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by noosphr 1y ago
Unless we have another breakthrough like attention we do know that AI will keep struggling with context and costs will grow quadratically with context. On a codebase of 10,000 lines any action will cost 100,000,000 AI units. One with 1,000,
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by noosphr 1y ago
Being able to include diagrams of what code is doing _inline_ is something that is vastly over looked by the majority of developers. It's one of the better parts of literate programming without typesetting.
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by noosphr 1y ago
When you say llms do you mean decoder only models, gpt et al, or encoder only models, bert et al? I've found encoder only models to be vastly better for anything that doesn't require natural language responses and the majority of
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by noosphr 1y ago
This was proposed a decade before the war started and was reprinted widely in the Southern States. That the North found it ridiculous is a bit like saying that because the Chinese Academy of Sciences says there is no such thing as autism th
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by noosphr 1y ago
Remember that in the US slaves wanting freedom was a mental disorder that made it past peer review: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
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by noosphr 1y ago
We live in a world where the top chip makers are being shaken down by the US government to keep access to markets because embargoes and tariffs. And where software developers have to have a live feed of what every user is doing to Brussels
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by noosphr 1y ago
>Jack Good, a veteran of Colossus practice at Bletchley Park, later claimed that, if appropriately configured, Colossus could almost have carried out a multiplication but that this would not have been possible in practice because of cons
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by noosphr 1y ago
I'm not sure how you did proofs in trigonometry with a calculator.
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by noosphr 1y ago
If I don't have access to my phone the power grid has been down for at least two days and by that point I've got more pressing issue than showing my work when doing basic math.
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by noosphr 1y ago
>Can’t use AI on a date, or at a dinner party, or during a board meeting. I get the same "you won't always have a calculator with you" vibes from 90s teachers chiding you to show your work when I hear people say stuff like
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by noosphr 1y ago
Algebra has nothing to do with long hand multiplication, people who say otherwise can't do either. We know, because we taught computers how to do both. The first long multiplication algorithm was written for the Colossus about 10 minut
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by noosphr 1y ago
I'm starting to appreciate not having digitised notes. When you can sit down and write out 1,000 words in 30 minites making indexes which you update weekly becomes just another form of revision. This works well for both study and busin
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by noosphr 1y ago
The shape of the letters is largely irrelevant, the source of motion is the important part. In regular cursive it is the fingers that move the pen. In business penmanship it is the shoulder that moves the hand which is incidentally holding
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by noosphr 1y ago
No one is stopping you from using muscular movement to speed up your shorthand even more. If you use finger movement for shorthand you still have a 30 minute writing limit before you start getting hand cramps and carpal tunnel syndrome afte
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by noosphr 1y ago
Cursive as taught in schools today is useless at best and dangerous for your health at worst. The cursive that made the world run between 1850 and 1925 was called business penmanship and it lets you write at 40 words per minute for 14 hours
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by noosphr 1y ago
With chrome we went from having a plugin that's abused for malvertising to a whole browser. Google can't die fast enough.
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by noosphr 1y ago
Because everything that tries to fix it is just as painful in different ways. I've had the displeasure of working in codebases using the style of programming op says is great. It's pretty neat. Until you get a chain 40 deep and yo
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by noosphr 1y ago
Compiling latex to html means you have lahtml, not latex since it doesn't use the tex back end. Using styles means that you use someone else's backed in page size settings and still need to recompile when you change to a new style
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by noosphr 1y ago
Not without rebuilding the whole document and editing the source code. A lot of packages only have a few sizes they support on top of that.
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by noosphr 1y ago
TeX is a type setting language, not a writing language. LaTeX inherits this. Unless you know ahead of time the exact dimensions you will be displaying your book at you shouldn't use either. ReST on the other hand can be resized to your
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by noosphr 1y ago
If you read the article you'd realize the whole point is that they won't have to if they are the ones who built the conventional forces in the first place.
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by noosphr 1y ago
Does the US need a functioning war force that China can't turn off when they feel like it? This happens: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/22/books.france
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by noosphr 1y ago
People are going to be surprised when the cheap humanoid robots out of China get paired with transformer models for planning and control. I got a bit caught with my pants down between GPT2, which was so hyped, and GPT3.5 which was also hype
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by noosphr 1y ago
Yes, I've used your data myself on a number of occasions. But you are pretty much the only people who can save the web from AI bots right now. The sites I administer are drowning in bots, and the applications I build which need web dat
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by noosphr 1y ago
It's been clear to anyone familiar with encoder only LLMs that Google is effectively dead. The only reason why it still lives is that it takes a while to crawl the whole web and keep the index up to date. If someone like common crawl,
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by noosphr 1y ago
We figured out the effects of carbon dioxide on the atmosphere not a decade after the first working car prototype was build: https://www.rsc.org/images/arrhenius1896_tcm18-173546.pdf
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by noosphr 1y ago
Electric cars were invented in 1881 a full 4 years before the first internal combustion car.
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by noosphr 1y ago
Google and friends hugely over hired during the pandemic and people are extrapolating that a medium term culling is the new normal. Same after the dot com crash and outsourcing. Give it 5 years and hiring will be back to normal. Give it 10
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by noosphr 1y ago
What you actually mean: >I have a set of packages I find useful. You may not. Install them anyway and waste 6 months trying to understand how to use things that you don't yet need. I have a whole set packages and DE improvements I&#
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by noosphr 1y ago
Keep the defaults until you need something, then you install it. Trying to make emacs into VS Code in 2025 is as stupid as trying to make emacs into eclipse in 2005 or notepad in 1985.

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