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by tux3 2y ago
Thank you. Seems like between this and other results, the consensus is now that reversal has been demonstrated pretty conclusively. I've updated!
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by tux3 2y ago
... where "radical enough change" in this article refers to the period of starvation during WW2! My understanding is that we don't have contemporary evidence of people successfully reverting arterial plaque, but I admit the s
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by tux3 2y ago
The atherosclerosis is invisible, until it suddenly isn't. Everyone will have a little bit of plaque, even if you try to eat well. Teenagers will already have traces of it before they reach adulthood. All you can do is try to slow down
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by tux3 2y ago
HL Alyx notwithstanding, BeatSaber is a good workout.
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by tux3 2y ago
Well, the silver lining is the incredible human capacity to get used to almost any situation given enough time It will get weirder, but only relatively so, the concept of normalcy always trailing just a little bit behind as we slide
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by tux3 2y ago
The Signpost (the newspaper) is more or less "independent", it's meta commentary on Wikipedia within Wikipedia, but it's not subject to the same extremely strict rules as articles. There's opinion pieces, a humour s
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by tux3 2y ago
I have to respect the PoC, this parallel Pollard's rho is really cool! It's a good reminder that a hash isn't a perfect barrier separating the outputs from the inputs, if the inputs are sufficiently bad! The fact that this is
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by tux3 2y ago
They're saying that Meta has been kowtowing to the incoming administration in hopes of getting in their good graces. Rather famously, some elements of that administration are above the criminal code, so that's not implausible.
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by tux3 2y ago
Optimizing compilers have been able to recognize pretty complicated patterns for many years. For instance if you're making a loop to count the bits that are set in a number, the compiler can recognize the entire loop and turn it into a
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by tux3 2y ago
or, s@$@/@, I don't know whether that's more or less cryptic :)
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by tux3 2y ago
Another thing with the 24h autoclean is it kills slow boards. The fastest rapid fire message boards are also the most chaotic, with the lowest signal-to-noise. There's a certain comfyness in smaller places, outside the containment imag
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by tux3 2y ago
You're painting a picture of CEOs and their investors as an ontological evil, not by choice, but by unavoidable virtue of their role. This could've been searing satire, had you intended it that way.
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by tux3 2y ago
If people thought this way - internalizing this publishing point idea - it would incentivize sitting on your incremental results, fiercely keeping them secret if and until you can prove the whole bigger result by yourself. However long that
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by tux3 2y ago
>things like locks on shared resources (e.g. operators), and random stoppages? Not natively, but the game gives you a lot of tools. You could probably add some of those things with circuits (the "Factorio redstone"), or with a
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by tux3 2y ago
Once OpenAI becomes fabulously rich, the world will surely be transformed, and then the benefits of all this concentration of power will simply trickle down.
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by tux3 2y ago
Indeed. If the smart lawnmower (Powered by AI™, as seen on television) decides that not being turned off is the best way to achieve its ultimate goal of getting your lawn mowed, it doesn't matter whether the completely unnecessary LLM
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by tux3 2y ago
It does seem to be converging somewhere, but a major difference that I really like is pushing humans a little more to care about errors, instead of just letting whatever bubble up from wherever until a catch(...) somewhere. With checked exc
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by tux3 2y ago
The last blog post is from just a couple days ago. They're apparently setting their sights on a map of all known ISBNs, and hoping to turn the map from red to green
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by tux3 2y ago
Why, I am acutely tuned to the hivemind, of course.
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by tux3 2y ago
No, there's a distinction if you look again. People don't accidentally type sudo in front of commands, but people do type things into the wrong window, or the wrong tab.
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by tux3 2y ago
I don't think they were joking? I personally tend to leave a root shell open (and both my feet remain largely hole-free to this day), but it's pretty common advice, to avoid accidentally typing something unfortunate like rm .&#x2F
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by tux3 2y ago
It is also common for filesystems to reserve a small percentage to the root user. I think the ext4 default is still 5% (which can be quite a bit more than 1GB on modern drives!)
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by tux3 2y ago
I think it's the other way around. The similarity metric determines which repos have edges (possibly weighted?) And then some clustering algorithm makes sense of this giant graph by laying out sets of nodes that have a lot of edges t
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by tux3 2y ago
Somehow torvalds/linux is in Fronterra, next to JS projects, awesome-X lists, and frontend checklists. Either kernel hackers unexpectedly love frontend, or more likely the people that write the code don't overlap much with the peo
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by tux3 2y ago
I have it from good authority that — even in the absence of a lawsuit — fighting OpenAI can lead to having dramatically less time to enjoy life. It's a bit like smoking. Some activities are just not good for your health.
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by tux3 2y ago
Then again it might just be a misunderstanding. And the so-called experts, in aggregate, turn out to be right more often than not. Say I show up to a physics conference and proclaim that I hope my computational effort will disprove some maj
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by tux3 2y ago
Counterpoint: I have a very non-technical friend that visited recently, and I was horrified to see that her macbook was full of malware. She casually talked about how someone stole money through her credit card. An AV scan actually found so
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by tux3 2y ago
Reusing symbols like +, *, or / to define operations that aren't the + or the / you're used to is pretty common in math. It's just notation. At the end of the day, the / that we have in programming has the same
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by tux3 2y ago
I, for one, welcome our new dopamine overlords. It is still early days, but the oncoming flood of AI content is inevitable at this point. Since modern content is meticulously engineered to snipe children into jumping for the beef with perfe
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by tux3 2y ago
The headline is about Firefox on Windows for a good reason: that's where the regular users are. If you want Rust on Nonstop, a niche proprietary platform, your large financial company is welcome to invest in it.

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