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by viccis 1y ago
>LLMs think Quick aside here: They do not think. They estimate generative probability distributions over the token space. If there's one thing I do agree with Dijkstra on, it's that it's important not to anthropomorphize m
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by viccis 1y ago
>Your model will be pretty damn good and absolutely will be able to generate "synthetic a priori" y outputs for any given x within the domain. You don't seem to understand what synthetic a priori means. The fact that you
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by viccis 1y ago
My previous job designed their data lake and operations on it with horrific incompetence, and their solution was just to use AWS Lambdas scaling into the thousands and tens of thousands to do stuff over it. They made so much money but would
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by viccis 1y ago
>I think the answer to this question is certainly "Yes". It is unequivocally "No" . A good joint distribution estimator is always by definition a posteriori and completely incapable of synthetic a priori thought.
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by viccis 1y ago
It's true though. This effect is what keeps companies like PRS in business.
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by viccis 1y ago
If you recall, I prefaced my original comment with "Half the time,"
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by viccis 1y ago
There's really no way to know this, as it's all based on subjective experiences in which two people could easily describe the same sensation differently.
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by viccis 1y ago
Half the time when people describe aphantasia, I want to say something like "you realize that most people don't 'see' things in their mind as clear as open eye visuals, right?" but I keep quiet because I know that t
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by viccis 1y ago
I'm with you two. I can work on boring problems in boring domains and enjoy the design and implementation aspect because it's inherently creative. Take away those and now my only job is the guy in Office Space who takes the requir
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by viccis 1y ago
There's nothing conspiratorial about it. Maybe you were thinking of a different word? But if economic growth is your only goal then there are plenty of reliable options, like another major war, that are even better for long term econom
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by viccis 1y ago
Economics is a pseudo-science typically used to launder political ideology, but this "fallacy" is particularly ill suited to this discussion. Yes, it's true that automation doesn't necessarily cause a net unemployment a
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by viccis 1y ago
That's always my problem with these huge lists. I feel like any recommendation is so much more useful if it's accompanied by at least a bit of context about why it's being recommended. Whenever I ask for recommendations on re
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by viccis 1y ago
Looks damn good on the bookshelf lol (I say with 3 volumes of the second edition right behind me) I've used it to settle a few combinatorics arguments over the years too.
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by viccis 1y ago
The visualizations here remind me of the old Bach WTC analysis and commentary website that used David Korevaar's performance (and some others for the ones on organ or harpsichord) and Tim Smith's analysis. Problem was, they were a
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by viccis 1y ago
IMO no amount of AI should be used during an undergrad education, but I can see how people would react more strongly to its use in these intro to programming courses. I don't think there's as much of an issue with using it to chur
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by viccis 1y ago
There's nothing obscure about that. You might be out of the habit of consuming challenging material, but it's definitely not a good response to react reflexively with contempt for something that takes a moment of thought to unders
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by viccis 1y ago
Well yes, it's not a brilliant observation that in the US you are given the option to work at around $15-30k a year ($17/hr part time is going to wind up around there) and use that money to fund an impoverished lifestyle. "Wh
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by viccis 1y ago
This almost seemed like it was going to be a Modest Proposal style tongue-in-cheek skewering of this "old man yells at cloud" style of curmudgeonly generational finger wagging. The breakdown of that $432 itself was almost enough t
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by viccis 1y ago
Is it really a formal mathematical investigation if it wasn't typeset in LaTeX? Hmm.
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by viccis 1y ago
This gives a good survey: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hume/#CopyPrin >All our simple ideas in their first appearance are deriv’d from simple impressions, which are correspondent to them, and which they e
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by viccis 1y ago
>Am I really dealing in semantics? Or have I just learned the graph-like latent representation for (statistical or reliable) invariant relationships in a bunch of syntax? This and the rest of the comment are philosophical skepticism, and
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by viccis 1y ago
The article has a lot of ChatGPT style and bloat, and seems like mostly an ad for the author's company, complete with some referral links in it to external merchants like Amazon.
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by viccis 1y ago
Scala was absolutely killing the "we need JVM because all our Hadoop era tech uses it but we're a new generation of JVM data tooling and so we need a language in which the functional programming based abstractions we're using
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by viccis 1y ago
To list off a few: * No persist(). Not being able to cache dataframes is a nightmare when it's a workflow that involves taking a massive source of data, doing some rough filtering on it that gets it down to a tiny subset, and then doin
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by viccis 1y ago
It's not hard. Just go on Zillow and look at the relative costs of a 3 bedroom place in Atlanta's central neighborhoods (Midtown, O4W, Virginia Highlands, Edgewood, etc.) and compare it to the cost of a 3 bedroom in Alpharetta or
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by viccis 1y ago
>In the worst cases, it could even become a regressive tax of sorts. When I lived in Atlanta, there were people, mostly YIMBYs and other urbanists, who wanted to charge a significant congestion fee to anyone living in surrounding towns l
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by viccis 1y ago
They push Serverless so hard but there are SO MANY limitations and surprise gotchas. It's driving me absolutely insane.
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by viccis 1y ago
>good moderators filter the rabble out This is key and one of the reasons that ignoring r/gaming and subbing to r/games instead has been standard wisdom since like 2010 when reddit actually had a guide to which frontpage subs t
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by viccis 1y ago
That's not my experience at all. Feel free to provide any examples of very good games getting dogpiled in the comments, but I've never seen it.
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by viccis 1y ago
Yeah my first reaction when I see an interesting new game on Steam or elsewhere is to search r/games (NOT r/gaming lol) for the game's name and look around at what people have to say about it. They're often very detailed

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