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by skydhash 2y ago
You: (In Prolog-like pseudocode) female(alice) sister_of(X, Y) :- !eq(X, Y), female(X), family_of(X, Y) brother_of(X, Y) :- !eq(X, Y), male(X), family_of(X, Y) [M] :- sister_of(M, alice) [N] :- brother_of(N, alice) [A] :- a
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by skydhash 2y ago
The best compression relies on understanding. What LLM is is mostly data how humans use words. We understand how to make this data (which is a compression of human text) and use it (generate something). AKA it’s “production rules”, but stat
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by skydhash 2y ago
> Language itself encodes information. Which it does in a lossy manner. Information is independent from language. The more complex the information, the more language fails. Which is why there is so many mediums for communication. Langu
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by skydhash 2y ago
The "I" is stemmed from the theory of the mind. We can only access our own mind and thus has no way to infer the thoughts of other. So we observe them and infer based on our own patterns. In a sense, we assume that others have the
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by skydhash 2y ago
> If information is increasingly hyper-abundant and attention is not, we must increasingly learn to value high bandwidth / compressed communication. Like TikTok. What has grown is irrelevant information. We don't need compres
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by skydhash 2y ago
I strongly believe there's nothing there other than gibberish. Piping /dev/random to a word selector will probably enumerates everything inside that set. There's a reason we can translate between every language on earth.
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by skydhash 2y ago
> convincing simulations of conscious thought entirely via predicting language tokens means something profound about the nature of language itself. > there's also something big about us waiting there under the surface. I don&#x27
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by skydhash 2y ago
It’s text (word) manipulation based on probalistic rules derived from analyzing human-produced text. And everyone knows language is imperfect. That’s why we have introduced logic and formalism so that we can reliably transmit knowledge. Tha
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by skydhash 2y ago
> Lack of awareness isn't a problem anymore. Everyone knows, nobody cares. I strongly doubt that based on what I've seen. People install random apps on their phone just because they wanted to crop a picture and frame it or tr
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by skydhash 2y ago
> I'm curious how the culture was though. I always get the vibe that Microsoft has never been "end user oriented" if that makes sense. They always seemed to be making a product for other businesses. I started on Windows
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by skydhash 2y ago
By its nature, pop art and culture reduce itself to the common expectations of everyone. And as such has only few knobs to tune. But humans can appreciate a wide range of qualities and the more you play on these dimensions, the more reduced
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by skydhash 2y ago
> We figured out that art is simple math. Art is not about making things beautiful. It's about making things meaningful. Unless compelled by external reasons (Money,...) artists wish to express themselves and to do so the best way
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by skydhash 2y ago
OS X Maverics and iOS 6 were also nice examples of skeuomophism done right.
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by skydhash 2y ago
I think many people forgot what mastery entails. It's all about being reliable to reproduce a process or solving a problem. Sometimes the process is deterministic and we engineer a tool for it. Or it's not and we need to approach
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by skydhash 2y ago
> the internet circa 1994 or we could be discussing bitcoin circa 2011. People were clear about the value of both. SMTP by itself was already a clear value for business. The WWW itself was invented in 1989. Same for Bitcoin as the title
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by skydhash 2y ago
I have an instance of Forgejo and it’s so snappy. Even though I’m the only user, but the server is only 2GB, 2vcores with other services present. Itp On the other side, Gitlab doesn’t work with JS disabled.
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by skydhash 2y ago
I read epubs, and they’re mostly html and css files zipped. The whole book usually comes under a MB if there’s not a lot of big pictures. Then you come across a website and for just an article you have to download tens of MBs. Disable JavaS
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by skydhash 2y ago
Like you do for physical gatherings?
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by skydhash 2y ago
That’s because you were expected to read the manual, and then afterward ask your question. That reduced the number of questions and it’s more likely to have an answer. The forum was an extension to to the manuals (for isolated cases) and a
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by skydhash 2y ago
It’s free and easy to setup. That was the same as Facebook, Twitter,… and that’s because corporations have money to throw at the problem. The issue is that their intention is not the same as the users and after a while, the illusionary coop
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by skydhash 2y ago
> The only thing I was missing was when I didn't know how exactly to phrase something (the exact keyword to use). I think that's the only things GUI (or TUI) directories have over CLI. I remember having Wikipedia locally (eng
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by skydhash 2y ago
The fact is that computers automate most tedious parts of business and personal workflows. But not everyone can "computer-speak". Here come the programmers and for a time, it was sane. Then people wanted more automation and tech c
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by skydhash 2y ago
The issue was not finding the libraries code. The issue was the churn. So one day, you have a (in my case, small) set of libraries to get things going. Then 2 years after, compilation issues as they all have different requirements. So you h
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by skydhash 2y ago
> your answer would be much more useful with an example of what those tools would be Paperless, DevonThink, even Calibre (the ebook manager) can do it. You only need a day or two to categorize the documents. No need for huge amounts of R
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by skydhash 2y ago
> my company started using Google's centralized browser/device management which infects the entire browser not just the single profile that is tied to my corporate Google account Personal profiles on your work computer? That&
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by skydhash 2y ago
It's the same "make it work; make it right; make it fast". The issue is that Scrum has emphasized the first one at the expanse of the other two. Minor changes over the lifetime of the project snowball into an inconsistent and
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by skydhash 2y ago
Encountered the same problem last year. My tech stack was React Native as I was mostly building stuff that has few interactions and it was easy to get something good on both platforms. Then, I got a notice from Google about API version. Upd
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by skydhash 2y ago
Common Lisp works well for the second case. But it seems that some programmers are uncomfortable with the notion of code generating code. And as you said, it does require discipline as you need to focus the language's power. Other lang
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by skydhash 2y ago
> nobody's going to summarise that in an e-mail to me. You don't need to know everything that's happening in your friends' life. They may want to share some news and it'd be ok to not know if you were not prese
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by skydhash 2y ago
Linux is a power user tool and I think that's great. Linux Mint and others are trying to lower the learning curve, but they don't have the same resources that Microsoft and Apple have. But they do manage to do well. You can create

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