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by tgv 8mo ago
Because a browser needs users, and some people like AI features. Firefox can't win the battle, or even survive, on an AI hating, nerdy user base.
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by tgv 8mo ago
True. Math is drier than physics. But Terrence Tao is well known, and there are a lot of nerds on the planet. The last popular math book I read wasn't good (Humble Pi; a Comedy of Math Errors), but I did enjoy e.g. How to Lie with Stat
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by tgv 8mo ago
There's no dynamic memory allocation with (100%) Spark. That's really limiting. You can to write "unsafe" code, but that has the same problems as Ada.
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by tgv 8mo ago
I've dabbled a bit in Ada, but it wouldn't be my choice either. It's still susceptible to memory errors. It's better behaved than C, but you still have to be careful. And the tooling isn't great, and there isn'
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by tgv 8mo ago
Thousands? You might be surprised. The Order of Time by Rovelli sold 1 million copies. Hawking sold 10 million. I think 100k for Tao is feasible.
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by tgv 8mo ago
AI Mary, bereft of grace, paid for by sinners. I left the church a long time ago, but this still makes me sad.
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by tgv 8mo ago
And all that at the reasonable costs of a few billion lives. What a bargain!
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by tgv 8mo ago
I don't think data collection was linguistics' greatest problem. Getting a lot of data from random places isn't going to help.
429.
by tgv 8mo ago
Lol!
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by tgv 8mo ago
From Dave Barry's Christmas Shopping: a Survivor's Guide ( https://davebarry.com/misccol/christmas.htm ) Gifts for Women Again, you should avoid buying clothes, but not because women don't like clothes. Th
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by tgv 8mo ago
I think the parent tries to refer to Carbon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_(programming_language)
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by tgv 8mo ago
I don't think class is supposed to correlate 100% to current socio-economic class. It's more like tech-oriented entrepreneurs and some of their high-level staff are a class, or rather, the class that stands to win when LLMs get ad
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by tgv 8mo ago
A more favorable look is that the impeded person sounds like someone who has to learn the language as a non-native. If you've read the bit about her learning to walk consciously, it's not an odd comparison. Everything has to be do
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by tgv 8mo ago
Idk. My applications are editor-like. So they fetch a bit of data, but rendering the edit options in HTML is much larger in size then the data, especially since there are multiple views on the same data. So that would put a larger burden on
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by tgv 8mo ago
It's of course a quote of a handful of words from a 5000 word article. Not to be snarky, but did you read it?
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by tgv 8mo ago
True, and other changes in society as well. But in contrast to e.g. the introduction of Phillips screws, AI (or rather: LLMs) is a biggy, and (IMO) one with where the negatives clearly outweigh the positives.
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by tgv 8mo ago
It looks very convincing, and funky. How does the simulation work?
438.
by tgv 8mo ago
[0-9A-Z] doesn't fit in 5 bits, which impedes shift/ctrl bits.
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by tgv 8mo ago
Sure, I totally agree with the sentiment, but it's not the right way to formulate an objection.
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by tgv 8mo ago
Not the best argument, as the answer is breathing.
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by tgv 8mo ago
Author certainly has a point. The central idea is (IMO) best expressed in this quote: > to focus on its [i.e., AI's] benefits to you, you’re forced to ignore its costs to others.
442.
by tgv 8mo ago
You could say that it waged a silent war, and our kids' attention spans lost.
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by tgv 8mo ago
Apart from the fact that that is utterly, demonstrably false, and the fact that corpora is plural, still the fact remains that we don't speak in those text about things that don't need to be spoken about. Hence the LLM will miss t
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by tgv 8mo ago
Of course there are cases where SSR makes sense, but servers are slow; the network is slow; going back and forth is slow. The browser on modern hardware, however, is very fast. Much faster than the "CPU"s you can get for a reasona
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by tgv 8mo ago
Audio AI companies are just another death star, intent on reducing human creativity to "make a song like Let it be, but in the style of Eminem, and change the lyrics to match the birthday of my mother in law". The only rebels are
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by tgv 8mo ago
I don't think "separation of concerns" is entirely dead. Ideally, the CSS is readable and maintainable, and that implies structure. If you have a bunch of (co-)related components, you don't want to find/replace tail
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by tgv 8mo ago
> Us having to specify things that we would never specify This is known, since 1969, as the frame problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_problem . An LLM's grasp of this is limited by its corpora, of cours
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by tgv 8mo ago
They're ending webhooks? Bummer. By the looks of it, they're going to introduce a more complex alternative. No, two, because why not. Why make something work when you can also make two things that work half, right?
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by tgv 8mo ago
It doesn't rely on gcc. Any C compiler will do. The rest is there to build it on " Linux, OSX, and Windows using MSYS2 and mingw32". Indeed for cross-compilation, as it won't run on CP/M.
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by tgv 8mo ago
Explain how sending EEG recordings is progress. And why faster access to the latest tech is always good, for everyone.

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