tomjakubowski

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by tomjakubowski 6d ago
On the other hand it's a nice thing that "kein" and "nein" are different words.
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by tomjakubowski 6d ago
then you have cases where English skips an article but Spanish does not, such as "what is science fiction?" vs. "¿qué es la cienca ficción?"
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by tomjakubowski 6d ago
Spanish does something similar with feminine nouns which start with an "a" sound, like agua. las aguas, el agua. las aguas claras, el agua clara. but then for este/esta, it's esta agua and not este agua https:/&#x2
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by tomjakubowski 7d ago
if Mickens has fallen and resorted to publishing slop then there is no hope for the rest of us
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The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security(arxiv.org)
78 points by tomjakubowski 8d ago|29 comments
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by tomjakubowski 9d ago
I don't think analyzing just the directional correctness is enough. Magnitudes shouldn't just be ignored. A trader can still make money even if more than half of their trades were wrong directionally, and can still lose money (or
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by tomjakubowski 14d ago
The factory builder game Captain of Industry has a building you can add on to a settlement which sells household goods and furniture to the population. It's a blue building with yellow trim and a big sign on the front that says IDEA. I
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by tomjakubowski 15d ago
The scale factor comes from this number in the article, seemingly an intuited estimate: > Say a research article takes 20 times more effort to formalize than page in an undergraduate textbook. That would suggest formalizing a 10-page res
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by tomjakubowski 16d ago
A college advisor I had 20 years ago was a firm believer that interdisciplinarity was the future, that generalist skills and the ability to make connections between different fields would be paramount in advancing science. I suppose he was
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by tomjakubowski 16d ago
MIT Game Lab made a take on this back in 2012. https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/
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by tomjakubowski 18d ago
Certainly a sign of the emotional immaturity and low empathy that's rampant in posters on internet forums like Twitter. Poor reflection on OpenAI.
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by tomjakubowski 19d ago
Wikipedia has a nice visualization of the history of LA's tallest buildings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_L...
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by tomjakubowski 21d ago
The article spends a couple paragraphs complaining about Amazon not allowing sorting by unit price. This would be a very useful feature, I agree, but I don't think I've ever seen a online grocery or department store retailer whic
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by tomjakubowski 22d ago
Worth noting that according to the data in that article, India is below the world average on a per capita basis, roughly 0.7x the world average. The Philippines is 25x the world average per capita.
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by tomjakubowski 24d ago
Also puzzling: in the "reasoning" section preceding, that is described as an example of "a one-line self-replicating program." When I typed "Are we not pure noon, ergo, we play life; yet, we hate bad fear" into
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by tomjakubowski 25d ago
the dates of his articles (well, month and year) are all here: https://danluu.com/
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by tomjakubowski 26d ago
You wouldn't need to read all of it to glean that it's slop. Merely a skim or even less signal than that is needed, like simply seeing that it's a multi-paragraph post on LinkedIn. I suppose even surface-level engagement wi
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by tomjakubowski 27d ago
For others who didn't know, the APA is the Administrative Procedure Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_Procedure_Act
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by tomjakubowski 29d ago
from those numbers it's actually 0.00007%. you missed shifting the decimal by two places when converting to a percentage.
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
There were malaria epidemics in even quite temperate parts of Europe up to the mid 20th century, including Bavaria and even England, and it was endemic to parts of Italy and Greece. P. falciparum was found in bone samples of the Medicis.
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
A handful of people I used to work with lost their US manufacturing jobs in 2025 by exactly this mechanism. Their job was assembling products from components built in China, for export to Europe. Their inputs got new tariffs in 2025, and
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Head to the shed: https://www.idler.co.uk/article/sheds-in-the-time-of-lockdow...
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Fascinating stuff. And what a logo. > Starting a national crusade to cast away coin-operated commodes, Gessel told newsmen, "You can have a fifty-dollar bill, but if you don't have a dime, that metal box is between you and reli
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
I would also think that unscrupulous scrap buyers would offer a lower price for copper which has obviously been stolen or stripped from public works, since they are taking on more risk by buying it.
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
It isn't clear to me what advantages OpenRouter has over running a similar router-aggregator locally for ~free. I guess they have stronger bargaining power than a solo engineer or small startup, and can therefore negotiate volume disc
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Strange. The back button in the UI is disabled once you get back to September 2016. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/8l4ygp009s5s?page=40 The earliest recorded downtime for Git Ops I could find is in December 2018
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
DuckDB is much like SQLite, but built for OLAP workloads: it's in-process, with a single file format on a disk, and (unlike SQLite) the data is stored in columns for better OLAP performance. Like SQLite, concurrency options are limited
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Strang's OCW lectures are fantastic. His voice rings "combinations of columns" in my head almost ten years later whenever I do a matrix or matrix-vector multiply on paper. I found the textbook was a good accompaniment for the
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by tomjakubowski 1mo ago
Yeah, I think N_Lens was saying the manager's behavior in that anecdote was too high a bar.

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