Robin_Message

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by Robin_Message 24d ago
Neal Stephenson - Anathem is great and not an easy reader. I enjoyed most of his other books but that one was the complexity sweet spot for me. Umberto Eco and Ursula Le Guin I agree on.
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by Robin_Message 1mo ago
If it's only proofreading text you've written, the changes will be minimal enough that watermarking seems impossible to me.
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by Robin_Message 1mo ago
Right, but I don't think consumers would consider this "intelligence". It's too dumb.
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by Robin_Message 1mo ago
> Turn the lights down low in the bedroom Sets lights to 30% but also off > Turn the lights low in the bedroom Sets lights to on This is a cool idea but I think humans assume more than 14MB of intelligence. This is like the unhelpful
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by Robin_Message 2mo ago
I'd suggest writing by hand as a proof of work, for now at least!
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by Robin_Message 2mo ago
Sounds interesting but the blog seems hijacked by some advert to me, anyone else?
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by Robin_Message 3mo ago
If that study was of submariners, is it possible long-term high-level exposure causes the body to adapt? I am suspicious of 0.1% having a significant effect though, given oxygen is around 20% and we naturally exhale a couple of percent CO2.
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by Robin_Message 3mo ago
I think he's doing 15% every month, not every year. It's not an implausible growth rate for a unicorn startup; it is implausible to expect it.
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by Robin_Message 3mo ago
I've been thinking about this, and I think software is uniquely knowledge work that has the most defined structure and least personally interaction. Hell, some of the software I write is for machine to talk to other machines. It's
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by Robin_Message 3mo ago
> Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit I miss Iain M Banks. Thanks for this lovely little nod to the Culture
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by Robin_Message 4mo ago
I think you are (informally and correctly) doing Bayes theorem here. The prior is combined with the conditional to give the posterior estimate; the conditional is not itself the estimate.
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by Robin_Message 5mo ago
> Our support flow wasn't set up to route a complex bug like this to engineering. What does that even mean? Does it mean, "our support flow is just an LLM that fobs off customers and puts their issues into the bin"? Or is
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by Robin_Message 7mo ago
If there is oversupply, why are retailers forced to rent and not able to purchase at the depressed market price? (My theory, landlords are holding onto property in the hope of future returns rather than making a currently rational sale, and
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The Cerebral Revolution(lambdacambridge.com)
1 points by Robin_Message 7mo ago|0 comments
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by Robin_Message 7mo ago
If I asked you for the same thing 10 times, wiping your memory each time, would you generate the same result? And why does it matter anyway? I'd the code passes the tests and you like the look of it, it's good. It doesn't
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by Robin_Message 10mo ago
It's not a drop-in replacement; rather it is an implementation of the same ideas (+ some extra ones) but open source so it can be used for things other than Apple devices.
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by Robin_Message 1y ago
It's because such research has no obvious initial use that the public must pay for it; no private enterprise will fund it, and often it will be useless knowledge, but occasionally someone will figure something out that unlocks a whole
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by Robin_Message 1y ago
I gotta ask, did you spend a week sucking your teeth after that, or did you hand it to them and say "hey, you're paying for expertise and we got it to you faster than we estimated"?
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by Robin_Message 1y ago
The weights are aware of the end goal etc. But the model does not have access to these weights in a meaningful way in the chain of thought model. So the model thinks ahead but cannot reason about it's own thinking in a real way. It i
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by Robin_Message 1y ago
Ordering and wiring up 64 small individual PCBs, vs one PCB, is not a hard choice.
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
Sounds like the Phonological Loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baddeley%27s_model_of_working_...
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
Change map to forEach?
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
The presumption was about mechanical instruments, from a simpler time. As computers expanded from being purely mechanical, it never got revised, which is why it is being revised now (three or four decades too late, I'll grant you, but
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
Photos of ballots are a criminal offence in the UK, which obviously is imperfect in an abusive relationship, but does help set a general norm that the vote is secret.
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge, UK | Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with two decades of commercial experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of job
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
This is a good writeup and a surprising bug! For the average web app, it feels like JWT introduces some complexity (and footguns like this) for no real benefit. I mean, you can avoid a session lookup from redis or something, but that's
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
The visitor pattern is a way of getting multiple dispatch in a language with single dispatch. It can also be seen as a way of encoding a functional solution to the expression problem in an OO language, which is useful when you have a set of
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge, UK | Cambridge/London/Remote I'm a software engineer with two decades of commercial experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. I've organised a couple of job
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
Hypothecated taxes are an anti-pattern, for precisely this reason. Setting the budget and setting the taxes should be somewhat separated (but not too separated!)
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by Robin_Message 2y ago
To be fair, that's one of the reasons why libraries like jQuery and React exist: to smooth over the difference between browsers. Even today, big chunk of React is masking the subtle differences in event handling and other things. And w

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