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by westoncb 4y ago
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like it should be fine. Copyright applies to specific concrete representations and not things like abstract underlying ideas.
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by westoncb 4y ago
QuickJS compiled to WASM seems like a pretty nice way of getting a sandboxed js environment: https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten . Curious if people have seen any other routes to doing it via WASM.
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by westoncb 4y ago
> This gives you the added benefit that the grammar is explicitly defined Especially if you're still refining the syntax: it is so comparatively easy to modify a grammar vs parser.
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by westoncb 4y ago
The final step in their "How it works" diagram: "Intelligent C64s restore themselves to their former position of prominence. The singularity is near."
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by westoncb 4y ago
It would lock up as in just take an extremely long time to do certain things in the UI. That sounds like a pretty odd way for a driver issue to manifest, but maybe I'm missing something.
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by westoncb 4y ago
This comment is funny to me because it was up to date and the particular issue wasn’t driver related: it was specifically that after not touching it at all for a couple months each subsequent time I logged in it would randomly lock up, took
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by westoncb 4y ago
My experience has also been that Windows 11 is buggy (haven't been using it for a while because it can't even reliably connect to the internet). But also in my limited experience (just one install on a single machine in ~2020, use
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by westoncb 4y ago
This makes for some pretty excellent counter-marketing against OpenAI: "so Meta's GTP-3 is open?" "correct" "and the original is not?" "correct" "and the original is made by 'OpenAI&#x2
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by westoncb 4y ago
I usually do it right after work or on a break. I would sweat from beat saber, but not so much from the zombie land game.
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by westoncb 4y ago
Also not OP, but I use my quest 2 just about every day, so I could share a bit. I've gone through phases since purchasing it where there is one game or another that I get into, but the general theme has been something with a 'phys
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by westoncb 4y ago
More lightweight/comfortable headset would be my other requirement.
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by westoncb 4y ago
> What definitionally makes consciousness prohibited by the physical world? "consciousness" is too broad a term—I only mean to refer to the aspect of it dealt with in "the hard problem". The hard problem deals with th
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by westoncb 4y ago
That's fair. I guess the way I think about it, "a computer executing a set of instructions in its registers" is general enough to cover any arrangement of silicon that would be potentially interesting. But now that you mentio
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by westoncb 4y ago
A competing account of consciousness is that the capacity for subjective experience pervades material reality (essentially it is what it's like to be some part of the universe; i.e. there is always something you could call a "qu
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by westoncb 4y ago
I think it's also useful to consider factors at play for those who were convinced by this, since those reasons seem likewise problematic/ill-founded + small in number. Reading through myself, I never encountered something which
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by westoncb 4y ago
I was in a very similar situation myself, didn't realize how much spending ~8yrs doing computer work caused other muscles to atrophy, had difficulty not overly engaging upper traps + arms for everything when trying a fitness plan. I&#x
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by westoncb 4y ago
IIRC they provide some mechanism for fine-tuning: they showed a demo where you could erase portions, re-prompt and have it re-generate in the deleted area. It seems like a pretty good general way to work toward specific requirements, though
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by westoncb 4y ago
Interesting. Though I've got very little interest in Lacan's work itself, I could see this being a pretty good filter for finding smart/disciplined therapists who are able to address more... abstract concerns (then again, may
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by westoncb 4y ago
It's definitely interesting, but it also comes with what seems like a significant tradeoff whose effects may be difficult to anticipate: initial posters are given a big advantage in terms of control over the conversation. But maybe it
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by westoncb 4y ago
I read the first few pages but it so dense with references to other works/philosophers it felt unreadable to me (and I've read a decent bit of philosophy but not a ton).
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by westoncb 4y ago
I didn't go the voice route because I'd read stories about people messing up their vocal chords that way—but it's something that could be looked into more closely for sure. (This was also 2006 - 2012; the voice packages I tri
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by westoncb 4y ago
I'd been dealing with an RSI issue for about six years and had largely given up programming because of it, seeing no way around—then had an idea for a new kind of code editor that would let me program with motion sensors instead of sea
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by westoncb 4y ago
I wonder if anyone can comment on the probability of that happening. From my current understanding it would be vanishingly small.
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by westoncb 5y ago
Because it gives you easy access to continuous motion. I found myself constantly making slight adjustments to move a little back or forward to get better looks at specific things. It’s the same kind of freedom you get from mouse freelook in
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by westoncb 5y ago
Oh. This has nothing to do with the fact that it's a scroll-based interaction. It looks like it just doesn't work correctly with your mouse—i.e. you ran into a bug, not something that's wrong with scrolling in principle . Bu
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by westoncb 5y ago
It's nice because scrolling is a 1d interaction, and the path you're navigating is 1d. It's superior to a movie because this scheme makes it super simple to control how long you spend at various points, and they open up optio
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by westoncb 5y ago
Extremely well done (at least for desktop). Many seem to dislike that it's scroll-controlled, but tbh I would've given up immediately if it were free navigation—I didn't feel like wandering around looking for things, just wan
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by westoncb 5y ago
You're asserting a bunch of things about how it works that have no basis in reality. If you want to be able to comment on this stuff with any accuracy, read the research they've published.
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by westoncb 5y ago
They are generated from e.g. "happy sisyphus". My understanding is there are separate additional controls for style (though it's flexible enough you could give hints in the text, too, which is I gather where the "express
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by westoncb 5y ago
> Composite those things together manually and add a style transfer you'll get similar results to DALL-E as that is what it is doing more or less. If you try actually doing this it will be trivial to see that this assertion is incor

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