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by sfpotter 4y ago
We are long, long way off from that. Much more likely that society collapses because of climate change or war first.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
That’s not what people on the left are saying, it’s what liberals are saying. Not the same thing.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Got it, and I completely agree! Didn’t realize this was the specific sense of your post.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I don’t think you mean to use the word “disingenuous” here. Typo? This word typically has a connotation of deception, and is usually applied to interactions between people. Looking for a reason for a cycle change is a totally natural and re
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Why is your tin foil hat on? You do not believe what you said is the case and are downplaying its likelihood? If you do think this is the explanation, I think you can safely take the tin foil hat off. It’s hardly that unlikely, and many p
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I have a semi-automatic and the cleaning is a breeze.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Edit: misread your post. We were buying 2-4 per day between the two of us. The rate at which it paid itself off was quite reasonable. Considering that this purchase was not a major outlay for us, we didn’t bother working the numbers. But si
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Semi-automatic. I have a Solis Perfetta Plus. Grinder is a Eureka Mignon.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I spent $700 on a decent semi-automatic espresso machine and burr grinder, learned how to make espresso correctly, and spend $15-20/12oz bag of beans. This translates to well below $1/16g of espresso. Cost of milk if my wife or I
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Concluding that using printf to debug is superior to using a debugger would be a mistake! I’ve been programming in C for nearly 20 years and primarily used printf for debugging for the first 12-15 years, and have used debuggers more and mor
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Sorry, but this is false. It entirely depends on your circumstances. Four soccer meets per week and soccer games sixty miles away is not a necessary thing in a child’s life. If they’re into it and you can make it work, that’s great, but thi
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Coffee is a fun hobby. It doesn’t have to be anything more than that. If it is, that’s OK, too. If you feel a strong need to decide whether other people are “right” when they seem more enthusiastic about coffee prep than you, and whether yo
463.
by sfpotter 4y ago
Better how? You don’t actually say why you prefer your new lifestyle. Clearly lots of people prefer to live without a car. Have you ever bothered having a conversation with them? Maybe if you did, you’d be less surprised!
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I feel you, but this is clearly a “correlation is not causation” type situation. Infrastructure should be people-centric, and there’s nothing wrong with doing things to reduce car speed and make the built environment safe. It is unlikely th
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Sweet. A conversation with a toaster. This is exactly what everyone is clamoring for.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t! Completely depends on the context.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
It’s totally unclear a priori that more R&D in AI is good. There is already a ton of money being poured into it. If you’re in research, it is one of the few things you can be get money for at the moment, and it’s leading to a high deg
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I think the question is whether things like ChatGPT really are “better”. How do we define “better”? Who defines “better”? Does everyone have a say in what the definition is? Is the profit motive fully responsible here versus the benefit of
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by sfpotter 4y ago
ChatGPT is pretty impressive but it’s obviously a far cry from real intelligence. At the same time, consider the resources required to train such a thing. How many dollars, how much time, how much RAM, how much power spent to make one of th
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Monaco until the day I die.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
He explains in the article…
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Could we try to keep the topic on the article itself instead of complaints about C? It sucks to come and read the comments about this very nice article and have to scroll and scroll until I finally get to comments written by people who actu
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by sfpotter 4y ago
I think you're mainly thinking of machine learning and data science applications, and so your perspective may be a bit limited. But, of course, you didn't actually give any explanation of what you mean other than mentioning ordina
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by sfpotter 4y ago
There are loads of numerical algorithms where the SVD is the tool of choice because of its particular optimality properties.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Eckart-Young-Mirsky just relates to approximation by low rank matrices, and it says that the error is best in terms of the operator norm, i.e. the action of the approximation is closest. When you’re trying to compress an image you’re trying
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Uh oh, are you an AI? You seem to have missed my attempt at wry humor.
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Large corporations can do whatever they like provided that they deliver profits to shareholders. Do you think they care what you think?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Fascinating. Not all people are the same. Who’d have thought?
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by sfpotter 4y ago
You and I are clearly referring to two different things when we use the word “intelligence”. It is also not nearly so easy to come up with a simple/mechanical/verifiable definition for the thing that you’re referring to. Unless yo
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by sfpotter 4y ago
Haha. I give up. :-)

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