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901.
by vrighter 2y ago
And the scheduler decides which thread gets to run next. On a cooperative multitasking system, guess what the OS code you jump to when you yield from a thread does, and what it's called?
902.
by vrighter 2y ago
So are we. My jaw dropped when we first received the email telling us to use more AI.
903.
by vrighter 2y ago
Thinking AI is silly is not the wrong trajectory. AI IS silly. The law of large numbers applies. 99% accuracy means that thousands or millions of queries daily are just wrong. So AI is not suited for large scale deployments. When I was wo
904.
by vrighter 2y ago
So now that a lot of books used for studying literature will become freely available, I wonder how long it's going to be before the syllabus "needs revising"
905.
by vrighter 2y ago
I avoid anything with the "-py" suffix like the plague. It's pretty much a guarantee that anything I write today, will not run next year. I'd stick with maxima. With wxMaxima, it's actually quite nice.
906.
by vrighter 2y ago
If it's executing a program, then the easiest way to make it more efficient, is to ditch the LLM and just execute the program. The LLM in this case is basically only (very very very very very inefficiently) approximating the very CPU i
907.
by vrighter 2y ago
They're a neural network like any other. They are universal function approximators. Doesn't mean that approximating a function that executes a particular program doesn't need an intractably large neural network.
908.
by vrighter 2y ago
or firefox
909.
by vrighter 2y ago
Not just seriously impaired, but outright impossible sometimes. For example, It is illegal to pay in cash above a certain amount, where I'm from. That means having a bank account is not an option, it is practically a requirement. If yo
910.
by vrighter 2y ago
There isn't any memory of how it got to where it did because all weights are evaluated all the time. It got there through the entirety of the network. There is no logic, just (mostly) a bunch of multiply-accumulates.
911.
by vrighter 2y ago
yes, but they could have been made robust quicker with types. You still have types in untyped code, they're just in your head and the runtime doesn't know about them. That means you have to be extra thorough to do the type checkin
912.
by vrighter 2y ago
we're talking about the engine, not the skin put on it. They're only different in the ui
913.
by vrighter 2y ago
yes.... all of those are google chrome with lipstick. Doesn't change the fact that it is not a web standard.
914.
by vrighter 2y ago
angular momentum is conserved. It would slow the rotation when raised, and bring it back to normal when lowered
915.
by vrighter 2y ago
it wasn't a feature we "might need in the future" This was a critical piece of functionality. It was backup software, with deduplication. The feature in question was the ability to delete old backups. We were forced to releas
916.
by vrighter 2y ago
there isn't a browser based usb api. It's as simple as that. You're coding for chrome, not the web
917.
by vrighter 2y ago
unless that lack of (intentional) lack of foresight by my superiors endud up with us having to rewrite a particular feature several times, over several years and it still doesn't work with acceptable performance, because it had to be s
918.
by vrighter 2y ago
if a hash can transform any size input, into a fixed length string, then that implies irreversibility due to the pigeonhole principle. It's impossible, not infeasible
919.
by vrighter 2y ago
it's a chrome application not an html5 one. It only works on one browser (and its forks) because it uses proprietary, nonstandard apis.
920.
by vrighter 2y ago
If your measures include stuff like the password manager, which I need to use constantly, being set up to log me out every two minutes "for security purposes", you're damn right I will try to find a way to circumvent it. Each
921.
by vrighter 2y ago
The clive james one is a mistranslation, no matter how much nicer it sounds. In italian, the usual translation is correct.
922.
by vrighter 2y ago
the lisp text representation is not lisp data. Nor is it code. It's just a textual representation of the homioiconic abstract code/data. A different textual encoding does not affect the homoiconicity
923.
by vrighter 2y ago
we did, but then most ansible modules still didn't work on the system. They advertise the no-agent thing and how it does everything over ssh, and instead require python to be installed on all your servers because it generates python co
924.
by vrighter 2y ago
reating gradmasters 55% of the time is not good. We've been beating almost 100% of grandmasters in the 90's. And when even llm's that are good at chess run, I had recently read an article about someone who examined them from
925.
by vrighter 2y ago
Well, given that we need to tell them what they are not allowed to do, vs what they they are allowed, we need some "Do-Not-X" standard convention for headers. For example, I have my browser send all of these with each request: Do-
926.
by vrighter 2y ago
until, as happened to us, you're in the middle of an upgrade cycle, with a mix of red-hat 6 and red-hat 8 servers, and ansible decide to require support for the latest available version of python on red-hat 8, which isn't availabl
927.
by vrighter 2y ago
It only uses half of my available screen width, and completely wastes the rest. Also, on loading the page, a total of only 108 words could fit on my screen. Everything is too big. And honestly, hard to read because of it. For reference, 108
928.
by vrighter 2y ago
But radix sort is its own beast (a variant of counting sort). It requires O(N) memory, but since it is not a comparison sort, it also sorts in O(N). But it can only sort integers. So not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison.
929.
by vrighter 2y ago
The LLM isn't solving the problem. The LLM is just predicting the next word. It's not "using next-token prediction to solve a problem". It has no concept of "problem". All it can do is predict 1 (one) token tha
930.
by vrighter 2y ago
that it is a fork is a secondary detail. Lead with what it is, not what you copied to get the project started.

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