ratherbefuddled

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by ratherbefuddled 3y ago
I think fuzziness understates by far the wild variations that uncontrolled (mostly uncontrollable) elements often create. Very few of these kinds of studies follow scientific method well enough to be vaguely useful let alone generally appli
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by ratherbefuddled 3y ago
We can inspect these models and look at exactly what they're doing. We don't need to guess about why they fail tests like this. We know as a fact that they are static and not generating new knowledge from input. I don't und
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by ratherbefuddled 3y ago
If they were actually reasoning, tests like the GP's would show it. They don't connect dots, they can be prompted to select different pathways through their static model and that selection can be based on a pretty small context b
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by ratherbefuddled 3y ago
> Why do you say that isn't reasoning, and what do you think human reasoning is? One worthwhile definition would be the ability to recognise patterns in knowledge and apply them to new context to generate new knowledge. There is no
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by ratherbefuddled 3y ago
> Yes, these responses are annoying, but what's your point? The point I imagine is that there is no reasoning going on at all. Some humans sometimes struggle with some reasoning, of course. That is completely irrelevant to whether
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by ratherbefuddled 3y ago
Though I mostly agree it's slightly more subtle IMO. They failed because the writer of the method cannot know what the caller can recover from but must decide before compile time. The caller gets little say.
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by ratherbefuddled 3y ago
They were fleeing AI.
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
It really doesn't. Prose isn't source code. Learning something, then later writing something else isn't copying.
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
> ToS doesn't supercede copyright though, does it? But in what way does reading a copyrighted work and then producing a mass of numbers as a result infringe copyright?
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
I had a very poor experience buying from tuxedo and wouldn't recommend it. They shipped in a manner that triggered import duty (because they bundled all four into one shipment). Returning a defective laptop was impossible. Tongfangs
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
Yes loads of spam directed at individuals data harvested from linkedin in the last few months. I recently banned the domain.
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
I think this is largely a London thing rather than a UK thing.
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
> Unless you have a thinkpad or some other popular hardware, you'll find Linux barely works at all out of the box, and even with hours of fiddling around, you'll still have to live without some features. I've had it work f
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
Really? I think Akka is far too niche for that to be likely.
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
We went from 5x7.5 to 4x8 without reducing pay. 4 months into it and so far it's working on all fronts. No loss of momentum or productivity, no reduction in client billing, happier and more effective people. We had to get much smarte
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
The technology has been rock solid for me. It really is good enough to be a console killer anywhere there is fibre. The failure here is marketing and under investing in AAA games. If they'd poured money into publishers other than jus
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
The monthly fee is optional, you don't have to pay it to be able to stream games you have paid for. It gives you access to a library of additional games you don't have to buy.
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
The emphasis should be on clarity. Overall you want to leave the requester in no doubt about what it will take to get approval because the most frustrating thing for both of you will be ping pong. Tone is very hard to judge in written form
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by ratherbefuddled 4y ago
Some thoughts: * Pay _much_ more. * Post the salary in the ad. * Get rid of half of your hiring process. - The recruiter call is likely worthless, engineering managers can tell in about 3 minutes if a CV/resume is worth an interview. -
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
The only answer to the question is because google make more money if you sign in and share location data. There's no other logical reason a rough guess about where you might be in the world is a better method for determining your langu
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
As a candidate, coding exams are really useful for identifying companies I don't want to work for. As a hirer, they're useful for not very much at all. They don't tell you if someone can produce working software, they don&#x
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
In practise using latest or just the major version has caused far less wasted effort for our team than scrambling to update versions because of some newly discovered CVE. It's a problem in frontend builds because js libs are quite poor
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
Is anybody who has dealt with PwC in any way surprised by this? In my experience it is a company with an entirely poisonous culture that moves from project to project over promising, under delivering and scarpering at the earliest opportun
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
> That sounds like an argument for better payment mechanisms but people still need to be paid. Paying people for good content doesn't fix the problem. The internet is still cluttered with awful content drowning out the useful stuff
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
I'm not sure content creators need to be paid for their work. At least, not all. What internet surveillance does is motivate people to create awful content that nobody in the market would pay for in order to skim dollars from what is
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
There was no money in it.
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
I thought "learning styles" were largely debunked as a myth now? The linked article describes the structure of a reference book, identifies it as a structure suitable for a reference and those with significant experience, and then
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
It's worse than you think. The study was to _improve_ the scheduling in the stores in the study so that workers got a whole two weeks notice of their shifts. They merely left things as they were in the control stores.
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
You can be tracked without cookies (or localstorage) trivially, it is commonplace. You'd have to block requests to third parties. This is hard because it breaks most websites - all those that rely on cdns. You can wade through this w
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by ratherbefuddled 5y ago
Whenever someone pulls this sort of thing I simply tell them I don't have a phone.

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