smokel

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by smokel 1y ago
Depending on what you mean exactly, "autocomplete" and big claims are not mutually exclusive.
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It would also be interesting to know how using AI is encouraged. What are best practices? What tools are genuinely helpful, such as automatic reviews in a build street, or sentiment analysis in commit messages?
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No, they (and many others before them) are genuinely trying to improve on the original research. The original paper "Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning" (2013) from Deepmind describes how agents can play Atari games, b
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The subject you are referring to is most likely Meta-Reinforcement Learning [1]. It is great that John Carmack is looking into this, but it is not a new field of research. [1] https://instadeep.com/2021/10/a-simpl
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Abstractions for high-level programming languages have always gone in multiple directions (or dimensions if you will). Operations in higher level languages abstract over multiple simpler operations in other languages, but they also allow f
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> I think the tricky part is that we tend to think that prompts with similar semantic meaning will give the same outputs (like a human) Trust me, this response would have been totally different if I were in a different mood.
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That's only on high-resolution screens. On lower resolution screens it can go as low as 178,820 bytes. Amazing.
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by smokel 1y ago
Here, have an upvote from this anonymous coward.
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Thanks for taking the time to answer. I think it is valuable to know that some people like this kind of game. Similarly, some people like "making money". Several people on this forum are confused on why they do not make money, e
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Why would one negotiate on a few hundred dollars when they're apparently capable of negotiating deals worth hundreds of thousands? In my opinion, the marginal benefit does not outweigh the potential downside of being perceived as pett
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Most countries have lacked the capability to manufacture basic infrastructure for ages. It may look scary to you now, but it has been looking scary for decades to some. Face it, we depend on a global economy. Every now and then something
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Selling them and supporting that in the field requires quite some infrastructure you'd have to build. Why go through all that trouble if you already make higher margins renting them out? Also, if they are so good, it's best to no
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I don't think these problems are opposing; both are real. I totally agree that user space is not as much of a useful concept on a single-user device. Originally, it helped to shield users of the same system from each other. Most of t
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There are even developers who do not learn to touch type. Baffles the mind. Making Caps Lock an additional Ctrl, and using Emacs keybindings (supported in nearly every IDE and on many command lines) makes one even more productive, because
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Having root access implies that you can do all sorts of things: change files, install new software, new kernel modules, etc. Locking this down makes the attack surface for malicious parties much smaller. Many exploits start in user-space
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> A total of 34,500 ports were targeted, indicating the thoroughness and well-engineered nature of the attack. How is that more complicated than a for-loop?
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Even though you seem to have a lot of support on Hacker News, I don't think making root access a fundamental right is preferable. Historically, computers have not granted you access to everything. Most home computers used to have ROM
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Facebook used to designate the 1,000+ people you incidentally talked to as "friends." I think the term does not have the same meaning for everyone.
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Do you remember television?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawn Not mentioned in the Wikipedia article, but in a referenced article [2]: "Another puzzling phenomenon is that some male animals, men included, yawn in association with penile er
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by smokel 1y ago
> There are no more “SQL vs. NoSQL” debates. MongoDB, Cassandra, InfluxDB, and other NoSQL databases are seen as technical dead ends. Snowflake and Databricks are acquiring PostgreSQL companies. No one talks about Hadoop. The Lakehouse
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by smokel 1y ago
By that reasoning most people would not have to learn how to read or write, or do basic arithmetic. Not everyone should hold a PhD in compiler design, but simply being able to write some BASIC commands might be hugely beneficial to society.
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I think you are misinterpreting the terminology. Of course these models are not understanding physics in the way a physicists or a mathematician would. But they do form a model of the world that can be used for forecasting and reasoning, i
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Ferrocene [1] apparently offers an ISO-26262 certified version of Rust. I am thoroughly confused about these certification processes, but it also seems that AdaCore itself [2] has adapted the Rust compiler to be certified as well. [1] htt
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by smokel 1y ago
Took me a while to figure out what you meant, but apparently this blog post is hosted on Tably [1], which allows one to edit the page locally. One would expect there to be a setting to disable these features for a public post. [1] https:&
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Stating this without any arguments is not very convincing. Perhaps you remember that language models were completely useless at coding some years ago, and now they can do quite a lot of things, even if they are not perfect. That is progres
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No, what I was trying to convey is that there could theoretically be multiple consciousnesses in one brain. These are however unaware of each other. A person might have the impression that there is only one "me", but there could
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For all we know, there might be tons of conscious attention processes active in parallel. "You" only get to observe one, but there could be many. You'd never know because the processes do not observably communicate with eac
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Learning to be bored will be of great value once AI takes over all our jobs.
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That may be true, but I'm not entirely convinced about the difference. Just moving your head around in a forest also gives an amazing amount of input. And if you're being chased by a tiger through a jungle, you cross about 1,0

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