barryfandango

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by barryfandango 4mo ago
It's a waste of time to think about whether an LLM has a subjective experience of reality, and this handily sets aside issues like AI rights. But the fact remains that these next-token-predictors exhibit objective, human-like behaviour
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by barryfandango 6mo ago
Many of us use site analytics software that can watch what our users are doing in our apps. Also, Truth Social has a feature where you can schedule a post (that feature is part of the upgraded "partriot package".) Either one of th
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by barryfandango 1y ago
I'm no expert, but since it acts as a keyboard wedge it's likely to be unpopular with security software.
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by barryfandango 5y ago
The human experience of linear time predates clocks, yes. But before clocks, we used natural phenomena as trigger events for our activities - the rising of the sun to wake up, the blooming of a certain flower to start plowing the fields. Wh
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Mozilla Enacts Worker Layoffs as It Struggles to Keep Up(governing.com)
2 points by barryfandango 7y ago|0 comments
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by barryfandango 7y ago
That is an unfounded accusation exclamation point
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by barryfandango 7y ago
: ;)
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by barryfandango 7y ago
Shameless plug colon my company does this for cities. http://burlington.openbook.questica.com/
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by barryfandango 7y ago
Yes, I'm the author. Happy to share. The dispenser is a "dry food/cereal dispenser" like the kind you would see at a hotel breakfast bar. They can be found on amazon in various configurations. (e.g. https://ww
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by barryfandango 7y ago
Squeakernet FLP is not a cat feeder, it's a feline lifestyle platform. Current features are largely focused on kibble deployment though. https://github.com/buzzcola/squeakernet/
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by barryfandango 7y ago
In the parent's case this latency includes time from a human key press (piano key). The other cases you mention can be compensated for but of course the human input is non-predictable.
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by barryfandango 9y ago
* 64.7989 mg of salt
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by barryfandango 9y ago
shameless plug :) lightspeed, the sightreading flashcard game. http://buzzcola.github.io/lightspeed-music/ Requires windows and a MIDI keyboard.
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by barryfandango 9y ago
You can install Tomato ( http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato ) on a compatible router. It has a bunch of options for routing all/some/groups of devices through various VPN's. This might be a feature in newer stock
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An Update on ASP.NET Core 1.0 RC2(hanselman.com)
4 points by barryfandango 10y ago|0 comments
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by barryfandango 11y ago
* Crazy Satya
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by barryfandango 11y ago
It would be really cool if the mast could retract, either using some kind of collapsing structure or a hole dug out underneath the structure. Great for repairs, also would allow a farm to retract for extreme weather events.
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by barryfandango 12y ago
So I can clearly not choose the drink that is in front of you!
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by barryfandango 12y ago
The titles already exist. The excellent clerk at my local comic store made me a long list of american and international series for my daughter to check out and I've been very impressed. Most of them have to be ordered though, and none
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by barryfandango 13y ago
Whether rural life in Canada is brutal depends on where you're from. And your definition of brutal. Between 20 minutes north of Toronto and the start of the Arctic Circle there is a fair bit of variation. If you grew up in the d
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by barryfandango 13y ago
The cambrian explosion is really interesting but I'd rather read about the thing itself, not framed as a polemic against creationism. I don't care about creationism.
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by barryfandango 13y ago
I'm currently halfway through "Introduction to Improvisation" on Coursera, offered through Berklee college and taught by the great Gary Burton. The enrollment is around 39,000 and I'm sure the completion will be low. People worldwide and o
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by barryfandango 14y ago
I want the second thing. Where do I get that?
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by barryfandango 14y ago
Unfortunately it's not a matter of sticking fingers in your ears, I can tell you. If you've got 50-100,000 workstations to worry about, and a couple of intranet apps that only run in older versions (there are more of these than you might t
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by barryfandango 14y ago
The app I work on dropped IE7 a year ago, and is dropping IE8 in January 2013. Therefore this is the opposite of a disaster, pretty timely actually. They're pretty clear that 1.9 and 2.0 will have API compatibility so there is an option f
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by barryfandango 14y ago
Agreed. The last thing a customer cares about is vendors pointing fingers at each other.
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by barryfandango 14y ago
Considering hackernews' way-above-average aspberger's demographic, expect a lot of "ERROR INCOMPUTABLE" type comments in here. You're going to need a lot more hand holding in your pitch (not literal hand holding, that makes us uncomfortable
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by barryfandango 14y ago
I read the headline and thought excitedly that somebody was proposing reclaiming the term "hacker" from the startup industry who has co-opted and defined it as something involving venture capital and minimum viable products. Maybe I'll hav
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by barryfandango 14y ago
The whole "They used to be nerds and social misfits, but not anymore!" is really old. It seems memories are short in the media. "Geek is the new Chic" - USA Today, October 2003 http://www.usatoday.com/life/2003-10-22-geek-chic_x.htm "The
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by barryfandango 14y ago
I work in a Microsoft shop in a 6 person team of C# programmers. We follow the language closely, try to compete with each other keeping up with new language features (among other things!), and take whatever benefits we can from new stuff.

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