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by codeflo 2y ago
Other commenters are quick to point out that commercial interests always win, which is somewhat true, but misses an important point: OpenAI wasn’t originally a commercial company. This is basically someone stealing a nonprofit organization
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by codeflo 2y ago
Unions, generics, required fields, default values, enums that don't pollute the global namespace are things that immediately caught my eye. I assume it also doesn't repeat Protobuf's the mistake of not being able to distingui
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by codeflo 2y ago
> It’s also possible that Waymo's erratic braking contributed to a few of those rear-end crashes It's possible confuse other drivers without technically making a mistake. The article doesn't say whether Waymos are rear-end
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by codeflo 2y ago
In what sense does "everyone do things because of how google does things"?
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by codeflo 2y ago
> The most interesting thing for me is that while cyan (#00ffff) is nominally halfway between blue and green, most people's thresholds, averaged over monitor calibrations, imply that cyan is classified as blue. Perceptually (that is
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by codeflo 2y ago
> Pictographs can convey way more meaning than text. Add in cultural competency (subtext etc.) and it becomes incredibly potent. Hence, memes. Citation needed. I think you might prove that by expressing those three sentences in pictogram
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by codeflo 2y ago
> Evolution is a biological process term, and an overloaded and ambiguous one at that. Culture is accretive and driven by social dynamics. “Cultural evolution” is literally nonsensical. This was, however, a popular way of thinking in the
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by codeflo 2y ago
It’s a regression to hieroglyphics. Six thousand years of cultural evolution down the drain.
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by codeflo 2y ago
AFAIK, ancient people finding and interpreting dinosaur fossils is one theory about the origin of dragon myths, so yes.
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by codeflo 2y ago
Regarding the suggested categorization: Why is a dragon considered “grounded”? Why is a scorpion considered more “squishable” (good luck!), than a lizard?
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by codeflo 2y ago
Even purely going forward, specks on wall textures morph into opponents and so on. All the diffusion-generated videos I’ve seen so far have this kind of unsettling feature.
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by codeflo 2y ago
In this thread, we're making a comparison to running Sqlite. Fault isolation is not an argument. And you don't have to run Docker to run Postgres, it's just an easy way to do so. Even airgapped.
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by codeflo 2y ago
Why would you run Postgres on a different box in such a scenario? A docker run command to get a Postgres instance up and running isn’t any more complicated than linking in Sqlite, maybe even simpler. And you get proper ACID transactions for
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by codeflo 2y ago
No, in animated models, there is no gap between polygons. And if you only compute single-polygon coverage, you can’t determine whether for two polygons that each cover 50% of a pixel, they both cover the same 50%, or complementary 50%, or a
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by codeflo 2y ago
It's certainly more durable than digital history in the archives of private companies who will stop maintaining it at the slightest slowdown of profit growth.
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by codeflo 2y ago
The opening statement makes it out that this exact calculation is supposed to be superior to multisampling, but the opposite is the case. Computing the exact mathematical coverage of a single polygon against a background is useless for anim
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by codeflo 2y ago
No, in most static languages, the type system influences code generation.
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by codeflo 2y ago
These days, TypeScript is effectively nothing more than a high-powered linter. The performance of this linter is so bad that we need to structure our code in a specific way so that we can still afford to run the linter. Of the performance t
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by codeflo 2y ago
That’s awesome. > The sort of thing you'd solve in 30 seconds with Google in 2024. This is unfortunately becoming increasingly untrue, as the forums where stuff like that was posted are rotting away, and Google’s advertisement optim
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by codeflo 2y ago
Reminder that AlphaGo and its successors have not solved Go and that reinforcement learning still sucks when encountering out-of-distribution strategies: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02&#x2
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by codeflo 2y ago
Slightly off-topic, but I was recently very disappointed to learn that Lego Mindstorms was discontinued some time ago without replacement. It’s such a shame that hardly modifiable licensed IP shovelware sets are now by far the most profitab
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by codeflo 2y ago
If the observation time is finite, and the time resolution of the observation is limited, then you'd still only have a finite number of distinguishable symbols, wouldn't you?
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by codeflo 2y ago
Many blog posts and Stackoverflow questions about C++ cal them functors. Boost of all things uses the term in its definitions: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/doc/html/function/refe... It
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by codeflo 2y ago
Functor is one of the worst offenders IMO. In C++ lingo, it simply means "callable object".
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by codeflo 2y ago
That took me a moment, and I’m sure I won’t be the only one. Breaking news indeed. Well done.
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by codeflo 2y ago
> Conceptually you could think of these as classical inheritance (so class Card extends Div) - inherit the semantics and base styles of div while making a re-usable style for a Card class. You could, but you’d be wrong. The CSS selector
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by codeflo 2y ago
People might use it that way, but the original idea of signaling is when people care about publicly displaying their belief in a thing. That’s an operable definition that’s independent of that thing’s merits.
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by codeflo 2y ago
And if you dare to combine two of the paradigms it supports, you get UB.
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by codeflo 2y ago
The very rough rule of thumb that I think one should remember is: You get a 50% chance of collision with sqrt(total) samples. Sqrt(1 000 000) = 1 000, close enough to the exact number you calculated.
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by codeflo 2y ago
I’m making an argument about the validity of an argument. A rebuttal to that can never be “but the conclusion is true”.

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