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by waynecochran 1y ago
A small kitten dies every time C++ is used like its 1995. void (*fn)(void*, T) = nullptr;
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by waynecochran 1y ago
I live in the PNW and I see hundreds of garter snakes, some newts, but never a Rough-Skinned Newt. I had no idea such a creature was around here.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
This article made me think about DNA as a language. Sort of a simple proof that a biological intelligence can be initially encoded as a language. I am sure someone has tried building LLM's from gene sequence data right?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
I would say it is exactly the opposite. Most other universities have given up freedom of expression. You would be far freer at Hillsdale than most universities.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Need to understand that there are many Christians that are not young earth creationists nor have an with evolution. It is pure materialism that they would have an issue with. Don’t stereotype an entire group of people.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
> Because Amalthea and Thebe have slightly tilted orbits, Batygin and Adams analyzed these small orbital discrepancies to calculate Jupiter's original size… This seems like a non-sequitur. What do tilted orbits have to do
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by waynecochran 1y ago
My mind has been blown using ChatGPT's o4-mini-high for coding and research (it knowledge of computer vision and tools like OpenCV are fantastic). Is it worth trying out all the shiny new AI coding agents ... I need to get work done?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
This may sound like a silly question, but are there men who just have the prostate removed as a preventative measure? Some women have their breasts removed who have a high risk of breast cancer.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
My doctor tells me that PSA testing has now shown to not be effective so they don't do it anymore. I am 58 and my dad died of prostate cancer so I am concerned.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
The screenshot has a vscode icon?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Most cases, e.g. local var declaration. `int i` does not initialize i.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Not me. I want to give the optimizer the freedom to do its thing. If I say something does not need to be initialized, then the optimizer has one less constraint to worry about.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
The whole advantage of UB is that this places less restraints on what the optimizer can do. If I say something does not need to be initialized I am giving the optimizer the freedom to do more!
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by waynecochran 1y ago
That's the whole point of UB -- it leaves open more possibilities for optimization. If everything is nailed down, then the options are more restricted.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
This idea that everything must be initialized (i.e. no undefined or non-deterministic behavior) should never be forced upon a language like C++ which rightly assumes the programmer should have the final say. I don't want training wheel
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by waynecochran 1y ago
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-ostensible-emergent-abilit...
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by waynecochran 1y ago
So there is an "attractor" that different initializations end up converging on?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Since gradient descent converges on a local minima, would we expect different emergent properties with different initialization of the weights?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
And now COBOL stores dates with more that two digits! I'll be sure to port my mainframe app right away!
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by waynecochran 1y ago
I simply figured the folks who created this would have actually ported an actual app while in development as part of the process.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Are there any apps from this project available in the visionos App Store yet?
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by waynecochran 1y ago
This is part of the first 3D picture of the planet's atmosphere, which shows storms are primarily shallow. Pix or didn't happen.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
Halting problem is not even decidable. To mention it in the context of NP is a categorical fouxpas.
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by waynecochran 1y ago
https://jsonnet.org/ I never heard of this before. This seems like the JSON I wish I really had. Of course at some point you could just use JavaScript. I guess that fits w option 5.
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by waynecochran 2y ago
Are you worried about hash collisions from different objects? The probability of a collision of N distinct objects with SHA-1 is (N choose 2) * 1 / 2^161. For a trillion objects the probability is about 1.7 x 10^-25. I think we can saf
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by waynecochran 2y ago
Cognitive load is greatly increased. As a corollary this kind of stuff becomes difficult to prove correct. There is a fine line between clever and stupid. Some of these C++ additions have jumped the shark.
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by waynecochran 2y ago
That is good to know.
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by waynecochran 2y ago
It is not a matter of understanding source code. It is matter of bridging, building, and linking another language with yet another binary layout and interface.
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by waynecochran 2y ago
I get it, but switching to Rust places the codebase on an Island I can't easily get to. I am already switching between C++, Swift, Kotlin, and Python on an almost daily basis.
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by waynecochran 2y ago
Those are the same internal photos. Where are all of these other photos you allude to?

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