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by thethimble 2y ago
Another angle on this is that there’s many formal axiomatic ways to define computing. Everything is just a Turing machine. Everything is just a function. Everything is the Conway’s game of life. The fact that all of these forms are equally
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by thethimble 2y ago
How does bazel manage virtual envs and python versions if at all? Could bazel and uv be used together or are their feature sets mostly overlapping?
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by thethimble 2y ago
How is not endorsing a candidate “antithetical to independent journalism”? I understand that Bezos stepped in to perhaps overrule an endorsement but in what sense is maintaining neutrality antithetical to independent journalism?
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by thethimble 2y ago
My understanding was that Mozilla scrapped Servo. What’s the plan/scope for this project now that it’s being developed outside of Mozilla?
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by thethimble 2y ago
The fact that many such businesses have become cashless suggests that the ROI of accepting cash is not worth the cost/burden. Therefore it’s not a fundamental “cost of doing business” and instead just a mechanism to reach a subset of c
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by thethimble 2y ago
On the other hand, enabling the judicial and executive branch to overcompensate for this disfunction also seems problematic - particularly as the former groups aren’t elected (except for the President, of course).
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by thethimble 2y ago
It’s not clear that the material world of the simulation is of the same kind of the material world we seem to observe. Further it seems definitely not clear that we can interact/modify the simulation’s material at all. The arrow of cau
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by thethimble 2y ago
If observations imply that there’s a material universe that you are inspecting then I agree with your conclusion that the brain creates consciousness and it seems possible to replicate that consciousness artificially. However, I am rejectin
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by thethimble 2y ago
> The brain is the seat of consciousness and the brain is material, therefore consciousness is emergent from material This is true from the standpoint of materialism but not necessarily fundamentally true. How do you know you have a brai
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by thethimble 2y ago
The framework of materialism posits that there’s a physical universe and consciousness is an emergent property of physical processes. This view is so prevalent in the western world it’s hard to imagine how it could be anything else. As an a
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by thethimble 2y ago
The Two Generals Problem is a great thought experiment that describes how distributed consensus is impossible when communication between nodes has the possibility of failing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Generals%2
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by thethimble 2y ago
I really hope that Shortcuts gets a UX overhaul. It feels so painful to write and test new shortcuts.
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by thethimble 3y ago
It’s also interesting now that they’ve taken over rye as well. Really hopeful they develop a unified solution between these projects.
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by thethimble 3y ago
Why wouldn’t you use a standard container based approach like Docker?
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by thethimble 3y ago
If you’re interested in spaced repetition for chess openings I’d strongly recommend chessbook. Not open source but extremely helpful in discovering interesting variations and remembering them in the long term. https://chessbook.c
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by thethimble 3y ago
Feels similar to the Microsoft vs. Sun lawsuit over Java which Sun won and eventually led to Microsoft building .NET
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by thethimble 3y ago
This kind of response is level 0 or level 1 on PG’s hierarchy of disagreement https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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by thethimble 3y ago
The last All in Podcast had an interesting take on this: Most of the R&D and Capex going into LLMs/GenAI is speculative. The investments haven’t translated into real revenue yet. The expectation is that there will be a large pot of
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by thethimble 3y ago
Random sampling issues due to problems with the inference kernels on certain GPU configurations. This seems like a clear root cause and has nothing to do with the magic of NNs. I don’t understand what the fuss is about.
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by thethimble 3y ago
Are you sure that the API injects prompts? GPT4’s ability to answer questions without special system prompts can be entirely a product of training - not necessarily evidence of an injected prompt.
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by thethimble 3y ago
Eh I actually prefer Apple mediating all my app payments (despite the X% surcharge that ultimately the consumer pays for). I don’t have to ever enter in my cc info. I can easily cancel subscriptions from a centralized place. Payments UX is
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by thethimble 3y ago
I wonder how your original claim balances with something like freedom of speech/expression? Ultimately it’s art and perhaps the Nightshade-modified version is a component of what makes the piece art?
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by thethimble 3y ago
OOP madness? XML? Web scale databases? Perhaps not superstition but certainly fundamentalist/hype-based thinking.
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by thethimble 3y ago
Really? Doesn’t iMessage fall back to sms if the receiver doesn’t ack? At least that’s what the UX feels like.
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by thethimble 3y ago
GLSL - OpenGL Shader Language Definitely check out ShaderToy to see many other examples: https://www.shadertoy.com/
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by thethimble 3y ago
What a sad take… These languages put forth ideas that are extremely powerful. They might be unconventional from an imperative programming lens, but to call them all “complex” as a justification for discarding them entirely is pretty shallow
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by thethimble 3y ago
This paper suggests that learning does happen within a prompt. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 By extension it seems totally reasonable that the model is developing self awareness by introspecting its tendencies (pr
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by thethimble 3y ago
Does it actually know how it should be promoted (through introspection and reflection)? Or is it pattern matching the countless articles/tweets on prompt engineering? I think this distinction is important as the latter feels less worth
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by thethimble 3y ago
Or, alternatively, copyright risk is a major concern for real customers, and this is a major step forward in addressing that. Not everything needs to be so cynical. What’s good for investors can be good for users as well.
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by thethimble 3y ago
Of course passively reading ChatGPT transcripts isn’t going to help you master math. But equally problematic is the said roadblocks that - prior to ChatGPT - simply led many learners to stop learning. We finally have a mechanism to adjust d

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