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by sfink 2y ago
I think you're 90% right in what you say here and in following comments, but I think you're skewing things in a way where I end up disagreeing with your conclusions. > Here is the rub: free software permits unconditional use. W
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by sfink 2y ago
Even if the (CLA-owning) organization changes the license, the last version available under the AGPL will always be available under the AGPL. > If you can't use the AGPL version now, you can't use it later either. Right. But yo
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by sfink 2y ago
We could, but I would describe it as "mathematically accurate". Which is not incompatible with "unreasonably narrow", given that the definition of "exponential" has recently gotten polluted enough that it is no
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by sfink 2y ago
It's more extreme than that, it stops existing. The comment you're replying to is about fresh water. Which becomes non-fresh when it mixes into seawater or waste or pollution. No need to leave the Earth. Admittedly, it's pr
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by sfink 2y ago
> Exponentials eventually grow much faster than polynomials, no matter what the exponent is. Since we're being pedantic, that last clause should be: "as long as the exponent is greater than 1."
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by sfink 2y ago
Well, the spray bottle was more to spread the water out into a thin layer as opposed to something like crashing an icy asteroid in at one spot. I have a mental image of a gigantic cosmic being grabbing the Earth, wiping off the wet stuff wi
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by sfink 2y ago
I long assumed that the Earth is a "water planet" because water is mostly what you see from a distance. It wasn't until I did the math that I realized that is really about wet rocks in space vs dry rocks in space. Earth isn&#
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by sfink 2y ago
This makes me wonder: how much demand would there be for the exact same service that wasn't deceptive? As in, a porn site that freely acknowledged that the women you're talking to are not individually reading and replying to eac
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by sfink 2y ago
Multiple people have brought this up and I just don't get it. When would you ever use Pi squared for anything, and if you'd never use it, who cares what its value is? The only thing I could come up with is marking out an area by r
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by sfink 2y ago
Disabling (all of) the JITs is a decent approximation of this. It's very site-dependent as to how much of a performance impact it makes, but for many sites it'll be fine. Obviously this isn't the same as making "absolute
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by sfink 2y ago
> And "elites" per se isn't correlated with any political side, so it doesn't even change the culture war. Only if you're looking at the more obvious but wrong culture war. Elites from both "sides" have
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by sfink 2y ago
> This is only a common mistake to the subset of people who labor under the delusion that we have actually stumbled upon Generalized Artificial Intelligence That is technically true but deceptive: that subset is enormous! Skim any HN thr
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by sfink 2y ago
Well, actually, your entire comment is a giant "well, actually" comment. > this article is advocating a very particular and almost ideological approach. No, it really isn't. It's talking about what not to do. As it sa
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by sfink 2y ago
I would summarize it as: use `push_back` when you're pushing something, use `emplace_back` when you want to construct something in the space at the end of the collection. It just so happens that their functionality overlaps, and there
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by sfink 2y ago
Huh, I ignored this article because it sounded like such a solved problem, but it stayed on the home page long enough that I thought I might be missing something. Not only was it exactly what I expected from the title, there were 3 obvious
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by sfink 2y ago
They mathematically cannot unless they have access to a way of measuring fitness. One that goes beyond an evaluation based on what they have already learned.
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by sfink 2y ago
Only if you have a valid fitness metric. If you have humans looking at hands, then that's a good metric, as long as you really do have a human in the loop. Any automated metric (eg something that can evaluate hands) is great for measur
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by sfink 2y ago
At least for me, your messages reads "I am depressed...I am depressed...I am despressed...Oh, but I'm not depressed...I am depressed..." etc. What do you imagine depression to be? Everything you're describing is depres
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by sfink 2y ago
> the trick would be getting that prompt right (and prompt engineering to limit hallucinations as much as possible). Why do you have to get it right? Don't you just have to get it the same as everyone else, slightly faster?
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by sfink 2y ago
It's not that unlikely. - Create the list in some weird order. You know you're going to traverse it a bunch, so you sort it. - The list is in creation order, and creation is in allocation order. Once in a while you go back and ins
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by sfink 2y ago
That was my first thought, too, but that's not totally ignored. It all hinges on this part: "...when compared to census tracts that were scheduled to receive a Starbucks but did not do so..." So the sampled population is the
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by sfink 2y ago
Well said. It doesn't matter how they are marketed or described or held up to some standard generated by wishful thinking. And it especially doesn't matter what it would mean if a human were to make the same error. It matters what
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by sfink 2y ago
A human would need to trace the cable. An LLM may just be responding based on (1) the fact that you're asking about the clip in the first place, and that commonly happens when there's something wrong; and (2) that this is a very
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by sfink 2y ago
I have not read the book but I have heard Erin speak, and I do find the high/low context dimension to be very powerful in explaining a great many things. I don't see how it applies all that well to this one, though, other than per
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by sfink 2y ago
If you would like an answer to that, then I would suggest reading the section titled "Being open to individual differences is not enough", and perhaps the quoted passage in the later section "Tasting the water you swim in&quo
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by sfink 2y ago
I didn't intend to claim that the "Eastern" way is unconditionally better. I'm just used to the Western way of thinking, so it's a novel perspective that I keep finding applies in more situations than I expect. Maki
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by sfink 2y ago
This reminds me of something that I heard once from a Chinese teacher. I can't vouch for the accuracy of it, but he was definitely on to something : In the West, it is assumed that it is the speaker's job to make himself understo
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by sfink 2y ago
> They are more intelligent than the average person I deal with on a daily basis. No they aren't. They are differently intelligent. Which includes being more "intelligent" in some ways, and vastly less in others. It is an
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by sfink 2y ago
Yes, even within a company my threshold for accepting a change can vary pretty widely depending on my experience and relationship with the author. For an external contributor or someone I've never collaborated with (by reviewing code o
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by sfink 2y ago
You listed two extremes to demonstrate the difference, which is fine, but what about the example of Trump encouraging insurrection? It seems just a teeny bit relevant here, given that it is what prompted the case in the first place. And ins

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