merlincorey

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by merlincorey 2y ago
I'm not the GP you asked, but distilling my own personal organization practices into the alluring "Ten Tiny Tasks" title, here's my take on it: - Make a list of the 10 tiniest tasks with the least amount of estimat
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by merlincorey 2y ago
So that's why I had to read Anthem in High School. I'm very glad that I did, and while I agree in a generally professional context it is more socially acceptable to be humble and focus on what "we" did, in what amounts t
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by merlincorey 2y ago
I believe this is exactly what the modern multimodal models are doing -- they are not strictly Large Language Models any more.
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by merlincorey 2y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere, all the modern models are multimodal models so I think it would be fair to say rendering the SVG and then having the dedicated image model classify it is similar to "imagining", but it is definitely not s
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by merlincorey 2y ago
I appreciate you giving multiple examples including an extremely surprising failure given the other successes without assuming malice on my part in asking.
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by merlincorey 2y ago
> I never understand why people don't just test this? I never understand why people take things out of context instead of responding to the totality of a message, since I started off by saying: > To my understanding, You have res
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by merlincorey 2y ago
I'm more curious how they think LLM's can imagine things: > To understand symbolic programs, LLMs may need to possess the ability to imagine how the corresponding graphics content would look without directly accessing the rende
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by merlincorey 2y ago
The article makes it clear that there is a semantic difference between shortening and summarizing and that importantly summarizing requires understanding which ChatGPT most certainly does not have. One example in the article is that if you
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by merlincorey 2y ago
We often need consistency and time to build up habits that stick. I do everything including my own personal side projects in a work journal with time tracking for everything, but I had to work up to it being a natural part of my workflow. H
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by merlincorey 2y ago
> However, I organize files by day, not by task. Each day I create a new file for the day by copying the lists of the previous day's file minus the DONE list. I don't modify lists for previous days, so it's kind of an appe
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by merlincorey 2y ago
Like many things in Software the question is why do you want to hide them? One way to do it is to archive[0] it which will move it into a local _archive file. Another way which I'm currently using is to periodically manually archive ta
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by merlincorey 2y ago
I used to play "bastet" which had the same over all idea with a slightly different algorithm since 2005: https://fph.altervista.org/prog/bastet.html
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by merlincorey 2y ago
> I can never remember whether /x means "the last x bits are 0" or "the first x bits are 1" > People should write 80/48 or 48/80 to be clear The clarity is found implied in your preferred example. -
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Ah, thank you for the clarification -- as far as I know that is indeed unique. It's a thimbleful sized shallow clone, one could say.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Why not just use Partial or Shallow Clones? [0] [0] https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-...
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by merlincorey 3y ago
It was a known actor to the local police so it could have happened at any conference, really.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
It was Defcon 6 if I'm not mistaken and someone actually didn't go because of it which is how it became a meme. Here's at least one source corroborating that[0]: > "I think it's from around DC6 and is a reference
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by merlincorey 3y ago
> TOOOL still has some of the best workshops and tutorials on the conference floor and usually has some people who'll talk about breaking open Medecos or Fichets to anyone who'll listen. While you're over there look around
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by merlincorey 3y ago
The bomb threat wasn't even related to Defcon, though. I heard it both from Dark Tangent and several high level Goons.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Ah yes, predictive text based panics is what we need in our compilers... The LLM hype has really jumped the shark.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
The information provided by the warped part of the screen is the directionality of it similar to Renegade Ops' Dynamic Splitting as discussed in the article.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
This is news because of an exploit found against NginX, I believe. That's why HAProxy did testing to see if they were vulnerable.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
I didn't know his middle initial, so I thought the post was about the computer scientist, to be honest!
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Just purchased it in hardcover based on your quick summary. Edit: I'm not the only one -- copies are going quickly it seems, and I've already found a new paperback going for $100
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by merlincorey 3y ago
You should look into something called "Sousveillance".
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by merlincorey 3y ago
So then why wasn't the initial response "Rust is self hostable"? Perhaps there's something we're both missing here.
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by merlincorey 3y ago
> Zig is similar. Yes, they are going to replace LLVM by default, but they're not getting rid of their LLVM backend entirely. In the article I linked, they did not say they were replacing LLVM by default, but they did say it would b
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by merlincorey 3y ago
> Acting like it's a second tier language because actively doing so not a top focus of the community is gatekeep-y and ridiculous. Here's where I think you are quite a bit off target, personally. I certainly was not and I don&#
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by merlincorey 3y ago
The second link provided here has a little overview of Daphne's thoughts on why things are dragging on: > The establishment of the central issue tracker is, I reckon, more to blame for the current disputes. The old model of periodic
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by merlincorey 3y ago
Self Hosting your own compiler traditionally was the "end-game" of making a compile-able language. It's a sort of proof of fitness that the language can literally stand on its own. This article about Zig achieving self-hosted

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