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by prmph 1y ago
> I also don't know for sure whether or not you are "possessed of subjective experience" as I can't measure it. Then why make an argument based on what you do not know?
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by prmph 1y ago
> An A.I smarter than a Nobel prize winner. I don't even know what this means. If we assembled the sum total of all published human knowledge on a storage medium and gave a computer the ability to search it extremely well in order t
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Trump threatens to go into Nigeria 'guns-a-blazing' over attacks on Christians(theguardian.com)
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by prmph 1y ago
I guess the world has now given up on staving off climate change, and accepted it as inevitable. Hopefully, or so the unstated thinking goes, it will be those poors who bear most of the brunt. Yes, many will perish or be uprooted, but human
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by prmph 1y ago
Exactly, this seems like a fear mongering hit piece bashing mostly African countries. India already has far more people than these countries he mentioned, and I fail to see how it can be described as a well run country; it has more poor p
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by prmph 1y ago
All I know is that on MacOS iTerm2 is unmatched. Every few months I go in search of something similar to it (as a backup), and every single time, after trying countless terminals, I give up. The closest I've found is WezTerm, and even
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by prmph 1y ago
Yeah, but the models are all based on explicit data. I'm saying humans have prior wiring that allows them to extract and keep context that LLMs do not have access to.
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by prmph 1y ago
Human hold a lot of implicit context, I think far beyond any LLM. Context is not just what you consciously are thinking about in your head
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by prmph 1y ago
> Everything Anthropic does from an engineering standpoint is bad, they're a decent research lab and that's it. This may be true, but then I wonder why it is still the case that no other agentic coding tool comes close to Claud
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by prmph 1y ago
Exactly this. LLMs may do a passable job of architecture if there are many examples of high quality architecture similar to what you want to do in their training set, but to introduce some novel stuff and they are clueless
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by prmph 1y ago
This is a weird take. Software engineering solving and design is not about of syntax at all. Syntax can help or hinder some ways of expressing things, but the result of the design process is not clever syntax. For example, the new shortest
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by prmph 1y ago
Example (expanding on [1]): I want to design a strongly typed fluent API interface to some role/permissions based authorization engine functionality. Even knowing how to shape the fluent interface so that is powerful but intuitive, as
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by prmph 1y ago
> documenting a function that performs a set of complex scientific simulations. The example you gave sounds like the problem is deterministic, even if composed of many moving parts. That's one way of looking at complexity. When I ta
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by prmph 1y ago
> LLMs are remarkably good at writing code. Just this past weekend, I've designed and written code (in Typescript) that I don't think LLMs can even come close to writing in years. I have a subscription to a frontier LLM, but la
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by prmph 1y ago
Interesting. Have you not owned it long enough to notice a difference in the level of maintenance and repairs required? There is certainly no need for oil changes and less need for brake work, etc. But you do have good points. The main thin
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Germany's Porsche pauses shift to EVs as profits tank [video](dw.com)
16 points by prmph 1y ago|29 comments
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by prmph 1y ago
Contemporary: - Beasts of No Nation (film, shot in Ghana, starring Idris Elba, on Netflix) - Gold Coast Lounge (afro-noir Black/White film, on Netflix/Amazon) - Burial of Kojo (movie, on Netflix) - Azali (movie, on Netflix) Classi
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by prmph 1y ago
Are you talking about movies per capita or general production per capita?
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by prmph 1y ago
This is spot on. The real reasons the headline is "Africa" and not "Ghana" are: - To sensationalize the story by positioning it as a another manifestation of a supposed "African" nature/character. - The id
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by prmph 1y ago
Really? I don't think that's the real reason why.
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by prmph 1y ago
Why not just say movie posters from Ghana? What is connection between these and the concept of African, I wonder? Anyway, I'm Ghanaian, and you can AMA. There's a lot of such art, many on walls of the erstwhile movie houses. Most
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by prmph 1y ago
The more I use git, the more I discover more depth to it. So many features and concepts; it's easy to think you understand the basics, but you need to dig deep into it's origin and rationale to begin to grasp the way of thinking i
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by prmph 1y ago
Hope were not talking about eels
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by prmph 1y ago
Even the base model M1 is still a very capable machine for a lot of tasks. The HN bubble strikes again
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Pelosi Says Police May Arrest Federal Agents Who Violate California Law(nytimes.com)
5 points by prmph 1y ago|0 comments
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FIDE to investigate Kramnik over attacks on Naroditsky as chess reels from death(theguardian.com)
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by prmph 1y ago
Yeah Apple hardware is good, but oh boy, there are many design choices in MacOS that are real head-scratchers - The over-reliance on weird key combinations and touchpad gestures, that you have no way of guessing until you look it up, and if
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by prmph 1y ago
The Lenovo is more like $1,200. Plus, even with lower specs Apple laptops perform better, are more pleasant to use, and last longer. I've a lot of experience with owning both Windows and Apple laptops for a long time.
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by prmph 1y ago
I think you are confusing physical possibility with statistical probability. And even physically, some things are just what they are. You can't escape death; you can't escape from a black hole, etc. You may claim these things may
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by prmph 1y ago
Data model here is not necessarily what is in the DB, I think TFA is using "data model" more abstractly, is the model of the business domain that is prevalent in the organization and structures how they talk about the domain.

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