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by varjag 4mo ago
People who look up to Donald Trump unsurprisingly feel his genius moves are hard to read. They are not though, if you are familiar with petty thug mentality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46474173 This prediction is
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Every nation that was a heart of an empire still has lingering class issues. I've been told by Swedes a non-commoner last name can absolutely open some doors. Though nothing comes close to the UK, which is closer to Japan in this regar
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by varjag 4mo ago
Expat is an Anglo work migrant, they insist on the distinction as it's in their titular language.
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It’s a market manipulation following SpaceX ipo. They’ll buy and then reverse the decision shortly to sell.
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When they get to you it's only inference. You have basic misunderstanding of what ANNs are. They train on a billion "jobs". Which is not terribly efficient but oh man they do train.
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Where do LLMs learn?
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Training is a loan word used to describe human learning process. For a reason.
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The GP explicitly mentioned "end product is not selling software". But even then, bugfixes introducing new bugs are not unheard of before. Most code used to be mediocre quality so there's not a sea of change with AI. Perhaps
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Certain figures are gone but political and military organization appears mostly intact. Iran also emerged as potent enough to deliver stalemate to combined force of CENTCOM and Israel. Its standing certainly had improved next to the lows af
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by varjag 4mo ago
That sounds weird. They write "Nasa" mid-sentence too, yet keep other acronyms (ISS) intact.
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Nasa said the segment had suffered from cracks and leaks I expected better from the BBC.
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Are we in "define is " territory now? I used a qualifier because (as you certainly know) people will not pass a chance to nitpick. I have no energy to argue about neurodivergent or Ramanujan, even though I still believe the basic
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by varjag 4mo ago
Are we still talking about glasses, not contacts right? Because everyone over here (Norway) gets glass lenses in glasses on prescription. They are much better optical quality and not uncomfortable in the slightest, and can be customized to
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by varjag 4mo ago
Good glasses are in fact glass with PVD coating, that's where the scratches show up. And yes dust particles are often very hard.
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by varjag 4mo ago
Usually it's not the fabric but trapped dust that scratches the coating when you wipe.
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It's not implausible that evolutionary pressures made the brain robust enough to withstand parasitic signals. We know that most people think in similar, predictable ways.
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by varjag 4mo ago
Each and every one of many billion transistors in a GPU works due to certain quantum effects on P-N junction. That does not mean GPU computation is nondeterministic, unknowable or magic.
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I mean sure we can trace the causality chain of industrial revolution back to the asteroid that wiped the dinosaurs. How useful that formulation is another question.
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Mid 1990s were still dog-years for computing, everything moved fast. It's like 2013 to 2026
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Anything can be anything if you stretch definitions far enough. But normally industrialization is seen as distinct and antagonistic to artisanal culture.
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Black Plague ended in 14th century while industrial revolution started in the 18th. There is no connection.
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There are spots and niches where you can do this but I expect them to dry up within a year.
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The acronyms are because it was originally russified by substituting character codes in Pascal binary. Thus VAR became ИМЯ, END became КНЦ and so on. Same reason JOB hilariously became ЗАД in the liberated OS/360. Everyone's happy
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by varjag 5mo ago
Sounds like a premium feature!
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Set the personality to 'Robot', it makes the interactions so much more tolerable.
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Not really. For instance Facebook speech recognition models had Swedish support but no Norwegian.
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It was tried in early 1980s and nearly drove any non oil-related industry in the country extinct. Norway has a manpower bottleneck. The UK had spent its oil windfall domestically and it barely registered. But for a nation of then some 4 mil
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by varjag 5mo ago
I think it's the symptom of inadequate practice rather than some "language neurotype". Consider writing (yeah 2026 I know) a substantial project in Scheme from scratch.
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by varjag 5mo ago
Come on. LinkedIn was bought for 6B.
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