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by lumb63 2y ago
This is really cool! I have a lot of short projects that are essentially “parse out 2 or 3 tags of HTML and convert that to CSV. This will be perfect for that; in the past I’ve done it by hand with vim. Next time I’ll give this a shot.
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by lumb63 2y ago
Others have given a lot of good suggestions about books for general software engineering. Some book on how to structure code and some book on how to be a professional and some book on the human aspect of the profession would all be benefici
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by lumb63 2y ago
It would’ve been nice if this post compared the costs of various energy sources per kWh, duration to bring capacity online, externalities related to energy sources (e.g. mass land use for solar, risk of plant failure for nucleae, etc.). Tha
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by lumb63 2y ago
> There’s no magic number at which the debt load becomes a full-on crisis. When the US loses its AAA borrowing status and countless funds are required to sell all US Bonds, you will see that statement is incorrect.
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by lumb63 2y ago
The “right answer” also depends on attack vector. If you are trying to protect against nation-state-level tampering or data leaks for two full generations, the enemy moves much quicker, and so you will need to advance much more quickly, to
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by lumb63 2y ago
I know the “AI label” drives me away. It means the product is unreliable and a black box. The “AI” label also indicates the solution is way over complicated and simpler ways to improve the product have been ignored. For instance, Confluence
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by lumb63 2y ago
I worry about the same thing. I will say, however, that I worry more about this in the context of news articles, conversation, and other shorter-duration activities. Books are a big commitment, and it is highly disappointing to find out som
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by lumb63 2y ago
Furthermore, there’s a replication crisis in social sciences. The last thing we need is to accumulate less data and let an LLM tell us the “right” answer.
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by lumb63 2y ago
The definition they use is so incredibly broad as to mean anything. If you think man-made climate change is real but doesn’t take a higher priority than the activities causing climate change, you’re a climate denier. If you think man-made c
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by lumb63 2y ago
As an American, boy, do I have news for you…
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by lumb63 2y ago
This conversation makes me really happy I have successfully avoided C++ for the past two years.
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by lumb63 2y ago
Does anyone have any tips for similar wizardry-level SIMD optimization on ARM?
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by lumb63 2y ago
Can someone explain why proving and math problem solving is not a far easier problem for computers? Why does it require any “artificial intelligence” at all? For example, suppose a computer is asked to prove the sum of two even numbers is a
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by lumb63 2y ago
This is something I’ve been trying to find a way to account for in my fantasy drafting the last few years, after trying to maximize expected value has not gotten me the desired results (probably also due in part to the delta between expecte
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by lumb63 2y ago
Something I don’t see talked about enough is the extent to which the rise of passive investing increases the extent to which passive investing is the best strategy. Passive investing is predicated entirely on either freeloading off of the d
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by lumb63 2y ago
I understand that isn’t what’s being suggested. What I’m suggesting is that there is perhaps a distortion of the common idea of who is “responsible” for something. I think the idea that fault bubbles up to the highest level in the chain of
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by lumb63 2y ago
The people “whose negligence made this possible” are probably just rank-and-file employees. Careful what you wish for. I know I sure wouldn’t want to be legally liable if my software were vulnerable to something I didn’t know about. Maybe a
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by lumb63 2y ago
This is another consequence of the surveillance state. The same data that can be used to surveil us by the government can be stolen by who-knows-who. We’d all (mostly) be far better off, IMO, if companies didn’t retain such records.
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by lumb63 2y ago
There is, as far as I am aware, nothing to stop Microsoft from crawling any other site’s code. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Things like “copyright” didn’t seem to stop OpenAI.
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by lumb63 2y ago
It seems to me that regardless of the outcome of this case, some developers do not want to have their code used to train LLMs. There may need to be a new license created to restrict this usage of software. Or, maybe developers will simply s
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by lumb63 2y ago
Put another way, I think one of the author’s arguments is “what if we’re pouring more and more effort into research in an area, because our primary abstraction is wrong ?” That would make it harder and harder to continue to roll the ball u
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by lumb63 2y ago
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by lumb63 2y ago
I made a Rust program that, given a database of football players and projections about how they will do during the season, can be used during a fantasy football draft live to provide an indication of who the best player to draft is. I have
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by lumb63 2y ago
To elaborate on your statement, we all think in very different ways. Recently there was an academic test posted here that evaluated “how” a person thinks (internal monologue, use of images, how memories are recalled, etc.). After my girlfri
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by lumb63 2y ago
A couple interesting points here. One is the supposition that something which is more “justified” is better. We humans do a lot of things which cannot be justified and are good, so this seems an odd position to me. The other is that “someth
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by lumb63 2y ago
As someone who formerly identified as a libertarian, this is the logic that made me question the position. A philosophy which when empowered aims to minimize its sphere of influence is self-defeating, unfortunately.
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by lumb63 2y ago
I think and hope that the results of this ruling will be less extreme than the dissent warns. It could potentially be very bad, though. The word “official” is doing a lot of lifting in this ruling. If it is not interpreted too liberally, th
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by lumb63 2y ago
If you were running the business, what would you do? Would you intentionally damage your odds of producing the best outcome for your company to support someone because of their race or gender?
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by lumb63 2y ago
I’ll go ahead and make an assumption that the Chinese government was involved. Countries badly need to figure out a way to punish bad actors in cybersecurity realms. It seems that this type of attack, along with many others, are quickly ram
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by lumb63 2y ago
This test really threw me for a loop because it didn’t cover my main mode of thought. For me, I can consciously use my internal voice or visualize things, but if I am not actively trying to, they never happen. Typically, the results of my t

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