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by professoretc 3y ago
The options are a support LLM that can sometimes be tricked into giving out refunds for items that were never purchased, and a support LLM that never gives out refunds at all. (It might hallucinate that it gave a refund, but it won't b
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by professoretc 3y ago
> You automate all the recurring things (this is built into Gnucash Is it? When I last looked at GnuCash (which, admittedly, was like 7 years ago) you could not setup automatic categorization of transactions. You couldn't say, while
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by professoretc 3y ago
> You only need the figure environment when you want your image to "float" to a random place in your page. Which is also something the Markdown version can't do at all (give fine control over how the image is positioned
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by professoretc 3y ago
But `while` doesn't restrict the scope of the variable(s) to just the loop. I believe there was a proposal to add while(int i = 0; i < 100) { ... } as a valid syntax to C++ (which would restrict the scope of i to the loop),
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by professoretc 3y ago
Only if you choose to use it like that. I commit every minor detail in Fossil, even little things like "added TODO comment".
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by professoretc 3y ago
I use fossil as my daily driver VCS and I feel like it doesn't go far enough in it's ability to non-destructively amend history. The canonical justification for git-style rewriting is taking all the commits that make up some fea
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by professoretc 3y ago
It's only an issue in the current Google litigation because Google's current chat solution apparently has an option to enable logging for everybody. If you have an internal chat app that never logs messages -- say, the sender lo
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by professoretc 3y ago
"...so that when we get sued and in discovery they ask for all documents discussing markets, nothing will come up."
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by professoretc 3y ago
That's what I'm a bit afraid of. Will software engineering get "stuck" with just the tools we have right now, because LLMs won't be able to help with anything newer? If you're thinking, all we have to do is wai
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by professoretc 3y ago
In a decent programming language you can nest functions, so all the little functions that make up some larger unit of the program are contained within (and can only be called within) that outer function. They serve less as functions to be
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by professoretc 3y ago
I once got chewed out by a finance director because we in IT had scheduled updates (and their associated restarts) to run on weekends. This guy was in the habit of creating important financial spreadsheets and then never saving them, just l
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by professoretc 3y ago
I think it stems from Rust's emphasis on safety. The logic is, memory errors in other languages lead to people's passwords being stolen, bank accounts compromised, etc. Those are Bad Things. Ergo, programming in anything but Rust
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by professoretc 3y ago
Correct, as usual, everyone interprets that case as 'OMG animals/AI created work is uncopyrightable!1!' but in reality it's just that animals/AIs cannot hold copyright. Whether a human using an AI can copyright the
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by professoretc 3y ago
You also have to remember that in CA the assessed value of your home (on which your property tax is based) will never go up more than 2% per year. So while the property tax rate may be higher than some other places, if you stay in your ho
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by professoretc 3y ago
Caves of Qud already has in-game books generated by the old Markov chain technique, with the model trained on who-knows-what. It's on Steam, for now...
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by professoretc 3y ago
For 30 items bubblesort might very well have been faster than mergesort.
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by professoretc 3y ago
I've only been to Lahaina once and seen the banyan tree but that just makes me incredibly sad.
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by professoretc 3y ago
Most credit unions are in a network with each other so you can use other CU's ATMs and branches. There are a few limitations, generally around large withdrawals, but the nearest actual branch/ATM of my CU is ~250 miles away and I
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by professoretc 3y ago
Or they sell "the same" (looks the same but it's lower quality) product as other stores but at a lower price, as a Walmart -exclusive.
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by professoretc 3y ago
Canvas suffers from being originally designed for use in elementary (K-12) school, and then kind of wedged into college. On the teaching side it kind of assumes that classes will always be relatively small (running a 100+ student seminar cl
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by professoretc 3y ago
I use salt flour for popcorn; it's essentially salt that is milled as fine as flour. There was a study (which I can't find now) which found that our perception of saltiness is based less on amount and more on surface area coverage
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by professoretc 3y ago
Yeah, skipped the one built-in type that is different between architectures (64-bits on 64-bit Linux, 32-bits on 64-bit Windows).
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by professoretc 3y ago
You have been banned, from life .
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by professoretc 3y ago
It's genius, but it's also solving the "easy" problem of checking syntax. If you ask an LLM to generate some structured data representing something you describe (or a program that "does X") checking the result
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by professoretc 3y ago
> If it's so easy to just copy and paste an essay from an AI generator that is of such high quality that it cannot be detected, then why are we still making students learn such an obviously obsolete skill? Why penalize students for
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by professoretc 3y ago
> whether it's actually a problem for students to use AI to augment their education. To augment? No, but the problem is we can't tell the difference between a student who is augmenting their education with AI, and a student w
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by professoretc 3y ago
> The token_type_embedding is zero init and frozen for responses and the user prompt, but trainable for system prompt. I think the question is, what would you then train it to do with the additional information (privileged vs unprivilege
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by professoretc 3y ago
That doesn't tell you that all of those people left the state, though. A lot of SF folks moved to other parts of CA; housing prices in Fresno went crazy during the pandemic, anecdotally because it was all Bay Area folks discovering tha
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by professoretc 3y ago
Do LLMs "learn" how to code by reading documentation, or by reading code? I was under the impression that it was more the latter; a programming language or library which was documented but had few or no examples of real use in t
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by professoretc 3y ago
But the LLM won't interpret it formally; it doesn't know the semantics of any of the programming languages it can generate code for, it just "knows" that certain patterns occur more or less frequently. You can prompt i

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