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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I think you’re right. You do (or, at least, when I imagine it in my head, I do) hear it frequently used when saying goodbye, but I don’t think it would be used to say goodbye. If someone said ‘cheers’ to me when parting, I’d interpret i
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Well, yes. That is the problem. I just want the old Instagram and Twitter back.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
> you now have platforms no one will care about I would care, and I imagine there are others who would too. I don’t use social media anymore (at all!) because of this. If I could have the chronological feed restored and no intrusion of o
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
It doesn’t kinda suck. Wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopaedia, which means it’s intended to come with some expectation of neutrality. If you could edit your own page, do you really think it’d stay as factual and as neutral as possib
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
> a tightrope act is just as difficult at any height Well, sort of. But surely part of the feat is overcoming the natural fear of heights.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Just about anyone would be a more mathematical interviewer than Fridman. Even when it comes to CS, it’s blatantly obvious he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. How he got famous is such a mystery…
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I just like to have my audio samples divisible by a (preferably large) power of two — what's wrong with that? Sounds more crispy that way.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
My personal favourite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9BtuPpW9w .
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I agree mostly, but what exactly do you mean by privacy? I think the real pressing issue is not ‘privacy’ or ‘tracking’ or whatever; it’s having one’s views slowly but surely warped by AI-enabled mass disinformation campaigns and having one
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Agreed. Even if it worked perfectly, I’d rather just press a couple of buttons than have to speak to it. It’s just of no interest to me.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
You’re not wrong, but how does it relate to my question? I’m asking why I would want AI, not why Apple would want to artificially inject ‘AI’ into their product — that’s obvious.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Why would I want ‘AI’ on my iPhone anyway? All I want is an all-in-one electronic notepad, calculator, encyclopaedia, communicator, music player and camera. And it already does all of that (almost) perfectly. And has done for the last fifte
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
> Call me cynical, but every article in a newspaper is published for a reason, and I think I know where this is going. I wouldn’t call you cynical; I’d go so far as to call you conspiratorial .
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
I fully agree with this.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
You forgot about BST!
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
> I'm surprised atoms are so big, I would have guessed much smaller. Me too. Perhaps what we should realise is not how big atoms are, but how small we are. I wonder if life can be sustained at larger scales. Could we have galaxy-siz
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Microsoft and the Church (1994)(gnu.org)
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
Some more easily than others.
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by xanderlewis 1y ago
(It’s easy if you try…)
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Wasn't expecting to see the Co-op.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Actually… this is true. Fair enough.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Who looks down on the Real Book?
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
No, thanks—I’ll keep using them as I always have.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
I disagree that in general it’s not useful to debate subjective matters. What is being debated is not whether the given label applies , but whether the label should apply (which really means what the label means ), which are subtly diff
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Almost everyone says ‘PIN number’ as well.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
And the US ‘small’ LLMs will actually be slightly larger than the ‘large’ LLMs in the UK.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
You mean like a dependency tree? There isn’t a comprehensive one — it would be way too big and we don’t have all mathematical knowledge written down in one place anyway. But if you’re interested in any given classical result, if you ask I’m
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
I’m inclined to agree, but who knows… maybe he just happened to have his big insight early on, and if he’d lived longer he’d never have done anything quite as significant. Plenty of people do great things only once.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
Everything you’ve said is obvious, and yet really needs saying and isn’t said enough.
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by xanderlewis 2y ago
You’re not being well understood here, but I do this too, and have done — with everything — all my life. The answer is ultimately that if you deconstruct and logically analyse any particular human activity it either ruins the fun and/o

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