dmurray

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by dmurray 3d ago
Let it iterate, give it access to the cheap models, and tell it part of the requirements is that the cheap models shouldn't be able to solve it with such and such a prompt. I expect it will be able to zoom in on something. One shot gen
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by dmurray 7d ago
Your car does that already. It has a superhuman braking system that saves a lot more lives than cruise control, though not quite sub-millisecond in its reaction time.
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by dmurray 11d ago
I try to structure my work in such a way that "git add ." is a sensible thing to do. I stashed or committed outstanding changes before starting on this feature, and I did exactly enough work for one commit since then. And the stat
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by dmurray 13d ago
Really, a prototype airplane, the first of this size ever built with this novel propulsion system, had engineers involved in the design?
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by dmurray 13d ago
The "ballsy move" is completely separate from the mistake. I don't think there was anything particularly ballsy, or perhaps even reckless, about agreeing to test the taxiing behaviour. It never crossed his mind that this coul
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by dmurray 14d ago
If they sell enough of it in the US and buy enough in London, traders who take the other side of that position will physically move it to London. That's exactly the service the commodities markets provide: they will absorb a small trad
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by dmurray 16d ago
But you also don't touch it, eat it, or stand under it when it rains, so the opportunity to burn it by mistake is limited.
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by dmurray 18d ago
Afraid for your life if you were to confront the thief . That reasonably covers pretty much all cases, especially in a state where lots of people have guns.
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by dmurray 21d ago
And lots of expat-friendly countries that are tolerant of working on repeated tourist visas rather than a full immigrant visa, but still require visa runs every month or three.
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by dmurray 21d ago
I once inherited an APL system which was just an image. I didn't know where to start trying to get function definitions out of it and into some kind of version control and eventually ported to something else. I'm interested to kno
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by dmurray 22d ago
It's not particularly unusual in Python , because it's normal that important functionality is implemented in other languages by a diverse set of third parties. That said, this isn't a security vulnerability, it's just a
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by dmurray 23d ago
Sounds like you talked to the locals who might end up being expected to pay tips. The ones who might expect to receive tips would have a different point of view.
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by dmurray 24d ago
Why are we not just in a free lunch moment but with harnesses, rather than models? Right now a lot of people have a lot of opinions on which model to use for which task. They get better results for less money by judiciously switching betwee
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by dmurray 24d ago
How about a mirror that is only there when you need it? The car could detect from a combination of your eye movement and from its own monitoring of the road behind when you are likely to check the mirror, and pop it out then. This sounds li
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by dmurray 27d ago
But fiction is the best way to learn about those past times. You could read in a history book - in the few sentences your locality's curriculum can spare for Victorian England - that there was a lot of urban poverty in London after the
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by dmurray 29d ago
How about eating a Sandwich with Turkey, Bologna and Cheddar, maybe with a Paris-Brest for dessert?
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by dmurray 1mo ago
A trained operator could have got up to a very high speed anyway, though, as the age of typewriters would show. Even if Paige didn't know that. Having the machine able to keep up is more important than the speed of the typist.
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by dmurray 1mo ago
It's not aimed at consumers of their product. Someone outside the company who was thinking of joining a B2B sales team, and who likes tropical vacations, might react positively to this post. Or a potential investor might be impressed t
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by dmurray 1mo ago
Goldfish are what stereotypically served this purpose in the UK and Ireland, though this seems to have got out of fashion as pet shops no longer sell goldfish to be kept in tiny bowls.
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by dmurray 1mo ago
Well at least this wouldn't result in massive incentives for Microsoft to get the same law passed elsewhere.
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by dmurray 1mo ago
If by "ride" you mean hitch a lift to somewhere you couldn't get to otherwise, space doesn't work like that. If you want to land on an asteroid/rock, either you match speed with it, in which case you already had eno
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by dmurray 1mo ago
It's a very silly point to make to AI researchers specifically. If they don't work on those projects, the AI won't advance and won't magically be able to replicate the work in "one to three years".
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by dmurray 1mo ago
> All people are not born with equally capable brains You can't write this and then object to someone also shortening this to "stupid".
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by dmurray 1mo ago
In these circumstances I always say "I've seen something similar before". That has the benefits firstly, that the interviewer will probably go ahead with the question anyway while still noting your honesty; and secondly, that
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by dmurray 2mo ago
It was invented as a comically long fake word, but gained enough currency to be used in real writing, though in a tongue-in-cheek way. It's a Latin calque. I'm sure the spelling should be floccipaucinihil... from pauci , few and
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by dmurray 2mo ago
I was at the World Series of Poker when this change was made. The major sites had anticipated the decision not to allow sponsorship by "real money" gambling sites and had registered their .net equivalents. Pokerstars.net, fulltilt
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Or because there's not enough worth stealing in your house.
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Ireland, like the UK, has a system of Prize Bonds that work exactly like this, administered by the state. The expected return on them is actually quite competitive, depending on your tax situation. Everyone here seems to have got a present
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by dmurray 2mo ago
Roman legions marched around 30 km/day [0], carrying their own supplies, food, weapons and armour, needing to spend time making and breaking camp each day. Modern European pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago seem to do about 20 km/
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by dmurray 2mo ago
This part is clearly nonsense: > According to the planner’s calculation, the journey would have taken 43 days to cover 1,500 Roman miles. To put that into a contemporary context: the same route by road today can be completed in 14 days (

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