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by simiones 8mo ago
Sure, but other forms of age verification requirements can, in principle, solve this (at the massive cost of many other privacy and compliance issues, as the article rightly points out). For example, periodic facial recognition-based age es
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by simiones 8mo ago
> Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. > If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the o
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by simiones 8mo ago
Countries can just ban advertising, and hopefully we will slowly move towards this. There are already quite a few specific bans - tobacco advertising is banned, gambling and sex product advertising is only allowed in certain specific situat
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by simiones 8mo ago
A fox or a beetle is an agent, and it's not a slave to anyone. I think you've confused the philosophical term "agent" with the more specific "AI agent" concept.
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by simiones 8mo ago
Those are completely separate concepts. Enslaved people are very much still agents in the sense used here. An agent is simply any entity that interacts with the environment in a way that's not fully determined by other parts of the env
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by simiones 8mo ago
And even in P4, you could checkout files only at the end, kind of like `git add`. Though this could provide some annoyance if someone had locked the file in the upstream.
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by simiones 8mo ago
From the tone, it seems that the poster's sister is a particularly bad driver (or at least they believe her to be). While having an autonomous car that can drive as well as even a bad human driver is definitely a major accomplishment t
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by simiones 9mo ago
I explained in another comment, but it's more fundamental than that. In pure mathematical terms, the vector space used in special relativity (and in theories compatible with it, such as QM/QFT), while being 4 dimensional, is not R
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by simiones 9mo ago
Not really. Even the electric force is not purely time symmetric - you have to flip the sign of the charge if you want to flip the direction between forwards vs backward in time. Even worse, the weak force breaks another symmetry as well, p
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by simiones 9mo ago
This is just sleight of hand. It's true that science can never be certain about anything, not to the same level as mathematics. But otherwise, there is nothing special about positive or negative statements. You can express any positive
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by simiones 9mo ago
You can listen to the podcast yourself. I explained my own understanding of his position: that String Theory, the specific mathematical structure, is categorically not a good model of the real world. He does believe that it is possible to c
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by simiones 9mo ago
Here is a lengthy interview where he discusses this at length (with a timestamp where he says exactly that String Theory, the precise mathematical model, doesn't describe the real world): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by simiones 9mo ago
The difference is this: in regular 4D space, the distance between two points, (X1 Y1 Z1 T1) and (X2 Y2 Z2 T2) is (X1-X2)^2 + (Y1-Y2)^2 + (Z1-Z2)^2 + (T1-T2)^2), similar to 3D distances you may be more familiar with. However, this is NOT the
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by simiones 9mo ago
> we perceive as Dark Energy in our 4D world This is a bit of a technicality, but we don't live in a 4D world, we live in a 3+1D world - the 3 spacial dimensions are interchangeable, but the 1 time-related dimension is not interchan
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by simiones 9mo ago
Most branches of hinduism condemn meat eating, so this has created a significant pressure against meat production (same as you'll find little production of pork in the Middle East and North Africa). This is not universal, of course, be
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by simiones 9mo ago
The first thing on the website is indeed broccoli. But the first thing in the new inverted pyramid, both on the website and in other graphics of it, is meat. In fact, on the website, when you first get to "The New Pyramid", you&#x
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by simiones 10mo ago
That phrase suggests more that the author believes this is done for spectacle, knowing that it will attract attention to the researcher far more than a nice-looking painted statue would. Basically he seems to be accusing these researchers o
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by simiones 10mo ago
The problem is not a lack of naturalism, it's obvious mistakes in the way the naturalistic poses are attempted. Many of Rublev's icons have obvious mistakes in the way joints are painted, for example - but not all of them or the e
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by simiones 10mo ago
Of course, I don't know the actual percent of FF users that use ad block. But I think it's far more likely that it is a majority of current FF users, rather than it being a negligible minority. I think 2-3% of web users is not an
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by simiones 10mo ago
While that would be miles better, there's still plenty wrong with it. Most advertising is designed to trick people into either buying something that they don't need at all (e.g. consuming more soda instead of drinking water, or ge
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by simiones 10mo ago
That second link says it all about how wise it would be to try: > This guide provides instructions for building WebKit on Windows 8.1
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by simiones 10mo ago
It's not impossible that people would pay Firefox that much yearly to keep their current user-base from using ad blockers. However, what is impossible is to imagine Firefox would have anything close to their current user base if people
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by simiones 10mo ago
Taking the address of those variables makes them escape to heap. Even sending them to the Printf function makes them escape to heap. If you want to confirm, you have to use the Go compiler directly. Take the following code: package main
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by simiones 10mo ago
Because people hear that Go supports value types and so is more efficient than Java because it can allocate on the stack*, and so they start thinking that they need to manage the stack. * Of course, in reality, Java also does escape analysi
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by simiones 10mo ago
I think the writer had multiple relatively weird confusions, to be fair. It's most likely that "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". They obviously knew something about escape analysis and Go's ability to put variab
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by simiones 10mo ago
Depending on escape analysis, the array underlying the slice can get allocated on the stack as well, if it doesn't escape the function context. Of course, in this case, because we are returning a pointer to it via the slice, that optim
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by simiones 10mo ago
The point the GP was making was that the following Go snippet: func foo() { x := []int { 1 } //SNIP } Could translate to C either as: void foo() { int* x = malloc(1 * sizeof(int)); x[0] = 1; &#x2
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by simiones 10mo ago
The confusion begins the moment you think Go variables get allocated on the stack, in the C sense. They don't, semantically. Stack allocation is an optimization that the Go compiler can sometimes do for you, with no semantics associate
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by simiones 11mo ago
US colleges have a very open curriculum, where you have wide leeway in what classes you actually take, especially in the early years of study. If you're coming from more European-style universities, this is vastly different to the rela
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by simiones 11mo ago
The seed and the actual randomness is a property of the inferencing infrastructure, not the LLM. The LLM outputs probabilities, essentially. The paper is not claiming that you can take a dump of ChatGPT responses over the network and figure

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