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by cvz 2mo ago
The complexity of Karatsuba's algorithm, because it's a recursive one that gets "wider" at every level, is dominated by the width of that recursion. The top level always has a small number of operations, so we don't
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by cvz 9mo ago
Do you write things that you intend other people read? The value in that writing, one would assume, would include your education, culture, and intelligence.
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by cvz 11mo ago
That's at odds with everything I know about manufacturing robotics, having worked with people doing that work. The complexity of the environment is irrelevant because the robot is programmed to make a specific motion and to adjust that
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by cvz 1y ago
Sadly, American politics are so absurd now that some people won't recognize you're joking
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by cvz 1y ago
I am only really confused about this comment. I don't see any shock here, just people discussing the same disappointing state of events you are.
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by cvz 1y ago
The biggest source of lead exposure in indoor ranges isn't from the chunks of lead shot into targets. It's from the primers. Lead styphnate is still a common ingredient, and the primer is one of those parts of the bullet that ends
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by cvz 1y ago
I don't understand this comment. The fine article is about a proposed law that would allegedly require the implementation of half-baked censorship systems along the same lines as the DMCA. Are you saying that's not a real issue be
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by cvz 1y ago
It's also alive and well off the blockchain!
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by cvz 1y ago
You give a damn about speech. You're publicly criticizing the foundational document of a government, and calling that government a failure. That open criticism is necessary for change to happen and, in the United States, the constituti
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by cvz 1y ago
Eh? More for the rest of us, then!
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by cvz 1y ago
The U.S. constitution is about the structure of the government and the things it can and cannot do. It's a remarkably short and readable document for what it is and when it was first written. And while it has been amended very slowly,
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by cvz 1y ago
Yes, you are morally responsible for your own actions. But those actions don't happen in a vacuum. They happen in a world that you are able to observe and make predictions about, however imperfect those predictions are. If you don&#x27
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by cvz 1y ago
Tlön is one of my favorite short stories. Weirdly (and perhaps appropriately) that's despite being unable to remember basically anything about it once I've finished reading.
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by cvz 1y ago
Who should the unimaginative non-liberals read, and why?
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by cvz 1y ago
This isn't a forensics class. People are allowed to point out what they think is obvious without having to explain it in detail. And it's rude to insist that they do more than you've done yourself. The article everyone's
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by cvz 1y ago
I will leave aside my own judgment of the things you've listed. I don't agree with all of them, but I do agree with some. My exact opinion doesn't matter here. What matters is this: you can agree that Trump has done good thin
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by cvz 1y ago
> We can chuck the entire concept of rights out the window and come up with agreements surrounding social behavior that actually reflect the society and culture we have today or want tomorrow. What, exactly, do you think a right even is,
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by cvz 1y ago
> Americans don't do this, though. They don't demand better. They accept shitty governance and say "at least I voted". And frankly I don't think they ever will. That is an obviously wrong statement even if we onl
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by cvz 1y ago
The reason you don't see "free speech" used for those causes isn't because they don't rely on free speech. It's because advocacy for them is so clearly protected as free speech that it isn't even a questio
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by cvz 1y ago
Donald Trump is currently doing immense damage to the personal liberty of some and to the free expression of all. Every one of the numerous things listed in the article is something that actually happened. I don't know nor do I care wh
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by cvz 2y ago
It wouldn't be an ordinary law, it would be a constitutional amendment, so that wouldn't be an issue. It's probably not going to happen, though. Amending the U.S. constitution is incredibly difficult.
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by cvz 2y ago
Sharpening and bandwidth-limiting have the exact same effect, because the maximum sharpness of an image (like any other signal) depends on its bandwidth. There is no difference in the type of artifact produced. That's why the artifact
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by cvz 2y ago
I am unsurprised that the author would hold a video distribution company which supposedly pays good money for experts to a higher standard than the average hobbyist blogger. I don't think it's hating for the sake of hating.
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by cvz 2y ago
It's the exact same phenomenon in both. Not sure where you're making the distinction.
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by cvz 2y ago
This is what's so terrifying about uses of "AI". People's idea of accuracy being "tell me what I think is there", not "tell me what's there". The can in this image probably says "coconut mil
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by cvz 2y ago
I'm saying it's moot because, if you're just flagging things for review, there's already a more direct and reliable way to do that. The OCR classifier itself outputs a confidence score. The naieve way of just checking th
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by cvz 2y ago
This is moot anyway if the LLM is only used as part of a review process. But the most valuable documents to digitize are, almost by definition, those that don't have widely-known information that an LLM is statistically likely to guess
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by cvz 2y ago
I am working with printed documents. Maybe LLMs currently make a difference with handwriting recognition. I wasn't directly responding to that. It's outside the little bit that I know, and I didn't even think of it as "O
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by cvz 2y ago
> You are thinking of a fully automated process, not of the human verification through `diff ocr_output llm_corrected`. Fair, and I'm aware that that makes a huge difference in how worthwhile an LLM is. I'm glad you're not
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by cvz 2y ago
As someone who's learning how to do OCR in order to re-OCR a bunch of poorly digitized documents, this will not work with modern OCR. Modern OCR is too good. If you're able to improve the preprocessing and recognition enough, then

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