SmooL

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by SmooL 1mo ago
I've been having a good time with Spec Driven Development, and it directly addresses the issue of needing the understand. The whole idea is that you specify exactly what you want in some SPEC.md file. You can of course nest them, have
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by SmooL 2y ago
I can trivially just print any AI image I want, then take a "verified" picture of it with my camera. That seems like a pretty large failure point.
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by SmooL 2y ago
The thinking goes: - any job that can be done on a computer is immediately outsourced to AI, since the AI is smarter and cheaper than humans - humanoid robots are built that are cheap to produce, using tech advances that the AI discovered -
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by SmooL 2y ago
That OpenAI demo is available right now to subscribers; I have access to it
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by SmooL 2y ago
Ironically, it seems the article itself was written by AI
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by SmooL 2y ago
There's no good reason for BTC to be set up to use that much energy. There are viable, proven alternatives like proof of stake. I'd also be more forgiving if BTC only required a given amount of power, but no, the system is designe
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by SmooL 3y ago
This is/could be a legitimate use of blockchain, e.g. see https://gwern.net/timestamping
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by SmooL 3y ago
Isn't that a bit of a cop-out though? They're just redefining the word "intelligence" to be something else (here, the ability to learn new things). That's fine and all, but that doesn't answer the question we a
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by SmooL 3y ago
It was a multi year effort mainly around 2015/16 but extended into 2018 IIRC
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by SmooL 3y ago
Genuine question: are the health risks really that bad? Plastic has been around for decades - surely also then these micro/nano plastics have been around for decades? I can't help but feel like if there were obvious and large heal
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by SmooL 3y ago
This is either brilliantly absurd, or ridiculously stupid, depending on your POV
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by SmooL 3y ago
This is not a fair comparison - Tesla is comparing miles driven by their systems, which are inherently limited in scope to "easier" scenarios (only lane assist/only on highways/ect), against total US average, which inclu
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by SmooL 3y ago
Yes, but transmission lines can only go so far, and you still lack the ability to arbitrage over time instead of just spatially. E.g. from a solar power POV, it's night everywhere in a given region at the same time.
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by SmooL 3y ago
> My gut feeling is that transmission lines would still be cheaper Transmission lines are great for moving electricity, but only if there's demand for that electricity _right now_. Otherwise, you have to store it - which is a proble
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by SmooL 3y ago
1. It's opinionated, so there's often only one way of doings things. Largely, the "one way" is a good way, so people appreciate the forced consistency 2. It's simple. It is very easy to read and write. It is hard to
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by SmooL 3y ago
I've thought about doing this as well, but I haven't tried it yet. Are there any resources/blogs/information on various strategies on how to best chunk & embed arbitrary text?
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by SmooL 3y ago
Doesn't this completely miss the point? DCA is about reducing volatility, not maximizing return. Your expected value is higher without DCA, but it's not about the expected value - it's about tightening the stddev of possible
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by SmooL 3y ago
Yeah this isn't using goroutines at all? I don't see how this is a good comparison of goroutines vs coroutines.
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by SmooL 3y ago
It's not _quite_ the same: you can't call async code from a sync context (hence the color issue), but I can always pass a "context.Background()" or such as a context value if I don't already have one.
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by SmooL 3y ago
The proposed solution is to feed relevant data from a database of "ground truth facts" into the query (I'm assuming using the usual method of similarity search leveraging embedding vectors). This solution... doesn't proh
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by SmooL 3y ago
This is slightly misleading - what matters isn't the peak G force experienced, but moreso the integral of force over time. In a roller coaster you might experience 5Gs, but only for a moment. Astronauts experience 3G, but for up to 5 m
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by SmooL 4y ago
I think it's more like: with the original GPT 3 model, it's easy to summon _any_ ego. With ChatGPT, you can either summon a) the intended Luigi or b) the unintended Waluigi, but trying to get anything else is more difficult. The t
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by SmooL 4y ago
As the article states, the idea is that this would be faster than ships, as well as operational in areas without large bodies of water.
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by SmooL 4y ago
Yes, but if you have many fat tailed distributions, increasing the sample size makes it increasingly less likely that it's _the same person at the end each time_
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by SmooL 4y ago
Going to second Carcassonne, and say that one thing I really like about the game is that's almost purely contextless, in that it doesn't require you to hold long-term strategy/ideas/concepts in your head for extended per
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by SmooL 4y ago
Probably left it running? I've definitely left my factory to idle to build up resources while I'm gone, when I'm playing on peaceful mode. You could also run headless version of the game on a server and just connect to it for
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by SmooL 4y ago
It's far greener per ton of cargo, not absolutely.
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by SmooL 4y ago
Because abbreviations are nice when there's a shared context that is perpetually "in memory" - I don't have to think to know what LA stands for. However, that is not the case when debugging. It is almost certainly the c
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by SmooL 4y ago
I've had something like this happen to me, albeit less serious: I was snowboarding, went over a jump poorly, and found myself totally disoriented as I careened through the air. Every single other the I'd found myself flying throug
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by SmooL 5y ago
My best at a summary: as the world becomes more connected, more online, and more seemingly absurd, it takes on a surreal feeling that people like to dive into. Fundamentally, people like to tell Stories, and to be a part of them, and to bui

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