xigency

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   by xigency 4y ago

   Beginning Programming for Dummies isn’t too bad.
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   by xigency 4y ago

   https://archive.is/23vfa
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   by xigency 4y ago

   I'm risk averse so I've been picking up short-term CD's at 5% interest.
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   by xigency 4y ago

   Well, you can place your bets on the market then if you’re confident we’re wrong.
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   by xigency 4y ago

   This is an interesting argument. It's evident that the LLM /can/ give different answers to the same question and that they are stochastic in nature. But being computer programs we can make them deterministic with respect to i
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   by xigency 4y ago

   I disagree. All of the big players have been involved in some way, creating their own systems (which are quite competitive) as well as laying much of the foundation for existing models with research they published.
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   by xigency 4y ago

   Thank you for the previous Previous discussions. Im looking forward to the next Previous NeXT computer discussion.
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   by xigency 4y ago

   > If it had any understanding of chess, it would never play an illegal move. Plenty of people who have a basic understanding of chess would make an illegal move if they had no board to see and had to play only with notation.
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   by xigency 4y ago

   I like this. It’s a bit cheeky but the point still lands. Even if you have the greatest startup idea, there are myriad ways it can fail, many of which are totally outside a founder’s control. Fail early, fail often still seems to be the bes
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    by xigency 4y ago

    Is there any plan for navigating sections or fetching specific data from the article? For example, a command to print Demographics or Population Density for a specific country.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    The advent of AI will absolutely eliminate jobs, either by decimating the required headcount or by making whole professions redundant. I don’t think we can accurately predict which industries will be affected either, as surprisingly many cr
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    by xigency 4y ago

    > 2 or 3 years of updates are a joke, Apple does up to 8. Saying an iPhone can handle 8 generations of iOS updates is a bigger joke. I’m a cheapskate that somehow uses Apple phones, and I’ll let you know after 2-3 major OS updates the pe
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    by xigency 4y ago

    I definitely feel bad. He’s had a really tragic set of circumstances.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    It’s not like cutting other products will make the core offerings better. I’m sure they could double the Windows 11 team size and the start menu search would still take 10+ seconds to find the app I’m searching for. At least mixed reality w
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    by xigency 4y ago

    It is actually legal to do so in most states, and since it’s cheaper, you can be sure that it happens.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    Thanks. Goes to show the plural of anecdote is not data.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    Do you have a source for this? Anecdotally, most of my older relatives spent 20+ years working at the same place. Meanwhile I’ve had 4 different employers in the last decade and don’t know many young folks in tech who have stayed with a com
18. 228.▲
    by xigency 4y ago

    Another one here. Explains why I can never seem to leave.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    Finally an analogy where I understand neither comparison :)
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    by xigency 4y ago

    > Reduction of Carbon Emissions is and always will be the best strategy to slow down global warming. This isn’t sufficient on its own. Reduction of emissions, carbon recapture and carbon sequestration are all needed.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    I tried to do this manually for a filter on the last four digits. Phones don’t really handle a 10,000 number blocklist well.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    Not meaning to be rude, but you may be living under a rock. There’ve been many, many HN posts [0][1] about the open source, free to use txt2img and img2img ML model that is Stable Diffusion over the past few months. Though I agree that thei
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    by xigency 4y ago

    You can, but who does?
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    by xigency 4y ago

    And then how do we know we have an accurate estimation of a stellar object’s mass if the observations don’t match our predictions? This is a big question for me.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    I wonder if one of the reasons more advanced physics can be intractable to understand is because of all of the clever interpretations. By abstracting raw empirical results into an analogous interpretation that defies ordinary logic, we are
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    by xigency 4y ago

    So the observations it made were pivotal to expanding research, but none of the following studies discovered counter-evidence? It seems like something is missing here.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    Because a billion-dollar toy company headquartered in Shenzhen, China that has yacht parties needs the legal justice system to protect its good name by doxxing job reviews is pretty transparent on the face of it.
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    by xigency 4y ago

    I’m really hoping the open source implementations can catch up. As it stands, I’ve sidelined my VR headset until I can get it working without the Oculus software at all. Privacy is just too important for me - why would I want to visit a vir
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    by xigency 4y ago

    I think Among Us quick chat is actually the best example of this. There are hundreds of combinations of messages you can send along specific templates - “The body was in (location)”, “(player) was chasing (player)”, “Vote (somebody)”. It’s
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    by xigency 4y ago

    So they lost half a billion dollars because they forgot to set up Multi Factor Authentication?