continuitylimit

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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Thanks jerf for your thoughtful reply. tbh I was trolling hn for the very first time in 14 years and based on the response I have a natural talent for it. Who knew. The multi-core point is well taken, as it maps to my own professional expe
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
The brief blurb about how GIL came to be, in light of Python’s success as a language and a tool, makes me question my s/e belief system. Things like this are like when good things happen to bad people and bad things happen to good peop
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Interesting how the nth term index for n-Sonos non-integral is itself monotonic. Intuitively it seems it doesn’t have to be. (Handwavy looking at the n-S() behavior as hitting a ‘catastrophic’ transition at the n-th, so question is why is t
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
who are these “most people”? Everyone in Iran, including the Shah, wanted Iran’s oil nationalized. It was the economic consequences that tempered others. The Good Dr. had to go hat in hand to US and beg Eisenhower to aid after oil revenues
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Your story about operation Ajax is just that - a story. Iran’s PMs were all elected by parliament and the one before Mr. Mossadeq was assassinated by Islamists allied to your “democrat” who then let the killer get off with no jail time. You
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
They are denied education, freedom of movement, and freedom of conscious. It is not slavery, as you are correct to point out - it is a regressive reading of Islam and its insistence on removing the sexual from the public space (which is fin
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Rigor is not the only variable, agreed. The issue (again) is that the other variables are many and they are non-linear in the main. (For example, the variable of ‘competence of development organization’ is not smoothly distributed. Our fiel
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
No, the point does not remain that “research” “shows” anything. Seems there is agreement that ‘meaningful experiments have never been done because it is too complex and expensive’ so there is no significant research data . But the basic ar
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
[This is just data - I’m sure it was “abnormally hot” in many places, but NYC was not one of those places. Believe it or not, 2000 and 1960 were just randomly picked out of a hat and the only other dates I tried fwiw] September 1960: https
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230223081016/https://www.figma... It’s a client-server architecture with a bit of CRDT inspired algorithm sprinkle on for offline mode. The name of the game remains consensu
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Last week of September in NYC was the coldest I remember this time of year. Rainy, windy and cold.
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
well, if this cult doesn’t work out for you there is always reddit.com with less “limitations” ..
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
OP’s author is a prof. of religious studies and has a book on Hebrews so possibly his point of view requires the preeminence of Hebrew alphabet. I also found some of the reasoning questionable. The reason Latin teaching was the job of Greek
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Re your edit, if you re-read my op you should find we’re in agreement regarding the press’s standing and its causes. Numerous assumptions are embedded in your optimistic analogy of printing press and machine learning systems, including cont
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
That is a very odd historic analog to pick but deliciously ironic in that you apparently (?) missed the bit in the OP about “few powerful” interests controlling the labeling of data and thus ‘vocabulary of discourse’ of generativeAI. It is
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
> To clear space for the new church, Hugh Stubbins and Bill LeMessurier (he pronounces his name “LeMeasure”) set Sure, repeat his name n times and then ‘oh, by the way, it’s pronounced this way’. New Yorker does this all the time.
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
So a jumble of chair legs is “NVIDIA burger” and it did say GPU was a “bun” so it thinks the flat thing (chicken?) is some sort of bread. If GPT-4V was “aware”, it would say “it’s funny because I won’t get it right but you will use it get a
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Great tip, thanks!
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Pulsar is a very interesting architectural case study. The cost of the greater clarity and flexibility is the greater management burden. The server-side functions are nice (and remind of JEE MBeans) but the direct challenge to Kafka is the
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
It’s not apparent as a dilemma until the said architect has spent years -convinced- that the grand edifice is “good architecture”, and finally matured as a practitioner. Only after that phase passes is there an actual ego-driven dilemma, st
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
It is not odd, it is basically accurate. You are making a fetish of the S-C interaction but the essential matter is that Kafka is designed to store & distribute logs, whereas Rabbit is designed to route & send messages. The ‘sto
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
There is no “trick”. It’s the language spec! That go func can take arguments. Just add the argument for clarity. The “trick” here is saving the declaration in the go func’s signature. ‘go func(i0 int) { .... }(i)’
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
// FIXME: this apparently needs to be “fixed” .. for _, v := range intvals { go func(v0 int) { fmt.Printf(“v:%v v0:%v\n”, v, v0) }(v) }
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
So come on man, let’s be honest here. I got serious sacred masterpiece vibes from this story. This reminds me of some Hindu parable about people who let go of possessions and head out to become ascetics. So there is this wealthy man and wif
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
The powers have long divided ‘loot’ — meaning weaker nations that they can exploit — between themselves. Africa is very much French territory. It’s like asking how does a Don from the Council compel the God Father to agree to a hit. “It’s j
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
Intelligence is manifested by the quality and timeliness of decisions. Talking has always been a faux demonstration of actual intelligence, for man or machine.
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by continuitylimit 3y ago
> “Can you do REACH->GRASP?” > “Certainly! ...” I think here is the answer to the question of do LLMs ‘reason’ at all. Since we know the LLM is a sequence completion mechanism, that initial ‘certainly’ (which was a wrong assertion