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by puttycat 2y ago
Similar discussion with a potential solution, in the domain of formal language learning: Bridging the Empirical-Theoretical Gap in Neural Network Formal Language Learning Using Minimum Description Length https://arxiv.org/ab
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by puttycat 2y ago
The title should actually be "X blocks Firefox users with Tracking Protection Turned On"
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Firefox Tracking Protection Breaks Twitter/X(imgur.com)
11 points by puttycat 2y ago|4 comments
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by puttycat 2y ago
This is another version of "use public transport instead of throwing billions on futile self driving cars" -- it's the correct, rational thing to do, but it's not the American way!
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by puttycat 2y ago
You're mixing training loss (cross-entropy/surprisal of next token) and post-training prediction decoding (done e.g. with beam search)
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by puttycat 2y ago
Simple addition, among other things: https://github.com/0xnurl/gpts-cant-count
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by puttycat 2y ago
Just remember that FB will weaponize everything once it makes sense to them financially.
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by puttycat 2y ago
> "In celebration of the 125th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Nabokov, I am pleased to announce Lolita" So maybe... name it Nabokov?
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by puttycat 2y ago
I uninstalled Dropbox about a year ago since it became an unbearable bloatware. I now simply regularly back up to a physical HDD with Time Machine.
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by puttycat 2y ago
Explain? Ref?
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by puttycat 2y ago
In Firefox AFAIK right-click always opens the menu with a Paste option.
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Nature Neuroscience Retraction: Genetic manipulation of autonomic nerve fiber(nature.com)
2 points by puttycat 2y ago|0 comments
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First human case of avian flu in Texas(politico.com)
79 points by puttycat 3y ago|76 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
Yes. For me it’s also about product managers justifying their existence by coming up with useless new features.
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Tell HN: My 2016 iPhone SE is a living proof of iOS enshittification
7 points by puttycat 3y ago|3 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
Feedly is indeed great, I just wish they'd stop trying to add AI and automated topic highlighting which clearly doesn't work.
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Bridging empirical-theoretical gap in neural network formal language learning(arxiv.org)
68 points by puttycat 3y ago|31 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
I'd like to point out the particular enshitification of the left side bar on the Desktop app. I do not understand which human is able to understand the logic of this thing or navigate to a particular item in O(1) without exhaustive sea
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All the garbage I found on Substack in 1 hour(badnewsletter.substack.com)
2 points by puttycat 3y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
Ok, so 25 person years for copying someone else’s product in the most uninspiring way.
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by puttycat 3y ago
The amount of (very impressive) human labor that went into building something that was dead on delivery. Kudos to them for being able to incentivize engineers to pull through this.
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by puttycat 3y ago
> A key speedup technique AoE used was realized during discussions I had with iD software programmer and optimization guru Michael Abrash over lunch at Tia's Mexican Restaurant in Mesquite, TX. How many freeform interactions like th
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by puttycat 3y ago
OP is using a strawman caricature of a programmer to make his point. While such bad (often junior) programmers exist, there also exist many reasonable ones who won’t commit all these over the top abstractions while also not falling into the
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The key to spending less time on your phone is getting another phone(wsj.com)
1 points by puttycat 3y ago|0 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
Let's sell more cigarettes and McDonald's then. We humans are just wired like that.
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by puttycat 3y ago
Is there a reason you insist on Bing? (asking honestly)
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by puttycat 3y ago
https://nitter.net/addyosmani/status/1739052802314539371
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How to Use a Lockable Storage Box to Curb Our Addiction to Devices (2022)(nytimes.com)
3 points by puttycat 3y ago|0 comments
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When does "no" mean no? Insights from sex robots(sciencedirect.com)
4 points by puttycat 3y ago|5 comments
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by puttycat 3y ago
Can someone explain this to us 35+ year olds? What am I missing?

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