rdevilla

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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Articulation. The lens of articulation. Or otherwise, "eloquence;" the lens of eloquence. LLMs ain't gonna do sheeeeeeeit if this is still where we are at...
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Only two or three weeks from incepting the idea of a token efficient LLM English dialect to seeing it in practice. I just never imagined it to take.... this particular form..... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47434846
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Marx begs to differ. By labor theory of value Sisyphus should be the wealthiest man on Earth; unless you smuggle all the complexity and paradoxes of this theory into some ill-defined notion of "socially useful labour" (how does on
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Metamath is fascinating to me in that it is the most "math-like," in terms of being both readable and executable on pen and paper through simple substitution. I've spent a month or two formalizing basic results in it and foun
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
> Pandas is clearly quite ergonomic for various exploratory interactive analyses, but the API is, imo, awful. Having previously inherited (and now dispossessed) an un-disentangleable pile of Python, pandas, and SQL hacks reminiscent of a
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
I am not sure how to navigate this world any more.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
> Did anybody in Dubai drive over and take pictures? Call up Oracle and ask? Nah. Why is any of that necessary? LLMs can just synthesize a story for the press de novo, without reference to prior developments or indeed any 20th century
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Information asymmetry is power in the era of abundant information.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Personally I cleave to the extremes of the hyperintrospective portion of the spectrum, so no, I think taken at face value his comments are absurd. Nonetheless you need to understand the dark and less visited corners of the mental landscap
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
I think Andreessen's comments were borne of hyperbole and as a (deliberate) overcorrection against certain Bay Area rationalist types whose 10,000 word navel gazing screeds border on schizoidal personality disorder. I have watched thes
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Just the other day I was downvoted and called out for suggesting that perverse incentives are hard to resist, yet here we are with the Times (apparently) showcasing another such instance. In this case GLP1's clinical effects are widely
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
I assure you that is not a bot account.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Unsure why this comment merely copy pasting the summary of TFA is voted dead [0]. Perhaps this is how low the bar for "antisemitism" has fallen these days? Or is vote manipulation taking HN in the direction of /. and reddit?
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Overly general vibeslopped platitudes.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
You are not the target audience for this sort of presentation. Media directed at the laity is more about being directionally than quantifiably correct, and is full of metaphor and embellishment to capture the imagination rather than communi
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Reductio Ad Absurdum(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by rdevilla 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Nonsense, I have it on good authority that the old internet sans LLM surveillance capitalism is still alive and well. You just stopped going there. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589055
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Where is the incivility? If anything it's coming from those who project their simplistic ideas of others unto the complexity of others' persons to pigeonhole them into their own idiosyncratic mental categories.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
We can still speak of equivalence classes under said isomorphisms and choose a representative out of them, up to the aesthetic preferences of the implementor. We are nowhere near finding equivalence classes or isomorphisms between represent
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
This is seriously the level of intellectual sophistication of Canadians, and French supremacist Canadians in particular, who denied a person of color candidacy in the Liberal race for Prime Minister due to the languages he spoke/didn
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
It's over. The internet culture of the 20th and early 21st century has been appropriated for profit.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
I wish universal and eternal patterns like this were studied more often in software engineering. Perhaps we would have a chance in hell of finding canonical representations of common structures and even programs instead of basket weaving ma
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Nobody said that it was.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
It can be very difficult to say no to these incentives when they are presented.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
> But you would get silenced in many places (e.g., banned from the Canada subreddit) for pointing to those statistics. Canada has an incredibly censorious culture. I have been downvoted to -4 [0] [1] and flagged for merely suggesting tha
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
> "That's not what it's saying, those words actually mean..." > I'm rephrasing those two points. Quod erat demonstrandum.
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The Kybalion (1908)(kybalion.org)
2 points by rdevilla 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
Spot on.
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by rdevilla 6mo ago
The fuck? What's next, configuring maven and pom.xml? At least XML is unambiguous, well specified, and doesn't randomly refuse to compile 2% of the time..
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by rdevilla 7mo ago
> It’s saying that encouraging women to be forced to be in emotional distress to succeed at sport is problematic This was never said by anyone until you came along with that comment, which is a totally different idea (effectively a non

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