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by munchler 2y ago
> Make every task you would like to do — including meetings, “to-do’s”, doing nothing, watching Game of Thrones — a calendar entry. If your stress level is so high that doing nothing becomes a task you have to schedule ahead of time, you
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by munchler 2y ago
(2012)
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by munchler 2y ago
Some people are severely disabled by autism. Are you suggesting that we should just let them suffer?
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by munchler 2y ago
No. It was developed concurrently with the film version and parts of it were even based on Clarke's earlier short stories (e.g. The Sentinel).
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by munchler 2y ago
I have to disagree with you about 2001. Both endings were epic, but Clarke's vision in the book was more rational and scientific, while Kubrick's is more impressionistic and mystical. As a result, the two effectively diverge at th
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by munchler 2y ago
I’m a non-Hispanic male in my mid-50’s and I occasionally get diaper ads on YouTube, or random ads in Spanish. I’m moderately privacy conscious, but I don’t do anything drastic to mask my activity. If the big tech companies are surveilling
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by munchler 2y ago
> But there's no shortage of modern-day pictures and videos... ...of things that turn out not to be aliens, which is the OP's point.
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by munchler 2y ago
Lists are an even simpler recursive structure, but people really struggle with the idea of head vs. tail. Using a for loop to iterate a list is way easier for beginners to understand. Even experts usually prefer a list comprehension over ex
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by munchler 2y ago
Sure, which is why high-level languages manage the stack pointer for you. You can get a long way with pure functional recursion before you have to worry about annoying details, like tail calls and stack sizes.
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by munchler 2y ago
Yes, but induction and recursion are essentially the same thing. If you understand one, the other is pretty obvious.
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by munchler 2y ago
Recursion is a trick. It’s a beautiful, elegant, concise trick, but it’s not at all intuitive to most humans. The problem with for loops isn’t the loop. Loops are easy to understand. The problem with for loops is that you have to maintain m
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by munchler 3y ago
> It is a programming language and system, with its own bugs The cool thing about theorem provers is that an invalid proof won’t even compile (as long as the kernel is correct). There’s no such thing as a traditional software bug that
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by munchler 3y ago
Any interest I might have in this is tempered by the fact that Bitcoin mining accounts for about 0.2% of global carbon emissions - roughly the same as the country of Greece. As long as Bitcoin is based on a proof-of-work process, I think th
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by munchler 3y ago
> LLMs are generative models trained to produce text similar to the text on which they were trained (or for the pedantic: minimize perplexity). They are not trained to output facts or truths or any other specific kind of text. If you tra
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by munchler 3y ago
> Known abusers of the TICO machines have been charged Yikes. Is it reasonable to expect people to resist the temptation to use a free money machine?
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by munchler 3y ago
I don’t think saving people from themselves is a good way to frame the problem. To me, it’s more a question of whether we’re going to allow businesses and even the government itself to prey on vulnerable people.
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by munchler 3y ago
In the 90's, I was a project manager for a software consulting company. I carried a beeper onsite so my superiors could reach me when needed (e.g. to discuss growing the account). During a lunch meeting one day, two of my bosses at the
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by munchler 3y ago
A "go-see" is when the model visits a photographer to discuss a potential shoot?
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by munchler 3y ago
Edit: Should actually be labeled (2012). Was republished in 2017.
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by munchler 3y ago
Early returns provide a breeding ground for subtle bugs. I wonder if the research considered that aspect as well.
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by munchler 3y ago
That's a good point. I would describe this as a test of Gemini's ability to re-read something it's already familiar with, not a valid test of its ability to read a large new corpus.
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by munchler 3y ago
That's true, but the model still analyzed all that disparate information and produced a very detailed graph of the relevant relationships. If anyone can show that the graph itself was in the training data, then I would agree that it&#x
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by munchler 3y ago
Not so fast. If you were evaluating the model on its ability to predict the next word in a Harry Potter book, you'd be right, because it's already seen the entire book, but that's not what's happening here. The linked X
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by munchler 3y ago
I agree, and the linked Wikipedia page starts out with the obvious definitions as well: In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle. The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a rig
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by munchler 3y ago
Right, as long as you don’t try to visit less-developed areas outside the city.
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by munchler 3y ago
Seems to me that IPv4 was invented back when cybersecurity was much less of a concern.
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by munchler 3y ago
I never thought they’d reboot Footloose as a documentary, but here we are. Is Sacha Baron Cohen attached to the project?
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by munchler 3y ago
That’s a straw man. His detractors aren’t suggesting that investors should be prohibited from giving him money. The point is just that he is a wildly unreliable human being, even if you think he’s a good financial investment.
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by munchler 3y ago
I think you’re making my point. The Fourth Dimension is still uniquely defined for our 3-space (which is the entire universe, as far as we know). I think that’s pretty solid justification for giving it a distinct name. Hypothetically, if th
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by munchler 3y ago
Meh. If a circle was able to escape Flatland by rising into the third dimension, how would you prefer to describe it? Similarly, if we were able to escape 3-space by moving into a 4th spatial dimension, what would you call it? If this hypot

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