nazgul17

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by nazgul17 9mo ago
Is there anything like this but for music selection? I mean, for adults. Say I want to have a dozen "albums" on my coffee table (NFC, QR, whatever), and insert one in a box to listen to them. Like an Audio CD, but without the risk
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by nazgul17 9mo ago
Dunno, not deleting the posts would be a good start.
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by nazgul17 9mo ago
This was also my experience with certain algorithms in the realm of scheduling.
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
All abstractions drop some details. If you're unlucky, you removed details that actually matter in some context. You can only make educated guesses. Another aspect is that some abstractions are too... abstract. The concept they represe
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
Loose typing makes you really fast at writing code, as long as you can keep all the details in your head. Python is great for smaller stuff. But crossed some threshold, the lack of a mechanism that has your back starts slowing you down.
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
Regarding the encoding efficiency, I imagine the problem is that the compromise in quality shows in the space dimension (aka fewer or blurry pixels) rather than in time. Users need to read text clearly, so the compromise in the time dimensi
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
AFAIU, pumped storage can only be built in very few locations around the globe.
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
The RealLifeLore YouTube channel published a video about this not long ago: https://youtu.be/n8kSGH4I8Ps
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
Thinking aloud, but couldn't someone create a website with some malicious text that, when quoted in a prompt, convinces the LLM to expose certain private data to the web page, and couldn't the webpage send that data to a third par
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
Can't you say the same of the human brain, given a different algorithm? Granted, we don't know the algorithm, but nothing in the laws of physics implies we couldn't simulate it on a computer. Aren't we all programs takin
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by nazgul17 10mo ago
Not so sure. The government has placed a A$50M incentive per violation discovered, I heard. That sounds like a powerful incentive on the companies to outsmart the kids.
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by nazgul17 11mo ago
That's not an interesting difference, from my point of view. The box m black box we all use is non deterministic, period. Doesn't matter where on the inside the system stops being deterministic: if I hit the black box twice, I get
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by nazgul17 11mo ago
I feel like you're putting words in someone else's mouth. Maybe you are not responding to OP but, in your mind, to an ex-colleague that did so in a different venue than this forum? In a forum like this, stating your preference is
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by nazgul17 11mo ago
Probably, because not everyone is made happy: some are annoyed. I am not going to enter the merit of either side.
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by nazgul17 11mo ago
To add to this, the system offering text generation, i.e. the loop that builds the response one token at a time generated by a LLM (and at the same time feeds the LLM the text generated so far) is a Markov Model, where the transition matrix
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by nazgul17 1y ago
They also tried to heal the damage, to partial avail. Besides, it's science: you need to test your hypotheses empirically. Also, to draw attention to the issue among researchers, performing a study and sharing your results is possibly
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by nazgul17 1y ago
Brexit was fairly recent, compared to the bad governance of Argentina.
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by nazgul17 1y ago
The scalability of spying has exploded. Back before re-election comms, the government had no way to spy on communications and sieve out opposers - now they do, with encryption the only thing standing in the way.
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by nazgul17 1y ago
We should rename it as BrowserScript. The .bs extension is a funny bonus.
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by nazgul17 1y ago
In my humble (backender) opinion, if it's hard to use a tool right, that counts as a cons, and that must be accounted for when choosing which tool to use.
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by nazgul17 1y ago
What a condescending and arrogant answer. I think you should also think more about this. One can believe that Apple (or any company) should let you do whatever you want with your hardware - in general - and point out any instance when they
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by nazgul17 1y ago
Both can be true
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by nazgul17 1y ago
I worked on a Spring Boot application that would take more than a minute to start. Not Spring's fault, IIUC, but nevertheless a focus killer.
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by nazgul17 1y ago
This is true, but I find my train of thought slips away if I have to wait more than a handful of seconds, let alone two minutes. Tying this back to your point, those limited hours of focus time come in blocks, in my experience, and focus ti
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by nazgul17 1y ago
You put my thoughts into words better than I could. This reminds me of the exploration-exploration trade-off in reinforcement learning: you want to maximise your long term profits but, since your knowledge is incomplete, you must acquire ne
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by nazgul17 1y ago
That's the dream. Reality is very different. Mypy presents numerous false negatives and false positives. Useful to screen for some bugs, but definitely far from giving guarantees. Not to mention, if a library does not or does sloppily
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by nazgul17 1y ago
Except it's not in alpha phase
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by nazgul17 1y ago
My understanding is, a database model is one that is fully normalized - design tables to have no redundant/repeated piece of information. You know, the one they teach you when you study relational DBs. In that model, you can navigate f
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by nazgul17 1y ago
Also a layman. But as long as your temperature is not absolute zero, particles inside you are moving, and if they have mass, they would indeed radiate gravitationally - until they slow down to a stop, that being absolute zero. My understand
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by nazgul17 1y ago
I have verbified nouns on several occasions. My colleague this week took this a step further with this sentence: "We can model the data in [such and such way]. But then the user can PEBCAK their way into [impossible situation]." S

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