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by lacker 5y ago
AI is pretty far away from those, too. The "window" mechanism that GPT-3 and similar methods use basically prevents it from staying on-topic over the course of a few paragraphs.
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by lacker 5y ago
By the same logic, you could conclude “Democrats prioritize being imprisoned and being poor.” Just because membership in a political group correlates with something, it does not mean that the group “prioritizes” that.
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by lacker 5y ago
Anything that keeps replicating exponentially will eventually have its growth limited by the speed of light, because the amount of space you can reach while traveling at a bounded speed only grows polynomially fast. Because the formula for
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by lacker 5y ago
Well, let's look at what exactly Bill Gates said. I don't see a direct transcript; the most explicit description I can find is: Asked directly by Sky’s Sophy Ridge if he thought changing patent restrictions “would be helpful,” Ga
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by lacker 5y ago
Probably your CI could be faster. Just take a look at where the time is going and see if you can speed it up. Here’s some tips that might be useful: https://charity.wtf/2020/12/31/why-are-my-tests-so-slow-a-li
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by lacker 5y ago
I don't see why they couldn't migrate to the newer version in what seems a reasonable timeframe. I mean, this post is from July 2020. Onion service v3 has been around since 2018. It seems pretty reasonable to give over a year fo
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by lacker 5y ago
It's a bit sad to me that the question here is "did you buy a book in the last year". Also sad that most people didn't. I am curious, among people who buy a lot of books, like a book a week, whether those people still pr
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by lacker 5y ago
I just buy them online like anything else, in the same size I always wear. I had already stopped buying clothes in-person before the pandemic. I guess I am normally-shaped enough that I don't run into problems with things fitting this
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by lacker 5y ago
Personally, the pandemic has taught me how little I really need physical stores. Only a few items, like bicycles, shoes, and backpacking backpacks, do I really prefer buying them in a physical store. So for me at least, it would be okay if
610.
by lacker 5y ago
Child care is thousands of dollars a month, everything else pales in comparison....
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by lacker 5y ago
In giving such persuasively nonhuman animals human personalities and thoughts, the film created a kind of cognitive dissonance. It had been easier to imagine the interiority of the stylized beasts in the original film. This sounds like th
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by lacker 5y ago
A friend of mine got a data scientist job at a well-known tech company after a summer-long bootcamp. He had previous experience, though, doing some academic-track work in a scientific field. So the training was giving him a more solid backg
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by lacker 5y ago
Some friends of mine have worked at BCG and similar companies, with very similar opinions of the work. What surprises me is how these consulting firms keep having an image among college seniors that they are a desirable job.
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by lacker 5y ago
They both put tar in your lungs. A tobacco smoker generally smokes far more cigarettes than a cannabis smoker. Per-breath, cannabis seems to put more tar in your lungs, since it's generally unfiltered. But a tobacco smoker takes many m
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by lacker 5y ago
Some of these notebooks are years old. The datasets they have in memory aren't saved anywhere else. That sounds dangerous to me. If your computer crashes or you introduce a bug to your notebook, you could lose all that data. Personal
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by lacker 5y ago
To me this seems like an improvement in the direction that you want, in particular that notebooks are reactive. All too often I get a Jupyter notebook from someone else and try to run it on my machine only to find that some intermediate ste
617.
by lacker 5y ago
Well those are great too. Every donation helps the Rust Foundation do its work, it's as simple as that.
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by lacker 5y ago
The Rust Foundation is really new, it just started in February. That's probably why you've been hearing a lot of news about corporate Rust sponsorships recently, or if not "a lot" then more than you've heard about,
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by lacker 5y ago
A lot of companies and people don't really appreciate how much training is really needed to operate even the simplest of mobile phones. I completely agree, but at the same time it's funny that you can take a two-year-old without
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by lacker 5y ago
This is a great step for the Rust Foundation and a sign that Rust is transitioning successfully to a foundation model rather than a Mozilla-centric organization. It looks like some people are worried about Facebook's influence on Rust,
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by lacker 5y ago
Key takeaway from this update: One final lesson that one might be tempted to take is that the kernel is running a terrible risk of malicious patches inserted by actors with rather more skill and resources than the UMN researchers have show
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by lacker 5y ago
How does this article not bother defining what it means by a "ghost gun"? Do they just mean any gun that uses 3D-printed parts?
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by lacker 5y ago
I hope these researchers don't stop with just writing papers, and actually see if they can convert their theory into practice. If it's true that there's a far more efficient way to run wind farms, it seems like it could be a
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by lacker 5y ago
Around here (Northern California) it seems like most of the trail maintenance is done with chainsaws. At least that's the sort of trail maintenance I can most easily recall, people cutting away fallen trees that are obstructing a trail
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by lacker 5y ago
To me the strange thing is that they released this publicly. Okay, you're switching how you do 360 reviews, you're shutting down your DEI team, most companies wouldn't blog about these internal reorgs, they would just do it.
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by lacker 5y ago
To me the interesting difference with mainframes is that you were generally taking advantage of the extra processing power available on the mainframe. Whereas this is more like taking advantage of the extra RAM available on the cloud machin
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by lacker 5y ago
M1s are heavy on processing power but not too heavy on RAM, and it seems like this offering makes the most sense for people running low on RAM, so perhaps M1s are a logical market.
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by lacker 5y ago
It isn't insane, it's just an engineering tradeoff. Streaming a browser takes more of some resources, probably bandwidth, processing power for video decoding, and the cost of the remote hardware. But it takes less RAM on your loca
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by lacker 5y ago
You sure can launch like this. Go for it :D
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by lacker 5y ago
making children learn "pre-computing" through iPad apps at an age where they're not ready to learn real computing I just think there's a bit of a gap right now. I think apps like Tynker that provide sort of pre-computi

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