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by samus 3y ago
The quality of the insight is mixed. For example, it was quite capable of explaining subtle points about PyTorch API usage, but for Spring Boot it was mostly giving me quite generic advice.
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The legacy of that empire (it was purely Austria only after 1809) and of Prussia was quite long-lasting though. Because of the medieval Ostsiedlung and rulers granting land and privileges, there once were German-speaking enclaves all over E
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Good for you if you live in a culture without strong T-V distinction. Not using the correct form of address will make you need perceived as impolite in the best case or highly disrespectful and confrontational in the worst case, and you wil
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by samus 3y ago
Germany was not even unified by the time the UK took over India from the East India Company. Germany eventually had colonies, but they altogether didn't have such a long-lasting influence on the global economy as the British Empire had
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by samus 3y ago
It's not about Google anymore; that ship has sailed for most people by now. But about giving all this data to yet another company. Also, it's not the same data at all. Some data might never travel across a Google account, but very
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Yeah, I made them same observation when I tried to pick up Latin while learning Italian. It really doesn't make sense to multitask these, unless one is interested in learning both. Even though they are related, it's not necessaril
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It's a USB port. Differently than the dozens of proprietary charging connectors that were ubiquitous before micro-USB and USB-C dominated, consumers have an expectation that it adheres to the specification. To be on the safe side, one
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Good that you brought up English, which is also frequently argued to actually be a Romance language and where it is much more ambiguous. Since it actually acquired a massive amount of latin loan words directly and via medieval or modern Fre
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The model doing the compression is trained with a human language corpus. Also, this is a generic procedure to feed another model trained on a similar corpus. Therefore, I'd not expect the compressing model to do anything exotic. Btw.,
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For all we know, ChatGPT 4 might function like that
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Error connection is not really required here since there is no lossy communication medium.
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It's turtles^H^H^H^H^H^H^H encoders/decoders all the way down!
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This has happened in quite similar ways to most other Romance languages as well though. Almost all of them (with Romanian being a notable exception) have gotten rid of their case system and only the pronouns contain traces of it. Nowadays,
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French syntax structure is mostly in line with the other romance languages, with the very notable exception of not being pro-drop. Edit: Vocabulary matters though because certain words are more likely to be replaced by loan words than other
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French is indeed a notable exception in that regard. However, the rest of the grammar structure is still overwhelmingly of Romance origin. This and some other odd things can indeed be explained because of the ancient Franks picking up the l
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by samus 3y ago
That seems like a rather high amount. According to the statistics from Wikipedia it's more like 40-45% of all loanwords , of which French admittedly has quite a few. Crucially, the vocabulary that makes up its grammatical core is over
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by samus 3y ago
People have always been luddites in the sense that they want technology used for their benefit, not against them. And it's hard to be optimistic about the impact of new technology considering that the last 20 years saw the normalizatio
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French has a few Germanic loan words, but is most certainly not a Germanic language.
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The point is that people won't get paid anymore to do it. It has happened before: many activities that have been replaced by technology have been almost forgotten (for example the newspaper reader in the factory) or are practiced as
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AI can be used to support that activity too. Models can just as well used to explain existing code, possibly cranked out by another AI. I bet many companies are thinking about fine-tuning or LoRA-ing language models on their moldy codebases
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In a "good" embedding, they do.
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Running humongous models for the price of a small car? Yes, it's absolutely affordable. It's peanuts for all except the smallest, self-bootstrapped startups. Amortized it's way less than the expenses for data scientist and de
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Golang's only consistent advantage over Java is lower latency on compilation, startup, and GC. OpenJDK will eventually level the playing field with Project Valhalla. In terms of FFI and language features Java has already caught up. And
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The impact of these forks is that the community around the main project is slowly eroded. But it doesn't really matter whether the fork brings the main project to the negotiation table. The author of TA is able and is committed to carr
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The new behavior doesn't make me want to invest effort in learning registers. A notification in the status bar which register just got filled would be all I want.
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Pleasing the newer/younger crowd is important! The default experience of Emacs should make it possible for new users to get up to speed as quickly as possible. Else, Emacs will slowly fade to irrelevance until it is a museum piece. The
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Because of this change, the author of TA will likely have to perform 6000 keystrokes more per day since he is a poweruser of that feature. And this is just one user. Seems entirely justified.
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The crucial difference is that these technologies are embedded differently. Java Applets had access to dangerous APIs that had to be restricted by the SecurityManager. Also, the JVM was installed externally to the browser, turning it into a
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You're living in the past. Applets and Flash lost against the HTML/JS/CSS stack and Oracle owned up to it. Applets are terminally deprecated now. Edit: admittedly, one of the reasons for that was that the sandbox was indeed p
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by samus 3y ago
Your last paragraph is the key. Without their improvements, the quality tradeoff would have been hard to stomach.

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