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by viccis 1y ago
Words like that were banned in my English classes for being empty verbiage. It's a good policy even if it seems like a silly purpose. "Therefore" is clumsy and heavy handed in most settings.
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by viccis 1y ago
Because they overwhelmingly don't
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by viccis 1y ago
Haha yep. I never saw a single person use these in internet comments pre-2023. Plenty of hyphens to simulate it - like this - but not actual em dashes. No matter how many people swear up and down that they're so important.
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by viccis 1y ago
Good. It's a crutch for poorly composed sentences or for prose intending to imitate the affect of poorly composed sentences. There's not a single sentence under the sun that needs an emdash. Commas and parentheses can do it all, a
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by viccis 1y ago
>> whereas humans almost always tend to use a slang version - a single dash with spaces around it. >That's not an em-dash (blahblahblah... What, exactly, did you thing "slang" in the phrase "slang version"
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by viccis 1y ago
>Gravity's Rainbow >widely and intensely read prose Dunno about that. Pynchon's prose is notably colloquial, complete with lots of ellipses. Congrats on your Big Boy Book™ though.
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by viccis 1y ago
You wanna cite any sources for that? I don't know of any prose that relies on crutch dashes
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by viccis 1y ago
Yep Databricks does this pretty well too. I think their sales jargon for it is the "Enzyme engine"
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by viccis 1y ago
Em dashes are fine in throwaway casual writing like internet comments or tweets or whatever. However, I think that, in any writing that is significant enough that LLM usage is scrutinized, they often just come across as a crutch to avoid mo
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by viccis 1y ago
Yeah I had to wait years to really use Parquet effectively in Python code back in the 2010s because there were two main ones (Pyarrow and Fastparquet), and they were neither compatible with either other nor compatible with Spark. Parquet su
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by viccis 1y ago
Would you let a second grader take their spelling test using a word processor with a spell checker?
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by viccis 1y ago
The current system "sorts" the students who "developed critical thinking skills" out from the ones who didn't put in effort. If there's no expectation that they'll be sorted thus, then the vast majority wo
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by viccis 1y ago
Yeah I think, given its gradual typing approach, that any discussion about the quality and utility of Python's type system assumes that one is using one of the best in class type checkers right now. I didn't really use it much unt
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by viccis 1y ago
>with a better type system than either Given Python's substantial improvements recently, I would put it far ahead of the structural typing done in Go, personally.
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by viccis 1y ago
The prefix is not separate from the object key. It's part of it. There's no randomization that needs to be done on either anymore.
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by viccis 1y ago
>In EC2, you can now change security groups and IAM roles without shutting the instance down to do it. Hasn't it been this way for many years? >Spot instances used to be much more of a bidding war / marketplace. Yeah because
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by viccis 1y ago
I'd love to see LLM based versions procedural tasks like "radiant quests" which are generally disappointing, though I've heard it discussed before and the real challenge is keeping it from going way off the rails. The ot
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by viccis 1y ago
>readComicsOnline I'll never get over piracy sites blocking VPNs...
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by viccis 1y ago
I haven't really looked into what Airtable does, and I shouldn't be surprised at how much AI nonsense I had to dig through on their website to get any real info, but I still was.
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by viccis 1y ago
>He estimated that light coding will cost him around $550 per month and full time coding around $1,950 per month. As an open source developer who builds for the community, "this pricing is a kick in the shins," he said. Well ma
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by viccis 1y ago
Writing all of this at the very real risk you'll miss it because HN doesn't give reply notifications and my comment's parent being flagged made this hard to track down: >Ok I'm a huge Kantian and every bone in my body
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by viccis 1y ago
That would imply that humans are incapable of synthetic knowledge of things they haven't observed, which is demonstrably not true.
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by viccis 1y ago
>FYI this posts comes off as incredibly pretentious. You think we haven’t read the same philosophy? Rigorous language often comes across as pretentious to any layperson, especially when it concerns subjects like philosophy. I don't
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by viccis 1y ago
We all know how these things are built and trained. They estimate joint probability distributions of token sequences. That's it. They're not more "conscious" than the simplest of Naive Bayes email spam filters, which are
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by viccis 1y ago
LLMs are, and will always be, tools. Not people
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by viccis 1y ago
>This feature was developed primarily as part of our exploratory work on potential AI welfare ... We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs ... low-cost interventions to mitigate risks to model
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by viccis 1y ago
It's partly driven by a hope that if you can model language well enough, you'll then have a model of knowledge. Logical positivism tried that with logical systems, which are much more precise languages of expressing facts, and it
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by viccis 1y ago
The author seems impressed with Claude's job answering the Achaemenid Persia question, but, just taking a look at it, if I had started a conclusion paragraph with "In conclusion," in my more rigorous university courses, I&#x2
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by viccis 1y ago
>As far as I can tell “generating context” is exactly what human reasoning is too. This was the view of Hume (humans as bundles of experience who just collect information and make educated guesses for everything). Unfortunately, it leads
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by viccis 1y ago
They have changed a lot of their DLT (not even called that anymore lol, it's Lakeflow Pipelines now I think) syntax. I tried asking ChatGPT to convert a very simple Python one to Spark SQL, and it gave me a bunch of outdated SQL synt

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