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by rmunn 8mo ago
Thanks for the link to the actual decision; the lawyer's summary included a link to download a PDF of the decision, but a direct link is useful to have. ... Actually, on double-checking, the lawyer's summary I linked to lets you d
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Very glad someone actually read the decision and understood it, despite how much reporting on this has been poor. This was not a case about "can AI-generated art be copyrighted?", despite all the reporting misleading people. (Incl
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Tell me you've never done any farming in your life without telling me you've never done any farming in your life. The difference between male and female animals matters , a lot , to farmers (or ranchers). There's a reason
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Same here, though I settled on 32GB of swap because I have a 4TB SSD (caught a good sale on a Samsung EVO SSD at Newegg). But whenever I run `top`, I constantly see: MiB Swap: 32768.0 total, 32768.0 free, 0.0 used. I could s
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by rmunn 8mo ago
> You beat [GPU] scalpers by going to Micro Center. They’ll only sell them in store and they check ID to make sure you don’t buy them more than once every 30 days. That didn't even occur to me, but that's why, when I went to Mi
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by rmunn 8mo ago
> Also, it’s incredible that they had embezzlement, because they seemed to have very tight internal controls when you shopped there. Tight controls at the low-level employee level. The embezzlement apparently happened at the upper manage
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Pepperidge Farms, oops I mean Framework, remembers. Bought this Framework 16 laptop less than a year ago so I haven't upgraded anything yet. But if I decide I want a GPU (I don't play games on this laptop so I bought it GPU-less)
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by rmunn 8mo ago
One thing I noticed at the Fry's in the Dallas-Forth Worth area, back when I lived there in the 2010's, is that it a lot of employees seemed like they were in the US on H-1B visas. Which often, not always but too often, means thei
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by rmunn 8mo ago
This is exactly right. People who get away with some rule-breaking, whether it's large or small, once will start to think maybe they can get away with it a second time. Get away with it a dozen times and you start to think you can get
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by rmunn 8mo ago
So what are the failings? A quick skim through the Wikipedia article found plenty of criticism , but all the evidence I could find in my quick skim was in support of the theory. It's very likely I missed something in my skim; could
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by rmunn 8mo ago
"Getting it right" for this particular trick question means saying "Hey, roosters can't lay eggs". If someone tries to figure out which way the egg will roll then they've missed the trick. In most cases the per
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by rmunn 8mo ago
This. The following question is likely to fool a lot of people, too. "I have a rooster named Pat. (Lots of other details so you're likely to forget Pat is a rooster, not a hen). Pat flies to the top of the roof and lays an egg rig
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by rmunn 8mo ago
The Tell-Tale Beep, by Edgar Allen Poe.
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Yes, the analogy isn't perfect. I didn't want to get into all the subtleties in an introductory analogy, but I should probably have mentioned blocking. Too late for me to edit my post with your correction, though.
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by rmunn 8mo ago
One way to think about transactions, as I wrote in an earlier comment, would be to think of them as being like snapshots in a copy-on-write filesystem like btrfs or zfs. But another way to think of them is being like Git branches. When you
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by rmunn 8mo ago
I like to think of transactions, in an MVCC system like Postgres, as being like snapshots in copy-on-write filesystems like btrfs or zfs. When you BEGIN a transaction, the DB takes a snapshot of your data, so now there are two versions of t
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by rmunn 8mo ago
The first one is not an example of the LLM inventing a language. The second link is, though. And it's superficially impressive, but here's the thing: the LLM didn't learn the language it was inventing. I just asked ChatGPT
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by rmunn 8mo ago
I've been cataloguing my books using the ISBN to look them up, and I think I ran into that situation a few times, maybe about 0.2% of all the books I catalogued. (That is, the ISBN search on openlibrary.org returned multiple clearly-di
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Similar story. I'm American but work and live outside the US, so I don't know how likely this would be if I had ordered from Amazon. But I ordered a rug for my sons' room from this country's equivalent to Amazon (that is
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by rmunn 8mo ago
If I understand the paper correctly, the researchers found that AGENTS.md context files caused the LLMs to burn through more tokens as they parsed and followed the instructions, but they did not find a large change in the success rate (defi
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Software developers don't have to be cargo-culty... if they're working on systems that are well-documented or are open-source (or at least source-available) so that you can actually dig in to find out how the system works. But w
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Yeah, I discovered that after I wrote the comment. Very glad to see that Ruffle + WASM has allowed the site to be resurrected nearly identical to how it used to look, so I can show my kids the same goofy stuff that was such a hit with my ow
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Can't tell if they have the entirety of Homestar Runner preserved, but I'm very glad to see they have some of it.
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Abide by the Terms and Conditions? You must think I'm some sort of good Force user! "I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further."
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by rmunn 8mo ago
Cute story. But slightly misleading headline: it led me to expect that the guy did some rubber-duck debugging talking to his cat. Turned out it was "I can't figure out where the beeping is coming from, but my cat, who is smaller t
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by rmunn 8mo ago
I disagree with your first assumption. Well, mostly disagree. Let me explain. It's true that AI-generated arguments can have true premises and sound inferences, some of the time. But the models are still too likely to hallucinate. Le
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by rmunn 8mo ago
And the natural followup, "dw;dr".
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by rmunn 8mo ago
No, I haven't. And I wasn't able to find it with a search. Link, please?
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by rmunn 9mo ago
Maybe, I don't know, not be based on a statistical model? Come on. If you are actually entertaining the idea that LLMs can possibly be intelligent, you don't know how they work. But to take your silly question seriously for a mi
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by rmunn 9mo ago
There are many websites that believe I was born on January 1st, in a year close to my actual birth year. When it's actually required by some law or regulation (e.g. financial stuff) I give my actual birthday. But when some site is ju

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