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by 60654 6mo ago
Yeah the posters have been pretty well known for, let's see, maybe a decade now? But it's cool to read more about the artist. And also, didn't realize he released a bunch of cool fonts, too: https://tomato-giraffe-
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by 60654 2y ago
Absolutely. They hooked up an LM and asked it to talk like it's thinking. But LMs like GPT are token predictors, and purely language models. They have no mental model, no intentionality, and no agency. They don't think. This is pu
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by 60654 2y ago
> If your premise above is true, then we'd expect to see similar sorts of variations in the various fonts derived from drafting style If you look at the photos in the article, there are a lot of variations! For example, in the artic
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by 60654 2y ago
Of course I read the details on stencils and patterns in the text. But you misunderstand what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that there are many "concrete instantiations" of drafting lettering style, that all look basica
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by 60654 2y ago
That's an assumption, I read it just fine. :) I just disagree with how the author keeps talking about draftsman's lettering as if it were some company's font (e.g. Gorton and Leroy) rather than a commonly taught community sta
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by 60654 2y ago
I did...?
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by 60654 2y ago
I'm afraid the author has it backwards. This style of writing didn't start as a font from some company. This is just how you used to be taught to do lettering in a drafting class. The straight lines and simple shapes make it easy
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by 60654 2y ago
I would just add that Mathematica-style term rewriting (e.g. analytical integration, or equation solving) is done with _semantics-preserving_ symbolic solvers, which are hand-made and human-reviewed to guarantee correctness. LLM style patte
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by 60654 2y ago
There are people working on that! Google for LLM + PDDL. There are big problems with hallucinations because LLMs are not smart enough to know when they're starting to make mistakes. But there's lots of work in this area, and gener
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by 60654 2y ago
This is exactly right. Planning and reasoning have long standing meaning in AI, based on explicit knowledge representation and inference. It's a subspace of AI that predates LLMs by decades. But LLMs don't do that kind of planning
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by 60654 2y ago
Interesting fact: Unity doesn't use a Microsoft GC, or the Microsoft implementation of CLR. They had integrated the competing Mono implementation early on, and it came with its own "stop the world" Boehm GC. They've been
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by 60654 3y ago
Yeah, agreed. CHI, yes, sometimes. But never ORD - or MDW or GYY. Although CGX would be hilarious. :)
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by 60654 3y ago
Also, pros: world-class architecture, fun music scene, great museums and of course The Art Institute, top universities and everything that comes with that, great restaurants from every cuisine under the sun, very immigrant-friendly city, lo
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Trust and Safety Tycoon – web game from Techdirt founder and others(trustandsafety.fun)
2 points by 60654 3y ago|0 comments
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by 60654 3y ago
There appear to be two very interesting results: 1. We can observe how the state machine gets generated, first just a jumble of locations in a hub and spokes topology (no correlations), then some correlations start happening pairwise, mak
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by 60654 3y ago
In short: .NET multiplatform itself is open source as I'm sure you've seen here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/introduction A few specific DLLs like Visual C++ redistributables are n
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by 60654 4y ago
About ten years ago Adobe made a strategic decision to kill Flash. They stopped working on ActionScript tools (Flash IDE, AS3 compiler, etc) and switched all their web designer tooling (web animations etc) to Javascript. For a while they ke
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by 60654 4y ago
That is correct, about 2/3rds comes from "operations" (mostly ads, also some hosting services, etc) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1270474/unity-software-r...
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by 60654 4y ago
I imagine you'd disagree, you're the OP and founder :) But metro areas are important! If I'm looking at SFBA jobs, I wouldn't restrict myself to the 7x7, right? But adding all the little peninsula towns by hand would be
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by 60654 4y ago
Also they only include startups headquartered within city limits, not in the suburbs and the greater Chicagoland? It's a funny omission, like a list of SF startups eliding the rest of the Bay Area. :) For anyone interested - BuiltInChi
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by 60654 4y ago
Gamedev here. It's nice that the article recognizes the recent "mellow games" popularity. There's always been that current in gaming - in the 2010s "walking simulators" were popular (but with much more focus on
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Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study(bostonfed.org)
174 points by 60654 5y ago|183 comments
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by 60654 5y ago
Age of Empires 1 had AI scripts that were written as production rules in a very Lisp-like syntax. (You can still find some online.) Not sure if they integrated a full Lisp or Scheme system, but since the rules were not arbitrary source code
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Jan 6 committee subpoenas Meta, Google, Reddit etc. after 'inadequate responses'(nbcnews.com)
116 points by 60654 5y ago|181 comments
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Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”(arstechnica.com)
337 points by 60654 5y ago|464 comments
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by 60654 5y ago
I'm saying that doing something like compiling a flagship OSS application into your core product doesn't happen accidentally due to a "misunderstanding" when you're a huge corporation. P.s. thanks for the typo - fix
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by 60654 5y ago
A strange article that focuses on a straw man instead of the core problem. > The understanding of intellectual property among gamers and the companies which serve them differs substantailly from that of free software, and literacy in the
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Telegram blocks Russian opposition leader's chat bots during vote(engadget.com)
9 points by 60654 5y ago|0 comments
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by 60654 5y ago
Very cool to hear that Chris Ware is co-curating this, he's a legendary comic book artist [1], so I'm sure this is going to be eye opening. Can't wait to see it! [1] https://www.newyorker.com/contributors&#x
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by 60654 5y ago
> That’s why the 386SX had a pretty short shelf life. Once AMD had 386 chips to sell, Intel cut prices on 486s. But for a couple of years it served a purpose. And the chip lived on as a budget option for a couple of more years. TBH that

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