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by kqr 10mo ago
A forecaster can be calibrated but almost only assign probabilities in the 40--60 % range. This is not as ueful as one assiging calibrated probabilities in the full range. We try to measure the increased usefulness of the latter with proper
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by kqr 10mo ago
That is commonly claimed, but it is thought by some to lead to unnecessarily complicated text. A tendency is also noticed for the passive voice to be introduced as part of such rules. In case the irony isn't clear, I disagree. Clarity
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by kqr 10mo ago
Swedish also has the "man" and I hate when people use it to project feelings or experiences on me that I don't have. I know for some people it's just how they speak – instead of saying "I get the urge to scream&quot
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by kqr 10mo ago
Oh, this one is difficult. I vacillated a lot in my early writing between I, we, and you. Too many "I" sounds self-fixated and irrelevant for the reader. "You" is way too presumptive, unless addressing a specific person
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by kqr 10mo ago
Are there no APIs with smaller and faster responses? The Swedish equivalent has --even a fairly respectable terminal client.
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by kqr 10mo ago
Lehman talked about the developer-software-user triad. Each of the three have a different understanding of the problem to be solved. Developers misunderstand what the users want, and then aren't able to accurately implement their own m
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TextMaze(robobunny.com)
12 points by kqr 10mo ago|2 comments
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by kqr 10mo ago
One thing I'm curious about: how is the laptop dual-GPU situation these days? I opted to install Linux in a VM under Hyper-V on Windows to avoid hassles with the dual GPUs in my ThinkPad P52, but this comes with several other hassles I
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by kqr 10mo ago
Less known optimisation: have a slide rule handy[1]. They are amazing for working with proportions which happens all the time in the kitchen. Just today I needed 200 g of chocolate for a dessert. The bars were 160 g each and made into 21 re
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by kqr 10mo ago
Not being from the US, it took me a moment to realise that "she's in Canada" is a nice excuse for why nobody has met her.
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by kqr 10mo ago
The lever for the landing gear and the lever for the flaps were easily confused. After landing the pilots intended to retract flaps but accidentally retracted the landing gear instead. At first they assumed their recruitment process acciden
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by kqr 10mo ago
Industrial safety must (if it is to be effective) recognise that people are an important part of the process! They're so often forgotten, with disastrous results. People need to be given timely information, communication channels, and
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by kqr 10mo ago
> But does applying the same transfer function to each pixel (of a given colour anyway) count as "processing"? In some sense it has to, because you can include a parametric mask it that function which makes it possible to perfo
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ACX 2026 Prediction Contest(metaculus.com)
1 points by kqr 10mo ago|0 comments
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by kqr 10mo ago
It's good for another reason too: it decouples releases from deployments. Both deployments and releases are high-risk activities. Performing them together increases the risk multiplicatively. Separating them does also create some incid
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by kqr 10mo ago
No, an entry is a key-and-value pair. Are you deriously suggesting it is possible to add only keys without corresponding values, or vice versa?
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by kqr 10mo ago
In contrast to many others, I did not find this particularly interesting. - The comic on is oddly cropped and contains speech attribution errors. - It calls me an "extremist" regarding the wrong thing (I am many kinds of extremist
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by kqr 10mo ago
The hard drives are either master or slave. A hard drive is not a master-and-slave.
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by kqr 10mo ago
All of your slash examples represent either–or situations. A swich turns it on or off, the situation is a win in the first outcome or a win in the second outcome, etc. It's true that key–value store shouldn't be written with a hyp
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by kqr 10mo ago
I have a draft doing this with text adventures: https://entropicthoughts.com/updated-llm-benchmark
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by kqr 10mo ago
Yes, but recognising that is only the first step. Quantifying the variance is the next step which I miss in the article.
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by kqr 10mo ago
It would unfortunately also need several runs of each to be reliable. There's nothing in TFA to indicate the results shown aren't to a large degree affected by random chance! (I do think from personal benchmarks that Gemini 3 is b
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by kqr 10mo ago
> Generally referred to Sure, people may sloppily call it a failure, but then they miss out on a useful distinction which would help them create more robust software. A bolt being under-engineered for its intended usage is a design error
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by kqr 10mo ago
In this case I'm asking specifically about the C200 this article is about. Sorry for not being more clear. From what I understand the C200 does not boot from SD card.
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by kqr 10mo ago
It's not a store of "keys or values", no. It's a store of key-value pairs.
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by kqr 10mo ago
I'd love to but... how? One alternative seems to be a programmer chip that must be puchased and then modified to not fry the camera with 5V. Another is maybe stripping a USB cable and soldering it to the wifi pads on the camera chip? N
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by kqr 10mo ago
But then how does one distinguish between letters? Something like "ETA" would be difficult to tell apart from "II".
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by kqr 10mo ago
It's still a thing and they even have world championships in it. Everyone always draws because it's basically just Stockfish vs. Stockfish. (Okay in the most recent one there were actually a shared first place, a shared second pla
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by kqr 10mo ago
Did they somehow find a way to make a long tap (e.g. slide something against the radiator for a continuous signal) or did they agree on two different kinds of short taps? (Or do the pipes resonate for long but can be dampened by hand to pro
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by kqr 10mo ago
Agreed, which is why what GP suggests is much more sensible: it's venturing into known territory, except only one party of the conversation knows it, and the other literally cannot know it. It would be a fantastic way to earn fast in

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