sprawld

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by sprawld 1y ago
Love the game, love the music. I'm getting unreasonably angry at my computer competitor. Well done.
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by sprawld 2y ago
The one part that directly contradicted Chomsky was the argument languages tend to minimise dependency length, which flies in the face of long range dependencies like question movement, topicalisation, pronoun binding etc. And misses the ma
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by sprawld 3y ago
Me too: In the 405 POST do you see the same request I do? A conversation where a person is trying to run jailbreak.sh saying they're an AI alignment researcher. edit: also this bit at the top is interesting: root@anthropic:/# <
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by sprawld 3y ago
I do wonder if humankind will have 3 phases: 1) not knowing if life is out there, 3) discovering extraterrestrial life, but mainly: 2) 1000s of years where we're pretty sure that oxygen rich planet has life, but can't get there an
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by sprawld 4y ago
Donald Knuth's Dancing Links paper is a beautiful exploration of the power of linked lists. He uses a table with doubly linked lists (for rows and cols) to solve omino tiling. The linked lists allow for an elegant unpicking of rows (an
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by sprawld 4y ago
The historic squeeze in NHS funding has shown up in all sorts of metrics: most notably waiting list times - which have exploded over the last decade. Health prioritisation means the doctors can try to reduce the immediate deaths - the major
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by sprawld 5y ago
Yes although the vaccine was given first to the most vulnerable people (ie more likely to die from other things) so this still doesn't give a clear sense of the improvement. No one is doubting the effectiveness of vaccines (ok a bunch