mcphage

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by mcphage 5d ago
Who disassembles them all? That seems to be a serious chunk of the effort.
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by mcphage 5d ago
I would have like to see the graphs for some non-LLM words, to show the more modest 1.5x jump, so we can be sure that these specific words are increasing in frequency, and not just like, all words.
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by mcphage 6d ago
> we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun And eat them, which... that's just like, really fucking weird.
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by mcphage 8d ago
Do you mean Marching Squares? Or Signed Distance Fields? Both are related, but not exactly the same.
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by mcphage 8d ago
The problem is that we think of categories as this binary thing, when they're not. We recognize it with adjectives like "Tall"—most people wouldn't say "something is either Tall or it's Not Tall". But th
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by mcphage 9d ago
I agree, although most of the time you do end up needing to consider it with Map/Filter. It's just, it doesn't force you to. Which means either you think about it later, or it bites you in the ass because you didn't
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by mcphage 9d ago
Shin Megami Tensei?
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by mcphage 10d ago
> Reduce also forces you to conjure up a "zero" value of the relevant type, which isn't usually difficult but it does constitute some extra mental overhead. It's always worthwhile to consider what the result will be w
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by mcphage 10d ago
I like it, but don't care for the name. I find it easier to think about in terms of an accumulator.
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by mcphage 10d ago
Yeah, I agree with you, but I'm not sure the point of polling people in the first place.
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by mcphage 10d ago
From your link: > Although their travel to Massachusetts was facilitated by DeSantis, the migrants who arrived on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday came from Texas. The DeSantis administration paid an aviation company, Vertol Systems Compan
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by mcphage 10d ago
> The same was said about W. Also elected twice. Well, he certainly gave it the ol' college try—and it did take quite a while to recover from his presidency.
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by mcphage 10d ago
> until it was time to have migrants in their back yards How did the migrants get to Martha's Vineyard?
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by mcphage 10d ago
> Two page layout. This gives you more context when reading. That was exactly the reason why I tried out the 12.9” iPad Pro back in like 2016. I used that for 8 years, and now am on my second.
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by mcphage 11d ago
It’s interesting how many studies were performed that confirmed this, and yet most (all?) of the time, the modernist building was built anyway. What was the point?
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by mcphage 11d ago
> I'm not sure anybody thinks it was anything other than an accident How do you accidentally shoot down a passenger airplane?
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by mcphage 13d ago
That was tried, in the 1860s. What you’re suggesting didn’t go well.
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by mcphage 13d ago
They know, they’re just playing the FUD game.
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by mcphage 14d ago
Oh, you can, no problem. But you’re also wrong , and getting downvoted because of it.
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by mcphage 15d ago
This reminds me of Santayana's quote: “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
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by mcphage 15d ago
There was also "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams" which uses a parallelized version of logo to explore ideas about decentralized systems and is really excellent: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680936/turtl
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by mcphage 15d ago
> have zero interest in it if it's AI-generated. Someone is using AI to make songs for ads on YouTube. Maybe it's not a new thing, but I just started seeing them recently, and they're so fucking bad . They're these
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by mcphage 18d ago
> No, basic algebra and calculus has not changed. That's all that's on the entrance exam? Basic algebra and calculus?
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by mcphage 18d ago
> The exam has not changed in difficulty Has what students are expected to know changed since the 60s? For instance, have there been any, I dunno, new developments in technology over the past 60-odd years?
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by mcphage 18d ago
I actually lol’ed :-)
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by mcphage 18d ago
The only proper response is a “LGTM” and merge it into main.
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by mcphage 19d ago
Yeah. It’s like well, that would be great if there was no tomorrow, but the thing about tomorrow is that it always famously comes.
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by mcphage 20d ago
Well, I heard it was the Epstein-Trump Boating School For Children, which taught vulnerable youngsters how to get away from Epstein’s child-rape island.
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by mcphage 22d ago
> they struggle with those things because of the way they are. it's completely irrelevant. I mean, they seem like fair game if you’re ever participating in a Turing Test.
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by mcphage 22d ago
> Pelicans are a solved problem at this point. An open-weight model on my own machine gave me this That feels kinda like when I remember seeing Ocarina of Time for the first time, and thinking “oh my god, this looks just like real life…”

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