mypalmike

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by mypalmike 2y ago
Are you 100% certain that the human brain performs no language processing which is analogous to token prediction?
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by mypalmike 2y ago
My experience at a FAANG was that it's like any other job. You are on a team and you have a supervisor. You are expected to be productive. The stories of people finding themselves floating freely at a huge company without being expecte
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by mypalmike 2y ago
Yup. Here in the city of Seattle, I went to a park where there were lots of people and unfortunately, lots of light. I could see some wispy light in the sky, and it was interesting to look at but not very dynamic. After I got home, I just l
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by mypalmike 2y ago
"Loss of taste, one of the most common and frustrating symptoms of COVID-19 infection, appears to be associated with persistent damage to taste buds caused by low amounts of the virus that can linger for months or even more than a year
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by mypalmike 2y ago
> We all got into this career in the hopes of making more than just a living wage and retiring early. Your motivations are not, generally, the same as everyone's.
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by mypalmike 2y ago
Docs here: https://docs.dune3d.org/en/latest/
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by mypalmike 2y ago
Lots of commercial software was written mainly in BASIC. Plenty of games (a couple popular examples are Temple of Apshai and Questron, but there are certainly hundreds, particularly if you look at educational games of the 80s). And a lot of
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by mypalmike 2y ago
I see what you did there.
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by mypalmike 2y ago
I thought this was an excitation of the state of the nucleus rather than that of electrons.
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by mypalmike 2y ago
You're trying to say that policy and representation is the broad concern. The studies say otherwise. The whole of government is one part of the elite that conservative America wants to tear down. Do you think "owning the liberals&
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by mypalmike 2y ago
> It’s only useful because of what it accomplishes: moving errors from runtime to compile time. ... > Bug reduction is not the only benefit of strong typing. There’s also: easier codebase maintainability, simplicity of refactoring, ne
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by mypalmike 2y ago
The data suggests that "both sides" isn't really the case here. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17457289.2019.15... "these results suggest that Trump was able to leverage popul
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Bank Error In Your Favor. Pay $200 and go to jail.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
This is comparing apples to zebras. Abortion clinic workers aren't protesting abortion clinics.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Are you implying that someone who graduated cum laude with a degree in economics and international relations would not understand business cycles?
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I think you're referring to just the column numbers (01, 02... 80) which aren't part of the program listing (?)
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by mypalmike 3y ago
It's really not that complex, but it does have to be learned. Everything in Python is an object with an id. Assignment and parameter passing is by object id. There are some mutable objects ("objects", lists, dicts) and some i
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Just teaching myself Swift this week. Thanks, this is helpful!
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Corporate cargo culting.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
The article explains that the town has struggled to acquire rights to the properties.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Yes, it's telling how excited I've if the prosecutors in the story was because they got a conviction. Not excited by whether justice was done.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I suspect they are referring specifically to PLA.
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I think it's at least in part because they are completely out of the loop: "[I] realized that in the last year, I have met exactly one person who has [used generative AI] — a writer that used it for synonyms."
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I'm curious... If you settle without remediating, aren't you still open to lawsuits from other plaintiffs?
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Eh, I've been building native code for decades and hit quite a few roadblocks trying to get llama.cpp building with cuda support on my Ubuntu box. Library version issues and such. Ended up down a rabbit hole related to codenames for th
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I find it to be hit or miss in this aspect. Sometimes I can write a comment about how I want to use an API that I don't know well, and it generates perfect, idiomatic code to do exactly what I want. I quickly wrote a couple of Mastodon
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by mypalmike 3y ago
In addition to paid subscriptions, you might want to consider running an LLM locally. One of a number of projects enabling this approach is "continue" - https://github.com/continuedev/continue
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by mypalmike 3y ago
No amount of engineering will stop generative AI from spitting out quirky or problematic results under some conditions. At best, a majority of responses will be considered reasonable by a majority of people. We're probably close to mee
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by mypalmike 3y ago
I always wanted to love ProGraph - I played with it back in the pre-OSX Mac days. But I found it's very hard to "read" ProGraph code, which it would seem is the thing that visual languages are supposed to enable. It could be
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by mypalmike 3y ago
Agreed. And the example of crashing due to a NULL file descriptor is in the minority. Often C error handling involves checking errno. This is routinely ignored, and when some call "fails", the code continues to some point later wh

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