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721.
by wrs 1y ago
In the module system case, there was a lot of consensus in the community, including widely-used and pretty mature tooling, and the core team surprised the community by implementing their own approach unilaterally. That predated the current
722.
by wrs 1y ago
The module system shows the Go core team will make unilateral changes if they feel like it. But if I read this correctly, there’s not a consensus even amongst the Go team on what to do here.
723.
by wrs 1y ago
I can buy that stars and star formation processes evolve in this universe . The only thing I'm complaining about is that if you want to explain the apparent fine-tuning of the parameters of physics , you have to explain what that v
724.
by wrs 1y ago
“If you have source code and release assets.” And a build process that works from a clean code base. And a deploy process that works on fresh servers. All of which assumes you even know what services exist , which in any company of this ag
725.
by wrs 1y ago
The question was, did you explain it? If you posit an evolutionary mechanism, you need to show how the characteristics of the parent can be propagated to the descendants. If that’s just a hand-wave, then it’s an interesting thought experi
726.
by wrs 1y ago
I hate to say it, but unless there’s a really well-funded foundation involved, Compiler Explorer and godbolt.org won’t last forever either. (Maybe by then all the info will have been distilled into the 487 quadrillion parameter model of eve
727.
by wrs 1y ago
>Thinking is a incremental process, you make small changes to things, verify if they are logically consistent and work from there. >What is to practice here? You just described the homework for a college-level math class (which will c
728.
by wrs 1y ago
The most obvious general case (to me) is reading an uninitialized local variable in a loop. If uninitialized has to be the same value every time, you’d have to allocate a register or stack space to ensure the value was the same on every ite
729.
by wrs 1y ago
I can’t find a citation, but my recollection is the problem happened with the Briggs-Torczon sparse set algorithm, which relies on uninitialized memory not changing. For performance, they were using MMAP_UNINITIALIZED (which has to be enabl
730.
by wrs 1y ago
When I find some stupidity that 3.7 has committed and it says “Great catch! You’re absolutely right!” I just want to reach into cyberspace and slap it. It’s like a Douglas Adams character.
731.
by wrs 1y ago
That assumes the compiler reserves one continuous place for the value, which isn’t always true (hardly ever true in the case of registers). If the compiler is required to make all code paths result in the same uninitialized value, that ca
732.
by wrs 1y ago
The AI assistant in Sheets doesn’t understand how even the basic features work. When it’s not saying it lacks basic knowledge, it hallucinates controls that don’t exist. Why even bother having it there?
733.
by wrs 1y ago
I was hoping for an explanation of, or some insight from, the loss curve. Training makes very little progress for a long time, then suddenly converges. In my (brief) experience with NN training, I typically see more rapid progress at the be
734.
by wrs 1y ago
Because you filled it out in the context of interacting with a medical provider, then gave it to them for their records, that is a medical record. (Just like a conversation with your doctor about your history would be.) If you filled out th
735.
by wrs 1y ago
You clearly didn’t read the article if you think that’s where the goalposts were. The title is understatement. How about “ChatGPT can’t even keep its own maps consistent from one prompt to the next, much less get a PhD in geography”?
736.
by wrs 1y ago
Two reasons: The marketplace is not a covered entity (it doesn’t provide healthcare or process transactions), and the information is not a medical record (it’s typed in by the user, not generated by a healthcare provider). However, Californ
737.
by wrs 1y ago
But if you believe in your manual heuristics enough to ship them, you must already have a body of tests that you're happy with, right? Also seems like this is a case where generating synthetic data would be a big help. You don't h
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by wrs 1y ago
Since these are statistical classification problems, it seems like it would be worth trying some old-school machine learning (not an LLM, just an NN) to see how it compares with these manual heuristics.
739.
by wrs 1y ago
AWS’s account system is nuts. I know it grew historically out of the “just buy S3 storage with your Amazon account” original, but it’s 2025 and they run half the internet now. Until a few months ago, you couldn’t even be signed in to more t
740.
by wrs 1y ago
Network effect? What network?
741.
by wrs 2y ago
Is it? There's certainly $1T of other businesses built with the internet, but the internet business, itself, was rapidly commoditized. The valuable things were the applications built on it, not the network. The argument here is that
742.
by wrs 2y ago
According to the paper, your TV may send snapshots even when it’s in a “dumb” HDMI input mode. So make sure it’s not on the network at all.
743.
by wrs 2y ago
BTW, "smart" TVs send screenshots too. [0] [0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3646547.3689013
744.
by wrs 2y ago
Bear in mind there is not always a strong relation between "what will improve the product", "what will attract customers", and "what will attract funding". A big part of the CEO job is to manage all of those at
745.
by wrs 2y ago
Is there evidence that modern LLMs identify parts of speech in an observable way? This explanation sounds more like how we did it in the 90s before deep learning took over.
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by wrs 2y ago
I dunno, there are plenty of good old British mysteries where the detective's first question is "what does the will say?"
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by wrs 2y ago
I would have said this design takes you back to the mid-70s, but the 74AUC logic family is so limited it's more like the late 60s. (Wow, that family is fast for discrete logic, though.)
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by wrs 2y ago
Yes, they are secret (otherwise it wouldn’t be a very good negotiation!). You will eventually see some form of the negotiated price for your insurance on the bill, but you won’t see the rebates and so forth that are in the broader contrac
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by wrs 2y ago
The endgame of a tontine can naturally result in confusion, intrigue, and/or murder. This was a basis of the plots of several novels, most famously R.L. Stevenson’s The Wrong Box .
750.
by wrs 2y ago
Toward the end, I think the confounding effect of the afterimages of the discs was bigger than the difference between the discs. (That is, when looking at the three discs in turn, the effect of the afterimage of disc 1 on judging disc 2, et

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