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by zarzavat 2y ago
That’s exactly what transformers do. They parse things in context. If it can parse C++ well enough to write C++ code, then it can parse thousand-separated numbers.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It’s a bit like proposing to ban cars if someone drives one into a pedestrian isn’t it? LLMs are computer programs, tools. They’re not sentient, they don’t know what’s true or false. The error is entirely the human who chooses to put more t
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Humans tokenize numbers too. Which is easier to read? 100000000 or 100,000,000? You only need tokens for 000 to 999
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Let’s say I drop my phone and it breaks. I buy a new phone or I have a spare device (e.g. old phone). How do I move my SIM to my new phone? For physical SIM it’s really easy. I take the SIM card out and put it in my new device. It takes fiv
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by zarzavat 2y ago
The relationship between Norway and the EU is like the relationship between Canada and the US, except that Norway is way more subservient. Norway has a system that has been called “fax democracy”, where it has to accept EU laws have suprema
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by zarzavat 2y ago
As opposed to all the other bullshit going on in schools? Wouldn’t even register.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Those claims were by Hersh who has a …mixed record. I can believe that the US was involved. I strongly doubt that Norway was involved, it would have poisoned relations with the EU.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Google Translate has been using LLMs for the last 6 years and nobody seems to have an issue with that. Or what about YouTube automatic captions?
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by zarzavat 2y ago
TypeScript has a very different set of axiomatic operations than conventional type theory. It incorporates concepts from set theory, you have unions T|U, intersections T&U, comprehensions { [T in U]: e(T) }, conditionals (T extends U ?
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by zarzavat 2y ago
As the article says, reproducibility is important. If I have a bug on one run, I want to get that bug again on the second run. I want to be able to run the program again and again and have the same breakpoints hit in the same order with the
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by zarzavat 2y ago
In general I agree, the bailiff system should be abolished for personal debts. Except these are High Court bailiffs collecting a commercial debt. They just enforce the powers of the court. Useful in this situation where the executives are i
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It should be called unknown vacation. There’s a limit, you just don’t know where it is. I assume if you took the UK legal minimum of 5.6 weeks for example, you would get fired.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Zod can also return result types: T.safeParse(x) It’s not a very full featured Result, but you can wrap it with your own type.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
> adds another step to development I never understood this. It takes maybe 10 minutes to set up TypeScript in a project if you’ve done it before. Compared to all the other times involved (time to learn typescript, time saved debugging an
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by zarzavat 2y ago
The TypeScript approach has given us one of the most interesting programming languages to appear in recent times, a language that is completely committed to structural typing. The Dart approach just gave us yet another unimaginative nominal
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by zarzavat 2y ago
The claim that there’s no empirical evidence of “reverse sexism” is particularly absurd. Women can be just as sexist as men, especially since society deems it to be socially acceptable for women to denigrate men (“men are stupid”) or to obj
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Turing complete just means you can simulate a Turing machine. A Turing machine is a mathematical model of a computer, it’s not a real computer. Real computers can do things that Turing machines can’t do, e.g. generating random numbers[0], i
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Perhaps I’m thick but what kind of programming doesn’t involve data wrangling? What are Go programmers doing that they don’t feel the need for map/filter/etc? BTW there’s no reason why map and filter would be slower than loops,
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by zarzavat 2y ago
If I attach something to my car it doesn’t affect your car. Who does no-GIL benefit? For the majority who use Python for single threaded code, no-GIL will make their code slower because a thread-safe interpreter is always going to be slower
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by zarzavat 2y ago
How is that Python’s problem though? If you paint yourself into a corner by choosing the wrong language then eat the rewrite or eat the hardware costs. There was a consensus after the Python 3 debacle of “No major breaking changes”. We seem
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Because there’s decades worth of libraries that written under the assumption that Python has a GIL. All of these need to be updated, it’s Python 3 all over again.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
I choose a web browser based on ad blocking capabilities alone. If I want to do development I can do that in a different browser. Web developers should have all major web browsers installed anyway.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It’s not in any way comparable to uBlock, which is very customizable, and has a large community behind it working on the cat and mouse game.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
No, Brave does not integrate uBO. It has its own ad blocker that is somewhat inferior.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
A definition can’t be right or wrong, it can only be popular or unpopular. The definition of GC encompassing RC has fallen out of favour because it doesn’t capture the essential distinctions that people want to make: firstly, are cycles bro
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by zarzavat 2y ago
The problem with online dating is that the whole system is rotten. The app/site is rotten because they want money, so they are incentivized to make their members as sexually frustrated as possible so that they hand over more dosh. Beca
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It was a reference to PyTorch, admittedly somewhat oblique. Python is very popular for machine learning, in days gone past ML researchers used the Torch library in Lua. TensorFlow and PyTorch made Python the dominant language in that field.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
This is a problem with our industry that people get paid $$$ to use a language but at no point are they compelled to read the manual for that language from cover to cover.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It doesn’t seem that obvious to me. Let’s say you sit in the driver’s seat of your friend’s Tesla and turn on autopilot. Are you the driver or passenger? Now let’s say you sit in the driver’s seat of a Waymo. Are you the driver or passenger
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by zarzavat 2y ago
I feel like there’s a clash of cultures. There’s Python the scripting language, replacement for bash scripts, R and Lua. Then there’s Python the serious software development language. Where people have style guides, code review, test covera

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