codeulike

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by codeulike 4d ago
I know its not intentional but the phrase "our horses" amused me, as if the author would be surprised to learn that not everyone owns a horse.
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by codeulike 11d ago
If you remember the launch of IBM Watson in about 2011 it was meant to be this super smart AI entity and they demoed it by taking it on "Jeapordy!" and having it answer the quiz questions. To be fair, for the time that was kindof
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by codeulike 28d ago
I'm in the UK and it always seems weird to me how in the USA its totally normal to publically register yourself as either a Democrat or a Republican. To me seems like the kind of thing that should be private. In the UK I might choose t
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by codeulike 29d ago
Malcolm Walker, the founder and his son Richard Walker the current chairman are (for such an ordinary seeming supermarket) surprisingly progressive and have often spearheaded sustainability and corporate responsibility campaigns. Malcolm Wa
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by codeulike 1mo ago
Interested in this, but to work on an ipad that has youtube.com blocked via ScreenTime I imagine it probably wont work (unless you unblock youtube.com and the youtube becomes accessible via the browser). Unless they have found a way round t
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by codeulike 1mo ago
Its a way to make sure the delivery takes place. A code is sent to recipient and recipient only gives it to the delivery person once item is handed over. Delivery person cant mark item as 'done' without the code. I've seen Ub
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by codeulike 1mo ago
I remember the fuss about that email. Yes thats a good point, our concept of privacy has evolved a lot since then. Privacy as a technical and political theme changed a lot post-2000. To my mind, Wikileaks in 2006 and Snowden in 2013 were bi
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by codeulike 1mo ago
You could try this, from 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachments_(TV_series)
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Yep, I think of Arthur as a sortof Beta for RiscOS I had an Archimedes A305 which launched with Arthur, when I upgraded to Risc OS (which arrived on ROMs, if I remember correctly, you ordered the ROMs and then your local dealer would fit th
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by codeulike 2mo ago
The original ARM operating system
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by codeulike 2mo ago
lacking a body Just drop it into Minecraft
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Incidentally I was reading the other day that in Europe kettles are much faster than USA ones (due to 240v domestic mains as opposed to 120v) and theres a small subculture of USA electricians fitting 240v supplies into their kitchen and the
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Does it have language skills? I always thought it would be interesting to train a model within minecraft as a sortof proxy for 'embodiment'. You could then try asking it about its experiences. "whats your favourite food?&quot
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by codeulike 2mo ago
For those wondering, I found a post with a graph showing actual temperature rather than std dev from mean https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tompickerell_this-graph-shoul...
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by codeulike 2mo ago
If there’s an heir to Dylan, I don’t see who it is. Great music and great art are still being made and will always be made, and one day someone of his stature will emerge. But this particular age of heroes is over. Two thoughts about this
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Huygens was an amazing project. It also sticks in my head as a really instructive example of "bug in production code" - the Huygens probe was transmitting on two channels to the Cassini orbiter during its descent. Due to a mistake
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Because copper wires could carry enough power to make a landline work when the mains electricity was off due to a power cut Edit: also domestic routers are buggy and unreliable and need to be restarted regularly
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by codeulike 3mo ago
The act of pushing a mower around possesses an almost primordial appeal No, no it doesnt. I leapt at the chance to get a robot to do it
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by codeulike 3mo ago
Ancient writers were more imaginative than you think. Right, but imagination starts from what is known, so Vera Historia has wars, journeys, whales and gods. A whirlwind takes them to the moon, and so on. But it would have been very hard
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by codeulike 3mo ago
Lets reflect on Aristocreon, in about 200 BC, putting their thoughts down on a scroll. They would be aware that the scroll might be kept in a library for some time. Maybe they could have imagined it surviving for 300 years. But they never w
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by codeulike 4mo ago
The result is scripts that are easier to develop and maintain. I believe this goes against the official specification of XML
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by codeulike 4mo ago
I'm in the UK and I've never heard of that definition of it (being to do with churches), maybe thats a very ancient definiton
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by codeulike 4mo ago
Unless you're in the UK in which case it was the 15th March and you've already done it (or already missed it)
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by codeulike 4mo ago
I had an Archimedes back in the day, they were incredible machines. I remember hearing about Pipedream but never got to try it, it sounded wild: PipeDream 3 breaks down the barriers between word processor, spreadsheet and database. You can
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by codeulike 5mo ago
Thats a good point actually, I hadn't thought about deploying hacks and jailbreaks in a turing test but thats exactly what should be done, if its being done adversarially
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by codeulike 5mo ago
But I hear that with Gen Z and Alpha they dont really go to bars but they do tend to go to the gym, and so the gym is becoming a more social space. So maybe OP is on the right track? https://www.theguardian.com/society/
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by codeulike 5mo ago
Turing test was definitely and conclusively refuted in the 1960s Are you sure? Understood properly, Turings Imitation game aka the turing test, should be adversarial. That is, the player should be asking hard questions to try and discover
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by codeulike 5mo ago
Not particularly a Dawkins fan but I dont think OP really understands the philosophical point Dawkins is making. OP complains that Dawkins hasnt considered how LLMs work and how its obvious they're nothing like brains. You can’t just
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by codeulike 5mo ago
This is fascinating. I see its powered by weights and probabilities - would this be a very simple ancestor of things like Stable Diffusion that we have now, or would this be on a completely different branch (different approach)
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by codeulike 5mo ago
It was essentially a jigsaw puzzle, and Venters insight was that computational power was just as important to the project as biology. The Human Genome Project was essentially trying to sequence the human genome by finding large chunks of DN

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