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by pton_xd 3y ago
"Stable and not dying" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of a system. And anyway, they had no freedom, which is the real issue. Communist governance is fundamentally opposed to liberty; the system can't allow it.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> I'm not saying zero Christians adopt, but adoption is a small minority [0] (5% adopt) and in decline [1]. > [0] - https://adoption.org/who-adopts-the-most The article you linked says that "5 percent of pra
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by pton_xd 3y ago
How is the inverse any more consistent? Save the children, at any cost! Unless they're still in the womb, then feel free to murder them.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
It's a static single-pass feed-forward network. How could that possibly result in AGI?! (Queue famous last words ...)
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> Dismissing entire categories of systems and approaches under a multitude of different situations and circumstances speaks more to how effective you personally have been propagandized. > those are the problems with authoritarianism n
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> There won't be inflation if you take money from the top and give it to the bottom. The total amount of money stays the same. Our system is far from perfect but I believe history shows that communism is even worse.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
The US handed out $1.8 trillion to individuals and families and $1.7 trillion to businesses during COVID. And then a few years later began experiencing the highest inflation rate in 40 years. And that wasn't even enough money for anyon
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> If everything is done with arrays and indices (apparently from looking at the code: ( https://gitlab.collabora.com/dwlsalmeida/for-upstream/-/blob ...) it seems like Rust's borrow checker doesn't
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Now everyone's diving straight into the "full AGI by 2025" hole. Which, to be fair, would solve the "full self-driving" problem as a pure side-effect, I guess.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Usually the government conducts periodic surveys to analyze energy usage across major industries, eg [0], [1], [2], etc. What's so exceptional about this industry? I would think a survey would be very straightforward. The only input is
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Is there something exceptional about paying market price for a commodity?
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by pton_xd 3y ago
For all its quirks, JavaScript is an incredibly concise and easy-to-write multi-paradigm language. For banging out prototype code, it's my favorite tool no matter the domain.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> Programming doesn't get much easier with experience, the idea that it's "as easy as eating cookies" only happens in dreams. Doesn't match my experience. 20 years after starting my career, I can now write simple
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by pton_xd 3y ago
What's the new "just learn to code, bro" platitude we can throw around?
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by pton_xd 3y ago
AI for improved education is noble, but what's the point of learning when AIs are going to do everything better than us in a few years? I already struggle with some intellectual laziness after subscribing to GPT4, which is fairly out o
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Ansible is great as long as you keep Jinja use to a minimum. Basic variable substitution handles 90% of what you need. Ternary filter... doesn't qualify. Everything else should just be handled by a python script to orchestrate the play
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> This is conspiratorial thinking at its finest. Sounds crazy right? I half don't believe it myself, except we're discussing this exact built-in bias with their image generation algorithm. > No. If you look at any black fami
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Google "white family" and count how many non-white families show up in the image results. 8 out of the first 32 images didn't match, for me. Now, sometimes showing you things slightly outside of your intended search window ca
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by pton_xd 3y ago
No login, no profile, no account management. Some light-hearted humor. Man, those were the days.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
When an article crosses some threshhold of replies to upvotes per unit of time it gets deranked, presumably to discourage political / flame-war topics. Eg, this article still shows up on the second page. After a while, when the replies
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> It’s just really clear that a giant text averaging machine can only go so far It's not really a text averaging machine, it's a pattern matching machine. Right now the "depth" of the patterns it can match can only go
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by pton_xd 3y ago
LLMs are increasingly trained on synthetic data. A LLM can learn logic, and ultimately the rules governing physics and everything else, without human input. The first versions being trained on "human knowledge" seems kind of like
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Yeah, LLMs seem exceptionally good at summarizing large amounts of structured data with a prompt at the end, like that YT demonstrates. If you have a back-and-forth conversation, with the previous conversation chunks prepended as context to
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by pton_xd 3y ago
GPT4, as smart and impressive as it is, starts forgetting or confusing key instructions with as few as 500 tokens (in my experimentation). Practically speaking the advertised 32k context window could be a few orders of magnitude smaller dep
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Webpack -- instead of writing code to do what you want, install and configure a series of plugins, and then maybe chain more plugin-plugins to fix shortcomings with the original plugins. Also, enjoy updating to a new version every few years
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> I just wish I could throw Ansible into the flaming sun. What's wrong with Ansible? I've successfully operated a few services at scale (~20 VMs) with it and it's always been the most dependable part of my setup. I basical
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by pton_xd 3y ago
The future of our society depends on it? The same reason we have taxes for any common good, whether it applies to you individually or not.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> and a stay at home parent That's the big issue. Middle class households today need both parents working to afford a decent home, 2 cars, and health insurance. Of course many could downsize to a smaller home, 1 car, fewer vacations
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by pton_xd 3y ago
Instead of paying cash directly, give large tax breaks or other incentives that encourage staying productive members of society.
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> According to the graph below, BTC goes up when inflation goes down. That is the opposite of a hedge! It proves that Bitcoin is not valuable due to "not having sound monetary systems." > https://charts.woobull.co

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