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by naasking 1y ago
> A lot of people like to identify with achievements that they played no role in. They arguably footed the bill.
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by naasking 1y ago
> At that point why not abandon databases entirely and use a key-value store? Because there is a schema, it's just a dynamically evolving one, and also, presumably the rest of your system depends on the relational DB, so why multipl
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by naasking 1y ago
> And doing it like you suggest would mean overview grids would have to do 50+ subqueries for each row, and loading a record would mean hundreds of queries. Only if you insist on loading the data into a flat record type with all of those
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by naasking 1y ago
If the database supports algebraic data types, you wouldn't have to think about which fields get returned, it understand the needed semantics and handles that for you. Like I said, these are SQL limitations.
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by naasking 1y ago
400 columns all of which are nullable screams "dynamic field set" to me. Why have all of those as columns rather than something like: table Entity_Fields (ParentEntityId : int not null, FieldId : int not null, IntValue : int
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by naasking 1y ago
Then those thread pool threads have to be careful not to take locks and other scarce resources that aren't cleaned up then, no?
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by naasking 1y ago
> FRP "events" are kind of like the kind of signals being discussed here, but there are still big differences. I don't think the differences are that significant, JS signals are basically `latch(frp-event-stream)`, eg. FRP
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by naasking 1y ago
> Speaking for myself, I don't generate words one a time based on previously spoken words This is a common but fundamentally a weird assumption people have about neurology where they think that what they consciously perceive has som
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by naasking 1y ago
Why would AI researchers assume that AI models are like human brains? Sleep is also super important for brains, but AI models don't need it. Unless you're asserting that AI models and brains do share some things in common?
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by naasking 1y ago
Original FRP was "behaviours" (continuous time-varying values) and "events" (discrete events, which map to current signals).
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by naasking 1y ago
First-class signals came from functional reactive programming back in 1997. Even JS implementations of signals existed before React's hooks.
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by naasking 1y ago
Immutable representations of large buffers aren't flat arrays. The most obvious abstract semantics that we're depending on here is a map from indexes to byte segments. Immutably rearranging indexes can be made very fast.
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by naasking 1y ago
> The landscape itself doesn't capture anything, it just is. Sure, but the landscape is something , namely an aggregate of particles. A thought in principle isn't its physical expression, but its information content , and it&
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by naasking 1y ago
> The idea that having a separate table for every optional field is too unworkable isn't an issue with SQL. It sure is. Consider a database language that innately supported algebraic data types. Instead of: table Contact { int
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by naasking 1y ago
> The Chinese Room processes the inputs without understanding them. I disagree, hence my reference to the systems response.
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by naasking 1y ago
Seems like a database failure if it can't notify you that introduced a breaking change. All of the schema information is available to the database after all, so it should be able to tell you about the duplicate column breaking that vie
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by naasking 1y ago
> but having separate tables for every optional field would be an organizational and usability nightmare I think this indicates that declaring and managing state is too onerous in SQL.
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by naasking 1y ago
The infrastructure is almost there now. LLMs are already training small domain specific models. Small language models have already shown excellent performance in specific domains, particularly logic and math. All that's needed is an ex
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by naasking 1y ago
Even if you think LLMs are not the road forward, that does not and cannot entail that AGI is not imminent.
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by naasking 1y ago
> do we have human level computational capacity with some level of real-time learning ability We don't build airplanes by mimicking birds. AGIs computational capacity won't be directly comparable to human computation capacity t
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by naasking 1y ago
It makes perfect sense to say that the database understands your query. It also makes sense to say that the database's factorization of domain knowledge + domain queries exhibit at least a static domain understanding (which still isn
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by naasking 1y ago
> The sentence in itself does not capture every process that went into producing the sentence. A thought does not capture every process that went into producing the thought either.
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by naasking 1y ago
A database doesn't recite or apply knowledge, it stores knowledge.
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by naasking 1y ago
Are the particles that make up thoughts in our brain not also a representation of a thought? Isn't "thought" really some kind of Platonic ideal that only has approximate material representations? If so, why couldn't some
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by naasking 1y ago
> It's to recite (or even apply) knowledge. To understand does actually require a world model. This is a shell game, or a god of the gaps. All you're saying is that the models "understand" how to recite or apply knowl
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by naasking 1y ago
They use multiple servers for redundancy, but they are using only 5-10% capacity per [1], so they say they could run on a single server given these numbers. Seems like they've since moved to the cloud though [2]. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by naasking 1y ago
> I've never set up a highly available Postgres and Redis cluster on dedicated hardware, but I can not imagine it's easier than doing it in AWS which is only a few clicks and I don't have to worry about OS upgrades and pat
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by naasking 1y ago
Tendons take a long time to heal, much longer than skeletal muscle damage. I'm sure electric stimulation helped, but it could have just taken 12 weeks for the tendons to recover.
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by naasking 1y ago
My point is that secure boot isn't the only way forward, and depending on your circumstances, a foundation built on something like seL4 could suffice for particular applications. And it doesn't even require a whole new OS or found
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by naasking 1y ago
> If you want to be able to prevent root kits you need secure boot I think this is very misleading. Secure boot was a response to the poor security of commodity operating systems which allowed programs easy access to make low-level syst

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