wongarsu

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by wongarsu 5d ago
What else do people think it is? If Typesafe had found a way to measure arbitrary AI results against objective reality (past, future and present) they'd either be making a killing on the stock market or working for the NRO, not publish
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by wongarsu 5d ago
The output method is a probability distribution of the next token. But that tells you nothing about what's going on on the inside You could take a human and give them an interface restricted to the same shape as an LLM: an input stream
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by wongarsu 5d ago
Gaining and successfully communicating insight and understanding from a proof you discovered is additional work that human mathematicians do. It's not just some side-product of proof-finding (at least not to the degree usually needed t
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by wongarsu 5d ago
Anyone can get a $5 bluetooth-capable ESP32 and set its bluetooth mac to one in the range used by smart glasses. Not sure why you'd do that though. The other direction is trickier. You'd have to modify the firmware of the smart gl
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by wongarsu 5d ago
As a German, I always found French to be incredibly regular. At least in the sense that from spelling you can easily infer pronunciation. The other way around is trickier. At least compared to German, which tries to strike a balance between
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by wongarsu 7d ago
Isn't it more like 93%? On the other 7% data is still inconclusive, they never died
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by wongarsu 8d ago
However, for writing software with AI the analogy still works. Just as the photographer needs to pick a shot worth capturing, you have to figure out software worth building. That often also involves some leg work: you need to understand the
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by wongarsu 8d ago
But setting off small earthquakes doesn't just damage the rope, it also lowers the anvil. Also the anvil in our analogy is constantly getting heavier, so the chances of our rope holding forever are very low
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by wongarsu 9d ago
And if calculus was the only useful thing to come out of 1600s mathematical research, it would have been worth it. The other dead ends don't need to justify themselves. Getting one thing of this magnitude justifies it all On how to sel
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by wongarsu 9d ago
Yes, Germany absolutely has a right to privacy in the public sphere It's a nuanced right that has to be weighted against other rights and societal benefits. On the street it's usually easy: your picture can contain crowds or peopl
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by wongarsu 9d ago
depends on whether you read it as ((2nm 3d stacked CPU) and server) (integrated, developed, and manufactured in Japan) or (2nm 3d stacked CPU) and (server integrated, developed, and manufactured in Japan)
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by wongarsu 11d ago
Thinner skin, so you can in theory get better sensor readings. And you don't have to convince people to give up the watch they already own. Selling somebody who owns a $4000 watch another watch is an uphill battle that requires Apple w
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by wongarsu 11d ago
For an LLM, just being able to play an entire game of chess without illegal moves and without inventing pieces that aren't on the board is an achievement. Even more so for a live model. Then again, who knows how much the harness helped
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by wongarsu 11d ago
This would also make countries that constituionally prevent that level of debt look smart. At least if we see the state as an institution that should serve its citizens. If taking on debt requires making your citizens worse off to the point
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by wongarsu 11d ago
The US famously did that in the 60s (detonating nukes at roughly the height of today's ISS)[1]. Also some less famous ones, including a Soviet test that resulted in the EMP destroying a power plant [2]. Properly aimed at a populated ar
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by wongarsu 11d ago
In the short term it will always look stupid. Borrowing allows you to invest, which leads to growth, which allows you to borrow more. But debt also accumulates, and usually faster than GDP growth. Until debt servicing starts eating your bud
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by wongarsu 11d ago
Some green parties. Their primary goals might seem unrelated, but turns out caring for the environment and climate change is correlated with long-term thinking. Note I said "some", before rushing to mention all the examples of gre
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by wongarsu 11d ago
Maybe the USD is expected to lose value against the euro?
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by wongarsu 11d ago
zfs is more mature and has a better feature set. It's also about the best file system for a NAS, since you can detect and repair single bad blocks if you run zfs's version of RAID5/6. btrfs is lighter on memory use and a bit
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by wongarsu 12d ago
Difficult with brick walls, but easy with concrete walls. The Soviet Union famously did that a lot. For the brick aesthetic, just add a brick facade on top. Or insulation foam boards and plaster for a more boring but functional look
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by wongarsu 12d ago
I wouldn't put that in the "success" category just yet
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by wongarsu 12d ago
H1b was officially intended to be the former category, and a $100k visa fee puts in back squarely in that category. For a company that wants 0.1% talent paying an extra $100k one-time fee is expensive but not a show-stopper Now the question
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by wongarsu 12d ago
If LLMs only made SO redundant by writing code and solving my technical problems autonomously so I never have to think about it, I would agree. But often I do ask LLMs technical questions, and they answer in great detail. And that part is a
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by wongarsu 12d ago
If you have a websites that offers guides, how-tos or tutorials, LLMs directly compete with you. StackOverflow would also have a really good case After all LLMs don't just code, they also answer questions and give step-by-step instruct
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by wongarsu 12d ago
Or maybe seeing things in front of your mind's eye is not an essential quality for animating or computer graphics Personally I do have aphantasia, but I am great at reasoning about how things relate to each other in 3d and over time. F
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by wongarsu 12d ago
As somebody who only has closed eye visuals in deep meditation or in dreams, I would maybe describe what you call "knowingness" as "abstract representation"? As a kid I've always been really good at these "imag
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by wongarsu 12d ago
Aphantasia is a real thing. As are probably many other differences in how our brains work. But the difficulty of describing qualia is likely why we are so unaware of them. And why even the "known" ones remained largely obscure unt
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by wongarsu 12d ago
The earliest you could reasonably derive special relativity is probably 1881 with the first version of the Michelson–Morley experiment, which showed that speed of light is the same no matter how you move through space. Which, on the scale o
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by wongarsu 13d ago
There are obviously many things KSP's patched conics approximation can't account for, like lagrange points or how orbits often get twisted around over time, or how the small effects from all the other solar bodies add up to be sig
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by wongarsu 14d ago
You'd be looking for what's now called a "dumb tv". But those are getting rare, because TVs that can't sell your watch data have to be more expensive to make up for that, and that doesn't sell. Commercial scree

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