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by riwsky 3y ago
That’s the way the cookie crumbles.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Why, Lisp of course!
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by riwsky 3y ago
Raven’s progressive matrices, obviously intended to test the intelligence of birds.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Parrots are the original stochastic parrot
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by riwsky 3y ago
And if you rearrange the letters in “mill”? “I, LLM.” qed
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by riwsky 3y ago
LLM = Large Lunch Menu = $$$
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by riwsky 3y ago
Like some vaguely un-PC insult from an alternate-reality Scotland
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by riwsky 3y ago
Gp’s “4k” was referring to price, not pixels
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by riwsky 3y ago
Convolutional neural networks were a huge advancement in their time
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by riwsky 3y ago
Local man listens to Kind of Blue, remarks “So What”
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by riwsky 3y ago
> why not have every algorithm ensure it runs in its best structure, and convert where necessary (and possible) on the way in? Yes, there’s absolutely a performance or storage cost… but if the algorithm is that much faster, it should be
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by riwsky 3y ago
“concepts” are a specific language feature the bot was referring to: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constraints
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by riwsky 3y ago
You would be wrong. The closer documentation is to the code, the more likely it is to be seen, and to be updated. Reading and writing the docs are more common operations than “writing a new doc transformation tool” by at least 4 or 5 orders
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by riwsky 3y ago
Finally, early-aughts 1337 a3s7h37ic can be cool again
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by riwsky 3y ago
How evil of you
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by riwsky 3y ago
wat
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by riwsky 3y ago
To illustrate: “The answer is not immediately obvious. Indeed, word problems in these forms are not only long-winded but also prone to misinterpretation. I may have wanted to ask you something but you may have understood (and answered) some
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by riwsky 3y ago
This prose desperately needs an editor and a rewrite pass, which would be unremarkable in technical fare—but in an argument about the information density of prose , it severely undermines the author’s trustworthiness.
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by riwsky 3y ago
I don’t consider VSCode the best code editor, but I will say: it is the best thing to happen to code editing for quite some time. LSP has made it much easier to create an editor, or add support for niche languages. Even for big names like v
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by riwsky 3y ago
> nearly all of humanity is blissfully unaware of what modes even are Including, apparently, the author.
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by riwsky 3y ago
You can modulate midi timinbg with noise. In some programs, there’s literally a Humanize button.
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by riwsky 3y ago
A proton, electron, and a neutron walk into a bar…
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by riwsky 3y ago
South Park is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed works of satire in recent history; when one thinks of “antagonism as socially productive”, Cartman’s should be pretty high up on their list.
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by riwsky 3y ago
I go back and forth on this one
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by riwsky 3y ago
Not 100%. Some are basically CSPRNGs that iterate with every successful unlock; if you capture the “play” from a key AND block the car from getting the signal, you get a replay attack you can only use once. And which desyncs the key with th
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by riwsky 3y ago
games are culture—shared, social culture—you just need better friends and coworkers.
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by riwsky 3y ago
Unless you’re looking for Haskell nerds, in which case you should prioritize Comic Sans.
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by riwsky 3y ago
* utterly incapable of the product thinking needed to turn research into something people can actually use
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by riwsky 3y ago
I suspect it’s no coincidence that they announce this the same day Chita Rivera passed away: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5c8qCff2w
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by riwsky 3y ago
Both of which problems I could fix, using my mystery machine, if only this planet weren’t so depleted of the necessary Solvtonium.

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