Timwi

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by Timwi 5d ago
A Bitcoin does not have any pre-defined value. The value of Bitcoin keeps fluctuating, and historically has risen dramatically from its initial value of 0. If this weren't the case, there would be no investment/speculation in Bitc
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by Timwi 6d ago
I'm not sure what this lawsuit is going to accomplish. Even if Sony loses, they will pay a nominal fine, and then they'll just change “Buy now” to “Play now” and “game you already own” to “game you already have” or something and i
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by Timwi 6d ago
Or maybe you could start focusing on the content instead of how it's made.
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by Timwi 6d ago
I experienced mild brain freeze as a child but it went away in adolescence. It doesn't seem pleasant so I don't envy those of you who get intense versions of it.
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by Timwi 6d ago
Everybody who can speak can do it because that's what you do when you say [k] or [g].
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by Timwi 6d ago
I certainly can't, and until now I'd never heard of it either (I'm over 40). It's not uncommon to assume that other people's experiences are like one's own until told otherwise. For me, it took until at least a
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by Timwi 7d ago
> People only think that because we've been conditioned by computers to value answers more than how we got to them. By computers? My dude, it's not computers that condition us that way. It's exams in school. Give the right
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by Timwi 7d ago
No. Just because the AI beats you, you don't automatically know how it did it. You can't easily learn from it just by observing it.
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by Timwi 7d ago
I'm not the one you replied to, but I think I get their point. If you have a machine that can solve math problems at the push of a button, you don't really need to amass discoveries anymore just in case someone might need it years
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by Timwi 7d ago
Why would they stop trying?
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by Timwi 8d ago
If it could do this while properly crediting the researchers (the “giants”) it would be a different matter.
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by Timwi 9d ago
By saying it “isn't that hard” you're admitting that it could definitely be easier.
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by Timwi 9d ago
It could be argued that Turkish and simplified Chinese succeeded simply because they were supported by, you could even say imposed by, a government that controls > 90% of the population speaking the language. Neither was the case for Ara
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by Timwi 9d ago
Your comment could be read as implying that Unified Arabic, the subject of this post, must have been useless as an idea because it wasn't widely adopted. In reality, there are many factors, not only pure practicality, that lead people
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by Timwi 9d ago
Computers do not “have that mostly covered now”. Typesetting and font rendering technology is so Western-centric and so entrenched that support for writing systems with slightly different base assumptions, such as Arabic, Devanagari and man
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by Timwi 19d ago
It's so weird for me to live through software evolution to the point where this no longer goes without saying. In the Windows 3.1 days, it was nearly impossible to make a program that wasn't fully keyboard-usable. Even if you left
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by Timwi 19d ago
1. Make sure that the tree view control has screen reader support and that it has all the normal keyboard commands (such as right/left arrow for expanding/collapsing a parent node). 2. Make sure that the text box has a label that
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by Timwi 25d ago
I don't think of it as units (as the sibling comment pointed out, angles are dimensionless); I think of ° as a postfix unary operator that does the conversion. In other words, I read sin(x°) as a shorthand for sin(x*Pi/180).
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by Timwi 25d ago
Why are math libraries consistently treated as space hogs if you don't keep them as barebones as possible? I've had sinDeg/cosDeg overloads for a while and I don't see why they can't be built into the base library;
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by Timwi 25d ago
Do you not want AIs to adhere to your wants? That's what we build agentic systems for . Calling it “cheating” when they do something we don't want them to do is 100% spot-on.
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by Timwi 25d ago
Except these AIs are both scary and smart. I think the characterization is warranted. The whole point of calling it “cheating” is to warn us that if we tell an AI to do something, we need to take into account that it may well do something
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by Timwi 25d ago
I suppose that may go some of the way, but the article did mention that the auditor AIs weren't sufficient to catch all of the cheating.
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by Timwi 27d ago
Companies are not “ignorant of the basics of their purpose”. The basics of their purpose is to make money and increase value for shareholders. There is nothing in their core purpose that benefits you as a user or that says they shouldn&#x27
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by Timwi 29d ago
Is the concern that the AI will rephrase the text during proofreading, thus falsifying a copy-pasted quote? I'm not sure how such a change could go unnoticed, unless you blindly publish the AI output without looking at it, which doesn&
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by Timwi 29d ago
Image GenAI is diffusion-based, and I would say the image GenAI in Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT are all “in mainstream use”. I've heard of attempts to use diffusion models to generate text or code as well, but my impression is that it ju
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by Timwi 1mo ago
> No. The court specifically determined that the Internet Archive was guilty of unauthorized copying. You're not wrong, but you're treating “guilty of unauthorized copying” as a statement of physical fact when in reality it
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by Timwi 1mo ago
In addition to the sibling comment, which I agree with [edit: the one starting with “people who generate entire blogposts with claude probably do not care about substance, tho”], I want to add another point. Even when the substance is key,
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by Timwi 1mo ago
I mean you're not wrong, but consider that a lot of high-level developers treat low-level details such as CPU architecture, memory virtualization, and even garbage collection as essentially magic. That's not the same thing as LLMs
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by Timwi 2mo ago
Appreciation of the arts getting compared with greed of billionaires ..... How the times have changed.
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by Timwi 2mo ago
Cybersecurity researchers who let loose worms or ransomware? Car mechanics who break things so you come back for more business? Airline pilots who... hijack their own flight?... Hm

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