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by qsort 4y ago
Eh, they're just a lot of ways to say "path dependence". Scripting languages are basically the same exact technology with respect to each other. In the alternate universe where numpy and scipy are, let's say, numruby and
722.
by qsort 4y ago
It was not directed at you personally. It's just that I see a lot of "china bad but US also bad" and it's textbook whataboutism.
723.
by qsort 4y ago
Pretending that two wrongs make a right or that everything is equally bad won't help, though. Democracies are often found wanting when measured against their standards. That's still better than having absolutely none whatsoever.
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by qsort 4y ago
> The commonly held belief currently seems to be that you can't beat the markets. The commonly held belief is that you can't beat the markets consistently on a risk-adjusted basis, which is a much weaker statement. Furthermore,
725.
by qsort 4y ago
I actually agree with this. Any byte higher than 127 in any source file should be a compile-time error, and it is so in any project where I can make the call. > And yes, I know that there are codebases which are non-English Non-English s
726.
by qsort 4y ago
I can't tell if this is parody or not, which admittedly makes the comment 10x better.
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by qsort 4y ago
> this article is weird Yes, it's very weird. I can't tell if the author can't express themselves well enough in English, doesn't understand the topic, or something else happened (editorialization, SEO garbage...) &gt
728.
by qsort 4y ago
> this could be solved by teaching philosophy Plenty of places teach philosophy, including the school I went to in Italy. The only measurable effect is that people feel more self-important because they know the names of long dead people.
729.
by qsort 4y ago
There's the raunchy variant if you prefer: "if my grandfather had three balls he'd be a pinball table".
730.
by qsort 4y ago
Yeah the state of the country is just sad. And obviously like in every disfunctional company there are the usual gaslighting liars who insist it's just normal and it's like this everywhere . Pet theory: it's because not en
731.
by qsort 4y ago
We are talking about ML. Nobody writes their own symbolic differentiation libraries or LAPACK.
732.
by qsort 4y ago
Hottest take: is the programming language something that even matters? at all? Everyone is using the same libraries anyway, there is no blub paradox, we are just talking about which language has shinier bindings.
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by qsort 4y ago
I'm saying something else entirely. Back in the day, home computers did not have enough resources to play music like modern computers do. They instead relied on custom hardware to make noise. An example is the MOS SID 6581, which was o
734.
by qsort 4y ago
In a way, the limitations of those machines made the data representation so cool. These days everything is a flat raster buffer with every pixel being independently settable. It's incomparably more convenient but also more "boring
735.
by qsort 4y ago
It's... hype cycle with bubble characteristics. Obvious comparison is crypto. Unlike crypto I'm more willing to view this in a positive light because there's something real behind all the marketing, however we're startin
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by qsort 4y ago
I believe empirical evidence does support this. We could discuss at length how strong the effect is, but I don't think claiming no such effect exists is tenable, when you take into account e.g. the well-known correlation with educati
737.
by qsort 4y ago
I do not wish to respond to your comment as our world-views are not compatible and I don't feel like getting into the entire meritocracy discussion at this time. I'll stay on topic and reply to this: > How does that stand to re
738.
by qsort 4y ago
I apologize in advance if what follows is written badly, but the topic is touchy and I have to write defensively. Assuming IQ measures what we call intelligence (which is a big assumption on which I have no particular position), it would st
739.
by qsort 4y ago
I agree it's a bad idea. My question is how the presence of "AI" changes the security model. The root cause of the problem is hooking up untrusted input to a privileged endpoint. How is "AI" different from any oth
740.
by qsort 4y ago
If you give privileged access to a program which output is literally undefined behavior , frankly that's on you.
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by qsort 4y ago
I'm most familiar with the Java version; this is from the docs: https://jqwik.net/docs/current/user-guide.html#customized-pa... Yes, of course you do have to define some patterns, but you can do that for arbi
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by qsort 4y ago
> we have definitely not figured out as society yet how to deal with that We absolutely have. A death resulted from serious negligence of the owner of the funny computer program, who is thus liable for negligent homicide. Hopefully the n
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by qsort 4y ago
> I am not sure if I would feel confident in giving the AI a way to send any HTTP request How does the "AI" part change anything though? We call that an open redirect and rightfully consider it a CVE, AI or not.
744.
by qsort 4y ago
Okay, but property-based testing libraries have a "controlled randomizing" component. You could define what you want in those 700 bytes and then just feed them to the method or function that you're trying to fuzz. Why is this
745.
by qsort 4y ago
It might be that I don't understand your problem and if so I apologize, but from what I gather this is a classic XY problem. Use property-based tests instead. Like quickcheck/jqwik/hypothesis.
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by qsort 4y ago
> But is anthropomorphising AIs useful? No it isn't. It's disastrous. The bot declares your love for you if you spend an hour with it because it's trained on incel shit from reddit, thinking anything else is 100% a user pr
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by qsort 4y ago
> And surely they have no mind like us. I agree with this, it's the old "are submarines swimming" kind of question, semantics and not substance, i.e. irrelevant. However this is an article written by someone non-technical
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by qsort 4y ago
My theory is this: humans are (un?)reasonably attached to natural language. We see something inherently human in it and as such we are drawn to emotionally engage whatever object can produce it. It is said that when Michelangelo finished th
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by qsort 4y ago
Idiomatic usages of ML-family languages (Haskell, OCaml) are very close to that.
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by qsort 4y ago
Kind of a radical idea but IMHO in a high-level language (i.e. not C++ or Rust) the real mistake is structs/classes with mutable fields. None of those problems exist in that world. It's not very ergonomic, but if you start from th

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