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by woolion 4y ago
It isn't really the ACM, the authors got their paper accepted with a funny name, which isn't uncommon practice. Goto considered harmful or programming with bananas and barbed wire also got quite a popularity thanks to their unconv
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by woolion 4y ago
Wrong, it's at https://hackernews.com , that weird link you posted is probably a phishing site.
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by woolion 4y ago
I fully agree with your point on the bulldozer. I made a post [0] about trying to displace myself --not even at professional level but at hobbyist level-- and the results were underwhelming. I would say it could be revolutionary if software
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by woolion 4y ago
I've been wondering: why would you give a story to your child where you have to explain that "these people are dumb", "this is not something you should do", etc at every page. About that subject, the song "au c
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AI art should do better: why I trained Dreambooth on my last 2 years of drawings(woolion.art)
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by woolion 4y ago
As someone who draws, there are some obvious aspects where AI generation just works perfectly: - generate details and texture, which photobashing was already used for; but that mostly solve the licensing problem for it - generate random ins
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by woolion 4y ago
Right. But this is only a proof in a given theory. If ZFC was consistent and complete, it would have had complete dominance over the notion of truth, even if it had some quirks (as the joke goes, "The axiom of choice is obviously true
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by woolion 4y ago
Well yes, that's my point. Hilbert's program would have killed a lot of research domains. Its success would have meant we found the perfect set of axioms, supposedly ZFC, and that for each theorem you could easily check its proof
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by woolion 4y ago
I find it quite funny that, even as a research level scientist, he treats Gödel theorems like nice pop-science favourite novelty results. It didn't really close any mathematical domain of inquiry, on the contrary it opened new research
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by woolion 4y ago
Well, nobody said exactly what they meant by 'science', so there are indeed many ways to interpret that statement. I was referring to education, news reporting on paper, etc. This the main subject of the article, for which there i
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by woolion 4y ago
I don't find it a distraction. I had to think, "this is such an old idea, when did this realization struck me?". It was more than a decade ago, on my third research project, when I went abroad to visit another research insti
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by woolion 4y ago
This is probably an evergreen observation, but it is worth repeating. Because when you are yourself becoming yourself an enthusiastic scientist (so, by doing science) you would dismiss entirely any parallel between religion and science. How
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by woolion 4y ago
It's really interesting how good some of the results are, but the styles seem to be completely mixed up. Just looking up Claude Monet, and there isn't anything impressionist. Leonardo da Vinci, on the other hand, give results that
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by woolion 4y ago
Although it's always good news to have Linux on more device, in the case of Apple I find it a bit problematic. That means you encourage Apple getting a huge cut on device sale. Or further justify the high prices of second-hand device
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by woolion 4y ago
We just took part in the "Text Adventure Literacy Jam - 2022" ( https://itch.io/jam/talp2022 ), organised by Adventuron -- an engine for parser-based Interactive Fiction games, which does run in the browser, as
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by woolion 4y ago
I cannot edit my comment anymore, but I realized Crawford is the Martin of 'Forest Garden' fame. I was obviously meaning Martin Fowler, from the 'Refactoring' book. Maybe we'll have 'Forest Software' in so
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by woolion 4y ago
I also got this heuristic from Martin Crawford. However I believe it applies to snippets (<100 lines of code at the very most) only, for the reason you gave. But even then, it sometimes happen that you find a bug in a 4 line snippet that
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by woolion 4y ago
Of course not, abstraction works even better there! Every point that differs will have either a conditional, or an abstract part to be implemented by child classes. So the abstraction lets you know at a glance what are the key points to l
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by woolion 4y ago
It's really striking how in recent years the Godwin point has been replaced from "everybody who disagrees is Hitler" to "everybody who disagrees is a anti-climate flat-vax earth-denier". It's really not helpin
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by woolion 4y ago
Searx is great. Every time searx results are bad to inexistent I compare with Google, and results are as bad to inexistent. This is in stark contrast to one year doing the same with DDG where !g was often the key to good results. Ony thing
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by woolion 4y ago
Not significantly worse, I think it was about 4/10. I tried to find the link through my browser history without any luck though :-/
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by woolion 4y ago
Fantastic article from Gwern, as usual. He lays out some approaches to distinguish fake research using AI-generated ones. However I think he may be optimistic about the effort needed to correct the course on junk science and the ability of
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by woolion 4y ago
For any interested in Peter Arnell, the genius designer behind the redesign, I encourage you to look up "pepsi logo" on hn. The design document is such a radical statement it will certainly impact your view of design and corporat
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by woolion 4y ago
To counterpoint some of the negative comments. People make guides to emacs because you need to learn to be able to use it efficiently. This is in clear opposition to modern IDEs where you can somewhat get by without learning anything (alth
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by woolion 4y ago
Not at all. The whole thing about freedom is that people should be free to say what they want because they should also be able to listen to what they want. Nobody ever made the point that free speech means you should not be able to block p
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by woolion 4y ago
I don't know much about Musk so I was interested in reading your links. First one starts with: >Dear @ElonMusk: Thank you for reaching out to me. I heard from our phone conversation that you feel that my post, “Dear @ElonMusk: You s
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by woolion 4y ago
As other said already, it's very cool, uses quite some CPU (fans go brrrr), and it sometimes feel a bit sad to get the pattern changed in your stead. I wanted to add that I'm in awe in the very subtle way the colors are chosen, wh
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by woolion 4y ago
Summary of the article: Author notes a diversity of viewpoints are represented at UN (South America, Africa, ...), but not all, notably East-Asia, e.g. China. Yet the author notes that very disproportionately the representatives are people
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by woolion 4y ago
> A sentence is not misleading because a chunk of people understand something totally different than what it is supposed to be about To read the subheader you have to go the site; since trying to do so hung up Firefox, it's not goin
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by woolion 5y ago
Someone else mentioned that artists at the time would have made studies (nature morte) so that they already know how to paint these objects. For the time itself, it depends on how fast he worked, etc. So I have no idea unless the process wa

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