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by woolion 3y ago
I'm not sure I'll answer properly but I'm thinking of how information retrieval works in the brain and how similar it is to word vectors and heatmaps. There is a well known trick (I don't know if there's actual rese
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by woolion 3y ago
I can remember it was a case in a translation of Dogen's works, which may not be the most accessible in the first place.
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by woolion 3y ago
If you read any Chinese/Japanese literature, for example Buddhist or zen texts, it is very common to encounter very weird uses of the words blue or green-- because they mean things that somebody used to these distinct categories will c
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by woolion 3y ago
The problem was underspecified, but I suggested that under the assumption that the value would be an Optional[dict]. If you have another falsy value, it means either Optional[Any] or something like Optional[Union[dict, list]] (I put list as
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by woolion 3y ago
Of course this only works at one level and not arbitrarily deeply, but you still need to check for None with this code; it may actually be better to write `x.get("key") or {}` so that you always get an empty dict. I write 'ma
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by woolion 3y ago
If you are interested in reading more about it, the keyword is "abiogenesis" -- or, as was the case in the books I read 2 decades ago, "prebiotic". Reading about it, it is quite obvious that it is hard to think draw up a
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by woolion 3y ago
Thank you for this link! I cannot access the paper right now, but the abstract mentions that most research might have been confounded by the distractions provided by computers rather that by typing/handwriting. Which is actually a big
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by woolion 3y ago
They don't give any source or anything; the way it's worded sounds ambiguous enough that I suspect it's not that 50% of their code is generated by Copilot. Is there something a bit more convincing elsewhere?
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by woolion 3y ago
To be fair, the example of a game is a pretty poor one: it's the main case where the key positions are more important than their code --WASD->ZQSD in AZERTY for example; if the game still maps WASD, it's just unusable as direct
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by woolion 3y ago
It's a short project, but here's an example in Latex+Git(hub)+Pandoc: https://github.com/cosmoosic/wool-june-rud-story I wrote a longer novella using the same approach, the repo still private as it's in
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by woolion 3y ago
Interesting that 'laptop' won the poll. The e-ink screens are quite fragile, and are actually the only device that I have ever broken. Comparatively, my laptop already went through so much abuse that I'm pretty sure would hav
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by woolion 3y ago
Here you are defining a new function, not composing two functions. But if you consider a program implementation of pure functions, this might not be true; for example f and g use a quantity of RAM, but the RAM used by f o g exceeds your com
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by woolion 3y ago
With respect to the theological view of the question; this is always painful to me.— I am bewildered.— I had no intention to write atheistically. But I own that I cannot see, as plainly as others do, & as I should wish to do, evidence o
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by woolion 3y ago
>If you can reason about f and g that doesn’t mean that you can tell anything useful about f o g I'm confused. If you can reason about f and g, there is nothing more to know about f o g -- provided f and g are pure functions. The wh
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by woolion 3y ago
Great analysis, that hits a number of very good points! In particular it's interesting that you call the first category "uninspired" rather than "lacking skills". A lot of people equate this "uninspired" c
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by woolion 3y ago
No, I just followed the instructions, I was wondering if I should make one. I also had the problem, but that is something for which you just need to run with sudo. Maybe there's a way to configure the path so that it can be run as an u
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by woolion 3y ago
Cool! If you're on an arch-based distro, when following https://github.com/bintracker/bintracker/blob/master/docs/se... in the Makefile you have to replace csc by chicken-csc (csc is the Micros
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The Janus System: Multi-Paradigm Programming in Prolog and Python(arxiv.org)
85 points by woolion 3y ago|11 comments
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by woolion 3y ago
>Do you read the news in any language other than English? That's kind of a weird take... I'm not American at all. I can't speak for all European countries, but in most it's kind of a basic anti-american cliché that th
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by woolion 3y ago
I'm always happy to see very reputable sources who report on very serious endeavors by very serious people. These last years have seen a terrible increase in what people call "post-truth discourse", or more simply "fake
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by woolion 3y ago
>I personally find it a joy to read Nabokov despite his wordiness, and I do not think my reading enjoyment is related to being wordy. > [original:] Could Nabokov have "made his point" in fewer words? Almost certainly, but I
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by woolion 3y ago
I've actually done it [0], I'd like to have an AI assistant that I could directly use the results from, and the results were really terrible, mostly laughably terrible. I think it was too far from what the models handled correctly
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An overview of (functional) Front-end free development technologies(woolion.art)
2 points by woolion 3y ago|0 comments
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by woolion 3y ago
I used to think that the generative AI impact would be pretty low because these images always have some artifacts that I find pretty jarring, and that require fairly high artistic skills to fix. However that was completely wrong: most peopl
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Why Not Python(grishaev.me)
2 points by woolion 3y ago|0 comments
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by woolion 3y ago
It's fun, but not so much when you know you can get higher results by cheesing a dumb strategy than by actually trying to draw. Improving scoring could really help... (others already made good suggestions). Drawing something that compl
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by woolion 3y ago
Interesting, I was looking back at https://sohl.substack.com/p/espresso-and-open-source-hardwar... yesterday night (posted on hn as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35320729 ), with a recent followu
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by woolion 3y ago
Android is Linux in a lot of ways that don't really matter (it uses part of the same software stack!) and it's definitely not Linux in all the ways that do matter: it's a tool by surveillance capitalism and state surveillance
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Picotron Playground(lexaloffle.com)
1 points by woolion 3y ago|0 comments
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by woolion 3y ago
I agree, hn clearly stays minimal on purpose, which is why I put the last disclaimer line. >with “more you might like” In itself that's a very good feature, it becomes a problem with a host of other patterns to transform discoverabi

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