omnicognate

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by omnicognate 9mo ago
> Hard to take seriously with so many misspellings and duplicate punctuation. Very bad writing, too, with unnecessarily complicated constructions and big words seemingly used without a proper understanding of what they mean (machinations
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
> Its not clear to me that LLMs hallucinating is because of they are extrapolating beyond their training data. Is that proven? Or are you extrapolating? It's a hypothesis at this stage, but I'm going to have a go at making it m
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
Why doubt? Transformers are a form of kernel smoothing [1]. It's literally interpolation [2]. That doesn't mean it can only echo the exact items in its training data - generating new data items is the entire point of interpolatio
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
Norway representing a wopping 1% of EU car sales. [1] [1] https://www.best-selling-cars.com/europe/2024-full-year-euro...
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
It was fine on my iOS Safari with a small screen. It automatically hyphenated it, differently depending on orientation. Presumably not on other browsers, though, as lots of people were complaining.
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
> prob I jinxed my own post and did a mistake somewhere ai -> AI didnt -> didn't obvious and many -> many obvious These are posted by ... sometimes -> Sometimes these are posted by... prob --> Prob(ably) did a mistake
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
It would be a fun exercise to replace social media with alcohol in this article so that it argues we shouldn't ban children from drinking because drinking is bad for adults too.
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
Is your building listed or something? In most cases it doesn't require planning permission even in a conservation area, and some councils are actively installing them on council houses.
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
I learned that the large tree near where I live in London that has visibly grown in the last year is a Coast Redwood (a.k.a. California Redwood, a.k.a. Sequoia) and that there are half a million of them in the UK. Loving this post.
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
> wronging Not sure if this is a typo (of wringing) or a pun, but it's apt either way.
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
> focus on features first, and build with testability. This is just telling me to do this: > To use it the way you are using it we would instead have to allow it to replace the part that happens (or can happen) away from the keyboard:
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
> do like the actual typing of letters, numbers and special characters into a computer and from the first line of the article: > I love writing software, line by line. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
You seem to have an axe to grind about something completely unrelated to the article here. Since you brought it up, though, if you're going to be one of the thousands of people driving up the road outside my house every day then, as a
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
Which will get you into London's Low Emission Zone (LEZ). Not the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), though. Besides, I think the point is really that we should be making and buying vehicles more like this (in the positive aspects) rather
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
Is that the one that runs in a straight line directly east to west somewhere around the England/Scotland border?
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
As I commented [1] on the earlier Claude Code post, there's an issue [2] that has the following comment: > While we are always monitoring instances of this error and and looking to fix them, it's unlikely we will ever completel
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
I could swear I just saw a ship travel at high speed in a straight line directly across Britain. Some sort of giant catapult? Lovely site though. Mesmerising.
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by omnicognate 9mo ago
There is no the Turing test. I think ELIZA was the first program to pass a Turing test, around 60 years ago.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
I tried Claude Code a while back when I decided to give "vibe-coding" a go. That was was actually quite successful, producing a little utility that I use to this day, completely without looking at the code. (Well, I did briefly g
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
I've grown to dislike the term "neurodivergent". People seem to think of it as equivalent to "neurodiverse", which is a valid and useful term, but it is totally different, and problematic. The difference is that a
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
> coding line by line This phrase betrays a profoundly different view of coding to that of most people I know who actively enjoy doing it. Even when it comes to the typing it's debatable whether I do that "line by line", b
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
The "GDP Growth (Real)" column in the wikipedia article GP linked agrees, but it doesn't tell a story that justifies "Germany's GDP is shrinking".
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
> just as good/bad as they sound. I.e. extremely good and not at all bad.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
It is.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
Indeed. The Eiffel tower and your head do both have some (extremely small) centripetal force compensating for their rotation along with the earth. (You can break that down in different ways, i.e. use various choices of generalised coordinat
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
1. Unlike position and velocity, which are relative (there is no given "origin" for them, no way to say where a thing is or how fast it's moving except relative to other things), rotation is absolute. A thing is either rotati
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
> smooth effortless integration between them all No, thank you! The "smooth, effortless [, compulsory, mandated, enforced] integration" between my Apple devices is the very worst thing about them.
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
You've prompted it by giving it the learning sequence from the post you're replying to, which somebody who needs the tutorial wouldn't be able to specify, and it's replied with a bunch of bullets and lists that, as a per
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
That doesn't preclude clearly documenting what the feature does somewhere in the manual or online. People who either don't care or don't have the mental capacity to understand it won't read it. People who care a lot, suc
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by omnicognate 10mo ago
> claim to have been trained for single-digit millions of dollars Weren't these smaller models trained by distillation from larger ones, which therefore have to exist in order to do it? Are there examples of near state of the art fo

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