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by jhbadger 1y ago
>It would be awesome to develop some theory around what kind of problems LLMs can and cannot solve. That should deter some leads pushing for solving the unsolvable with the technology. That could have unfortunate consequences. Most peopl
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by jhbadger 1y ago
And stop using Alexa (of course Bezos' paper wouldn't say that!)
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by jhbadger 1y ago
There's a fair amount of usage of it on Itch.io, if you are into that indie crowd. I was skeptical of it at first -- the whole 1-bit dithering aesthetic seems a bit too retro-twee, but I find it it is the best Hypercard-alike in terms
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by jhbadger 1y ago
A lot of physical "property rights" are equally dubious though and probably shouldn't have the reverence people have for them. The reason why land ownership reform (splitting up of big land holdings owned by the wealthy but f
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Only if you count "home ownership" as just owning your apartment (many Eastern-bloc countries sold cheaply their state-owned apartments to their residents after 1989). At least in the US, "home ownership" largely implies
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by jhbadger 1y ago
I mean, even assuming the technical challenges to self-driving can be solved, it is obvious that there will still be human drivers because some humans enjoy driving, just as there are still people who enjoy riding horses even after cars rep
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Companies anywhere have no ethics. If you want them not to do things that have negative consequences to others (squatting on domain names, polluting the environment, etc.) the only way to do it is to have laws against the behaviors and enfo
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by jhbadger 1y ago
There are plenty of excellent scientists that I know who still run a lab in their 80s.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
>In a way, this is not much different from foundational understandings in human–robot interactions, strengthening the claim in many humanities and environmental fields that humans should analytically be considered an animal That seems a
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by jhbadger 1y ago
But that's not what is being expressed. You might as well complain that the ratio doesn't give you information on the price, weight, or power usage of the TV.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
As a professional scientist, I think it is important for people to understand that nearly any viewpoint can point to "peer reviewed" research supporting it. That isn't enough. You need to consider the size of the study, where
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Or maybe people are just overeacting. In the 1950s there was a movement that claimed that comic books were evil and rotting kids' minds. When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s it was TV. Then it was video games. Now it's soc
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Despite the offended Germans here, it is important to realize that Twain learned German well enough to perform (in German) in Germany, and was actually better known as basically the 19th-century version of a stand-up comic in America and Eu
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by jhbadger 1y ago
And I didn't notice at first, but many of the exhibits are interactive. For example the entry of the Hacker's Dictionary looks like just a picture of a terminal with an entry from the dictionary displayed, but the image is "l
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by jhbadger 1y ago
I'm more surprised nobody's brought up RPG, the classic ptogramming language (which, like COBOL, isn't as dead as you might think) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RPG
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by jhbadger 1y ago
No. Indirect costs on grants aren't some slush fund used to fund whatever but are real costs involved in doing science. It costs money to build lab facilities, maintain and repair lab equipment, pay salaries of support staff like IT fo
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by jhbadger 1y ago
The point is (as a US scientist who has lived and worked in another country, although not Denmark), the issue isn't just whether they can but whether they do . In my experience, while English is often the language of science itself
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by jhbadger 1y ago
A lot of people would have been better off if they hadn't. This argument only works if you value the lives of Europeans (and their descendants, who often were equally racist against the indigenous peoples) over the native inhabitants.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
It's more complicated than that, because after Lenin, the USSR and countries in its sphere like East Germany considered themselves not to be Communist but rather socialist, as they believed that true Communism was an end goal to be a
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by jhbadger 1y ago
If you like Clojure's syntax and stress on immutability but don't like the JVM-induced slow startup, take a look at janet.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's a bit like how most people think Wolfenstein started with the 3D version in 1992 and have never heard of the 1981 original.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And the KC series, a series of East German computers that people on the other side of the Iron Curtain probably have never heard of.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
An awful lot of it is explained by the lack of the need for minicomputers as consumer hardware began to make them unneeded and the downfall of DEC. While DEC tried to get into other fields such as workstations with their Alpha RISC processo
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by jhbadger 2y ago
You would probably do better on 8-bits by using ZIL which is actually feasible these days thanks to ZILF (and the leaked ZIL source code of the original Infocom games to look at).
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Some of them maybe have gentrified (not to ignore that this in itself isn't 100% a good thing). Others are if anything worse than when he wrote the book.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Odd that the article doesn't mention Victor Gruen (perhaps best known as a creator of the indoor shopping mall as we know it, although he later became a critic of them), who the transfer is named after. https://en.wikipedia.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Basically Joplin is an Evernote replacement. If you were a fan of Evernote, you like how it is structured, if you weren't, you probably don't.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Not the poster you asked either, but another big reason why the 1980s seems more like today than the 1940s did the 1980s was that the 1960s happened in between the 1940s and 1980s. Our modern world view is greatly shaped by the struggles fo
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by jhbadger 2y ago
They even made "fake" electronic games like Blip -- a version of Pong that was electromechanical rather than electronic. Presumably at the time that was a cheaper way to do things, but like mechanical watches it is in a way more i
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's not that older works don't have value, it is that a lot of people don't see the value. For example, changes in the way actors perform makes a lot of people claim that old movies are "cheesy" or have "bad a

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