distinction is fuzzy indeed, especially if any thing that you "program in manually" has some parameters that are learned. Conceptually we already have parts of the model that are not learned: the architecture of the model itse
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I think there are two distinct areas. One is the building of the representations, which is achieved by fitting. The other area is loosely defined as "computing" which is some kind of searching for a path through representation spa
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Any constraint is a driving force for art. I'd love to see creative pixel-art ads. How do we call the equivalent of steam-pubk aesthetics but where tech has stopped on pixel art instead of steam?
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by ithkuil 2y ago
perhaps his other philanthropy donations are not technical and he believes that supporting them publicly would feel like bragging and he personally doesn't like that?
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Which is also a function of how hard it is to find someone who has the required skills to address the problem
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When you hear about people being paid $X vs 10x$X to fix some cobol; is there a correlation between the age of the cobol system?
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I understand where you're coming from but unfortunately there is a vector that represents exactly that feeling of yours and it can be found via search
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by ithkuil 2y ago
But IIUC Jax also leverages XLA and for the purpose of this discussion the frontend matters only inasmuch people feel productive in using it. Whether that's TF or Jax.
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Ultimately the behavior that matters is the effective behaviour of the system. But a system is built by many components. You can build a reliable system out of unreliable components. You can build a transactional system out of non-transacti
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yes there is a difference and it's quite crucial to understanding how two groups of people can claim seemingly opposite things and both be correct. It's important to note that by processing here we don't just mean any "c
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Cargo caches well locally, but I had problems getting good performance on CI with cache save/restore. OTOH bazel remote caching works quite well (didn't try with rust yet though)
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The same thing happened to many Cristian practices. The Eucharist may have originated in the cult of Dionysus. Probably also Christmas is also a tradition that bears the roots of a pre-christian festivity that has been merged with / su
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by ithkuil 2y ago
not all stock pay out dividends. owning a passive lunar rover will surely give you some publicity and access to something (you can brag about it in some venues). People have successfully monetized more stupid things. I'm not saying _I_
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Germanic conquerors may be first partially reverse-colonized by the culture they conquered (which heavily romanized with Celtic substrate) and then later further colonized by norman conquerors who were themselves carriers of the remnants of
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Post-creole I expect that a creole language will evolve over centuries into something that is less and less considered as a creole when compared with more recent creole languages. I think it's more useful to consider "creolization
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I liked their example; it's so meta
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You may own some stock and I guess you can't do much with it other than selling it later
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yep. The only way to reap the benefits with bazel is to have somebody who continuously deals with the problems. This is not that different from many other aspects of software engineering, but as on those other areas you need to run a cost-b
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yeah; it means the heuristic they use is a good one
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we're talking about general intelligence and not about consciousness at all. it's unclear how much of what we call intelligence is involving the cerebellum as well, but it may be quite relevant. Of course the main reason why it&#x
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The heavier the black hole, the lower the hawking temperature. Only the tiniest black holes would have hawking temperature high enough to evaporate given the presence of the CMB
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To further complicate matters, some forms of stupidity are not the lack of intelligence but the consequence of other cognitive processes that may (or would) otherwise useful in social animals because they reinforce group bonds and have a ro
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Iirc a black hole with the mass of an asteroid (whose event horizon would be very small indeed) would have a hawking temperature smaller than the cosmic microwave radiation so there wouldn't be any net evaporation.
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An elephant brain has 3 times as many neurons as a human. They are pretty smart animals but so are dogs who have way less neurons. The point here being that the number of neurons is just one of the many factors that determines intelligence
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by ithkuil 2y ago
> The solution isn't less literacy. This. It's interesting how a common instinct to seeing problems is way too often to "destroy and rebuild" instead of "correct and improve". "Institutions have failed

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