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by smokel 2y ago
> But it is true of all the arts that narrative is a potential factor of the artwork. You lost me there. Either you're saying nothing (everything has potential for a narrative), or you're not making sense. There is "an
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The idea is that the motor control is pretty hard to program, and by using reinforcement learning, one only has to tell the computer whether it hits the right keys (reward). The reinforcement learning algorithm takes in the state of the fin
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This seems a bit naive. There are no arguments given as to why things would be better if the AI is more like a human. Just look at how the world works: we all read and write crazy little symbols, which take children years to understand. W
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There's a bit of survivorship bias in your reasoning. The extremely wealthy built beautiful things that we still enjoy. But the horrible places that common people had to call home in the 19th century are not treasured in the same way
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Unfortunately, the philosophy of Free Software does not account for the scale at which software is being run now. Having the source code to a printer driver available is a completely different thing than being dependent on a platform, becau
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> Almost every 6-10 year old kid who had to use physical dictionaries intuitively learned (probably even discovered by themselves) something like binary search. I find this highly unlikely. It might be true for those children who grow
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If you persevere but don't succeed, please let us know in, say, one year time. I'd be happy to support $10 for a story of failure. It would be tremendously helpful as a counterweight to all the free success stories out there.
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In earlier days, it may have been more commercially viable to create polished developer tooling -- Turbo Pascal was a great example. Unfortunately, the world has become more complex, as everything is now interconnected, and processing powe
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One thing I didn't see mentioned was that the resolution of text mode was typically higher than that of graphics mode. This is possible because it uses less RAM on the video card. 80x25 uses 720x400, whereas the default graphics modes
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This might be a serious problem for tinkering platforms such as Glitch and Kinopio [1]. They are awesome, but they strongly inspire me to take creativity just a little step further and build my own implementation. This then leads to a frag
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> The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use. ... Moore’s law changed the world at 2x every 18 months; this is unbelievably stronger. Moore waited at least five years [1]
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Decisions and Dragons: A guide to the perilous world of reinforcement learning(decisionsanddragons.com)
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Here are some contemporary links for those looking to learn more about reinforcement learning: - Reinforcement Learning Discussion on Discord, https://discord.com/invite/5nDB9dzZvp - /r/reinforcementlearning,
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Hah, I spent countless hours poking bits around in the Cirrus Logic card that I had. I found an undocumented (to me, at least) mode that showed 16-bit images by alternating two 8-bit images. I put it in a demo to show at a demoparty, but t
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Yup. I wrote a TSR program to extend Deluxe Paint II on PC with animation features. Never heard about APIs, and simply copied data from the VGA memory, overlaying my own user interface on top of DP. The thought of doing this with contempo
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Have you tried reading books instead? Shaping thoughts typically takes a lot of time, and blogs may not be the best medium to find interesting information.
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I actually wrote it myself. I set a personal goal in trying to be more helpful, and after two years of effort, this is what comes out naturally. The most helpful thing that I do is probably not posting senseless things. I do sometimes as
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by smokel 2y ago
I really like this idea. However, it also highlights a key problem that LLMs don’t solve: while they’re great at generating code, that’s only a small part of real-world software development. Setting up a GitHub account, establishing credibi
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by smokel 2y ago
Before this comment is being downvoted, please note the irony. The AI models may solve some technical problems, but the actual problems to be solved are of a societal nature, and won't be solved in our lifetimes.
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You are probably being downvoted because your comment is not very helpful, and also a bit rude (ending with "dude"). It would be more helpful to provide some information on why you think this person is not using R1. For example:
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I'm afraid it's not so clear. There are different perspectives on this. For one, apart from humans, some animals, and now LLMs, there are but few entities that are able to apply reasoning. It may well be that reason is something
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by smokel 2y ago
This doesn't seem to work for me. I'm slightly convinced that when I'm an hour away from dying, I won't have to care about anything anymore very soon. It just seems to make me care even less. I wouldn't be surpris
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And here's a link to that particular Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1dsfv5f/to_...
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Am I correct in understanding that you waited at most one week for a reply? In my experience with large companies, that's rather short. Some nudging may be required every now and then, but expecting a response so fast seems slightly u
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It is good to wind down every now and then during work time. Also, many people here work on multiple projects for different customers. Having a security breach for one affecting the other is not something you'd be happy with.
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Please forgive my laziness, but I might be a good example of your target audience, and I didn't bother to login. There are no companies or developers to browse, and I don't see the added value over, say, LinkedIn or Hacker News. T
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This is something I really like about Common Lisp, but after ~30 years of progress, I am a bit disappointed with improvements in the field of interactive development. The process you describe is possible in JavaScript and many other languag
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Interesting story. I am not entirely convinced that all credit should go to the programming language here, though. My theory is that communicating abstractions is hard. If you work on your own, or in a (very) small team, you can come up w
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Hm, I sense a very positive attitude, so I'm eager to hear more. I do have some doubts though -- concepts such as compassion and love have been around since, and even before, Christ and Buddha. I don't necessarily see these conce
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I think it's even worse. We are solving a lot of mediocre problems and customers are impressed at that. But that's not the problem we need to solve. There are wars going on, and the climate is changing in undesirable ways, and we

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