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by tgv 1y ago
> could go either way Why do innate differences stop at the brain-blood barrier? Isn't it quite reasonable to assume that physical, biological differences exist everywhere in the body, since birth? A priori there's no reason fo
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by tgv 1y ago
It's so obvious. Someone born without legs will not be able to run, no matter how much he or she imagines being a runner. When we can't see the thing that obviously explains such a discrepancy, we call it "talent." In ma
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by tgv 1y ago
Idk. If someone can pinpoint a single cause, it is binary. Not that I think that's possible: the human mind is so poorly understood, a real cause-effect relationship is scifi. > some people are barely distracted by loud noises ... I
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by tgv 1y ago
Local storage gets erased at some point. Perhaps it takes so long that nobody notices.
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by tgv 1y ago
I just wrote a reply elsewhere, but we got a new vibe-coded (marketing) website. How is an LLM going to write test cases for that? And what good will they do? I assume it will also change the test cases when you ask it to rewrite things.
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by tgv 1y ago
Idk. The company I work for had a new website designed, and it was built with an (unknown) LLM, through repeated prompting, I believe (so basically a large document that starts the initial description and then adds fixes). It's deploye
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by tgv 1y ago
I'm building things for internal users, and they are quite demanding. Many features don't get used often (as is obvious), but may be critical for serving different clients. The software is also open to external users, and they rea
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by tgv 1y ago
That's understood. Science is never the definitive answer, but I added the "authority" bit for a reason: if you don't know what the mass of an electron is or how you could go about finding out, you end up having to accep
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by tgv 1y ago
Your reply is not very HN, but you have a point. Many things cannot be settled with a scientific argument because we rarely disagree about the mass of an electron or the spectrum of Helium. In our daily discussions, almost nothing can be de
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by tgv 1y ago
There's much more variety, but it depends on what you call radical. There are stances which are radical in the eyes of the general public which are not violent, nor revolutionary.
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by tgv 1y ago
The subtitle is, though, and I do find a problem with it. There might be someone out there (possibly not sober) who thinks "Magic smoke? Let's see some!" It also somewhat distorts the original. It should be more like "un
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by tgv 1y ago
That sounds like a very optimistic/naive view on what LLMs and "the market" can achieve. First, the models are limited in their skills: they're as wide as a sea, and as shallow as a puddle. There's no way it can coa
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by tgv 1y ago
That's not the goal of learning the basics of numerical programming. Plus, anyone doing such a course should already know how to write code.
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by tgv 1y ago
Well, JSON cannot represent dates (nor Sets, Maps, NaN, etc.), so quite a few applications with a JSON parser have their own conversion (e.g. seconds since epoch, string parsing, object with date fields). Is that a bespoke JSON dialect that
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by tgv 1y ago
It depends on how they parse/decode/unmarshal the file. If they use a "generic" yaml parser, no will be translated to false. But if the parser knows the types of the data structure, or can be instructed not to replace ce
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by tgv 1y ago
When fucking up the human mind isn't enough. This is really villainous. And before you think that's nonsense, let's not forget these people are accelerationists. Destroying the fabric of society is their goal.
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by tgv 1y ago
In the US perhaps, but it happened in Western Europe too, even where there weren't student loans. Simplistic explanation: the right wing parties were in favor of "austerity" measures, i.e. budget cuts, and the left-wing ones
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by tgv 1y ago
In contrast to many comments, I had a great time studying. Sure, the staff didn't have great teaching skills (classical prof with an unruly hairdo reading from the syllabus in a large hall), but after the first year, classes became sma
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by tgv 1y ago
I'm in favor of calling it ()=>{}, pronounced TLFKAJ (The Language Formerly Known As Javascript).
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by tgv 1y ago
Best time to visit Spain is roughly april/may and september/october, although that may not be true for the Atlantic coast.
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by tgv 1y ago
> Antonio Gaudi's name evokes "gaudy." The English word "gaudy" (probably) comes from the Latin gaudere or gaudium (to rejoice, joy), which is also the (supposed) origin of the name Gaudí. Much more appropriate t
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by tgv 1y ago
For what it's worth, these are the current conditions under which it will be active: * Be 18 or over and in the US. * Use a Mac or Windows computer. * Use the latest version of Chrome. * Have Chrome’s language set to English (United
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by tgv 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47
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by tgv 1y ago
It's not a great visual, but like this: https://michaelbach.de/ot/cog-Dalmatian/
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by tgv 1y ago
So, where does the evidence come from? I don't buy the explanation, and I can't find any article published by Huberman on dopamine.
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by tgv 1y ago
And because they fear it, for now. Opportunism at its finest.
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by tgv 1y ago
I didn't have more problems reading Neuromancer than others, quite enjoyed it, but listening to it is not easy. The names and the random nouns that have acquired new meanings (like sprawl, chiba), are hard to parse for non-native speak
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by tgv 1y ago
With whom is Apple competing on their own web pages and apps? And how much advantage does some shiny reflection (which, btw, could also be attained by writing the effect yourself) offer them over that competition? It must be something big a
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by tgv 1y ago
How would they go about that without violating other laws/rights? The state cannot act on rumors alone.
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by tgv 1y ago
I suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_lang... , which consists purely of white space, which isn't tokenized by LLMs. The code is very easy on the eye.

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