atondwal

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by atondwal 2y ago
thanks! we asked the model to generate some synonyms and antonyms (in this case, we have "cold" and "impassive" vs "affectionate" and "sensitive") Then, we ask the model to behave that way (with a pro
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Steering Characters with Interpretability(dmodel.ai)
23 points by atondwal 2y ago|3 comments
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by atondwal 8y ago
I'm totally going to say it your way from now on. But only for currency: "boku bucks", "watashi won", and "ore reals".
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by atondwal 9y ago
You just put together the clearest examples I've seen for illustrating this point. When it need to make it from now on, I'm linking to this comment :)
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by atondwal 9y ago
There are actually pretty decent webIDEs for all of those things (shareLaTeX's vim mode is pretty nice, too), and I did consider switching to a chromebook. I was actually about to buy one before I decided that the max 8GB of RAM was wa
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by atondwal 9y ago
I don't think it's about not using the GPLv3 --- a lot of software is stuck in GPLv2 because the maintainers can't get everyone who contributed (or their estate) to sign off on a license upgrade to the better but incompatible
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by atondwal 9y ago
I don't think the "browser-only strawman" is condescending elitists dismissing users --- I'm a self-described GNU zealot on most days the only software I use on are apps like firefox, ssh, and vim and a few other bits li
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by atondwal 9y ago
The book's subtitle is literally "A modular, capability-based operating system"[1] [1]: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/book.md
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Restoring Git force push from GitHub without the commits locally(dieter.plaetinck.be)
2 points by atondwal 10y ago|0 comments
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by atondwal 10y ago
> It might eventually lead to one culture, but then that would be because we all learned from all the options and settled on the best combination. Isn't that the whole point of the Borg?
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by atondwal 10y ago
This course of study seems to take just as much, if not more, time than a math ugrad+master's at a typical uni. The people who could really benefit from having a path of textbooks like this fall into two categories: those who don'
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Category: Subcultures (Wikipedia)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by atondwal 10y ago|0 comments
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Edge of the Abyss (2012)(smh.com.au)
144 points by atondwal 11y ago|32 comments
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A Non-Socratic Dialogue on Social Welfare Functions(j-bradford-delong.net)
1 points by atondwal 11y ago|0 comments
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In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub(custodians.online)
176 points by atondwal 11y ago|25 comments
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by atondwal 12y ago
Switching to the mobile version s/www/m/ also does the trick
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by atondwal 12y ago
>Once the type program's been compiled to a Haskell module, it becomes in essence a type-level library. You can include it in your regular Haskell programs and use the type class instances it exports in your own types to enforce wha
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by atondwal 12y ago
> This may be especially useful for satellite-to-ground links in less than perfect atmospheric conditions. Seems to me that the ionosphere would get in the way of this kind of technique. This relys on creating a plasma in air with contro
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by atondwal 13y ago
> "Interestingly" is a distinctive word, especially at sentence-initial. Both Nakamoto and Szabo use this. > (I'd be interested to see if anyone can find Szabo starting paragraphs with "Right, ...": that'
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by atondwal 13y ago
Mathematica is LISP, so it's really 0-based indexing, where the first element is the function you're applying. All the sugar and literals are made to hide this, but you can code like you're dealing with a real LISP.
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by atondwal 13y ago
Consider an ASCII password of unknown length. Now you just show your mark each symbol to check if it's a part of the password, which would drastically and usefully reduce your search space (unless it a password that uses almost all ASC
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by atondwal 13y ago
The Oct 22 update basically says "nevermind".
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by atondwal 13y ago
Android ought to fall under Linux (Other), but he should still add it. He should also separate GNU/Linux (other) and BSD/Linux categories; see how many people are using BSD userlands like obase and magenta. So, GNU/Linu
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by atondwal 13y ago
stallman.org may not train you with all the skills you need to do investigative journalism and uncover conspiracy, but it _does_ cover the bare minimum you should do before you get started. rms has been telling us for decades that hackers n
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I Dropped Out of Grad School Today (2007)(web.archive.org)
1 points by atondwal 13y ago|0 comments
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by atondwal 13y ago
I think you're missing the point here. pg's saying the scientist identity is useful here, not because of science, but because it reminds you not to take any other identities.
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by atondwal 13y ago
> Gödel's incompleteness theorems, which tells us about the gaps in theories we can't fill That's mathematical, not physical, so that would mean that in the parent universe somehow _something else constitutes a formal lang
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by atondwal 13y ago
Hmm, I didn't even notice the first ad, because I subconsciously scanned over it as an ad. The second one looked liked content to me, so I saw that one, and even felt an impulse to click and see what kinda game someone built with such
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by atondwal 13y ago
> Teachers' unions are right now fighting the introduction of actual metrics We would unionize and be fighting metrics too, if they tried to measure how good a programmer you were with the number of goto's you use.
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You don't need to start a startup(akornilo.wordpress.com)
3 points by atondwal 13y ago|0 comments

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