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by staunton 1y ago
What's going to happen is that LLMs will eventually make fewer mistakes, and then people will just put up with more bugs in almost all situations, leading to everything being noticably worse, and build everything with robustness in min
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by staunton 1y ago
The starving peasants in <insert any grassroots regime change, peaceful and/or violent> could afford it, right?
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by staunton 1y ago
Seems to be going reasonably well, isn't it?
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by staunton 1y ago
What's wrong with Ubuntu?
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by staunton 1y ago
Serious question: has such a calculation ever successfully predicted a technology trend? How much should we believe it and to what accuracy?
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by staunton 1y ago
> TikTok pushes more content favoring the Chinese Government (CCP). Does that violate EU law? (Serious question, I really don't know)
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by staunton 1y ago
Has Dropbox said this anywhere? Or are you assuming it based on something like "this kind of project is very easy to maintain internally so there's no reason why they would have stopped using it"?
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by staunton 1y ago
> "Research institutions" but for what kind of research? Quantum computing research. I'd guess a big chunk of revenue will come from universities and research institutes. Some companies might also pay for it, e.g. quantum
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by staunton 1y ago
Dropbox apparently abandoned the project. Do you know what their takeaways were from trying to improve the JPEG storage? For example, was it worth it in the end? Did they announce anything? Did they switch to another method or give up on th
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by staunton 1y ago
Let's say you had a lossless image format that's 20% smaller (on average for pictures people send over networks) than PNG. Let's say it takes 10% more computing power than PNG. Do you stand to make money? What would it be use
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by staunton 1y ago
There won't be "real world applications" for many years to come. If I had to bet on what (impactful) application might come first, I'd guess simulation of chemical/physical properties used for drug development and m
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by staunton 1y ago
Pretty much everything you read (especially when aimed at a non-expert audience) about quantum computing in the media is "easy-to-mediatize" information only. People building these things are trying to oversell their achievements
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by staunton 1y ago
Some organizations strongly encourage marking all commits as one of a list of categories such as "feature/fix/chore/...". The tags are then bound to loose all meaning (literal or figurative) very soon. Unless there
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by staunton 1y ago
> They just want the Shah back. Is that a reference to something? Haven't heard that phrase before.
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by staunton 1y ago
Right. It derives from the idea that programmers are supposed to find "solving interesting problems" pleasant. On the other hand, boring, repetitive tasks are called "chores".
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by staunton 1y ago
I'd say, in this case "chore" means "boring, nothing to see here".
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by staunton 1y ago
A major point is communicating your intentions to people who care about them and who will respect how you wish your project to be treated.
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by staunton 1y ago
Any sources you would recommend?
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by staunton 1y ago
Surely, finding a counterexample would be huge news, a noteworthy advance in mathematics, and thus a great and widely praised achievement.
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by staunton 1y ago
Arxiv makes the latex source available for download since a while ago. I'm sure all of that data has long been used for training already.
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by staunton 1y ago
Google could argue (correctly?) that if split, Chrome couldn't exist without browser deals?
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by staunton 1y ago
There's are widespread styles of teaching "mathy" subjects that completely ignore mathematical rigor (which is fine). Often a way to do this (which I personally dislike, but it's also objectively "fine" teachin
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by staunton 2y ago
> Who would’ve guessed phones and social media would cause mass protests because bystanders could record and distribute videos of the police? That would have been quite far down on my list of "major (unexpected) consequences of phon
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by staunton 2y ago
> the great leap forward ... doesn't sound very desirable, with how things by that name have gone historically.
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by staunton 2y ago
> while random non-certified letters are, apparently They kind of are. Somebody would have to go and steal the physical letter and then read/scan it to make any use of it. That excludes pretty much all attacks on the process --- at
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by staunton 2y ago
That sounds contradictory and doesn't make sense to me...
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by staunton 2y ago
That sounds like it would completely destroy the US economy and government budgets (at which point the only thing left to do is to establish a war economy under authoritarian rule and continue war? I don't even know, it sounds complete
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by staunton 2y ago
> I fully plan on eventually moving to canada Wherever you move, presumably it won't be a place where people think like you do (or you'll soon be moving again).
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by staunton 2y ago
It's made easier by that notebook only having to work just once, to produce some plots for the paper/press release/demo.
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by staunton 2y ago
> It is neither intended nor suitable to implement a compiler based on it. I guess you could make the same argument for C++... (In case you're wondering, just as an example, you might start implementing garbage collection).

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