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by oersted 2y ago
Why would water prevent the evolution of hands? Lots of sea creatures have claws. The sea is also not all that different from an atmosphere with a higher density in principle, we live "under-air".
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by oersted 2y ago
The title is certainly misleading and sets the wrong expectation, but I found it a rather pleasant and informative read.
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by oersted 2y ago
We get lots of these in the Bay of Biscay for some reason. Not really warm waters, it's the North-is Atlantic. I guess it's mild in summer, that's when we get them.
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by oersted 2y ago
It has caught my attention, I keep hearing about it as a new industry standard, I keep meaning to try it. The reason why I keep procrastinating it is that, again, experience has shown me that LLMs are not really at a point where you can aff
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by oersted 2y ago
Frankly, just Python. LLM generation is just a function call, fetching from a vector db is just a function call. LLMs are hard to tame at scale, the focus is on tightly controlling the LLM inputs, making sure it has the information it needs
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by oersted 2y ago
But you can make any arbitrary compiler within the language itself to reduce certain patterns to fast native instructions. It’s interesting as a universal Intermediate Representation.
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by oersted 2y ago
I don't understand the confusion, practically everything we interact with in our daily lives is regulated and goes through certification processes, just look at how all that is done. Food, drugs, healthcare, consumer products, chemical
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by oersted 2y ago
At least when you are building key infrastructure for the government, directly or indirectly through third parties. I don’t think it’s unreasonable. And it is not as absolute as you make it sound. Only dependencies for specific critical fun
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by oersted 2y ago
It doesn't need to be too dramatic. It's already a general rule never to write your own cryptographic or financial code from scratch, you reach out for established libraries or services written by experts. The law may require to u
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by oersted 2y ago
Sure, it doesn't need to up-end the whole field, but it is rather obvious that critical infrastructure should require significant compliance, particularly if it's being purchased in a public tender process where the cheapest suppl
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by oersted 2y ago
Yes! Oh man, it was Dec and, besides the usual showcase, he would feed punched paper tapes into the old music program he made in the early 60s and there was an awesome christmas carol sing-along with him with the PDP-1 backing music! :) It
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by oersted 2y ago
Yes my bad.
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by oersted 2y ago
I adored my two visits to the Computer History Museum in Palo Alto, the guided tours and showcases were run by volunteer retired industry veterans. It was obvious that they loved doing it, and it was such a privilege to hear from the people
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by oersted 2y ago
Yeah it's interesting that a (relatively) small quirk in the Linux source has the "political leverage" to impact the whole C ecosystem. I suppose C was made for Unix at Bell Labs and GCC is also inextricably tied, you could s
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by oersted 2y ago
I do agree with you to a degree, but let's not forget the monumental successes that are TypeScript and Kotlin. There have been lots of such languages that transpiled to JavaScript or worked on the JVM, adding nicer syntax and features.
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by oersted 2y ago
It is somewhat of a catch-22, because any student who has those values already internalized can extract a ton of value even from an archaic educational system. Particularly if it is difficult and can create a sense of shared purpose to exce
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by oersted 2y ago
Even in GameDev there is a strong trend towards data-oriented programming and stateless logic, led by the ECS (Entity-Component-System) paradigm. ECS is all about composition rather than inheritance, and decoupling logic from data. It is no
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by oersted 2y ago
There has been a strong trend towards async communication though, which does help a lot. Before it was all phone calls, in-person interactions, live TV and Radio... Both for work and leisure, now you have more options than ever to take thin
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by oersted 2y ago
A strike does not mean they don’t want to work, they are withholding labor as leverage for collective negotiations.
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by oersted 2y ago
I like how you framed it, I’d like to hear your interpretation of Trumps response in a similar style. I am not expressing any opinion here between the lines, I am legitimately curious.
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by oersted 2y ago
I have a very clear answer to this: Suzerain By far the best decision-making game I have played, incredible writing, world building and character development too. It’s about being president but surprisingly similar to being a founder. No ma
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by oersted 2y ago
Indeed, 538’s model showed ~50 out of 100 wins for either side, when running simulations. But that doesn’t mean that they were predicting a 50/50 split, a significant number of simulation results showed a large vote margin for one side
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by oersted 2y ago
I don’t understand, Trump has been explicitly, frequently and consistently insulting to almost every group. That’s how it all started, that is also to a large degree his “saying how it is” appeal. If name calling and arrogance are the root
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by oersted 2y ago
It says exaggerated color/contrast. It seems to be a trend lately like the recent images of the Moon and Pluto. They might even be translating non-visible spectra to color so the material composition can be distinguished better, like t
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by oersted 2y ago
What do you think is next?
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by oersted 2y ago
As a founder and engineer primarily focused on AI right now, it's strange to see all of this going on. Neither I nor anyone in my immediate bubble go along with the fanaticism, it's an exciting new tool with lots of potential, but
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by oersted 2y ago
Yes it’s quite a stretch. Occam says that it clearly comes from All Hallows’ Eve/Day (Nov 1st). Hallow just means “to make holy”, so the day of all who where made holy, or All Saints Day. Not sure how they justify the connection to the
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by oersted 2y ago
Thank you so much for that video, thoroughly enjoyable!
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by oersted 2y ago
Generally humans are very efficient machines, even ignoring the effect discussed here. Just look up the numbers, very generally, an hour of intense exercise tends to burn the same amount as quite a frugal lunch. I find that it is much easie
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by oersted 2y ago
Reminded me of Tricky Towers, a multiplayer version of the same concept, but with Tetris pieces. It looked very polished. Adding chaotic physics to Tetris is a great idea, well it's much more random and less skill-based, but it's

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