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by efskap 13d ago
This is like the Bronze Age collapse when city-states fell one by one to displaced demand, under the refugee interpretation of the Sea Peoples.
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by efskap 14d ago
Only in South Asian varieties of English apparently: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/of#Pronunciation
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by efskap 15d ago
They sound exactly the same to me. Wiktionary gives <should've> as /ˈʃʊdəv/, unstressed <have> as /(h)əv/ and unstressed <of> as /əv/.
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by efskap 16d ago
The best of both worlds would be achieved by elastic tabstops. https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/ If only they took off.
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by efskap 16d ago
And these are the guys who invented transformers! How?
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by efskap 17d ago
Well, estimating string length of tokens is much like counting R's in strawberry.
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by efskap 20d ago
There's a reason it stands for Bring Over Another Thousand
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by efskap 22d ago
Yeah referencing is the way to go, as even finetuning probably captures style more than concrete facts. I know with large context windows we don't really RAG anymore, but for owner's manual lookup with a smaller model it seems ide
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by efskap 26d ago
But comments should hopefully explain "why", not what or how, and that kind of context is exactly what an LLM is likely to be missing
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by efskap 1mo ago
I guess it would need permissions, but you can monitor the photo library with PHPhotoLibraryChangeObserver and check if a new item's subtype is photoScreenshot. Otherwise userDidTakeScreenshotNotification only fires for your own app
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by efskap 1mo ago
The app actually is notified after the screenshot is taken: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiapplicatio... Android does it too: https://developer.android.com/about/versions&#x
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by efskap 1mo ago
Yeah, it's not a clean inheritance but lots of linguistic contact and negotiation. And crucially it's not just other IE-adjacent languages but the Pre-IE substrate. So many Greek words are inherited from the mysterious languages t
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by efskap 1mo ago
It's the great irony of digital media. Copying data is accurate to the bit and is preserved "as-is", but in practice, it requires someone to maintain servers, to care about it. To separate out what is worth preserving. We hot
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by efskap 1mo ago
"Lab" grown meat of the aquatic variety has been around for eons in the form of mussels and other bivalves. No central nervous system to suffer, similar nutritional profile that fills in plant-based gaps, extracts nutrients from t
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by efskap 1mo ago
I dig the spirit, but if I'm meant to understand it in an afternoon, why is it codegolfed to such an extent? It's like reading the output of a minifier, not idiomatic Go.
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by efskap 1mo ago
But that means it had to be a trend already to be overrepresented in the training corpus, right? Or was it just something the RLHF evaluators got a kick out of...
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by efskap 2mo ago
It's a menu with natural language search and potentially natural language form input.
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by efskap 2mo ago
Maybe even an off-the-shelf microlouver privacy screen protector?
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by efskap 3mo ago
Similarly, it blows my mind that all trees are made of air, specifically the carbon in it. I used to think that the biomass must come from the soil, but reality is more interesting.
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by efskap 3mo ago
It's doesn't have to be non-gaming purposes. Say you want to install something not sold on Steam like I dunno, World of Warcraft, or Minecraft.
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by efskap 3mo ago
That's a really cool connection, and even the Wikipedia article mentions the similarity to birds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peloton#Formations It doesn't mention V shapes, though. I guess since a cyclist
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by efskap 3mo ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying. Fenix 8 Solar is still MIPS but I can see why AMOLED is the "premium default" that they'd de-emphasize in their flagships. MIPS just shines less in the showroom, and doesn't have the phone disp
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by efskap 3mo ago
> Garmin discontinuing their e-paper smartwatches Wait what? Do you have a source? I can't find anything about that, and I see the Instinct 3 is still being sold. Very disappointing if so, as that line has been the perfect pebble re
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by efskap 3mo ago
Depends on personality I guess. That would be sooo unsatisfying to me. E.g. not wanting to accept that languages have exceptions "just because" is what got me interested in historical linguistics as a young lad.
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by efskap 3mo ago
Do one thing and do it well, right?
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by efskap 4mo ago
Reminds me of the SCP-like article / short story about the first executable snapshot of a human brain, with similar horrors of realization. https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by efskap 4mo ago
At least for Nix itself, that's pretty much it except via Dutch. > The name Nix is derived from the Dutch word niks, meaning nothing; build actions do not see anything that has not been explicitly declared as an input From page 81 o
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by efskap 4mo ago
I like https://viznut.fi/unscii/ - meant for ascii art but still works well in a terminal, and still gets unicode updates
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by efskap 4mo ago
Yup, that's the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network It's the daydreaming/mind-wandering state that occurs when you're not focused on an external task. With all the stimuli of the mode
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by efskap 4mo ago
Specifically a clanker that itself would rather hallucinate something than say "I don't know".

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