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by ralusek 2y ago
I use WeakMaps all the time. While most cases where I’ve wanted to iterate through a WeakMap are achievable through other means, it usually comes at an inconvenience that usually greatly reduces the utility of using the WeakMap in the f
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by ralusek 2y ago
Down under?
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by ralusek 2y ago
I don't think it's been well enough acknowledged that all of the shortcuts LLMs have been taking with ways of attempting to compress/refine/index the attention mechanism seem to result in dumber models. GPT 4 Turbo was m
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by ralusek 2y ago
I imagine that the various scenes from the movie The Devil’s Advocate must be a good representation of what this is like: https://youtu.be/cYcCxdUy3I8?si=B-ghZmK6qca7g8Uy For some reason, this phenomenon is one of my greate
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by ralusek 2y ago
Encountering this article title while using a screen reader must really be something else
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by ralusek 2y ago
Regarding performance, I once had an experience that I never bothered to look into. I made a cool little interactive simulation in the p5js sandbox; ran flawlessly. I then copy pasted it into a codesandbox, and it was choppy and abysmal. I
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Ask HN: Concern over Chinese Software?
10 points by ralusek 2y ago|2 comments
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by ralusek 2y ago
Inscryption Subnautica Satisfactory Factorio Hollow Knight RE7 Baba is You Baldur's Gate 3 Elden Ring Dead Cells Hades Ori and the Will of the Wisp Disco Elysium Dishonored 1 & 2 Orcs Must Die Planet Coaster Portal 1 & 2 Read D
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by ralusek 2y ago
Regarding this point: > The most important of the "complex downstream effects" of increased atmospheric CO2 is increased agricultural productivity. You don’t get to decide edgar the most important downstream effect is, not do y
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by ralusek 2y ago
I think about this one quite a bit.
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by ralusek 2y ago
The absolute percentage of the atmosphere being what you consider to be a small number is not actually relevant to what the impact of that would be. If I were to give you a pill of cyanide, I don’t know how comforted you’d be by me assuring
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by ralusek 2y ago
I will repeat something I’ve said before, because many people don’t realize this: since the start of the industrial revolution, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has DOUBLED. I think that it’s perfectly fine to speculate as to whether or
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by ralusek 2y ago
While I agree with some of what was said here, most discussion of “pre-existing immunity” was around immunity acquired from already having had COVID, not immunity carried in from prior conditions. I thought the conversation (or lack thereof
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by ralusek 2y ago
“stepped up basis”
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by ralusek 2y ago
Obviously...You use a service, which costs money to run/build/produce, and the way that service is paid for is by advertisement. Your decision that the advertisement is annoying or intrusive isn't what makes your circumventio
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by ralusek 2y ago
I love infinite scroll, and hate pagination. All lists should be some combination of these: infinite scroll, filterable, sortable. Pagination should never be involved. If I want to get to something on page 2, I scroll. For anything else, I’
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by ralusek 2y ago
Biden has also had 4 years, I simply said who was more likely to pardon.
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by ralusek 2y ago
Trump strikes me as far more likely to grant him a pardon than Biden. Biden is neoliberal, which are just as hawkish as neocons (they’re functionally identical). Trump is more of a populist, anti-war, “anti-deep-state” (i.e. intelligence ag
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by ralusek 2y ago
I know lots of problems with lab grown meats are that: 1.) they have no immune system and are therefore incredibly finicky when it comes to infection. meat worms can still have an immune system 2.) they don't produce the necessary horm
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by ralusek 2y ago
I have had a somewhat dystopian idea (on the surface level) that is actually much more humane than our current systems. Why don't we work, via CRISPR or aggressive evolution, to get to the point where something like a cow is much close
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by ralusek 2y ago
Alternatively read as "I'm struggling to come to grips with the fact that the life force that exists in all of us is becoming more and more likely to simply be a series of surprising and emergent properties of simple cellular auto
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by ralusek 2y ago
Time to get grandpa Johann von Wolfhaus's ashes to Munich. Goodnight, popo.
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by ralusek 2y ago
A few things to note here. 1.) DJI offers many drones related to infrastructure mapping and maintenance, as well as agricultural tasks. From a national security perspective, it is a non-trivial threat vector for a Chinese company to not o
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by ralusek 2y ago
Trust me, a minimum of a bipolar world is much, much better than a monopolar one.
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by ralusek 2y ago
First encounter with Monty Hall problem. My roommate in college told me about it, and I was absolutely unable to see how it could be anything other than a 50/50 chance for the remaining two doors. It took me actually drawing out a grid
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by ralusek 2y ago
Censorship and monitoring is not something I would attribute to the right within the last 10-15 years. In the US, things like the Patriot Act are bipartisan. Otherwise, things regarding moderation/censorship/tracking tend to have
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by ralusek 2y ago
Ya, I understand that. That’s why I said 2x S3
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by ralusek 2y ago
If we use your hosted version, what will the pricing be when it's out of beta. I always think these services should basically be like 2x cost of underlying S3 or whatever storage you're using, but they end up being like 100x+
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by ralusek 2y ago
Different words with different meanings mean different things. A communist country could and would produce AI, and it would still be scary.
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by ralusek 2y ago
What gave you the impression that it's prone to hallucinations so quickly? Do you have a series of test questions?

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