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by mo_42 3y ago
In ML 101, I learned that NNs are general function approximators. So given the right training data and algorithm, they should be able to learn to add numbers. Or any other computable function. Also, we don’t know how GPT computes numbers re
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by mo_42 3y ago
I'm using Asahi Linux on an M1 MBP since Oct. 2022. It’s my personal machine that I use every now and then for programming projects and for organizing my files. Everything I need works here. I even got suspend which consumes 5% battery
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by mo_42 3y ago
If you can get done twice as much because you have a robot assistant, then, your basically producing twice the amount of goods or services. So, people can consume more. To be able to produce or consume more the abstractly growth GDP. I gues
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by mo_42 3y ago
> And how will it achieve this? By eliminating jobs of course. For now, probably only white collar workers. It’s probably good if those jobs go away. Then, we need to think how to compensate those people. Capital is not evenly distribute
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think data supports your statement. But it doesn’t mean that it will be true after some generations. I like to compare our world with a bottle garden that kids in high school use for experiments. Some species might really flourish in this
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by mo_42 3y ago
There is certainly an age-dependent point of maximum utility for the family. It consists not only of physical health but also economic stability and other factors. 33 seems totally fine. But generally people tend to be a little more cautiou
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by mo_42 3y ago
I'm not a medical professional but webmd.com seems like a ok source for the general public: https://www.webmd.com/baby/guide/pregnancy-after-35
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by mo_42 3y ago
I think this piece of writing is quite worrisome. I feel like the message of the text is: It’s the right time when you feel like it is. Certainly, true for many things in life. Having children later in life has risks for mother and child. I
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by mo_42 3y ago
It’s male mice only.
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by mo_42 3y ago
> But seriously, seems like most useful information is siloed in the brains of battle worn engineers who are surrounded by an inflation of junior devs. I have a feeling this field grew too fast and we are losing a lot of wisdom and knowl
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by mo_42 3y ago
C++ isn't my favorite programming language anymore. I guess the Doom 3 source code is an elegant codebase. Surprisingly, they used C++ features quite sparsely. I think that’s nice because in programming it’s about getting the job done
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by mo_42 3y ago
And what would be your exact argument for that?
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by mo_42 3y ago
Keynes proposed to let people dig holes and let these be filled by again by people. Basically, the ultimate description of a bullshit job. Keynes proposed this as a counter measure against a depression. I'm absolutely certain that he
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by mo_42 3y ago
I guess this could go in both directions. There are also underpriced companies. I know that some people knew that something was wrong with Wirecard and they short sold the stock.
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Where is the productive output of all these arbitrage shell games? How is this more than an abysmal waste of time and resources simply to make a small handful of bankers richer? If shares of companies are valued at fair prices it means
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by mo_42 3y ago
In These cases I'd recommend text objects. For example, ci) Will delete everything inside parentheses and put you in insert mode. Even works for HTML tags with t I think. Edit: should be ci) to preserve the parentheses.
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by mo_42 3y ago
I'm using these for switching buffers: " Move between buffers nnoremap <silent> <c-l> :bn<cr> nnoremap <silent> <c-h> :bp<cr>
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by mo_42 3y ago
> … Bank owners do everything they possible can to avoid failing and being "bailed out". Might be true. But everything they can is not enough. First, there’s the principal-agent problem: the owners (aka share holders) can not f
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by mo_42 3y ago
> I know exactly what consciousness is based on my experience with it, even though I could not possibly give a comprehensive account of everything consciousness entails. Not sure if personal experiences count. Generally, we laugh at peop
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by mo_42 3y ago
I remember this talk quite well. Also the other talks by David are interesting. Somehow there are not really consequences on this. So either archiving stuff, at least in the business context, is not really important. Or we simply trust thes
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by mo_42 3y ago
This micro kernel vs. monolithic kernel still puzzles me. From a computer science perspective micro kernels make so much sense. But when I compiled the Linux kernel, I was always baking everything into one file. It seemed much more practica
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by mo_42 3y ago
Sometimes I ask myself when the first major companies won’t need any employees anymore. Basically, run by an AI that reports to investors and tries to buy robots on the markets to fulfill its goals. Seems like we’re not there yet at all.
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by mo_42 3y ago
I like this nice little text. Einstein is a perfect example for mental liquidity. I think we should be very forgiving about this for two reasons: first, Einstein was one of the people establishing quantum mechanics. He also got the Nobel Pr
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by mo_42 3y ago
I disagree. The way I imagine LLMs is that we feed huge amounts of text to a ANN. This ANN doesn't have enough weights to just memorize these huge amounts. So it has to find meaningful abstractions from the texts to make the loss funct
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by mo_42 3y ago
I have an inventory.yml. It’s not complete yet but every now and then I extend it. I put everything there and belongs together in a meaningful way. For example, AirPods. I don’t list each one and the case but just AirPods. I also note when
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by mo_42 3y ago
Millennial here and half-baked minimalist here. At least it’s not true for me. For all my life I’ve been drowned in objects. My parents are still telling that I had so many toys. Minimalism is a way for becoming aware of the objects around
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by mo_42 3y ago
https://www.bundesverfassungsgericht.de/SharedDocs/Entscheid... Translation using Deepl: Leasts on the Judgment of the First Senate of February 22, 2011 - 1 BvR 699/06 - Mixed-economy enterprises controlled by t
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by mo_42 3y ago
> Managed by "gematik GmbH", a company with limited liability. Because why should the entity responsible for all medical records have some liability. I think it doesn't really matter in what form the government appears. It
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> People want to believe what they want to believe, I don't know if the propaganda is done to control people, or it's what the people actually want - to believe their government is a force for good, that we're the good guy
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For Apple, I don’t think it’s about sales. It’s about introducing something new to the mass market. So they want to sell this to developers (price doesn’t really matter). And early adopters/fanboys (for them it matters a bit more). App

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