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by thom 4y ago
I wonder if something like Inform might be a good environment for them. Obviously it falls far short of what you can do with Scratch, but an imaginative child could achieve a lot, and integrating it with voice/accessibility tools seems
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by thom 4y ago
Bonus points for models that work well offline on mobile devices.
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by thom 4y ago
You perhaps joke, but I suspect the combination of large text models to work out the subtext, and still fairly simple TTS models to render audio with a variety of emotional tones, is going to be very powerful in the future.
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by thom 4y ago
Never is a long time.
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by thom 4y ago
This is a very pessimistic argument, undermined by the fact that every single day, humans rewrite queries - in the supposedly declarative language SQL - to be identical but faster. I want a query planner that can be told to go away and try
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by thom 4y ago
What I’m saying is the plans have a tiny budget devoted to their optimisation. For something like a view, I would happily let the optimiser run for hours finding a speedup if it were then reliably delivered. As it is, none of that happens a
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by thom 4y ago
Existing query optimisers are very weak. You can write multiple semantically equivalent queries but some will be orders of magnitude slower. I would pay good money for a Postgres that I could tell to spend several minutes analysing a query
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by thom 4y ago
I used Jeanne Neumann’s companion text as a jumping off point into deeper stuff (and because at least a couple of times with just the original text, I spent several pages with the wrong idea for a word and felt embarrassed).
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by thom 4y ago
It's quite a large body of scholarship (much of it quite recent) to reject. But even so, the Romans also performed human sacrifices so it's hard to score points either way.
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by thom 4y ago
The Romans definitely did obliterate some cultures, Carthage most prominently - they retrieved some specific books they thought would be useful but burnt everything else. Dacia certainly suffered more than many Roman conquests, its capital
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by thom 4y ago
Nice work, and a very telling portrait of Cicero!
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by thom 4y ago
So kids, how would we refactor this? https://github.com/LemonHaze420/DCPopulous/blob/master/popul...
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by thom 4y ago
If you have an afternoon to spare, perhaps start here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/searchresults?q=Figs Hoping that one day ChatGPT gets a better hold on these sources. :)
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by thom 4y ago
I would forgive him if he were merely bloviating, but there’s fairly good evidence now that his early legal speeches weren’t as trenchant in their criticism of Sulla as he liked to make out, and his voting record is often him upholding Sull
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by thom 4y ago
Milo went into exile at Marseille and was famously a friend of Cicero’s (which gives us the Pro Milone). Could be him?
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by thom 4y ago
As someone who has grown to loathe Cicero (quite unexpectedly) as I’ve studied more Roman history, this explanation rings true to me. Of course the best life is the life he chose, even when it’s transparently untrue. On the one hand I feel
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by thom 4y ago
In the UK at least, about a quarter of mortgages are on variable rates. Of those on fixed rates, all their other bills have gone up, and will continue to do so. In many cases this means people’s mortgages are no longer affordable even if th
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by thom 4y ago
It isn’t braking yet.
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by thom 4y ago
When you have been hit by a speeding car while crossing the road, it is little comfort to hear that it began to accelerate at a lower rate.
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by thom 4y ago
Modern C by Jens Gustedt is quite good. This video gives a good overview of some modern patterns in C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpAhX-gsHMs I think the best thing you can do is go find a unit testing library you like
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by thom 4y ago
For what it’s worth, your next venture will be more successful (and your mental health much better) if you turned off all social media and stopped comparing yourself to other entrepreneurs. It seems like what you’re seeking is acceptance an
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by thom 4y ago
In my defence, I was probably 4 or 5, although I’ve had a lifelong dislike of jumping puzzles that no doubt stemmed from this game.
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by thom 4y ago
Prior to the rise of neural networks, Eurisko was hailed as one of the most impressive achievements in general-ish AI. It was built on self-modifying Lisp heuristics. It’d be interesting to revisit that in a loop with newer larger NN models
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by thom 4y ago
To quantify this a little, the human sensory system has been estimated to generate on the order of 11m bits per second of data. So 1-2 megabytes a second for most of your life. That’s probably in the region of a day of YouTube. But it’s cle
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by thom 4y ago
The two-player games were all fun, the arcadey stuff like Centipede and Missile Command were addictive. My memories of Pitfall were mostly that it was repetitive and hard, but I was pretty young so presumably sucked. I do remember that thin
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by thom 4y ago
It's not so much that anybody thinks that mix is a good idea, but it's just what happens immediately in any C/C++ codebase if you're using any nontrivial combination of libraries at all. The feature is about providing co
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by thom 4y ago
I think there will always be a premium for human-sourced media. People are going to love being able to tweak the cast and narrator for their favourite audiobooks, but there will always be a market for your favourite celebrity's reading
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by thom 4y ago
This is no doubt the most boring and prudish opinion in the universe, but I would have enjoyed Halt and Catch Fire if it had more computers and less sex.
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by thom 4y ago
Chess engine stuff, at the very least. With an integer mask representing an 8x8 board and 1s representing a single type of piece, you can find all subsets of pawn positions etc.
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by thom 4y ago
Emacs 29 is now a fully fledged SQLite client, which for me is one of the neatest new features.

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