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by lblume 1y ago
I cannot really explain why, but I feel like each of these photos captures so much more about the respective person than a modern colored photo ever could.
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by lblume 1y ago
In some cases the difference between if and for is not as clear-cut. A for loop over an option? Likely rather to be considered as an if. What about length-limited arrays, where the iteration mainly occurs as a way to control whether executi
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by lblume 1y ago
Two counterpoints. Firstly, in many cases the function needs to serve both purposes — called on a single item or called on a sequence of such. A function that always loops would have to be called on some unitary sequence or iterator which i
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by lblume 1y ago
> printInvoice(invoice, options) The function printInvoice should print an invoice. What happens if an invoice cannot be printed due to one of the named conditionals being false? You might throw an exception, or return a sentinel or erro
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by lblume 1y ago
Fortran may still be used but is considered functionally dead nonetheless. Nobody is hiring Fortran devs anymore (and those who do put themselves in a really hard market position). Yet, learning C++ might still be a more valuable skill than
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by lblume 1y ago
Unlike Rust, C++ at least has specialization...
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by lblume 1y ago
May I ask what specifically you dislike about Rust (and Zig)? All the features you mentioned are also present in these languages. Do you care about a safety vs. simplicity of the language, or something else entirely?
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by lblume 1y ago
Yes, this is mentioned explicitly in the article.
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by lblume 1y ago
Semantic search seems like a more promising usecase than simple related articles. A big problem with classical keyword-based search is that synonyms are not reflected at all. With semantic search you can search for what you mean , not what
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by lblume 1y ago
Assuming life to be entirely physical, of course.
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by lblume 1y ago
Ok, but what do you need AI for? The two random topics don't seem very connected, they could just be random links (or backlinks) from the page. The potential is definitely there, but the execution could be improved.
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by lblume 1y ago
> Secondly, why does this generate a uniform random number? Each interval of equal size occurs with equal likelihood at each step. Consider that you want to generate a random number between 0 and 1024 (excl.). The midpoint would be 512,
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by lblume 1y ago
> Turing machines are imaginary anyways. Sure, but there is a simple correspondence between modern/typical computers (that does require a potentially unlimited supply of new hard drives, but that is rarely relevant) and Turing machi
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by lblume 1y ago
How relevant are subnormals in this context? i.e. what percentage of the range do they occupy and how often would one expect to need to sample to obtain one?
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by lblume 1y ago
The difference being that a client can be malicious, while e.g. a local file is assumed to behave with the same intent as another. Programs that run on one computer can always be statically verified, while the task is harder for server-clie
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by lblume 1y ago
No matter how much I typically despise American culture, killing people (no matter by which means) over prostitution in an antecedent does not appear to be a part of it.
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by lblume 1y ago
> The most common use case for AI is a therapist. Source? Sounds like a fairly wild claim.
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by lblume 1y ago
On Arch Linux, you are explicitly asked whether to replace a package with the (distro-)designated successor.
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by lblume 1y ago
This is very likely true. By LOC: Windows 95 is estimated to have 10-15 million LOC, Chrome 30-40 million. By binary size: Windows 95 took about 50 MB, Chrome 200-300 MB. By architecture design: the codebase of Windows 95 is fairly shallow
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by lblume 1y ago
At its core, the ideals of the Web as an interoperable, nearly universal platform are extremely promising. I highly doubt people would prefer completely split ecosystems where programs could only be accessed on specific platforms.
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by lblume 1y ago
Which hosting service would you recommend?
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by lblume 1y ago
What is this even supposed to represent? The entire justification I could give for stacked bars is that you could permute the sub-bars and obtain comparable results. Do the bars still represent additive terms? Multiplicative constants? As a
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by lblume 1y ago
For a format to proliferate as a standard, it has to be open source. Nobody cares about 5% smaller images if not everyone can view them.
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by lblume 2y ago
Do you have and maintain these lists for all product categories you buy regularly? A well-maintained ordering of product options for most of these groups would be highly impressive and certainly make you more resistant, but I doubt the extr
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by lblume 2y ago
But they don't have to represent absolute levels. They could just as easily have represented relative levels, with h2 in a doubly nested section to describe the level today expressed as h4. Dependent on your usecase, this could either
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by lblume 2y ago
> I'm certain it was related to the "vegetarian enzymes" How can you be so certain? I did not find any credible source correlating microbial rennet to rash. Thus I would not rule out that this was simply a coincidence or a
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by lblume 2y ago
I assumed this would be a challenge intended to be solved in a few days, not a single afternoon. Nowadays, other kids at school would have and give access to their AI as the solution would just be a prompt away. These days, you can't e
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by lblume 2y ago
> When they hit eleven, give them a plaintext file with ten-thousand WPA2 keys and tell them that the real one is in there somewhere. See how quickly they discover Python or Bash then. I wish this would still work. Today's kids woul
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by lblume 2y ago
If you had read the article, you would have been able to see that the conclusions don't really align with any economic goals Anthropic might have.
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by lblume 2y ago
Transformers already are very flexible. We know that we can basically strip blocks at will, reorder modules, transform their input in predictable ways, obstruct some features and they will after a very short period of re-training get back t

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