AndrewOMartin

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by AndrewOMartin 3d ago
The city of London was abandoned for about 400 years and fell into ruins after the people who built it left.
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by AndrewOMartin 19d ago
Not to mention the Standalone VR port (I tried it out last night). I played Goldeneye 64 to absolute death in single and multi player, and played Perfect Dark about once at a friends house, and I still had a wonderful nostalgic "childh
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by AndrewOMartin 20d ago
Yeah, I've never understood this observation. The entire shtick of The Muppets was that every celebrity they ever had on the show treated them like real actors and celebrities. Not even "famous Muppets", just straight up ce
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by AndrewOMartin 2mo ago
1970s personal computers were "controlled" by the likes of Richard Stallman. 2020s AI systems are controlled by the likes of Sam Altman. See the difference? This is intentionally a wild and crude oversimplification, but I hope to
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by AndrewOMartin 2mo ago
https://ohyeahihadntthoughtofthat.com/
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by AndrewOMartin 2mo ago
Doom 2. And only John "Benevolent hyper-intelligent architect of the post singularity simulation we all live in" Carmack would know why he named it that.
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by AndrewOMartin 2mo ago
What a tragedy Robert Bosch Stiftung isn't receiving the dividends into his personal accounts, as this means he's not incentivized to keep innovating or to reduce prices.
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by AndrewOMartin 2mo ago
The Agents are more like Double Agents. Purporting to work for you, but with the primary goal of siphoning your wallet to its handler.
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by AndrewOMartin 2mo ago
Is it too much to ask for a Streetwise Hercules?
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by AndrewOMartin 2mo ago
I think the "state of the art" of measuring the quality of outputs was to send the same task to multiple "agents" and only accept answers if over a certain amount agree. With some human review and reputation scoring spri
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by AndrewOMartin 3mo ago
This is like when store-bought locks are able to be picked by a novice, or broken with a hammer, or bypassed with a magnet. The phrase used is "it keeps good people honest", rather than "it keeps absolutely all bad guys out&q
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by AndrewOMartin 3mo ago
We might get a powerful enough model to run "Claude, build me GTA6" before GTA6.
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by AndrewOMartin 4mo ago
That's $55 to ship to the UK. Tbh, I have an original Model-M and if ~£175 gets something of similar quality on your desk I'd say that's a fair value deal. It's not cheap for a keyboard, but no one on this forum should b
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by AndrewOMartin 4mo ago
Even worse, what's to prevent the terrorists from temporarily renaming their Bluetooth bombs to something innocuous just before going through security and only renaming it back when they need to conveniently find them again while pairi
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by AndrewOMartin 4mo ago
I think we can assume any hacker worth his salt has a dead man trigger. I imagine that if he doesn't reset it before a given period elapses then a script imports that will and testament text file into LaTeX and emails a lovingly render
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by AndrewOMartin 4mo ago
Only in the sense that Economists speak entirely in statements that are unprovable.
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by AndrewOMartin 4mo ago
Some people, when confronted with a Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems, think "I know, I’ll use a theoretically infinite set of axioms." Now they have aleph-nought problems.
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by AndrewOMartin 4mo ago
Your point stands, it's very impressive. But Dragon in America was a cut above even that. Just look at the "chase scene" starting at 10:00 (even just 15 seconds should be enough to make my point) https://youtu.be&#
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by AndrewOMartin 4mo ago
The second, fourth, and sixth form is options aren't used AFAIK. Otherwise, a leading underscore indicates a private method but isn't enforced. A double leading underscore is also a private method but is "enforced" by gi
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by AndrewOMartin 5mo ago
I always felt Deadly Rooms of Death (my preferred version being the free "Architect's Edition", but all are good, and many have better QoL features) was one of the puzzle games which was essentially "discovered" rat
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by AndrewOMartin 5mo ago
I'm one of the git users who would sweat. Can you explain a bit (out link relevant docs) how I might split a commit up, and move it?
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by AndrewOMartin 6mo ago
> Foreman was sued by the Adams County Sheriff’s Office over a drug search at his home in August 2022 that resulted in no criminal charges. This is a mad sentence.
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by AndrewOMartin 8mo ago
We should have to pay every time we use Pythagoras' Theorem. Sure this might make it more expensive for an individual to do math[s]? and that might have a negative consequence, but it would inspire more profit-driven mathematicians to
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by AndrewOMartin 9mo ago
I genuinely meant that lottery winners got murdered at a noticeable higher rate. However I can't find a good source for that belief now. So I'm happy to drop the belief. Nevertheless, here's an article from an untrustworthy l
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by AndrewOMartin 9mo ago
The thing that annoys me most about the lottery is the tradeoff between risk and reward is so dumb as to become actually dangerous. The linked site says the Eurojackpot has a 1 in 139,838,160 chance of a jackpot and a payout of €10,000,000,
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by AndrewOMartin 9mo ago
Redundancy isn't a dirty word in Information Theory.
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by AndrewOMartin 10mo ago
You're on the fringe of an area which in academia is called Sensory Substitution. A simplification of which is experiencing one of the five senses using different sense organs than usual. Classic examples of this are video cameras whic
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by AndrewOMartin 11mo ago
Nothing brings joy and optimism like giving $1B to a "coding automation for defence" startup. If there's one person I don't want to lose their job to a shonky AI agent, it's Stanislav Petrov.
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by AndrewOMartin 11mo ago
China should do some of their own research into Barbra Streisand.
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by AndrewOMartin 11mo ago
I have no doubt that he could, not only invent nuclear fusion, but get it running on a Pentium 90.

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