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by myhf 2y ago
But this isn't a one-paragraph idea, it's 10 paragraphs suggesting that there will be an idea, then one paragraph suggesting that there has been an idea.
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by myhf 2y ago
In some fields, all outside software (including well-known vendors) is called SOUP - software of unknown provenance.
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by myhf 2y ago
this is hacker news, we test in production
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by myhf 2y ago
this
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by myhf 2y ago
This is about language models. They include plenty of real-world concepts that are essential to language. But they are not models of intelligence or knowledge or reasoning. Using generated training data is a good way to ensure that the trai
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by myhf 2y ago
The current hype cycle is about artificially inflating the value of Nvidia stock by creating do-nothing "products" and "customers". It would be more efficient to have the public pay for GPUs directly.
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by myhf 2y ago
assuming you are willing to spend an infinite amount of time doing the cutting
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by myhf 2y ago
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by myhf 2y ago
> If any of the 4 contradict each other If you were able to answer this definitively, then you wouldn't need the 4 intermediate models.
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by myhf 2y ago
“Every program attempts to get simpler until it can no longer read email. Those programs which cannot simplify are replaced by ones which can.”
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by myhf 2y ago
Bitburner is a good open-source programming game. Most of the puzzles are NP-hard, so you have to use a mix of good heuristics and practical system optimization to get the best performance. https://bitburner-official.github.io&#x
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by myhf 2y ago
"necessary but not sufficient"
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by myhf 3y ago
Is an 8-acre lake ok? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=world+water+area+%2F+wo...
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by myhf 3y ago
There are still different approaches within the same language, and having a broad consensus about which constants and abbreviations are part of the standard library puts more competitive focus on the algorithm instead of the encoding.
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by myhf 3y ago
If you hire engineers just to deny them to your competitors, then building B is free.
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by myhf 3y ago
Why didn't the RAF just preemptively shoot holes in the locations of those red dots to make their planes more likely to survive?
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by myhf 3y ago
If you think there's more to life than money, then why are you so proud of underpaying your team members?
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by myhf 3y ago
A lot of Lisp constructs like map and apply and macros have dedicated syntax in Mathematica, so they feel more like a fluent language. And the standard library is very large and impressively self-consistent. The default format is notebooks
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by myhf 3y ago
According to Betteridge's law of headlines [1], any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by myhf 3y ago
Why are people still writing papers? "Attention is all you need" is all you need.
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by myhf 3y ago
It's possible for anyone who can expect to make money from speculation or bribes due to steering policy in a certain direction.
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by myhf 3y ago
The trimmed mean discards outliers, so it can measure "what is the typical value for non-outliers?". The windsorized mean reduces the weight of outliers, so it can measure "how many outliers are there?" instead of "
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by myhf 3y ago
oh gee i wonder what that bottleneck could have been cough mysterious 1:4:9 monolith cough
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by myhf 3y ago
Too bad this study doesn't differentiate between interactive and passive "screen time".
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by myhf 3y ago
try drawing a different shape input, the output shape will match it
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by myhf 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
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by myhf 3y ago
Why should this host (and presumably every similar host) take on the burden of this extra complexity? Would a modicum of caching in GitHub Actions libraries not make this problem go away for all hosts in this category?
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by myhf 3y ago
Enragement is engagement!
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by myhf 3y ago
true
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by myhf 3y ago
> not specifically about Bash, but about the shell command language sh or as I've taken to calling it, Ba + sh

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