IlliOnato

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by IlliOnato 9mo ago
You may check these videos by Oleg Kuvaev. 100% generated using AI. Everything: text, music, characters, voices, editing -- all done via prompts, using multiple engines (I think he mentioned about a dozen services involved). I would not ca
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
What brought me to read this article was a confusion: how can two locations related to air traffic be 3600 nanometers apart? Was it two points within some chip, or something? Only way into the article it dawned to me that "nm" cou
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
In reality HIV does have to deal with pressures described by Duesberg, but the virus found a workaround: extremely long "incubation period". As you probably know, it can stay dormant for 10 years or more, but then gets into active
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
You have a point... I once gave a 10-dollar bill to a young man serving at the cashier at a store, and he gave me 14 dollars back as a change. I pointed out that this made no sense. He bent down, looked closer at the screen of his machine,
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
I understand that, but the article we are discussing points out that LLMs are so good on many tasks, and so good at passing tests, that many people will be tricked into blindly "taking their word for granted" -- even people who sh
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Hmm, looks to me like just trading some words for others. Do bacteria have ideas? Does the navigating system in your car? How do you know? We need to be at least somewhat pedantic, otherwise it's impossible to know what we are even ta
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
To make any progress on this question at all, we need first to come up with some definition of internal monologue. Even if we may need to modify it later, there has to be a starting point. Otherwise, nothing can be established at all, becau
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Well, I remember Richard Feynman came up with an interesting experiment. He found he could not count objects when he read aloud some text at the same time. He had to name the numbers, and it was impossible if he was already engaging his spe
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
> "why we simply can't take their word for it"? As someone who was involved in spiritual practice of "stopping internal dialogue" for years, I can tell you that one learns that that dialogue (or monologue, pretty
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
This is a cool one, but I know of other such "failures". For example, try to ask (better in Russian), how many letters "а" are there in Russian word "банан". It seems all models answer with "3". Play
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Sorry, by your logic an ISSN would be a good key for a database of scientific journals. It's exactly what ISSN is invented for! Right? Right? Been there, done that. Journals that changed their names (and identities) but not ISSN. That
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
I guess support for XML would be tricky, because XML is just way more complex format than the ones already supported. It is still essentially a tree, but with additional structure. Representing elements and their contents is easy enough. Bu
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Maybe I am entering that age, but in more and more areas of human endeavor I start to see the same signs, that seem to tell "this house of cards is about to collapse". Maybe this is not a bad thing. A crisis is a necessary stage i
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Same here
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Comparing to the following, chargers might not be the biggest issue... > Sometimes the kludgy system erroneously showed cars as missing, resulting in hundreds of innocent Hertz customers getting arrested on charges of stealing rentals th
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Maybe it's my lack of experience, but I find it much easier to wrap my head around threads than async/await. Yes, with threads there is more "infrastructure" required, but it's straightforward and easy to reason abo
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by IlliOnato 2y ago
Reminds me of N. David Mermin's famous saying that perhaps the greatest contribution of String theorists to science was creation of arXiv :-)
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
For me the essential part of comprehending new information is my own thinking on what I'm getting. When reading a book, I stop frequently to think, it's quite natural for me. Often go back a few paragraphs or pages, re-read them w
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
When reading a book, I don't do anything special, but I frequently stop and think about what I've just read. It's not something I do by a command, either: it's just that a good book engages my attention, and then I kind
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
An anecdotal fact: the bananas I was buying at a market in Thailand when I visited the country tasted so much different (and for me, better) than the bananas I buy in an American supermarket, I am not sure I'd know it's a variant
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Enable development that does not rely on a central repository. For some people/projects it's important, although these days it's a minority.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Thank for the links! I've looked at them, and while they gave me more and interesting information on Pijul, they did not explain how you can work without multiple channels in a realistic development environment. However, from these pag
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
I think the most common use for git branches is topic branches. Independent lines of development you are not ready to share with your team, or your team with the rest of the company, or commit to production. I don't see how Pijul featu
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
"Internet makes smart people smarter and dumb people dumber". (Mark Solonin, a Russian historian). Taking into account that such blunt statements always hide a lot of nuances, this seems to capture the reality.
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
What you said gave me an idea of how to really make AI useful at work! :-) Every quarter HR requires that we write our "perspective" for the next quarter; what we are going to do and how we are going to improve ourselves. It'
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Old saying "what Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away" :-)
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
The real issue is not writing the code, but debugging it. The patterns exist to make the code readable, debuggable, and thus maintainable. "Don't repeat yourself" is not to save you typing, it's to be able to fix a bug
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
I think, in context I could guess the meaning of "Not here to fuck spiders" in Australian English. But I don't think I could guess the meaning of "0800" in Brazilian Portuguese... :-)
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
I've seen it too and... LOL! :-)
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by IlliOnato 3y ago
Copy-and-paste, I guess.

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