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by ithkuil 2y ago
People are not neurons. Intelligent systems (once eventually devised) will use computation machines as the substrate to implement intelligence in a similar way as the human intelligence uses a biological substrate to perform gazillions of i
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by ithkuil 2y ago
But that's exactly the point. The point is not because boredom is good per-se. The point is that our natural instinct to avoid boredom is what drives us to do stuff, to go places, to invent things, to dream. The problem is not that eve
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by ithkuil 2y ago
CDC 6000 was a barrel processor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_processor Mill CPU (so far only patent-ware but interesting nevertheless) : https://millcomputing.com/
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by ithkuil 2y ago
(I'll continue to jest) Yeah, at least the civilized British took great care at carefully taking all the artefacts and bringing them to safety in the British Museum
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Interestingly you can build a branch predictor that predicts the second branch without predicting the first. A branch predictor result is just a tuple of ("branch instruction address", "branch target address") that hints
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by ithkuil 2y ago
That's called speculative execution and IIRC all modern CPUs are doing it. It requires more silicon to hold more microarchitectural state and more execution units to fully exploit the technique, but superscalar CPUs already have those
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Indeed and this is a very subtle point that I found very hard to explain when talking about availability in the event of network partitions. You have to consider the system as a whole including external clients since the definition of the a
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by ithkuil 2y ago
> btw I'm not forgetting who it was that invaded Iraq and first ran roughshod over thousands of years of archeological treasures. You mean the Assyrians? Yes indeed they ravaged and destroyed the remnants of great civilizations that
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by ithkuil 2y ago
BTW I noticed that the clickhouse CLI has an interesting visualization trick: wide numbers have each third digit rendered with an underline style. That's as effective as a thousands separator "," but you can copy paste the n
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by ithkuil 2y ago
There is a subtle detail here in that there is an alternative to being invaded: you can surrender and become a puppet state. All these words about "NATO expansion" and "western influence" are just a code word for what ul
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by ithkuil 2y ago
> organizing direct strikes in Russian territory Well. Ukraine just wants to shoot at the places where rockets and artillery are shooting at them. It happens that the Russians conveniently are doing so behind the border. They can shoot
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Interestingly the very reason why nuclear weapons and the logic of their deployment are so dangerous and unstable, so much that two geopolitical adversaries with lots at stake actually agreed on never using them, led us nowadays to underest
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yes I meant to the reply on the sibling thread but HN didn't let me delete my comment
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I agree. That said, it's infuriating when you have an opponent that can literally say whatever he wants however unintelligible it may be and his cult-like followers will just find the meaning kn what he said. The double standard is ast
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by ithkuil 2y ago
And it's such a double standard. Trump never pretended to speak clearly and now people can in good faith point out that trump has not shown signs of regression because there was nothing he was curating about his persona in the first pl
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The world would be a quite different place if the majority of people in each country made rational choices for their own good. I don't think we should single out Cubans for that
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by ithkuil 2y ago
The world would be a quite different place if the majority of people in each country made rational choices for their own good. I don't think we should single out Cubans for that
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Btw YAML would be a proper superset of JSON if it wasn't for the fact that yaml doesn't allow repeated fields while JSON is relaxed about that. That's just a small detail though. You can for all intents and purposes out JSON
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by ithkuil 2y ago
How much is that a selection bias (they are the ones that left and went to the US after all)
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I'm puzzled by the downvotes. Am I saying something obscene or against the rules of polite discourse? I mean, I could be wrong sure but I don't think downvotes are for disagreeing with what somebody says but for punishing behavior
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by ithkuil 2y ago
From what I read it's actually the opposite. Studies seem to show that while our attention makes us feel in charge and at the helm, the decisions and the thoughts that arise happen way before our ability to influence them consciously.
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by ithkuil 2y ago
gentrification is a problem. But it's hard to truly understand a problem if all sides try to make it extreme. What does "Portuguese people can't afford to live in major cities anymore." actually mean? Does it mean that m
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Yes institutions and democracy can resist and win against a small group of armed people taking over the physical seats of the government. But in order to win people have to agree that the act is profoundly antidemocratic and a punishable of
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by ithkuil 2y ago
I feel you may be swinging the pendulum too far in dismissing the second order effects of money being spent. Do the landowners and restaurant owners not pay taxes in Portugal? Do they spend all they new income abroad?
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by ithkuil 2y ago
A long time ago I had "fun" implementing all sorts of network protocols with such an event based library on C: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Well, the point, in math, is a zero dimensional object.
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Also interesting is the singeli language https://github.com/mlochbaum/Singeli/tree/master
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Not to mention that this thing hasn't been actually built.
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The disconnect between benchmarks and practical use is interesting. I guess it's hard to build accurate benchmarks. I find gpt-4 and gpt-3 a world apart. Perhaps it's just that it crossed a tipping point that made it useful for _m
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by ithkuil 2y ago
Username checks out

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