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by stefs 1y ago
i use kotlin at work mainly for frontend development, but i choose it for almost all projects i have control over (i.e. personal projects which are usually backend development and smaller scratch-an-itch tools at work). that said, i haven&#
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by stefs 1y ago
I agree, but I'm not even sure that's possible on a foundational level. If you train it on human text so it can emulate human intelligence it will also have an emulated human personality. I doubt you can have one without the other
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by stefs 1y ago
ETH zürich is going release a fully open source model later this summer
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by stefs 1y ago
i too hope we soon replace all fossil fuel plants with alternatives, but i don't think it'll be nuclear, for the reasons given above. there'll probably be an increase of solar and wind for many more years, as they're a s
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by stefs 1y ago
a nuclear power plant is very expensive and takes a long time to build. they're also designed to deliver constant output (i don't know how fast they can de-/increase output), so if power prices get into negative territory due
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by stefs 1y ago
they were cut off from trade as much as possible (of course there have been rogue nations, but those weren't equivalent in trading/buying power) - and that's one of the reasons, they're not winning the war, even though t
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by stefs 1y ago
the youtube translations aren't really good either. i'm constantly puzzled by videos with absolutely nonsensical titles until i remember that it's probably auto-translated and have to work out what the original meaning was. f
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by stefs 1y ago
my personal opinion is that the intelligence ceiling scales with the complexity of the environment it operates in. this means that we could theoretically get something resembling AGI in a simulated environment complex enough. in practice, s
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by stefs 1y ago
this would introduce a problem: a periodical request to continue thoughts with, for example, the current time - to simulate the passing of time - would quickly flood the context with those periodical trigger tokens. imo our brain has this i
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by stefs 1y ago
immigration can't be the answer forever. at some point we're going to need alternative solutions.
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by stefs 1y ago
you can be smart in one area and stupid in others. the "not knowing you're stupid in others" is part of the "stupid in others".
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by stefs 1y ago
so, the actual lesson to be learned was more along the lines of "never trust lies".
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by stefs 1y ago
wrong thread
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by stefs 1y ago
imo: people used to be outside a lot more. by summer they usually had a good tan, so they didn't suffer the sunlight that much. of course this did lead to _premature_ (from our modern point of view) skin aging. heat and light are diffe
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by stefs 1y ago
For uncommon values you could still use exact language, i.e. just say "1 in 10,000".
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by stefs 1y ago
maybe, maybe not. it's one tool at your disposal. it's easy to guard against zip bombs if you know about them - the question is, how thorough are the bot devs you're targeting? there are other techniques. for example: hold a
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by stefs 1y ago
PS: emphasis mine PPS: and i meant "the finns", not "the finnish"
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by stefs 1y ago
> The law does not entirely ban the use of mobile phones at school, and their use will be permitted in certain situations. But generally, the use of phones *during class time* will be prohibited. so, the finnish don't prohibit that
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by stefs 1y ago
the problem with this is that for a tarpit, you just don't want to make it expensive for bots, you also want to make it cheap for yourself. this isn't cheap for you. a zip bomb is.
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by stefs 1y ago
please do not use stacked charts! i think it's close to impossible to not to distort the readers impression because a) it's very hard to gauge the height of a certain data point in the noise and b) they're implying a dependen
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by stefs 1y ago
if i spend 30 minutes on the toilet, standing up again is my biggest problem
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by stefs 1y ago
but that's the unrealistic part. in the real world people don't understand each other all the time, but all those "sorry, what did you say?"s would be annoying on screen (like so many other things that are skipped in mov
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by stefs 1y ago
chess or go. but i agree with the others - AI currently shines not at being better than best-in-class humans, it's - sometimes - useful at doing intellectual chores.
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by stefs 1y ago
this feels like blocking terms like "null" or "select" just because you failed to properly parameterize your SQL queries.
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by stefs 1y ago
Of course not, but this here was a memory access error and rust would have prevented this.
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by stefs 1y ago
Features in the software world do sell, and they're cheap up to a point. But then complexity and technical debt lead to the hockey stick explosion of cost.
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by stefs 2y ago
the two are not unrelated. if it were purely about the money, they EU wouldn't enact any animal welfare and environmental regulations - but they do. of course they have to protect their markets now, but the question is whether the U.S.
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by stefs 2y ago
> They’ll ship in parts, and final assembly will take place in the U.S. i thought new the tariffs also applied to parts (with a few exceptions)?
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by stefs 2y ago
the good production worker's wages came from the unions. the GOP is fervently anti-union (with the exception of the police union maybe). they also oppose minium wages. there is no reason to think they'd support wage raises.
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by stefs 2y ago
> Another channel is writing a formal letter requesting your GDPR rights to deletion on paper GDPR is EU, UK is not. how does this work? surley the UK didn't adopt the GDPR voluntarily?

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