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by shwaj 11mo ago
Are you asking whether the whole podcast can be boiled down to that translation, or whether you can infer/translate that from the title? If the former, no. If the latter, sure, approximately.
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by shwaj 11mo ago
Informally, people will way “antigrav”.
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by shwaj 11mo ago
It’s not a tautology. Check out the work of Michael Levin (easily accessible on YouTube) for examples of non-genetic heritability.
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by shwaj 11mo ago
Can current LLMs actually do that, though? What Ilya posed was a thought experiment: if it could do that, then we would say that it has understanding. But AFAIK that is beyond current capabilities.
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by shwaj 11mo ago
Not sure, probably depends on the content too. When you read text, the eye definitely isn’t jumping “arbitrarily”, it’s clustered around what you’re focusing on. Might be different for a FPS game where you’re looking out for ambushes. I’m
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by shwaj 11mo ago
Fanny packs: so uncool! Man-purses (or “murses” in my corner of the world): so righteous!
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by shwaj 11mo ago
I would guess that the “foveated” region that they stream is larger than the human fovea, large enough to contain the saccades movement (with some good-enough probability).
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by shwaj 11mo ago
lol! What corner is that?
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by shwaj 11mo ago
You missed the point: they were referring to the sentiment that lead to Trump’s election. Many of those voters , I would guess, feel that the way Trump is doing it is cruel and chaotic. This obviously doesn’t imply that those who voted for
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by shwaj 11mo ago
I used to find it amusing that you could say `Smalltalk := nil` in the early days of Squeak, and poof! all the classes in your system are garbage collected. (I’m not sure that’s exactly what happened, probably the system crashed before garb
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by shwaj 11mo ago
Maybe Klaus shouldn’t have said it then.
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by shwaj 11mo ago
Hear hear, one of my favorite comments recently. Can’t agree more about the technical points (category error etc), and then the unexpected switch to the value of receiving constructive criticism as a gift not an attack. Myself, I’m definite
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by shwaj 1y ago
The part about noticing web pages loading (at most) 8ms faster due to the display is total nonsense. Many can notice the difference between 60 and 120Hz when scrolling, but definitely not for a page load. That’s less than 1/10th of the
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by shwaj 1y ago
Nobody’s talking about a blood oath to promise never to revisit the issue. But there’s a different between leaving the door open to future reconsideration, versus pushing consistently against the wishes of the public and only backing off t
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by shwaj 1y ago
I think what they meant was: Two linear transformations compose into a single linear transformation. If you have y = W2(W1*x) = (W2*W1)*x = W*x where W = W2*W1, you've just done one matrix multiply instead of two. The composition of l
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by shwaj 1y ago
Sorry, for which crimes? I know the justice system is flawed, but ideally shouldn’t there be specific laws that are broken, to justify imprisonment?
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by shwaj 1y ago
Yes, I recall HN commenters of the time predicting this exact outcome as a result.
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by shwaj 1y ago
I think you meant to respond to @noduerme, not @qudat. If so, I agree with both of you, otherwise I’m confused by what you’re saying.
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by shwaj 1y ago
Fuchsia pervasively uses capabilities.
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by shwaj 1y ago
I’m not sure there’s a better alternative.
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by shwaj 1y ago
What does this mean?
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by shwaj 1y ago
They are obviously not saying that they think this is going to happen. It is explicitly an “if-then” thought experiment: “if technology is deflationary, then avoid civil unrest”. The tone is rightly skeptical.
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by shwaj 1y ago
That doesn’t logically follow. It got this very straightforward thing correct; that doesn’t prove their response was cynical. It sounds like they know what they’re talking about. A couple of times per month I give Gemini a try at work, and
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by shwaj 1y ago
If he’s that drunk all the time, the uncle might want to wear a helmet.
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by shwaj 1y ago
Yes it was Alan Kay. https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKayOnMessaging Another relevant page on the same site is: https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented
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by shwaj 1y ago
Not really, because you still recompile and start the program from scratch, rather than modifying the code that executes on the still-existing data structures. Edit: rather than just naysaying, it occurred to me to reference the notion of O
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by shwaj 1y ago
How does it “jam up the airwaves” if its operating at a different frequency than the devices you say it will be jamming?
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by shwaj 1y ago
Oops, sorry I misread. That makes more sense in context. Yeah, I remember all the hype about the first Nvidia chip that offloaded “T&L” from the CPU.
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by shwaj 1y ago
I think they’re using “vector” in the linear algebra sense, e.g. multiplying a matrix and a vector produces a different vector. Not, as I assume you mean, vector graphics like SVG, and renderers like Skia.
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by shwaj 1y ago
I recall hearing, more than a decade ago IIRC, that facebook.com ran as a monolith for much longer than you would have expected. Perhaps someone with direct experience can comment?

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