ForceBru

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by ForceBru 17d ago
Well, it's fast. Perhaps "they" want me and everyone else unemployed, but it's not immediate and not particularly certain. However, I can use uv here and now to greatly simplify my workflows, so I use it.
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by ForceBru 29d ago
Sure, but these ten characters let you treat columns as values and do math on them, which is super intuitive, in my opinion. I've been using Pandas for quite some time and always kinda sucked at it. One day I decided to give this new l
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by ForceBru 1mo ago
How is, say, `age = 5; print(f"Age: {age} years old")` not easy for beginners? IMO it's as easy as it gets: you want the value of `age` printed {HERE}, so you just put it where you want it, surrounded by curly brackets.
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by ForceBru 1mo ago
I'm a HUGE fan of f-strings and I think they should be added to more or less every language in existence. (This is just to show how much I like f-strings, not to be taken literally) `printf`-style format strings seem outdated: why use
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by ForceBru 2mo ago
Are there any real-world time-series that are known to be easy to forecast? Something I could use as an example of "this is what forecasts look like when it's actually possible to predict your time-series and your model is actuall
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Yes, I'm diving a bit too deeply because I don't really know what "thinking" is and therefore I don't understand how we can so confidently say that LLMs don't think, even though they definitely LOOK like they&#
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
LMAO at how the two of you sound authoritative and knowledgeable, but neither linked to ANY studies (or at least personal anecdotes) to support your claims. Yet here we are, warning each other about the dangers of LLM hallucinations. Humans
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
What's "thinking"? What's "agency"? What's "human-like agency"? If "agency" is making decisions and performing corresponding actions in the real world, then LLMs most definitely LOOK LI
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Petition to force everyone saying "you need to read about XYZ" to provide at least 2 sources where one can actually read about XYZ. - If you can't provide any sources, it's safe to assume you don't actually know wha
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
> Streaming services rent you access. Digital stores sell you a license that can be taken away. Physical media gives you an object that is yours, offline, and in your hands. > > Physical media can be given away, inherited, or found
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Yeah, the article reads like they suddenly realized that trees are alive and rushed to make their discovery a law. Look how ridiculous this sounds: > Desrochers' film, called Des arbes et des arts convinced citizens that trees are l
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Seems like plotnine renders plots using matplotlib and has matplotlib as a dependency: https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine/blob/f6f5cb424f38329c5267...
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
It seems like the major difference between plotnine and lets-plot is that plotnine wraps Matplotlib (and thus works everywhere Matplotlib is available, but doesn't offer much interactivity), while lets-plot is written in Kotlin and see
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Well, hopefully this is indeed the case!
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Yeah, "they" probably simply have our FaceID data that we're willingly collecting ourselves, supposedly for our own security.
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
So does this mean that, say, Apple actually doesn't have access to our FaceID data? Otherwise there'd be no need for no laws: just force Apple, Google, etc to share face information with "the government". Well, I guess t
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Wait, this isn't real, is it? Is there actually an intermediate model that translates DeepSeek's thinking from its "alien language" into human languages? That's not actually the case, right? I thought "thinking
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
According to https://github.com/rawbytess/hissab , it's not even close to being an alternative to Wolfram. Hissab is described as "A strict, unit-aware natural-language calculator" and its syntax looks no
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
> ...no stable identity to it ... what's doing the thinking? The model (its parameters, its architecture and the inference algorithm) is doing the thinking. That's what we call "ChatGPT" or "Claude": it&#x27
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
Yeah, pretty sure the vast majority of people in general doesn't understand what "consciousness" or "subjective experience" even mean or what the brain does. Or it's just me and I'm projecting my thoughts
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by ForceBru 3mo ago
I'm pretty sure it doesn't misunderstand the original. The original says that the aliens don't understand how meat (humans) can be conscious, have language and be basically like the aliens (thinking conscious beings). Their m
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
Just in case, you don't even need Pluto or Jupyter to display Unicode plots — they're rendered right in the terminal
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
Initially I thought this was a joke (Julia doesn't seem to be popular enough to be one of the cornerstones of Jupyter, compared to Python and R), but indeed, Jupyter's documentation says it's true: > The name Jupyter comes
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
LLM tell? Inanimate objects and concepts are treated as actors all the time: the series converges, the function reaches its maximum, the sun shines, the wind blows, history repeats itself, words rhyme, interest compounds, etc. What's w
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
Not this exactly, but IMO they're saying that since the text is presumably AI-generated, it kind of can't be beautiful? Or shouldn't feel beautiful? Or it's beautiful, but... it's AI-generated and thus "bad&quo
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
Right, I'm just hyperbolizing to capture the overall vibe of "you may think it's beautiful, but it's AI, so it's actually not good" of three comments here. Didn't mean to put words in your mouth, of course
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
Person: finds the article beautifully written. The comments: "but it's AI, so you aren't allowed to think that it's beautifully written!!!!" This doesn't follow. For instance, there are some pictures that I kno
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
Right, isn't double descent one of the reasons why modern Extremely Large Language Models work at all? I think I heard somewhere that basically all today's "smart" (reasoning, solving math problems, etc) LLMs are trained
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
I'm not particularly well-versed in philosophy, but what's the dualism here? Of course what a cat _is_ to me is not what a cat _is_ to you, because we necessarily have different memories of interactions with cat-like beings. If yo
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by ForceBru 4mo ago
Yeah, I can't say lemmas are (generally, or even often) simple and obvious. To me, they often seem arbitrary: what do you mean before we prove this grand theorem we have to prove these completely unrelated lemmas? Okay, proved the lemm

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