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by zoogeny 3y ago
I just happened to have the SEP article for Parmenides [1] open. It makes the claim that Plato was strongly influenced by Socrates, Pythagoras and Parmenides. It isn't easy to understand Parmenides and there are conflicting interpretat
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Your first points: "can’t make modifications, distribute modifications, distribute unmodified versions" appears to contradict the language from their license file: > Any Association grants you (“Licensee”) a license to use, mod
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by zoogeny 3y ago
A lot of the comments to this are angry and I can appreciate that. There is obviously some specific nuance to "open source" that individuals in this thread want to maintain and feel that the OSI has enshrined in stone as a definit
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> observation enforces a certain kind of consistency in the laws of physics. That sounds like a typical chicken-and-egg problem. > how can it be that this ordering is so consistent? One thing that I didn't explicitly state is tha
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> mustn't this in turn depend on some pre-existing regularity Consider the set of all things, including the ordered and disordered. Consider the operation of taking subsets of that set. Consider that conscious entities such as us on
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I see it as a potential for a new movement in mysticism. I feel you would get a lot out of reading some Weil - I spent a few hours yesterday just reading some of her essays. It gets heavy on the Christianity in some of her later writings wh
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by zoogeny 3y ago
We are getting a bit off topic, which is fine for me, but I totally agree with you. I relate this to the ideas of Edward de Bono [1]. He had a set of practices to encourage creativity called "lateral thinking" which I apply to Tar
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by zoogeny 3y ago
One way to attempt this is to use AI as a sounding board for your own ideas. For example, I'm reading a few sources of Weil's thought now (she was surprisingly Christian and Catholic later in her life although a sense of general m
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> Yet for her, the primary duty of the philosophical person, and particularly a politically active one, remained rigorous self-examination – guided by the conviction that true moral enlightenment was only to be found beyond the spheres o
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The argument against homeopathy (if there is one, I admit I have no interest in the subject and have no direct knowledge) is that there is significant contradictory evidence that shows there is no correlation between the treatment and the o
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> This fallacy is called appeal to authority I think of it as an appeal to consensus but if you want to dismiss an argument based on some debate bro tactics then at least be more substantive than naming some so-called fallacy and leaving
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This entire essay is just full of ideas I disagree with. First is the old chestnut: Why does company keep advertising product to me after I've already bought it!? This is one of those child-like criticisms that keeps rearing it&#x2
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is the perennial problem with language design. Everyone wants something and they even have reasonable grounds to ask for it. I myself have come across moments where some rtti/reflection would have been useful. In those cases I was
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This entire debate was a shambles, IMO. Neither side really seemed to be making good points. Almost the entire time they were arguing totally different points. One side was insisting AI would be a severe risk, the other side was that it was
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by zoogeny 3y ago
That is an interesting conversation. I like that you had the chat bot follow up with questions forcing you to dig deeper. The summary at the end is a good idea as well. I've been asking the chatbot to point out my assumptions and to po
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Hugging face may act as a repo as I described, but I'm thinking about the platform infrastructure around it. Companies like Scale and Surge have platforms that allow 100,000+ individuals to annotate responses from LLMs. Right now, thos
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've been thinking we need a OSS source for fine-tuning and RLHF data. Like an npm, cargo, pip or whatever for RLHF data for any topic. From the original Verge article: > Only the companies that can afford to buy this data can compe
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It sounds like you are doing something different than what I am suggesting. I am not quizzing the AI looking to determine how well the AI knows the subject. I am using the AI as if it doesn't know the subject at all. I try to explain a
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by zoogeny 3y ago
If you are looking for solid content on Bezier curves then Freya Holmér's video on The Beauty of Bézier Curves [1] is well worth the time it takes to watch. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVwxzDHniEw&ab_channel=
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His explanation of how one can feel like they have knowledge on a subject after engaging in some edutainment but you realize how shallow your knowledge is once you try to discuss it with others is something I find for myself a lot. It is on
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by zoogeny 3y ago
In all seriousness, HTML started out as a markup language for documents. That is why tags like <p> for paragraphs and <b> for boldness etc. are so prominent. If you aren't trying to build a SPA or something like that and yo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
It is way too soon to really have an opinion on whether or not crypto will live up to the hype. FWIW, I've been recommended a lot of videos from the recent Bloomberg Invest summit. There are tons of people from traditional finance (e.g
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I like that things like this exist even if I recognize that they are not for me. For some class of system I am sure these languages will shine. It reminds me of Julia - every time I come across it I love the idea of it but I have no persona
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I thought the same and I don't see motivation from it on the TC39 spec page [1] but I do see they have several examples that make use of the feature. It makes me realize I've never really considered the memory implications of doin
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by zoogeny 3y ago
There is often a criticism of Javascript, that new frameworks seem to appear every week. But it honestly feels like every week on HN there is a new Rust UI project showing up. Whether it is some new HTML/web thing, a native app thing,
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Now that is something I agree with (the principle not the particular law). If we're opening it up to our own opinions - I believe I should have total control over all of the content I generate in all contexts. That would include removi
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It is easy to believe that is what happened based on the details in the article but what we are seeing is a filtered view in hindsight. It's like when you watch a movie with a twist that you didn't see coming. But then you go back
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> new hardware architecture have to be stable enough that the new language can become popular The reason why my mind is on this topic is an interview with Jim Keller where he mentioned that when he designed modern CPUs he was conceptuall
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> I see no reason why a non-profit reddit couldn't be free "could be free" and "must be free" are such a moving of the goal posts that it is impossible to argue against. I mean, you didn't even go through &q
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> users are also free to leave, complain, or demand that they don't change Yes, I have no issue with all of those. I'm poking fun at taking that desire for action from a single company in a single instance and extending it to a

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