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by mdemare 1y ago
Gentle reminder that the Netherlands has lots of very smart software engineers that prefer to stay there, especially if there were more interesting software companies active there.
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by mdemare 1y ago
> has the market cap of a medium-sized country "According to investors, today's value of Nvidia's expected future profits over its lifetime equals the total monetary value of all final goods and services produced within a
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by mdemare 1y ago
Until the day when I can right-click on a folder and create a folder inside that folder, I'll consider the Finder inferior to the Windows 98 explorer. Come on, that's an absolute basic feature! The right-click context menu of a fo
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by mdemare 1y ago
The EU economy is $20T vs USA $30T, so 60%. Also, Britain was part of the EU 2 decades ago. The EU economy has almost doubled in that time, with large regional differences (Ireland, Poland on fire, southern Europe flat), but the USA has d
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by mdemare 1y ago
Not sure if this is generally known, but historically, going back as far as the second world war, the European far-right has been quite anti-American.
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by mdemare 1y ago
Whatever the economic merits and demerits of this deal, politically it's a disaster, as this article indicates. There wasn't even an attempt to sell this to the public. But as there are no elections until 2028, I expect major chan
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by mdemare 1y ago
Yes. It is astonishing that LLMs can solve problems that only a handful of very smart teenagers can solve, but LLMs do it by consuming a million times as much content as those teenagers. Running out of data is not a reason for despair. Also
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by mdemare 1y ago
Just using common sense, if we had a genius, who had tremendous reasoning ability, total recall of memories, and an unlimited lifespan and patience, and he'd read what the current LLMs have read, we'd expect quite a bit more from
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by mdemare 1y ago
- "they were more small than large" (what?) - "even in the thirties little had been done to them" (done to them?) - "Welgelegen Buitenrust Nooitgedacht Rustenburg" (Untranslated!) - "his father had first c
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by mdemare 1y ago
Exactly. Books are still being translated by human translators. I have a text on my computer, the first couple of paragraphs from the Dutch novel "De aanslag", and every few years I feed it to the leading machine translation sites
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by mdemare 1y ago
One of the things I dislike about function notation is that in f(g(h())) execution order is right-to-left. I like OO partly because execution order is writing order ( h().g().f() ) In Clojure I love the threading macro which accomplishes th
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by mdemare 1y ago
I once thought of creating a cryptocoin where 1 initial coin would be handed out to whoever would be the first to claim each ip4 address. I think IP is too easy to spoof for that to work, but I still like the idea.
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by mdemare 1y ago
More AGI Final Frontiers: "Reimplement Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri", but with modern graphics, smart AIs that role-play their personalities, all bugs fixed, a much better endgame, AI-generated unexpected events, and a dev cons
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by mdemare 1y ago
Tylenol.
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by mdemare 1y ago
If a library has a flaw that big, it is a bug to use that library.
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by mdemare 1y ago
Claude, "Find the hacker news discussion about github repo github.com/maciek-roboblog and implement the suggestion by bilekas. Patch format." It produced a patch. Unfortunately it was for removing the emojis from the readme.
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by mdemare 1y ago
Claude Code denies that it has a plan mode...
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by mdemare 1y ago
No, symbols are immutable strings, strings are mutable strings. Having both mutable and immutable strings is pretty useful.
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by mdemare 1y ago
"Any questions before you start coding?"
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by mdemare 1y ago
The Marathon Crater might be a crater from a novel. LLMs have read plenty of fiction. Maybe all fiction. Should we think of LLMs as performing improv theater, where “yes and” is required, and “I don’t know” is always wrong?
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by mdemare 1y ago
If you want less consumption, and pay off debt, maybe ... raise taxes?
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by mdemare 2y ago
The US has levied a 25% tax on imported light trucks since 1964, and 2.5% on passenger cars. The EU levies a 10% import tax on all cars from the US.
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by mdemare 2y ago
> that the democrats are on the right leaning side of “centre right” This is repeated frequently, but, no, just no. Name one position by the Democrats that is to the right of typical center to center-right parties such as CDU/CSU, L
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by mdemare 2y ago
Wow, they're absolutely awful at it. They don't even realize who is still alive. I hadn't expected that. Too little training data? Look at this game for instance... https://mafia.opennumbers.xyz/game/76e9
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by mdemare 2y ago
Half the population, and the same GDP.
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by mdemare 2y ago
No, I meant the Norman conquest (conquête) in 1066, in which the English aristocracy (aristocratie) was replaced (remplacé) by French warlords, who kept speaking French until well in the 14th century, and changed the English language (langu
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by mdemare 2y ago
There is one war France won so comprehensively that everyone in this forum is still using words with a French origin in almost every sentence.
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by mdemare 2y ago
“ It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ.”
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by mdemare 2y ago
Very funny to read this from the Netherlands, where remote is defined as "I can't hear any cars".
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by mdemare 3y ago
Children are awake 12 hours per day, a 90 minute movie used to fit on a CD-ROM, 8 700MB CD-ROMs times 365 is 2TB per year. Alexander the Great became king aged 20, he seemed trained enough by then, so that's 400TB, 4e14 bytes of data.

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