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by plasticeagle 2y ago
There's several things like that you can accidentally re-invent. I re-invented the Trie, and Markov Chaining whilst at University. What I didn't do is give them a thorough and rigorous description in any kind of publication. That&
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
As a computer science article, it should have mostly been pseudocode. Concrete implementations can be given in an appendix, where they belong.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Do not worry. Art is much more than pictures on your monitor. If you want pieces of art, made by your peers, visit your local galleries and buy it. I don't know who you are or where you live, but I'm willing to bet that where-ever
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
I mean, that's fair to some extent. But on the other hand you could have just purchased any cookbook that covers the basics, instead of taking all this web-scaped content without attribution or compensation. I mean, look, I totally get
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Two thoughts 1) It's tragic that being "bad at math" is often positioned as some kind of badge of honour. 2) It's definitely not the case that everyone is capable of mathematical thinking. Having spent a certain amount o
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
That sounds very interesting. I've been needing a filter to deal with noisy A/D conversions for pots in an audio project. Noise on a volume control turns into noise on the output, and sounds horrible, but excessive filtering cause
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
This is cool, but a moving average filter is pretty bad at removing noise - it tends to be longer than it needs to be because its passband is so bad. Try using a IIR filter instead. You don't need to deal with calculating the coefficie
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
I'm against Trump for all the obvious reasons, which there's no need to enumerate here. Being against him doesn't explain that an openly fascist craven liar just won the US presidency. A poorly educated population does.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
I've also spent plenty of time there over the years, and while most people I interacted with did seem perfectly fine, there were glimpses of something quite wrong. A woman who worked at the hotel I was staying at had never visited the
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
It's well documented that Americans are, on average, quite undereducated. And it's also quite well documented that most of the people that vote for Trump are poorly educated. So, not stupidity, no. But a lack of education can look
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
People already spent upwards of $50 a month for the internet itself, plus they probably pay monthly for one or more streaming services. They likely pay separately for mobile data too. Separate monthly fees for separate services is absolutel
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
I have a cheap binocular microscope at home, and solder most everything underneath it. A USB microscope is much lower resolution, and the image lags. They're pretty terrible. At work I get to use a very very expensive Olympus binocular
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
This device seems perfectly insane. I have two Quecoo soldering stations : https://www.quecoo.com/products/quecoo-t12-956-soldering-dig... They're very cheap, they heat up just as quickly as any other induction ir
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
This article 100% read like it was written by AI. I will personally never use Copilot, or any other AI code generation tool, for the simple reason that I enjoy writing code. Even if I were unfamiliar with a new language, I'll still nev
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Always use the full hash everywhere. Never store the short hash anywhere. It's good only for immediate commandline use, and nothing else.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Cf: "honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion" It&#
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Python is just plain unsuitable for any project larger than a couple of files. Every Python project contains a hidden and deadly complexity that will grow over time - and will eventually destroy it. There's no way around it, it creeps
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Yes, that does fix it. But using `sin`, and `radians` means that you equation to generate pi already has pi in it.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
But... This code just outputs almost-zero. It clearly just sets `repeated` to a number very close to zero, takes the sin of it - which will also be close to zero - and then multiplies that by a small number. I don't think this is how d
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
"If you couldn't be bothered to write it - why should I be bothered to read it?" - Some Internet Wag. That's the thing, isn't it. AI output is so low-effort that it may as well not exist at all. Just send me the pro
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
The fascinating thing with arguments like this is how they entirely ignore that OpenAI trained the tool you're using with Stack Overflow. And so if what you're suggesting is that AI tools will replace SO, then as soon as it does t
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Are they? Have you used Devin to do anything though? So far as I understand it, the Devin demo was faked.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
That one technology worked does not automatically mean any other technology will. There is no argument that begins "A worked and so B will too". Also, email is pretty much dead as a technology - it's just spam and password re
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Ironically enough, if AI powered code generation actually worked, OpenAI would have a business model right there. But it doesn't, and so they don't. What they hope is that other people will somehow make their business model for th
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
If 1) Rust contains no memory bugs 2) C can be automatically translated to it Then all memory bugs can be fixed automatically, which is almost certainly untrue. This task is very likely completely impossible in the general case.
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Got it. Which of course is equivalent to the statement "I have begun the process of understanding, but do not yet know what I do not know". My old High School teacher used to complain that I claimed understanding long before I act
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Help me out here. What is this empty type for? Could you provide an old man with a nice concrete example of this in action? I've used empty types in C++ to mark the end of recursive templates - which I used implement typelists before v
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Trying to recreate a "human brain" is an absolutely terrible idea - and is not something we should even attempt. The consequences of success are terrible. They're not really trying to create a human brain, so far as I can tel
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
There are many finite problems that absolutely do not admit finite solutions. Full stop. I think the deeper point of the paper is that you simply cannot generate an intelligent entity by just looking at recorded language. You can create a d
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by plasticeagle 2y ago
Any algorithm that claims the ability to detect AI automatically must always be possible to circumvent. All one has to do is incorporate the algorithm in your image generation process, and perturb or otherwise modify your output until the i

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