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by saithound 10mo ago
> I'm sure fields of literature or politics are older. As far as anybody can tell, mathematics is way older than literature. The oldest known proper accounting tokens are from 7000ish BCE, and show proper understanding of addition a
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by saithound 11mo ago
> your glued together rectangles will have perimeter 2*(1+2) No. You should think through that perimeter calculation one more time, preferably while drawing a picture. Here's a hint: the perimeter of a rectangle is no less than its
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by saithound 11mo ago
> I have no idea why you think the geometric series has anything to do with this - IgorPartola is perfectly right to mention geometric series, you can easily use a geometric progression to construct a shape with infinite perimeter and fi
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by saithound 11mo ago
Verification of "runtimes" in the sense of GP is not mentioned at all in the article you linked.
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by saithound 11mo ago
If you remove the fare collection infrastructure, you remove beneficial usage tracking infrastructure too. There might also be other "social engineering" benefits to having a fixed symbolic charge, as some people argued in this th
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by saithound 11mo ago
Thanks. > However, I think that Iowa City isn't doing the symbolic fare, and that Brisbane's 50 cent fare would make some kind of a difference A reasonable point. That very well might be the case, and if everybody thinks symbol
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by saithound 11mo ago
> Brisbane's free buses are only the "city loop". The rest of the transit system is fare based With all due respect, I expect more effort than Googling "are buses really free in Brisbane", then copy-pastig the AI
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by saithound 11mo ago
Odd hill to die on, but if you wish to argue that Iowa City is a serious transit city, but Brisbane and Lanzhou are not, feel free to state your definition of serious transit city. These cities are bigger than Iowa City and their public tra
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by saithound 11mo ago
> You're cherry-picking your own examples. It worked in Iowa City. Indeed, it worked in Brisbane (a metro area comparable to Baltimore in the U.S.) and Lanzhou (comparable to Boston-Cambridge-Newton): congestion was reduced, the env
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by saithound 11mo ago
No, context windows are not arbitrarily long and complex. The set of possible context windows is a large finite set. The mathematical theory of Markov chains does not depend at all on what the elements of the state space set look like. The
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by saithound 11mo ago
A mascot is an animal figure that represents a product or sports team. For example, the penguin named Tux is the mascot of Linux, and the mascot for the Brisbane Broncos rugby team is the horse named Buck the Bronco. Mascot is, unrelatedly,
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by saithound 11mo ago
A Markov chain [1] is a discrete-time stochastic process, in which the value of each variable depends only on the value of the immediately preceding variable, and not any variables in the past. LLMs are most definitely (discrete-time) Marko
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by saithound 11mo ago
I think you misunderstand jiggawatt, who wasn't talking about unknowingly hosting illegal material. We're talking about knowingly hosting encrypted illegal material without knowing the key. This is unambiguously illegal whether or
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by saithound 11mo ago
That's not surprising. If you allocate 1500 billion USD to building the Death Star, it will simultaneously be 1. the most expensive space station program in history, and 2. severely underfunded compared to the desired deliverable.
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by saithound 11mo ago
> What an idiotic comment In my comment's defense, it at least didn't mistake an article from the Edina High School student newspaper for a scientific study conclusively demonstrating the effects of prolonged exposure to extrem
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by saithound 11mo ago
I find mask-wearing men hiding in the shadows quite scary. But not nearly as scary as the person who generalizes "I personally dislike something" to "it must therefore be unhealthy for society and other individuals to enjoy i
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by saithound 11mo ago
> Who are the "people at the top" you speak of? Are they just an amorphous blob of executives and politicians? I don't think you're asking a serious question. What kind of answer would you accept? It's not like y
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by saithound 11mo ago
You're simply wrong about this. "I don't know the key" is not legal defense even against hosting an encrypted blob of copyright infringing contemt, much less an encrypted blob of illegal pornography.
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by saithound 11mo ago
This is not a real language, it's pure LLM slop. Just look at the so-called sort example from the repo: def sort(list: List(T)): List(T) where Ord(T) = match list do [] -> [] [pivot | rest] -&gt
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by saithound 1y ago
Your point, that many people don't produce their magnun opus until later in life, is definitely at odds with a lot of current SV rhetoric. And it's a good point. If the article had tried to make your point, it would have been a mu
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by saithound 1y ago
This piece seriously misrepresents Vonnegut's career just to make a dubious point. Sure, Slaughterhouse Five was Vonnegut's big financial breakthrough, but by that time he was a very well-known writer with several classics, includ
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by saithound 1y ago
The primary claims of the site, both made without any evidence (presumably by you), are that 1. Tor is primarily used to distribute CSAM, 2. a single organization with a budget of $150k could deanonymize every Tor user simultaneously. Since
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by saithound 1y ago
Pretty much everything claimed on this site is false or grossly misleading.
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by saithound 1y ago
Wrong industry. It is primarily the "sell anti-phishing training to enterprise employees" industry that uses these terms.
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by saithound 1y ago
> or there was a separate key to move the same space back And that key was called Backspace.
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by saithound 1y ago
Oh yeah, that reminds me. the company did research on how to train a model that manipulates the metrics, allowing them to tick the open source box with a seemingly good score, while releasing something that serves no real purpose. [1] [2] G
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by saithound 1y ago
The same way it learned to act like a personal assistant, even though very few humans are personal assistants. The LLM is first trained as an extreneley large Markov model predicting text scraped from the entire Internet. Ideally, a well tr
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by saithound 1y ago
Sure. Most countries in the European Union have elections every 4-5 years. Thanks to these elections, the set of people composing the EU's main executive body, the European Commission, changed radically over 9 years. The EC of yesterye
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by saithound 1y ago
Referring to this type of optimization as AI in the age where nearly everybody is looking to fund transformer-based language models and nobody is looking to fund this kind of optimization is just common sense though.
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by saithound 1y ago
You're probably looking for something more detailed and implementation-focused, but Ars Technica had a series of 10 minute videos where they interviewed developers about technical challenges. E.g. they had one on pathfinding and CD vid

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