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by jll29 1y ago
"...and run deep diligence" I've not seen that much but what I've seen is "Let's ask a few buddies and google a bit". The takeaway that I agree with is the parent's and OP's point that you will n
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by jll29 1y ago
There is no such thing as a "language brain" or a "math brain" unless you show experimentally that those bunch of neurons can be grouped into two non-overlapping regions dedicated to "language" and "mathem
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by jll29 1y ago
If you have the opportunity, I'd suggest go and visit the beach where your late grandfather landed. Normandy is beautiful even without its rich history, but enriched with the Bayeux tapestry and the D-Day landing it's an amazing r
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by jll29 1y ago
This is genious, whoever came up with it! Imagine doing that in pharma also: you pay a regular monthly fee for the side effects of the medical drugs you took (caused by the pharma company, not by you).
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by jll29 1y ago
It's a clever idea to keep track of the chunks in your own version of malloc(), like some others have proposed own flavors of allocators for other purposes - e.g. with sentinels at the beginning and end of buffers to detect overruns; b
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by jll29 1y ago
It seems like to Google, "customers" will only ever be anonymous data points in an A/B test. They would have gone down quickly if they hadn't "borrowed" Overture's business model of paid ads. They have no
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by jll29 1y ago
...or the seeds of a company that may one day be a letter in the successor of the FAANG acronym.
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by jll29 1y ago
Populism managed to start the process to isolate and destroy the UK, and now is on the way to do the same to the US. Well done, Rob Mercer and Vladimir Putin - you are not ideologically aligned, but you worked independently towards the same
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by jll29 1y ago
In Rust, you can extend the syntax a bit within the language itself. For C++, you could define yourself a template that expands to the two functions you listed. For any language, you could write yourself a pre-processor that adds for_tree n
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by jll29 1y ago
> It's not like they're showing ads. Not yet. But the "buy this" button is already in the code of the back end, according to online reports that I cannot verify. Official word is here: https://help.openai.c
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by jll29 1y ago
Very interesting - is WARC support on the roadmap?
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by jll29 1y ago
Read Paul Tetlock's research about so-called "experts" and their inability to make good forecasts. Here's my own take: - It is far too early to tell. - The roll-out of ChatGPT caused a mind-set revolution. People now &qu
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by jll29 1y ago
I hope amazon.com will call them "Trump tariffs" to make sure who is to blame.
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by jll29 1y ago
That's one of the few times I've read about a proposed innovation "in the spirit of UNIX" that was not already present in the original UNIX or one of its descendants. UNIX: Everything is a file. => A directory i
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by jll29 1y ago
Quality of life encompasses many factors, e.g. Switzerland has 98 days of maternity leave, Afghanistan has 90(+15) days of maternity leave (Wikipedia even puts it at #1 worldwide with two years, but that may be incorrect?). In
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by jll29 1y ago
Good point re: facts versus story. One problem may be that the UK is very London-centric in a way that is markably different from France being Paris-centric. Just my perception (and I know London much better than Paris) is that in France, i
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by jll29 1y ago
Enjoy coding! Real coding on 8-bit machines was a bit more scary than using QEMU since you had to remember to save your assebly sources after each edit, as running your machine code often crashed the machine. You may want to also use: (
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by jll29 1y ago
There is another problem here: eating and working out doesn't go together well.
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by jll29 1y ago
> More strenuous workouts closer to bedtime coincided with greater disruptions to sleep and nighttime cardiac activity. My wife wants to know what kind of "strenuous workouts closer to bedtime" exactly are alluded to here?
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by jll29 1y ago
Anecdotally, I feel way more refreshed when waking up without an alarm, and the times vary a lot; it seems sometimes, not a very long sleep is needed to wake up naturally and other times one needs more of it. But any artifical disruption fe
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by jll29 1y ago
My gut instinct suggests NOT to violate one's chronobiology, so I'm not even going to aspire that.
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by jll29 1y ago
This example has a lot of common-sense reasoning, linguistic ambiguity (e.g. in NP coreferences) etc. going on. Just a few years ago, most folks at a computational linguistics conference would probably have said such abilities are impossibl
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by jll29 2y ago
We have always automated, because we can. What is qualitatively different this time is that it affects intellectual abilities - there is nothing higher up in the work "food chain". Replacing physical work you could always argue yo
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by jll29 2y ago
The inertia argument is real, and I would compare it to the mistaken believe of some at IBM in the 1970s that SQL would be used by managers to query relational databases directly, so no programming was needed anymore. And what happened? Pro
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by jll29 2y ago
Yes. The output of the LLM is determined by the weights (parameters of the artificial neural network) estimated in the training as well as a pseudo-random number generator (unless its influence, called "temperature", is set to 0).
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by jll29 2y ago
What saddens me is that a lot of people are so ignorant that they don't even realize a font is something that takes creativity, tradecraft and a lot of work/time/effort to design.
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by jll29 2y ago
How about state machines with millions of transitions such as letter transducers?
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As a slight tangent, a re-write in another language is also an opportunity for the human engineer to re-design parts of the software that was clunky before or so that in the new target language idioms can be used. Using automatic tools - wh
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by jll29 2y ago
I can sympathize the with the cynicism, because I also see the bombing of Ukraine and Gaza in the daily news, which nobody seems to be capable or willing to stop. Unlike Solferino, there are children dying on a daily basis, which breaks my
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by jll29 2y ago
More precisely: "While she would not have been eligible to win a Nobel prize, because the award is not given posthumously, she likely would have been omitted in any case, as her and Gosling's data was not even cited/mentioned

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