lacunary

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by lacunary 9mo ago
driving in downtown Austin this morning, the waymo swarm is real. the US may not have robust public transit but why can't we subsidize ride shares for seniors who lose their ability to drive safely?
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by lacunary 9mo ago
what kind of common sense wisdom are we talking about here, can you give an example? understanding the impact of regulation designed to impact both the environment and the economy, two incredibly complex systems our experts are only beginni
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by lacunary 9mo ago
when their discriminant is non-negative
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by lacunary 9mo ago
a new ordering, not a new set
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by lacunary 9mo ago
but the interesting thing about coordinate systems is that they do matter, a lot! many problems are much much easier to solve in one coordinate system than another.
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by lacunary 9mo ago
then it's not a proof of who you voted for
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by lacunary 9mo ago
human societies don't decide where to invest their talent; individuals do
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by lacunary 9mo ago
fiction is part of our shared language and culture. we communicate by making analogies, and our stories, especially our old ones, provide a rich basis to draw upon. neither a person nor an llm can be fluent users of human language without s
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by lacunary 9mo ago
anything exposed for others to depend on becomes part of the actual boundary. if it might break someone's system when you change it's part of your API. the problem is not in documenting the subset of a giant surface you intend to
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by lacunary 9mo ago
It's just a reflection of his education. Even today, many children are raised with religious education that includes stories of demons attacking people. Kids love scary stuff; monsters, battle, etc.
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by lacunary 9mo ago
it has to cost some amount in reserved capacity too. for every n suspended machines there is some small fraction of a machine's cpu/ram capacity that must be kept in reserve, like in a fractional lending system.
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by lacunary 9mo ago
so, train the llms by sending them fake prompt injection attempts once a month and then requiring them to perform remedial security training if they fall for it?
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by lacunary 9mo ago
more AI - 60% of the time an additional layer of AI works every time
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by lacunary 9mo ago
can't ride a netsplit to takeover and +m a huge channel IRL
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by lacunary 9mo ago
yes it's very common in the US. See: Big Gulp!
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by lacunary 9mo ago
Why do you think home prices are always in that price range? That's not been my observation.
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by lacunary 10mo ago
in my experience, what happens is the code base starts to collapse under its own weight. it becomes impossible to fix one thing without breaking another. the coding agent fails to recognize the global scope of the problem and tries local fi
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by lacunary 10mo ago
hard to beat a solar quartz movement if those are the criteria! no need to charge or service it for up to 20 years.
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by lacunary 10mo ago
can't two errors cancel each other out and you still wind up at zero?
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by lacunary 10mo ago
ah, probably so, looks like there were eggdrop scripts for megahal, thanks!
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by lacunary 10mo ago
I recall a Markov chain bot on IRC in the mid 2000s. I didn't see anything better until gpt came along!