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by tgv 10mo ago
Oh look, the purity police have arrived, and this time they're the AI-bros. How righteous does one have to be before being allowed to voice criticism?
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by tgv 10mo ago
First off, the price: £36 was much more than "£1,600 in today’s money". A railway clerk made £2 12 0 in a week in 1917, (less than £10/month if I did the shillings and all that properly), which makes the scooter price the equ
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by tgv 10mo ago
Me neither. My go code doesn't have any auto-generation. IMO it should be used sparingly, in cases where you need a practically different language for expressivity and correctness, such as a parser-generator.
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by tgv 10mo ago
In one word: no. In more detail: Chomsky is/was not concerned with the models themselves, but rather with the distinction between statistical modelling in general, and "clean slate" models in particular on the one hand, and s
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by tgv 10mo ago
I log authorization errors as errors. Are they errors? It depends on how you read the logs. Perhaps you want to distinguish between internal, external and non-attributable errors for easier grepping.
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by tgv 10mo ago
From the FAQ * Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. * Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. * Please don't fulminate. Plea
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by tgv 10mo ago
Lots of disagreement, but from necessity I (sort of) agree. Firefox foremost needs users. If it takes AI features to get them, so be it. However, Firefox cannot afford to lose its loyal user base, so they have to be optional.
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by tgv 10mo ago
I think not everyone in this thread understands that. Someone wrote "It's a time machine", followed up by "Imagine having a conversation with Aristotle."
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by tgv 10mo ago
There's a whole regiment of immigrants who worked on the Manhattan project, as we all know. We also know that the USSR obtained much of their knowledge on how to build the bomb through espionage.
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by tgv 10mo ago
I got a bit into SPARK (a subset Ada of that has formal verification) with AoC, and while it can be tricky, SPARK is quite flexible in how much you prove. Dafny sounds interesting, but I can't find a comparison between the two. There&#
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by tgv 10mo ago
Isn't Thunderbird (more or less) independent? "Thunderbird operates in a separate, for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation."
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by tgv 10mo ago
Don't count on it. Have you ever seen how much time and effort has been put in making Firefox, Safari and Chrome compliant and performant? It'll take Ladybird ages to get anywhere near. Someone could try to merge e,g, V8 and Ser
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by tgv 10mo ago
Allow? It just happens, and when you're the weaker part in the equation, there's not much you can do against it. Where Russia and the USA give up power, China will grab it.
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by tgv 10mo ago
Thiel and Musk want to decentralize as much as possible, and split everything into small autonomies, so they can pit different jurisdictions against each other, and pressure/manipulate them. That's fairly sure. The goal has never
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by tgv 11mo ago
> It's proven that humans can just barely sense large-scale magnetic fields It's tentatively proven that humans react to large magnetic fields. The reaction can come from simple interference, without ever being processed as
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by tgv 11mo ago
That misses the point by a mile and a half: nobody let's their children eat unlimited amounts of chocolate. They do, however, let their children access Tiltok, Youtube, etc.
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by tgv 11mo ago
> The bet is that the effect size (if any) will be large enough to be informative despite the noise. But you have no grounds to ascribe it to the posited difference. Finding no effect might yield more information, but that's hard: g
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by tgv 11mo ago
It's a rather old-fashioned style of tokenization. In the 1980s this was common, I think. But, as noted in another comment, it doesn't work that well for languages with a richer morphology, or compounding. It's a very "E
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by tgv 11mo ago
Wilders received a Russia-Netherlands friendship pin, and posted the picture of him posing with it (in the Duma, IIRC) on this twitter account on Mar 1, 2018.
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by tgv 11mo ago
COBOL. Now there's a sensible name.
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by tgv 11mo ago
And don't isomers share their name? And isotopes don't change the name either, I think?
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by tgv 11mo ago
First: dyslexia has little to do with parsing, which is generally understood to relate to structure/relations between words. Second: multiple levels of language processing have been identified, although it's not at all clear how w
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by tgv 11mo ago
Afasia, and general measures of "normal" performance. There are various kinds of afasia, often linked to specific brain areas (Wernicke's and Broca's are well-known). And M/EEG and fMRI research suggests similar dis
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by tgv 11mo ago
There are more differences between English and French than you just described, and they can affect your measurement. Even the corpora you use cannot be the same. There isn't "ceteris paribus" (holding everything else consta
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by tgv 11mo ago
That looks nice. Going to give it a try.
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by tgv 11mo ago
However ... language production and perception are quite separated in our heads. There's basically no parallel to LLMs. Note that the article doesn't give any, and is extremely vague about the biological underpinnings of language.
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by tgv 11mo ago
The effects are there for everyone to see. GenZ is depressed and can't hold a thought for more than a few seconds. No, it's not because of the housing or job market, it's the phones. Check e.g. Jonathan Haidt: https:/&#
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by tgv 11mo ago
It's bloody obvious how damaging social media, especially on mobile devices, is to everyone's mental state. Check out what teachers have to say about the attention span of the current generation pupils. But no, your access to what
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by tgv 11mo ago
Let's not forget: it's pretty unlikely that two orgs come up with the same administration/data-analyis for which they use those spreadsheets, so most of those proposed SaaS applications would have just one customer. There is
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by tgv 11mo ago
I found it hard too. Perhaps the difference with the other people responding is the size the font is rendered. On my screen, the distance between the top of a "d" and the bottom of a "y" in the body text is 7mm. That cor

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