jstanley

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by jstanley 5mo ago
> may have had symbolic or ritual significance. I think is a fair description of Swiss mechanical watches. They are certainly not of practical significance.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
I don't know, I'm not the one pointing at things and saying they're fake blog posts! But examples might include something that looks at a glance like a blog post, but actually it's all just squiggles instead of words. Or
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Yeah the content of the post is totally bogus, but it's still a real post. The post exists, you can read it. A fake blog post would be something that purports to be a blog post but actually isn't. This is definitely a real post.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> very few notice it's quite a fake post It's definitely a real post. Yes it's obviously LLM-written, but if the worst thing you can say about an article is that it looks LLM-written, then maybe you don't have any rea
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by jstanley 5mo ago
How can you tell? And is this definitely universally true or just true of the 1 instance you happen to have personal experience with?
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> Real cardholders almost never buy something for exactly $1.00. Coffee is $4.73, gas is $52.81. The roundness is the signal. Surely this depends on how the vendor sets their prices? If you're going to buy something from a website t
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> which isn’t really true anymore. For most websites, the majority — not just the plurality, but the majority — of visitors arrive by following a link inside an email or an app I highly doubt this is true, unless your definition of &qu
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by jstanley 5mo ago
You could still push your position to the edge even if you don't rotate the map.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Sometimes trading with people who have better information than you is part of the risk you take on when you run a market-making strategy.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
In the absence of the insider trader selling you oil futures on the basis of his insider knowledge, what would you do? You'd buy oil futures at broadly the same price from someone else (maybe a worse price! Because the presence of the
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Search over all values of all parameters and choose the ones the minimise the mean square error of pixel values. Obviously that will be slow, so probably do some kind of gradient descent, or perhaps depending on what the parameters are ther
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Or you could provide the RAW and the JPEG and it would start you off at a point that most closely matches the JPEG?
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by jstanley 5mo ago
I literally don't get what this new feature is adding or why it would be part of an iPhone wallet. If you want to issue tickets is your wallet the most obvious place to do it from? Why would an airline issue tickets from an iPhone? Or,
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by jstanley 5mo ago
> How Do You Handle Deployments? This section misses the one thing I was interested in: how do you avoid downtime in a deployment? I like to write web applications with Perl and Mojolicious, and a deployment is just "hypnotoad app&q
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by jstanley 5mo ago
What is a "pass"?
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by jstanley 5mo ago
I agree with what you're saying, of course, simplicity is better, etc. But the nav on your blog is a terrible example. Firstly, you don't get to just click on the links to go to where you want to go, you first have to click the th
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by jstanley 5mo ago
My guess is you're likely to waste more cycles on development time, and on suboptimal algorithms because the implementation is harder, than you would waste on rust-related bloat. Still a cool project, thanks for sharing. I have wondere
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Why did you choose to have Claude write it in assembly language? There are big benefits to using a language that has good static analysis with LLMs.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Maybe I misunderstand you, how is Claude doing commits where you don't use Claude? That is a very different case to VS Code which is something you can in fact use without Copilot.
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by jstanley 5mo ago
Natural language is a fully general system and can define and describe everything. You could deterministically process any UML diagram into a prose equivalent. And in fact you couldn't do the other way around (any prose -> UML) beca
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by jstanley 6mo ago
> Wouldn't the opposite be true? That an llm would use well-known terms for general purpose writing. You'd think, and yet LLMs do in fact have a particular style, and lots of it is common across all LLMs.
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by jstanley 6mo ago
lahfir, I vouched your (currently still dead) comment because it was interesting to me. I expect the reason it is dead is that it seems LLM-generated (you "quietly" launched it on github? Who says that?). Also, your comment claims
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by jstanley 6mo ago
Maybe! But you can see the other comment that points out I was wrong and it is actually 5/3 comparisons so it still works out worse.
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by jstanley 6mo ago
You normally measure runtime of a sorting algorithm in terms of the number of comparisons it has to do. Obviously real-world performance depends on other things as well.
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by jstanley 6mo ago
Oh yeah!
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by jstanley 6mo ago
As a teenager I spent a weekend thinking that if binary search was good, because it cuts the search space in half at every step, then wouldn't a ternary search be better? Because we'd cut it into thirds at every step. So instead
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by jstanley 6mo ago
> Noise is anything that must be written for the program to function that is not relevant to the domain. > ... > What facilities does the language provide me to create correct-by-construction systems and how easily can I program th
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by jstanley 6mo ago
In my experience it is very rarely the case that setting up machine tools is faster than 3d printing. And even when it's faster, it's not less trouble . And you have to go and acquire materials in suitable shapes and sizes, and d
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by jstanley 6mo ago
They're defining consciousness ("mapmaker") to exist outside the AI, and then showing that AI can't meet their definition of consciousness.
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by jstanley 6mo ago
This is one of those papers that uses a lot of big words to paper over the fact that it's really a philosophical opinion rather than a logical argument.

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