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Nah, it would be like going from chemistry to chemical engineering. Doing chemical reactions in the lab by hand is great for learning but you aren't going to run a fleet of cars on hand made gas. Getting ML out of the lab and into pr
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Then what is clean? By that definition Solar and Wind aren't because copper and iron mines aren't clean.
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For something that is supposed to be clean it sure keeps making places unhabitable.
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If they could tell no one is there why didn't they ring the electrician rather than the cops? Doorbell going off? No one there? Must be crazy invisible teens next door, not a short in the doorbell.
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The cited findings, don't refute the culture argument though, and maybe even reenforces it. In US culture being illiterate is bad, being bad at math is not looked down up on. The stats show good at reading and bad at math. While ther
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Is 1 even true? I can't say I have ever heard of a school that allows phones out in class. Taking them till the end of school, or making a parent come claim them is the standard punishment I have seen.
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Which is rather surprising to me. I don't know what the contracts between Nintendo and developers say but I would have expected "rights to publish or distribute in perpetuity" would have been in there as part of the deal for
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Rather given the reproducibility crisis, how much salt does peer review nock off that grain? How often does peer review catch fraud or just bad science?
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If your job is to swing a hammer, then hammer swinging robot automates your job. If your job is to swing a hammer, then drill robot augments your job (your job is now swing hammer and drill hole). How that is different from drill bot autom
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Why bet? In the news recently Australian bank CBA was caught offshoring positions and claiming the jobs had been replaced by AI.
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Probably none, but you would think fraud would be illegal everywhere.
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>How many experiments, prototyopes, iterations go into building a car or a rocket? Many. Engineers do not come up with the final design up front. No where did anyone claim you need the full final design up front. For cars\rockets how ma
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>Engineering is just about wielding tools to solve problems. You don't need to use formal methods to do engineering in general. Way to general to be useful. By that definition the store clerk is an engineer (tool cash register, pro
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>Memorization is not a panacea. It is What you memorize that is important, you can't have a good discussion about a topic if you don't have the facts and logic of the topic in memory. On the other hand using memory to paper ov
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Sort of. They are a part of C#14 and .net10. Which officially releases in Nov, but has been out as preview for a while now.
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>I use it because it's the easiest way I've found to get all of these features. Every deployment I've seen that didn't use containers and something like k8s either didn't have a lot of these features, implemented
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I love python, as long as were are talking about small teams, short, and short lived programs. The lack of static types makes things quick to implement even if it isn't too sound, and the strong typing keeps you from fucking up too ba
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>Per the SQL standard, you can't use column aliases in WHERE clauses, because the selection (again, relational algebra) occurs before the projection. Don't blame the math for sloppy implementation. Nothing in the math suggest
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>If you look at airflow over an asymmetric airfoil [1], the air does move faster over the top. What is your point? Where do you think lift comes from? My point is the wing causes a pressure differential by redirecting air. Air speed cha
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Would buying a good chunk of land make you a "hoarder"? Depending on where you are 20 acres can be more than $10 million even before you build a house etc.
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"let's reason this out" is about gathering all the facts you need, not just noting down random words that are related. The map is not the terrain, words are not facts.
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Smoking increases the risk of getting cancer significantly. We say Smoking causes Cancer. Causal reasoning can be probabilistic. LLMs are not causal reasoning because there are no facts, only tokens. For the most part you can't ask
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> it was tested on a 4 layer deep toy model How do you see that impacting the results? It is the same algorithm just on a smaller scale. I would assume a 4 layer model would not be very good, but does reasoning improve it? Is there a r
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When Using AI they say "Context is King". "Reasoning" models are using the AI to generate context. They are not reasoning in the sense of logic, or philosophy. Mirage, whatever you want to call it, it is rather unlike
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Not really "in mass (quantities)" would mean large amounts produced, "on mass" means the factory sits on a very large rock. "en masse" is French for "in mass" not "on mass" so completely dif
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>Air over the top has to travel farther in the same amount of time There is no requirement for air to travel any where. Let alone in any amount of time. So this part of the AI's response is completely wrong. "Same amount of t
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In the 1950s when Cable started in the US, there were no Cable channels. Cable was literally renting a pipe to a big antenna instead of your own small antenna in your house, so you got broadcast with better signal strength. The first Cable
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>AI is important. But we don’t yet fully know why. And that is how you know it is hype and not actually important. Imagine any other actually important thing then try to add we don't know why. Doctors important but we don't k
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>solely on the amount of calories consumed vs burned. It is, but CI\CO as advice doesn't take in to account that you aren't a machine and we aren't calculating gas mileage. The system is both adaptive and reactive. CI an
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Marketing, Richard Bellman was trying to get funding and needed his work to sound high tech and fancy. According to wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#History_of... The word dynamic was chosen
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