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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
> The genuine arrayref and append-only-vec crates are maintained by droundy, whose account appears to have been compromised. That name looked familiar to me; I believe it's the same David Roundy who was an academic at Reed College w
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
> They are based on the premise that an educated person should be able to argue convincingly for or against any idea, regardless of whether they believe in it. In many situations, people doing this, skillfully even, has had quite pernici
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
There are at least two uses of "declare": one the colloquial english usage that has been around for at least hundreds of years, which roughly means "announce" or "state". The other use of declare is the much mo
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
> You are not writing dead text; you are conversing with a living system. There it is again.
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
you're getting downvoted by others because of tone but I had the same thought
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
one time about 9 years ago I was in the comments of a stackoverflow question, and saying something like "an accessor function need not directly give the underlying structure of the data it's accessing, for example, just because in
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
the typo was the Axios article, not from Google's own announcement
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
> these communities don’t care if your code works at all, but instead care that you know why and how it works. not literally true, and I doubt the author meant to say this. The communities do not only care about if your code works at a
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by xdavidliu 2mo ago
pay walled
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by xdavidliu 3mo ago
that's not how the terminology is typical used, even if it makes literal sense
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Accuracy takes power: quest to build a perfect SNES emulator (2011)(arstechnica.com)
3 points by xdavidliu 3mo ago|0 comments
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by xdavidliu 4mo ago
i don't understand what the second paragraph is saying.
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by xdavidliu 4mo ago
less intense than in countries near equator, not less intense than winter
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by xdavidliu 4mo ago
only if it is not littered with unsafe blocks
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by xdavidliu 4mo ago
pull requests are welcome
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by xdavidliu 4mo ago
adding to the irony is the fact that the mechanism used by the NN architecture in LLMs is also called attention
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by xdavidliu 4mo ago
its not that they did not get your pun, its that they think building rockets is hard, and i tend to agree
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by xdavidliu 4mo ago
this comment is nonsensical
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by xdavidliu 5mo ago
not a bug; the post we are currently on is the one that apparently used to be negative.
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by xdavidliu 5mo ago
oh the irony
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by xdavidliu 5mo ago
framing 4 gb of data per user as 4 gb is even more of a stretch
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by xdavidliu 5mo ago
I'm of course not talking about the arithmetic, but rather understanding the semantics of ratios, sets, and subsets, and inferring statistical significance.
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by xdavidliu 5mo ago
I think the CEO was more talking in the line of Bill Russell or Maximus from Gladiator, not final-year Haslem
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by xdavidliu 5mo ago
this is the type of math they should be teaching in high school, not trigonometry and calculus (which should be electives)
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by xdavidliu 6mo ago
humans are probably the least cheap thing you can have in this context
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by xdavidliu 6mo ago
> 404 not found "delve removed from y combinator" removed from y combinator
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by xdavidliu 7mo ago
kinda reminds me of the plot of Sphere, where Samuel L Jackson is reading 20,000 leagues under the sea and is thinking of giant squids.
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by xdavidliu 8mo ago
that would be the exact opposite of modern
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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
fair point
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by xdavidliu 10mo ago
good question, I'm not sure. Maybe check out the new Eliezer Yudkowsky book? He definity talks about something akin to "post-GPT era" on there.

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