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by taneq 1y ago
I can't speak for everyone but personally, that would be fantastic. It's already magical, having a mostly-accurate oracle on my laptop that takes up the same space as a TV series but that I can literally converse with and that kno
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by taneq 1y ago
Tragedy of the commons was a thing to consider when we had sheep that grazed on the commons. It changed significantly when we invented combine harvesters. The listicle-rot was already painful when the listicles were human-written and poorly
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by taneq 1y ago
That’s precisely the problem, though. The internet is already rapidly filling with AI-generated slop, and it takes a non-trivial amount of human brain power to determine whether the how-to article you’re reading is actually a reliable sourc
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by taneq 1y ago
> it's basically required to have two servos per joint to preload each other to kill that wiggle room Couldn’t you preload with some form of spring?
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by taneq 1y ago
I was confused by the step where the tiles are generated by tracing the outline and then sorted afterwards. It seems like this could be faster to do earlier (possibly even largely precomputed) using something analogous to oldschool scan con
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by taneq 1y ago
Hi! Thanks for your thoughts. I have no issue with pontificating about angles and pinheads. What I have issue with is statements like "platonic solids are the fundamental building blocks of the universe" where the justification is
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by taneq 1y ago
In all fairness, SMBC's takes on most things are better, funny, and shorter.
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by taneq 1y ago
All of the 'great philosophers' got virtually everything wrong (and where they got things right, it was by luck rather than virtue) right up to the point where a few people started believing in wacky concepts like "the existe
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by taneq 1y ago
The logs and traceability are the secret sauce here. It's one thing to have an artifact that mysteriously replicates the functionality of a well known IP-protected product without just straight up copying it. It's another thing to
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by taneq 1y ago
Hmm, so basically automated clean room reimplementation, using coding agents? Our concepts of authorship, copying, and equivalence are getting a real workout these days!
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by taneq 1y ago
And fence post errors.
732.
by taneq 1y ago
It wasn't meant to come across that snarky. Sorry about that. :/
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by taneq 1y ago
Wow, almost like Deepseek’s impressive performance is the result of optimisation by smart engineers.
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by taneq 1y ago
Treat it as that enthusiastic co-worker who’s always citing blog posts and has a lot of surface knowledge about style and design patterns and whatnot, but isn’t that great on really understanding algorithms. They can be productive to talk t
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by taneq 1y ago
I feel like there’s also a maximum viable intelligence that’s compatible with reality. Beyond a certain point, the smarter people are, the higher the tendency for them to be messed up in some way.
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by taneq 1y ago
I always thought those were a feature. I figured they were paid recruitment, they also seemed to be relevant to most of the community here, win win!
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by taneq 1y ago
> I never understood why Reddit, which always tried to give off the "for the little guy" vibes was so rabidly against anyone promoting their own work. Reddit hasn't been 'for the little guy' for a decade, that&#x
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by taneq 1y ago
A surprising number of things are Turing-complete, I wouldn't be too surprised if with the addition of some clever rules, this list was one of them. :D https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/articles/accidentally_turing_comple..
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by taneq 1y ago
All modern stacks are CRUD-complete as well as Turing-complete? ;)
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by taneq 1y ago
This is the my response too. There are plenty of valid criticisms of our modern society, but nothing’s stopping you wandering off into the forest to forage for berries. We don’t, because even with all its flaws, living in civilisation is in
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by taneq 1y ago
This reminds me of game design (and especially MMORPG game design) where, while the designers are attempting to offer "meaningful choices", the mindset of the player base makes it so that anything (talent point, piece of gear, spe
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by taneq 1y ago
I went to look up a relevant story I remembered, and Neutron Tide is indeed it.
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by taneq 1y ago
Ever have a cheap set of external speakers that got super loud in the first quarter turn of the volume knob but were pretty much the same loudness after that? Yeah, linear pot for the volume knob. No need for an encoder and software, though
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by taneq 1y ago
You use a unit that maps well between the thing you want to measure and the thing you want to know about it. If you do this enough with the same until you give it a name. I don’t get the author’s complaint.
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by taneq 1y ago
A perfect blend of LMGTFY and helpfulness. :)
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by taneq 1y ago
I asked for a large asteroid impacting the Pacific ocean. Interestingly the resultant tidal wave apparently heads directly to Honolulu, then to Terminal Island, then reverses course and visits Sydney before traveling overland through New So
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by taneq 1y ago
I thought ‘86’ in this sense was rhyming slang for ‘nix’ (ie. ‘nullify’ / ‘negate’)?
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by taneq 1y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/8bmuk8/a_horse_walks... ;)
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by taneq 1y ago
Surely we’re way past the point now that models could be improved via RLHF using upvotes, or something equally banal?
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by taneq 1y ago
I’m intrigued by this statement. It seems obvious to me that some artworks are ‘higher quality’ than others. You wouldn’t, I’d presume, consider the Sistine Chapel or the Mona Lisa to be the same quality as a dickbutt scribbled on a napkin?

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