Fellshard

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by Fellshard 6mo ago
It's more the repeated 'rule of three' that's getting me here. That said, this is a relatively tame tack-on to a very meaty post, not worth harping on unless the project itself has similar issues.
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by Fellshard 6mo ago
An intern can be taught. If you try to 'teach' a craps table, they'll drag you out of the casino.
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by Fellshard 7mo ago
I can speak anecdotally, at least. My shoulders are pretty wide for my frame. When using most laptop keyboards and many standard keyboards, I have to tuck my shoulders in and twist my wrists. This was causing some serious pain and tension i
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by Fellshard 7mo ago
Let's put it this way: the human author is capable of doing so. The LLM is not. You can cultivate the human to learn to think in this way. You can for a brief period coerce an LLM to do so.
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by Fellshard 10mo ago
Perhaps that is an indictment of the news source you take in.
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by Fellshard 1y ago
This seems to me patently absurd, because LLMs are not part of the probabilistic environment of the domain you're engineering; rather, you're injecting new probabilistic inputs into your system. That seems to me to be a wholly
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by Fellshard 1y ago
The universe may work this way, but we're not God, and modes of computation that work like this still inevitably be impossible for us to predict or comprehend. This may be interesting if you're trying to run simulations (remember
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by Fellshard 1y ago
Could it also be an artifact of using scrolls, and needing to sharply delimit 'pages' of text?
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by Fellshard 2y ago
For that, I would look at early calculus/pre-calc, I think, examining infinite series and their properties and equivalencies. There's certain forms like that that have well known values that they converge to as you continue adding
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by Fellshard 2y ago
That is a misreading of the article. It's more about discovery through quick, iterative prototyping, which can include rapid discovery of fatal flaws early.
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by Fellshard 2y ago
As has been noted in other threads, for a low enough definition of reason, yes, certainly. But even an amoeba appears to reason better than an LLM, which only regurgitates by nature. There is no independent cognition whatsoever, no logical
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by Fellshard 2y ago
The grandiose claim would be that LLMs have reason to begin with. It is quite normal for things to not have reasoning capacity.
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by Fellshard 2y ago
Distilling my thoughts on 'debiasing' here, and in a variety of other modern endeavors. It is better to have representations of reality that you can then discuss and grapple with honestly, than to try to distort representations -
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by Fellshard 2y ago
Certainly true! Expressing internal conflict and ideas in external, comprehensible ways is maybe the single most difficult challenge for the filmmaker. It's very hard to get right. 'The medium is the message' still rings true
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by Fellshard 2y ago
I think Villeneuve - out of the current cream-of-the-crop directors - best understands how to /adapt/ for film. Chiang has a masterful grasp of the short story format, in turn. Both the short story and film delighted me, and both
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by Fellshard 2y ago
I always custom-select hunks of my current work to assemble into coherent commits, where possible. I find it really helps me to rearrange the work I've done in my head in such a way that if I needed to walk someone through it, I could
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The Shotline – Automated Congress Calls with Voices of Gun Violence Victims(theshotline.org)
2 points by Fellshard 3y ago|0 comments
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by Fellshard 3y ago
Reheated pure materialism. Not terribly interesting, and the only thing removing category distinctions here will do for you is give license to treat any organism however you wish - you have removed any semblance of moral consideration from
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by Fellshard 3y ago
> But he does not see, or will not admit, that a return to ‘free’ competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody
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by Fellshard 3y ago
Trust me, I looked up dozens of references. All would mysteriously halt after several files - known issues with how the Archiver library works, and none with any kind of fix, basically a data race within the library itself. Node's stre
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by Fellshard 3y ago
I just picked up Java (via Kotlin) for the first time in four years, during which I've been doing Rails dev. I needed an AWS Lambda for zipping files into and out of S3. I banged my head against broken/unsuitable Node packages for
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by Fellshard 3y ago
It's language straight from the Law, a mixture of phrases that emphasize the totality of the curse over all of life by reiterating it in a number of ways. See Deuteronomy 6 and 28 for examples of both the 'totality' language
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by Fellshard 3y ago
The point of the book is that he does not have a heart of gold, and must find redemption outside of himself. The book as a whole is a window into this wretched soul and the devastation he wreaks on himself by his own actions, led by his bla
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by Fellshard 3y ago
When I used those libraries in .NET, they simply did not function, for unspecified reasons. I boiled it down to the smallest possible example, based on their docs, and data simply never made it through the flow at all. It was baffling to me
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by Fellshard 3y ago
If you checked the /content/ of those classes, however, I suspect you would find that it does not actually cover the scope you expect.
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by Fellshard 3y ago
Colorado has shown its willingness and eagerness to prosecute purported violations of this kind before, several (two?) of which have ended up before the Supreme Court previously. Their expectation that they would run afoul of Colorado is pe
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by Fellshard 3y ago
UW CSE student from 2009-2012; there was an optional course that blazed through *NIX and shell fundamentals, and I credit it to kickstarting my ability to use the system well. Using GDB, valgrind and the like were part of a 300-level basic
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by Fellshard 3y ago
Hmm, looking further. It seems the linguistic phenomenon of code-switching is one accurate name for this, but there's also a sociological phenomenon of code-switching that is related but very different - intentional shifting based on s
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by Fellshard 3y ago
That is an entirely different phenomenon.
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by Fellshard 3y ago
With customization through Oryx, I've been able to make Ergodox / Moonlander quite amenable to many games that use MKB, especially those that make use of number keys, such as MMOs, by overlaying 1-5+macro with various combinations

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