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by tines 3y ago
"Closures are the poor man's objects, and objects are the poor man's closures." [ http://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent ]
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by tines 3y ago
I got "professor", so it seems like it can emit words that do exist.
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by tines 4y ago
For an alphabet to be phonetic, it doesn't really matter how complex the rules are for the alphabet, just that the letters carry only phonetic meaning and no semantic meaning, right?
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by tines 4y ago
You may not realize this, but your comment comes off as being very snide and annoying, which I'm sure you didn't intend. Try rewording things in a way that assumes good faith, and besides making better relationships you'll pe
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by tines 4y ago
That does seem really impressive. But don't you think that it's pretty likely that this, or something phrased slightly differently, appeared in the training data?
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by tines 4y ago
> One uses a wet, squishy brain. The other uses silicon chips. Well then, that settles the debate!
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by tines 4y ago
> Nothing you do or say wasn't taught to you. If nothing we do or say wasn't taught to us then where did all human knowledge come from in the first place? This doesn't hold up. (Again, being direct for the sake of argument
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by tines 4y ago
> and nobody will disagree with you on those points But that's the point, they do. Even on HN there are many comments saying that humans are just fancy autocomplete, i.e. there's no fundamental difference between humans and LLM
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by tines 4y ago
I don't think there's anything wrong with people trying to see what, if anything, differentiates ChatGPT from humans. Curing cancer etc. is useful, as is ChatGPT, regardless of how it achieves these results. But how it achieves th
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by tines 4y ago
> It's creative not because it's doing the exact same philosophical thing humans do, but because it can produce the same effect. Absolutely, and I hope none of my comments are taken in a way that disparages how amazing ChatGPT
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by tines 4y ago
I guess ChatGPT having a model of the world is not something I'd argue against, my mistake. I do think the data it contains represents a quite nuanced model of the world. But I don't think this is a very strong claim. A geographic
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by tines 4y ago
(I'm going to be brusque for the sake of the argument, I very much could be wrong and I don't even know how much I believe of the argument I'm making.) > chatgpt doesnt just feed us back answers we already taught it True,
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by tines 4y ago
> Sometimes for GPT to "just" complete the next word in a way that humans find plausible, it must, along the way, develop a model of the world, theory of mind, abstract reasoning. etc. I did an experiment recently where I asked
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by tines 4y ago
> If just predicting the next token can produce similar or better results than the almighty human intelligence on some tasks But it's not better than almighty human intelligence, it _is_ human intelligence, because it was trained on
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by tines 4y ago
I'm glad you brought this up, because I've been reading some stuff lately that makes it seem like virtual particles actually have visible effects, like this one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang&#x
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by tines 4y ago
> Whereas Roman script can represent the accurate pronunciation of every word in Hindi Isn't this only true if you already know how Hindi specifically is supposed to be pronounced? I don't think you could show someone a romaniz
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by tines 4y ago
> woman live in a society where men perpetually behave like we know what's best for them. Everyone lives in a society where everyone else behaves like they know what's best for them. Men currently happen to have more power to e
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by tines 4y ago
I just performed that search in Google and the top two results are links to PyPI and Snyk packages for micropython-html.parser. The third result is a link to python.org documentation for html.parser (not micropython). Bing returns the resul
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by tines 4y ago
> Food inflation hit its highest rate since 1977 last month, having risen to 18.2% in the year to Februaury [sic] 2023. Doesn't anybody read what they write?
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by tines 4y ago
I'm really looking forward to this. The fact is that there's no game engine (that I could find after hours of searching) that offers out-of-the-box multiplayer for skilled programmers who just want to make a game, and if Planimete
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by tines 4y ago
I love the promise of Planimeter but it's kinda intimidating to get started with. Are there any example games with source that I can tinker with?
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by tines 4y ago
I mean, not every big result is FLT. This headline actually tells me, a non-mathematician, much more than something more accurate like "Strong Bounds for 3-Progressions". I have no context for interpreting that phrase at all, but
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by tines 4y ago
Did you read the article? The headline is pretty accurate, if not pretty abstract.
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by tines 4y ago
Non-paywalled link?
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by tines 4y ago
Spaces can cause word wrap that can leave a dash at the end or beginning of a line, which is not beautiful. A spaceless em dash doesn't have the wrapping issues while retaining legibility. You could argue that that's a problem wit
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by tines 4y ago
I know nothing about economics. Can you help me understand how raising taxes helps deal with inflation? Is the idea that the federal government "deletes" some of the money it receives through taxes, like the opposite of printing m
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by tines 4y ago
I thought this line near the end was interesting: > These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations. As if the purposes and principles of the United Nations will always
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights(un.org)
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by tines 4y ago
A typical std::vector implementation supports a lot more things, so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison. It's like saying that a horse-drawn carriage is a lot easier to repair than a motor vehicle. It's true, but doesn&#x
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by tines 4y ago
The latter makes the macro usable without requiring a semicolon, which some people don't like; the former will cause a syntax error if the semicolon is missing, so they feel that it regulates syntax a bit better.

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