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by JuettnerDistrib 2mo ago
I find it ironic that so many OSS projects are or are considering banning LLM usage. After all, without OSS, LLMs would never have been this good at coding. Shouldn't OSS be the first to benefit? Or should OSS be a bedrock of carefully
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by JuettnerDistrib 2mo ago
A big part of open source is about reciprocity: you taketh, you giveth. Do LLM companies give back to the community?
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by JuettnerDistrib 1y ago
I kinda feel this way about variable names in physics. You could call the (x,y,z) components of the magnetic field (L,M,N), see [0]. There are so many people who call that utterly wrong, but really it's totally fine and merely a source
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by JuettnerDistrib 1y ago
I'd be curious to know if this helps on supercomputers, which are notorious for frequently hanging for a few seconds on an ls -l.
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by JuettnerDistrib 1y ago
I'm sure many researchers have English as a second language, and rely on LLM to fix their grammar and vocabulary.
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by JuettnerDistrib 1y ago
How would this work for a personal blog? Would I need to be careful not to endorse or even talk about companies and products? And if I didn't have to, wouldn't that open the door for advertising masquerading as news or opinion? Ge
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by JuettnerDistrib 2y ago
I've had the bad luck that my first prescription was quite wrong: incorrect axis for astigmatism, and incorrect spherical (I basically have only astigmatism, no spherical). So for years I was suffering through the days. Optometrists fl
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
> encode laws into some sort of machine code Don't need to encode it in some sort of machine code. Just need a git repo with the law so we can submit a PR to the CA assembly and get this fixed.
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
> With books, movies, series and music I like to own physically only my personal favorites that I know will use many times. I don't own many DVDs, but when I see them in my bookshelf they remind of the story the tell, the context wh
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
> There are countries running on 95%+ renewable electricity right now[1]. That list ignores that countries trade electricity. If, say, Germany produces a lot of electricity by renewables it can sell the excess to France (which has lots o
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
Great article. I have two comments: 1. Procrastination seems to be a type of early stopping. I knew I had a good strategy in school! 2. Something that seems to be sorely missing in machine learning (I'm not a ML expert) are error bars.
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
Other purpose than being a psychological trick, what purpose could pointing out the lack of evidence at the time have? Instead they could have written something like "We found the problem in 2021 and promptly fixed it. We first learned
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
If passenger rail increases, then goods rail must decrease and go onto trucks. Or, one could let goods rail go at night, but Germany is noise -sensitive, so that's unlikely to happen. In the long run building more tracks are probably t
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
Same for me, except my prescription is stable. The first doctor I went to got it wrong, and every doctor since was too hesitant to change it. One even got it right, but said nothing had changed... They missed that the axis was significantly
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
> we only learned that older people pick all-H or all-T more. I think we learn that older people are less willing to put up with silly instructions.
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
Yes, exactly!
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
It's pretty obvious if you ignore the great leap backwards... I mean forward, coming down from ~40 births/1000 in the 1950s and 1960s to ~20 in the late 70s and after.
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by JuettnerDistrib 4y ago
> There have been 3 times in the past month where I got an order of magnitude speed up because SciPy implements a very complex but highly efficient algorithm which I would never have had time to deploy. Yes. I feel like the author confla
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
If you know German, there is an entire book written in this style, introducing a simplifying spelling and grammar each chapter [1]. It is called "fom winde ferfeelt", a pun on "Gone with the wind" turned into "Misse
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
> I wouldn't want anything to be added by default This line of reasoning works really well for those who understand (and want to understand) how git works. I know plenty of people who don't care about their development tools (e
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
> is there really any practical value in this sort of research In many ways it is too early to do this research, so it is a kind of art (as is a lot of research, imho). As long as only a few people do it, it's cool and useful so we
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
> I'd also go as far as saying if you need to cram crazy hours shortly beforehand to pass any exam or test then you're not really qualified to pass. I've had a professor who said that the purpose of an exam is to study for
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
One thing this article misses are medical procedures that improve the quality of life, but have no bearing on life expectancy. For example, if you knock out your front row of teeth, not only do you look weird to people (a pirate), but also
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
You mean, the little ant on the floor? I barfed at 1-based indexing for about a week, but now it is as natural as anything. I would compare 0-based and 1-based indexing with whether you put semicolons at the end of each line or not. Either
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
"our code is fast, flexible, and easily modifiable"
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
I believe they were collecting samples from nearby bat caves: build your lab where your specimens are?
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
> mainland Europe First time I here that phrase! A testament to the rise of China? The proper term is continental Europe. Digging a bit further, Wikipedia's[0] article is titled "Continental Europe", but says "mainl
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
I applaud this change! In practice, however, I don't think much will change. In astronomy, and my subfield in particular, all papers are free on arXiv, and the publishing and referee process are almost more of an afterthought: the thre
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
Full surface including oceans. I actually got something like 6.6 * 10^17 per mm^2, but who's counting?
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by JuettnerDistrib 5y ago
Perhaps in more human terms: On the surface of the Earth, there are 8.4 IPv4 addresses per km^2. Not counting the oceans, that would be 28 IPv4 addresses per km^2 land. IPv6 gives 10^17 addresses per mm^2 (yes, square milli meter). In term

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