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by wredue 3y ago
Humans do not need “faith” to function. If you’re talking about “having faith” as in “I have faith my car will start with morning”, then yes, but that is not the same thing as theological faith. I have loads of evidence and experience that
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by wredue 3y ago
Finding unexpected connections is something we’ve known LLMs are good at for ages. Connecting things you didn’t even know are connected is like “selling LLM business to business 101”. It’s the first line of a sales pitch dude. And that’s st
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by wredue 3y ago
Of course they are? If you train in a different order, start with different weights, or change the gradient delta amount, different things will emerge out of an otherwise exactly the same NN. You can see this out of videos where people trai
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by wredue 3y ago
If you start a non with the same weight and do the same gradients, it’ll “learn” the same things. The “emergent” properties are going to be impacted by randomness of your starting point as well as ordering of your training.
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by wredue 3y ago
You are the first person I’ve ever seen use that argument against formal methods. Most people would point to the large dev time increase, and the massive refactoring impairment.
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by wredue 3y ago
I’m not sure why that would be the case. If anything, I’d expect earlier code to be easier to hack.
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by wredue 3y ago
It’s funny which code I remember and which code I don’t. There’s code I wrote 10 years ago at work that I still remember and can point out exactly where everything is. Then there’s code I wrote last week that is completely gone.
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by wredue 3y ago
Some things just “are”. There is no “why”. There is a “how”, and we may never be able to answer that question.
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by wredue 3y ago
Forging documents should be illegal, yes. And there are numerous reason why there are restrictions on transferring genetic material and how it’s used. Doing something wrong can greatly disrupt an ecosystem. You not understanding why somethi
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by wredue 3y ago
I was flagged because the terrorist-lite convoy is also attempting to take over HN. That’s seems to be right up the alley of “the protectors of free speech”.
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by wredue 3y ago
Dude no. Profit is represented as a portion of revenue, not inflation. If profit margin growth had to match inflation, then eventually, a company would be expected to have higher profit than revenue, which obviously makes no sense.
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by wredue 3y ago
Greedflation is the term describing inflation way over and above what it should have been. Profits are not dwindling, they are better than they’ve ever been across most sectors. In addition, corporate ability to hide profit has been growing
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by wredue 3y ago
Incidentally, never believe tales of “we can self regulate!” If they had any intention of self regulating, they wouldn’t be spending billions to get rid of regulation.
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by wredue 3y ago
>model collapse does not exist in practice Dude what? That’s a pretty absurd claim. Most generally available models specifically curate their inputs for the express purpose of avoiding AI garbage induced collapse. It’s literally on their
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by wredue 3y ago
That’s fine, but most modern tooling “automates” this for you and gives you easy tooling to manage versions as well. Additionally, you get a nice list in a simple spot of exactly what you need that isn’t just documentation. Anyone can easil
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by wredue 3y ago
Sure. In the same way that all sports are similar in that most have regulations against fighting.
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by wredue 3y ago
Andrew Kelley talks about this and the effects he’s trying to achieve with Zig tooling. Undoubtedly, language tooling being fast improves your ability to iterate. 1 second vs 60 seconds doesn’t “seem” like much, but when you have that speed
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by wredue 3y ago
CMake is actually a perfect demonstration of how annoying C++ development tooling can be. The documentation is massively verbose but doesn’t really say anything helpful. There’s basically no “Modern CMake” examples that anyone can agree upo
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by wredue 3y ago
JS IS fast compared to many languages. In general use, it’s about as fast as Haskell. Yeah. It’s in the order of 4x slower than Java for most things, but it’s also like 100x faster than Python. It’s all a matter of perspective, but in gener
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by wredue 3y ago
And if I go to a flat earth conference, I will find that they produce lots of “proof” for flat earth. I don’t really accept “this group of people who’s heads are super far up the ‘pure functions’ ass choose purity for their solutions” as “e
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by wredue 3y ago
Andrew Kelley has a pretty good talk on gaining performance in the zig compiler. In many cases performing math again is faster than memoization. General gist is to try to cram as much in to the cache lines as possible, sometimes even at the
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by wredue 3y ago
>Well, why would it be taken as a given that programming should mimic the hardware? Because that’s the environment that programs are run on, doing anything else is fighting against the environment. I would argue that humans have done thi
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by wredue 3y ago
So in python, you need to understand not 1, but at least 3 different versions of “an entry point”, and to you, this is “less cognitive load”? I had the same issue with Swift. There’s 30 ways to write the exact same line of code, all created
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by wredue 3y ago
Just going to be honest here: “Zero complexity print to the screen” Is, quite possibly, the dumbest argument people make in favour of one language over another. For experienced people, a cursory glance at the definitions should be enough. F
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by wredue 3y ago
I find quite a lot of friction in being demanded to understand all of the methods, what they do, when you’d use them, why you’d choose one over another that does a slightly different thing, but maybe still fits. The method documentation alo
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by wredue 3y ago
The problem a lot of people have with DSLs is… well, just look at a prime example: SAS. If you’re an experienced programmer coming in to SAS, your vocabulary for the next LONG time is going to consist primarily of “What The Fuck is this shi
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by wredue 3y ago
I can say that New Outlook is slow as fuck, does counterintuitive things (especially with actions on multiple selections), and has hordes of other somewhat annoying bugs (for example, deleting many emails will often count you as a double cl
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by wredue 3y ago
The posting is looking for someone with industry experience. It’s not a junior or entry position. I recognize all the jargon here. None of it is exclusive to, or internal to Walmart, and the terms used are perfectly fine for the type of pos
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by wredue 3y ago
Putting things in your body that have no need to be there is generally “not good” for you. Vaping is not good for your lungs. There is little actual study on whether it’s worse than smoking, especially in the long term. I do agree that some
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by wredue 3y ago
Yes. Was never a heavy drinker, but now that I track calories, there’s rarely room left for many alcoholic beverages

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