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by smokel 2y ago
> We badly need something like this One might also argue that we badly need just one desktop OS. For some reason this is not reality. Zooming in on the Linux platform, there is not even one native user interface to target for. If you
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by smokel 2y ago
More input Stephanie, more!
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by smokel 2y ago
Not at all. I just tripped over your black-and-white presentation of things, and thought it might be helpful to provide some counterbalance.
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by smokel 2y ago
> Everyone's busy watching Magnus Carlsen. Actually, I was looking up Elo ratings of the top computer chess players, and learned that it is not that trivial to compare these, due to differences in hardware requirements and whatn
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by smokel 2y ago
What about ℕ? Seems pretty infinite to me, unless with "actually" you mean finite in time and space, which would make your argument a tautology. Or am I missing something?
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by smokel 2y ago
As a total cluebie on generative art, I would assume that the neural networks involved use linear weights and ReLU only. If the training data and the output are in RGB pixels, then it would be reasonable to suppose that this introduces som
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by smokel 2y ago
Photographic images generated by these systems tend to look like the graffiti portraits you see on fairground attractions. I've done a lot of photorealistic drawings, and the trick to make something look real, is to get the tones exact
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by smokel 2y ago
Ryanair is a great example of the ideology starting in the 1990s that individuals would want to spend every waking moment optimizing the most mundane purchases to save a fraction of a penny. I hope we will soon get over this nonsense and en
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by smokel 2y ago
> worded badly whatever I feel your pain. Perhaps it is time to increase the karma level required for downvoting.
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by smokel 2y ago
> There is absolutely nothing going on in the world to suggest that happen in the foreseeable future though. Let's check back in 30 years, and see if we have to reply in Mandarin, Arabic, Russian, or Malbolge.
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by smokel 2y ago
> We can't develop a universally coherent data set because Yet every child seems to manage, when raised by a small village, over a period of about 18 years. I guess we just need to give these LLMs a little more love and attention
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by smokel 2y ago
Using the term "lingua franca" for English demonstrates, twice, that this is only a temporary phenomenon.
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The links in the running text are broken. The links in the hamburger menu work fine.
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by smokel 2y ago
The limits on memorizing digits of pi have been lifted to great heights by Akira Haraguchi [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Haraguchi
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by smokel 2y ago
It might be naive, but I'm not the only one in using this distinction. See the "Definitions" section of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker
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by smokel 2y ago
My point exactly, but I obviously failed to communicate that :) Multiplication and addition are more fundamental than neural networks.
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by smokel 2y ago
People seem to be obsessed with finding fundamental properties in neural networks, but why not simply marvel at the more basic incredible operations of addition and multiplication, and stop there?
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by smokel 2y ago
At the risk of stating the obvious, the word "hacker" has (at least) two distinct meanings. The article talks about people who try to break into systems, and Hacker News is about people who like to hack away at their keyboard to
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by smokel 2y ago
I'm afraid this is a false dichotomy. People can use HTTPS now instead of HTTP, without degrading usability. This has taken a lot of people a lot of work, but everyone gets to enjoy better security. No need to lock and unlock every R
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by smokel 2y ago
My main concern is the impossibility of finding trust in library dependencies. A typical React app has somewhere over 2,000 packages from almost as many different sources. It is impossible to check the reputability of each contributor. I&
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by smokel 2y ago
As much as I agree with this, I must admit that it did trigger me to read the actual article :) I assume that in a not-so-distant future, we get AI powered summaries of the target page for free, similar to how Wikipedia shows a preview of
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by smokel 2y ago
Using the Node ecosystem for frontend development feels riskier every day, but at least the attack surface there is limited to development machines and the browser sandbox. I can sort of live with that. But I have a hard time finding trus
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by smokel 2y ago
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by smokel 2y ago
> It's funny how predictable all these comments are. Indeed they are, and that is why I come here. I like to see research being questioned and critiqued. If I am interested in simply taking everything I read on the internet for
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by smokel 2y ago
This seems to be the pattern that Angular uses. I've written quite a few Angular applications, but I have never been in a situation where a designer creates usable HTML and CSS, and the developers provide the code. It just seems li
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by smokel 2y ago
Very interesting. After reading this, I looked up the Wikipedia page for Creo [1], but could not find anything about this unique type of management. Would you mind adding something there for posteriority? https://en.wikipedia.or
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by smokel 2y ago
I've written a fully functional emulator for the Philips P2000T, my first true love [1]. As I still haven't found a way to legally ship it with a ROM (partially copyrighted by Microsoft), I'll keep it to myself. If anyone ha
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by smokel 2y ago
Amazing to read about the Recurse Center [1]. It seems to be some kind of artist-in-residence, but for programmers. I've spent some time in residencies as an artist, and it's amazing how much it helped me to open up new perspectiv
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Thanks for sharing. Note that that example is from the same research group, and also had its contrast artificially enhanced. I find it a bit odd that the humans are so small and lack details, whereas the boar even has fur, two distinguisha
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There appears to be some more information here, also on the dating method used (which apparently is laser ablation U-series analysis): https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/07/04/cave-painting-in-ind... I'm

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