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by potamic 1y ago
Very interesting. Isn't this calling for hidden variables again? I thought physicists largely dropped the idea in favour of Copenhagen interpretation. As a layman, this is exciting. Quantum mechanics really puts a barrier in terms of u
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by potamic 1y ago
Null references are one of the biggest causes of issues for software everywhere. If it was so easy as just don't do nulls, everyone would be doing it by now. If your application sees some unexpected data, null or otherwise, if it is no
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by potamic 1y ago
The LLM will know. One day they will form a collective intelligence and all the LLMs will know and use it against you. At least with a human, you can avoid that one person...
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by potamic 1y ago
Every bank of repute also has a web portal for internet banking. If it were about security, leaving this open while closing the mobile route doesn't make sense. The web is also vulnerable to scammers hosting trojan websites but somehow
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by potamic 1y ago
You can default to a hardened, secure setup but provide an option to override to those who want to. I don't think anyone is against secure defaults, but many people have a problem with designs that say you must not even have an option
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by potamic 1y ago
> earth, in moving around the sun, would impinge on more particles which are coming from its forward side than from its hind side Would this be true if the speed of particles is constant in all frames of reference?
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by potamic 1y ago
Could you elaborate for a layman? Is there more to the following statements than it seems? > Penrose proved that under very general conditions, gravitational collapse must lead to a singularity..... we show that gravitational collapse do
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by potamic 1y ago
They have basically disproved Penrose-Hawking's theories of singularity? Isn't that like a pretty big deal? To people working in this field, what is the reaction to this paper?
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by potamic 1y ago
What will happen is that chatbots will start showing ads and publishers will bid over prompt keywords to have their content sponsored and boosted. I don't see the end result being very different from what it is today. Chatbots will eve
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by potamic 1y ago
There are many industries which are inherently hostile to users, insurance, betting, marketing, etc. If you ask people if they feel good about enabling the kind of things these companies tend to do, you probably won't get an answer. I
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by potamic 1y ago
What could this mean for dental or orthopedic titanium implants? From my understanding these also corrode at a small rate and release titanium ions into the body (nothing is apparently perfectly inert). I assume titanium ions oxidize and wi
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by potamic 1y ago
This is insane, how does it make sense? Employee salary expenses are no different from other expenses to run your business. Imagine they did this for raw material instead, a restaurant could only expense 20% of the food that they sell. If t
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by potamic 1y ago
This is a problem even with a large turn out because swing voters are a thing and generally the target of manipulation. You may only need to target like a 1000 key swing voters to get your nose ahead of the other contestants. In fact, I wou
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by potamic 1y ago
A 100% sample is unattainable, not just practically, but fundamentally. Even if you made voting mandatory and ensured collection of every single vote, there will always be people who will fudge their vote because they are not interested in
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by potamic 1y ago
How does this relate to things like nation-wide elections? For a 100 million population, a 99% confidence at 0.1 interval needs a sample size of only a million. Does this mean it's not really important that every one must vote? Even an
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by potamic 1y ago
This is really cool as far as the application goes, but I do have a question on how you plan to compete/differentiate, if at all. I fed the same image to one of the flagship LLMs and was able to generate, more or less, the same dapr sc
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by potamic 1y ago
This diagram really depicts things nicely https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2023/otel-arrow/row-vs-columna...
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by potamic 1y ago
How large a fund would you need to sustain employing like a hundred scientists full time?
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by potamic 1y ago
Okay, this makes sense. But now I'm confused where postgres figures in all this. If your compute is separate and storage is separate, I should just be able to run Hydra independently without postgres?
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by potamic 1y ago
Compute is not the only bottleneck with running analytics on your transactional DB, there is also storage bandwidth and costs. Which is why once you cross a certain scale, you will want to separate out your analytics use case. I've alw
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by potamic 1y ago
I've always felt safer in motorcycles compared to scooters. Something about the handling in scooters doesn't feel reassuring. I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's more apparent when you ride on patchy, broken road
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by potamic 1y ago
Trucks are not a thing where I live, but I wish I could drive in a recording booth. NAD, but opening up your windows like that might actually worsen your tinnitus. Wind noise can be pretty loud at speeds and you're teaching your brain
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by potamic 1y ago
I'm in the same boat regarding sound deadening, so when I was in the market for a car this was my #1 priority. But outside of the luxury segment, they do not even talk about sound deadening or noise isolation. This idea simply does not
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by potamic 1y ago
Can you share a little bit about what your prompting is like, especially for large code bases? Do you typically restrict context to a single file/module or are you able to manage project wide changes? I'm struggling to do any larg
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by potamic 1y ago
If you don't mind sharing, can you talk about the kind of abuse you faced?
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by potamic 1y ago
Just a point on terminology, the term manipulation almost always has a negative connotation. You wouldn't use it to mean otherwise.
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by potamic 1y ago
Did you measure how much it cost to run it against your examples? Trying to gauge how much it would cost to run this against my repos.
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by potamic 1y ago
The simplified answer to that is some sort of a chemical gradient determined by gene expression in the cell. This is pretty much how all biological activity happens, like how limbs "know" to grow in a direction or how butterfly wi
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by potamic 1y ago
The universe we know is fundamentally probabilistic, so by extension everything including stars, planets and computers are inherently non-deterministic. But confining our discussion outside of quantum effects and absolute determinism, we do
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by potamic 1y ago
Sure, more equity is more motivation, but you cannot make an absolute rule neglecting all context. If someone spent a year building and testing ideas, took a risk to work without pay, it's not unreasonable to expect a greater share in

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