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by knome 3y ago
Are you really advocating the government use extrajudicial assassinations whenever they have difficulties charging someone they accuse of committing a crime?
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by knome 3y ago
>Weapons systems are another environment you'd prefer to have resiliency. You'd hate to lose control of a missile while in mid-flight. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98...
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by knome 3y ago
Changing the model wouldn't change anything. A turing machine is equivalent to any computational machine you want to put in there. It doesn't matter what the machine is. The turing machine is the goto because it was first used for
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by knome 3y ago
>By the time you’ve cranked in enough Poe’s Law to be more than a tech demo >Poe’s Law What? What is this trying to say here? Is it a typo?
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by knome 3y ago
All of the commits are from Chet Ramey, who the wiki says took over maintenance on bash just shy of 30 years ago. It looks like its busy in the devel branch. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/log/?h=d
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by knome 3y ago
>like bash or coreutils both of these projects are still actively developed. * https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bash-announce/2022-09/msg... * https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html
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by knome 3y ago
it is interesting that earth spends more time with mercury closer than venus due to orbital mechanics, but the entire premise of the article is just an annoying "gotcha" twist of language. the planet earth is ever nearest to is Ve
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by knome 3y ago
Democracy on a platform known for having thousands of bots and more popping up all the time seems unlikely to perform as desired.
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by knome 3y ago
the portland pattern repository was an invaluable resource for me when I was searching out programming material on the web in the early 2000s. hopefully whatever this is is just a hiccup in their service
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by knome 3y ago
At no point was I confused as to the server-side vs client-side nature of the software. I've been using what I assumed was the default of server-side blazor and was casually agreeing that, yes, a WASM compiled variant would obviously r
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by knome 3y ago
Azure Devops Services is an updated version of their old Team Foundation Server stuff. You can't create projects, teams, or workitem areas/iteration paths that are any of the microsoft magic names ( con, nul, ...etc... ), presumab
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by knome 3y ago
Ah, sure, for whatever WASM variant you're referring to. Whichever form of blazor I use pretty obviously makes calls back to the server to interact with client state on a per-event basis. If the backend has to restart, the clients all
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by knome 3y ago
>as a fan of Blazor I really dislike this stuff. It's easy-ish to write, but it's like the authors of it hate everything about the web. SPAs do a lot of annoying stuff, and blazor encourages all of it. I really hope things swin
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by knome 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian_packet A quick usenet search shows references to the term back into the 90's.
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by knome 3y ago
If you should be interested, 3Blue1Brown has a video primer on complex numbers that includes describing multiplications by i as rotations on the plane, showing why a plane is useful for its representation. I always enjoy videos from that ch
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by knome 3y ago
>e.g. even doesn't monitor its own output vs. its intentions It wouldn't have "intentions" in any human manner. It would have to project a response for each token, and then use that token to generate the next token of
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by knome 4y ago
If you think that's depressing, I have considered that humanity may serve the same purpose for hyper-intelligent AI as gut bacteria do for humans. We will need resources and produce waste the AI is compelled to provide and deal with, r
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by knome 4y ago
Net neutrality was removed under Ajit Pai's time leading the FCC. Did I miss some post-Pai restoration?
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by knome 4y ago
Part of why I comment is specifically to attract naysayers. I can learn from them. I've never been one to mind being wrong. I will argue vehemently for a position both because it seems correct to me, but also because it exposes my idea
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by knome 4y ago
>the most massive LLMs do not even attempt to abstract and manipulate even basic concepts then how does this work? H: translate the following sentence to instead use olympic curling related metaphors ( do not explicitly mention curli
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by knome 4y ago
>"neurons" This is literally the accepted term for the nodes wherein sums are produced of the set of weighted products which connect such nodes together. If you know a better term, or would prefer a better term that "neuro
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by knome 4y ago
GPT-4 allows you to use 8k of context in their current beta, if you're using the chat api directly. It will be interesting ( and probably expensive, lol ) when they open it to a full 32k.
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by knome 4y ago
Ah, fantastic and thank you. I had suspected I picked it up somewhere, I just couldn't find any proof of it. My previous failure to find the origin was likely because I was searching for "boats" rather than "submarines&q
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by knome 4y ago
>You're not explaining how things work It maps a vector of eight thousand tokens to some number, likely thousands, of "neurons", multiplying each by a weight associated by each connection. All of these are then combined to
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by knome 4y ago
>But say “reason”, “think”, or “meaning” with something AI related and it’s like all work has to stop until we stop using that precious word. The unwillingness to admit to AI capabilities because they are expressed in terms of human capa
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by knome 4y ago
[ this comment was written in response to a user who appears to have deleted their comment before I could finish putting my response together. I'm not sure why they deleted it, it seemed reasonable in the face of the ongoing discussion
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by knome 4y ago
>That's amazing and all It earnestly is amazing. >Why do you think LLM's can't "perform this kind of translation by merely comparing tokens statistically tending to be near one another". The implication I gath
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by knome 4y ago
>if meaning itself was simply contained or even encoded in the words we write I feel you might enjoy Chapter VI of Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel, Escher, Back", being "The Location of Meaning".
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by knome 4y ago
When I said it operates on a level of meaning, I refer to its ability to perform transformations like this: H: translate the following sentence to instead use olympic curling related metaphors ( do not explicitly mention curling, and do
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by knome 4y ago
A multi-layer neural net is not limited to vague statistical combinations. You can represent XOR in a neural network. A NAND. If you can represent NAND. You can represent arbitrary logic. Across billions of weights and across nearly a hundr

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