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by titzer 9mo ago
They forgot to mention that the growing software library is also shrinking as they deprecate support for older OS versions and hardware. On the one hand they go to heroic lengths (fat binaries, Rosetta 2) to enable a migration to a new hard
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Wow, that was awesome. They had to crank up the FPS of the high-speed camera into the millions of FPS to see that brightness control over every individual LED was done by flashing it multiple times per scanline. Very cool.
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Thanks!
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The only thing that changes behavior is consequences.
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Privacy is one of the first defenses against tyranny. You can be a target of pressure through no fault of your own. For example, if you were to witness a government official commit a crime.
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by titzer 9mo ago
Something seems to have gone wrong with the timestamps on comments on this thread. At present nearly all comments have been posted < 4 min ago. I know I'm slowing down as I get older, but I don't think the internet is jabbering
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No, only the 85% or so of it that's accreted since about 2008. Prior to that it actually made money by offering useful search results without infringing on user privacy. That core business model could still work to power a company abou
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Yeah, it's a good strategy to tell people to be afraid and shut up whilst the AI learns from the most ignorant among us.
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by titzer 9mo ago
> for high performers. Like $40k bonuses for ICE agents. Incidentally, $40k is about the stipend for a typical PhD student. I'll take a smart student doing nothing but eating food and digesting theorems over the absolute chaos that
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It's harder to recruit PhD students and it's harder to fund them. NSF budget was cut 55% in the first year. The administration is doing everything possible to make it clear that no foreigners are welcome here. America is stabbing
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by titzer 9mo ago
Google will mouth words, but their bottom line runs the show. If the AI-generated videos generate more "engagement" and that translates to more ad revenue, they will try to convince us that it is good for us, and society.
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by titzer 9mo ago
I'm curious if some of the bits in your data types are "control bits" that determine what the format of the other bits are. If that's the case, then it sounds like an algebraic data type would be a natural way to express
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by titzer 9mo ago
The description is in the paper, but not all of it is implemented. https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11094 Bradley implemented a prototype of the packing solver, but it doesn't do the full generality of what is proposed
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by titzer 9mo ago
You might want to have a look at the unboxing and packing annotations that are proposed for Virgil. The unboxing mechanism is implemented and there was a prototype of the packing mechanism implemented by Bradley for his thesis. I am working
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Brains are adaptive but skills are cumulative. You can't get good at what you don't practice.
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With stack-switching you won't (shouldn't?) need a CPS pass.
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> Adding continuation marks and delimited continuations require adding a CPS-pass. Have you considered targeting the stack switching proposal?
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> Anthropic’s guidelines. This section discusses how Anthropic might give supplementary instructions to Claude about how to handle specific issues, such as medical advice, cybersecurity requests, jailbreaking strategies, and tool integra
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I noticed the --expose-gc. Does this mean it's using the (now standardized) Wasm GC feature?
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> The sentences output by the model do not demonstrate words with novel characters.
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There are so many holes at the bottom of the machine code stack. In the future we'll question why we didn't move to WASM as the universal executable format sooner. Instead, we'll try a dozen incomplete hardware mitigations fi
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by titzer 9mo ago
SCOTUS has been reasoning backward from their blatant partisanship for a couple decades now. It used to have a bit of randomness with some justices defecting with "reasoned arguments", but that's basically over now.
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by titzer 9mo ago
Tahoe is proof is that UX for desktop has finally jumped the shark. In all my years using computers I have never been so disappointed so profoundly by a 36 gigabyte operating system upgrade.
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by titzer 10mo ago
Wait until they find out what Google Location Services collects.
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by titzer 10mo ago
My prediction is that this will continue to occur indefinitely. The conversation is always the same, only there is another zero on the end. We'll have terabyte apps in not too long. (100% serious)
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I'm just spitballing sci-fi here, but maybe subliminal ads work better and their metric asston of computational models have told them so.
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> I literally never need ads. I just search for the solution to the problem I’m having. No push needed (or wanted). I want to agree with you, but you only think you're not seeing ads. Obviously, the SEO corruption has made every
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Magazines, phone books, friends, stores. You know you could go to a store (or call them on the phone!) and talk to a person. "Hello, I am trying to find a thing to help me with X." Turns out that products that work well tend to ge
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> If anything the big businesses use advertising as a protection moat. As a small business, I would def prefer to be in a world that allows me to advertise, even if I have to compete for things like my own name These two sentences are co
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> I have fallen asleep watching youtube many times. Interesting new opportunity for YouTube here. Detect your usage patterns and near bed time show you increasingly boring content until you fall asleep, then fill your head with sublimina

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