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by evouga 2y ago
Sure but... this is the technology at the most expensive it will ever be. I'm impressed that o3 was able to achieve such high performance at all, and am not too pessimistic about costs decreasing over time.
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by evouga 3y ago
It's funny; I spent a couple of hours last week helping some students debug out-of-bounds indices in their Rust code. I've written bugs that would have been caught by the compiler in a memory-safe language. I think the last time w
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by evouga 3y ago
I think it's simply that the blog author and commentators have an unrealistic threat model when it comes to how the legal profession uses MD5s. After the first high-profile case where authenticity of evidence gets called into question
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by evouga 3y ago
Who picks the reviewers and nags them to complete their reviews? This is the principal actual useful work journals do these days.
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by evouga 3y ago
The situation is now counterintuitive in the other direction: if Monty Hall had opened those 48 doors at random and they just happened to not contain the car, then there is no advantage to switching, though many people would insist otherwis
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by evouga 3y ago
It's not so easy for several reasons: 1. It's easy enough for a lone entrepreneur with no investors to make principled long-term decisions. It's not so trivial when you owe a fiduciary duty to a board of venture capitalists.
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by evouga 3y ago
I've spent hours helping my students debug their Rust programs of incorrect array-indexing logic, incorrectly-reasoned loop invariants, incorrect conditional logic, and everything in between. They're not double-deleting raw pointe
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by evouga 3y ago
The store may or may not be telling the truth. Either way, it's undeniable that SF has changed dramatically over the last several years, with dramatic upswing in property crime and complete unwillingness on the part of law enforcement
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by evouga 3y ago
Because after your lean, highly-productive startup team creates the app that everyone loves, you get a bunch of funding and hire thousands of extraneous software developers and then have to find something for them to do.
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by evouga 3y ago
How much of the cooling cost of current chips is due to wires, vs. the transistors themselves? Superconductors will not help with the latter.
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by evouga 3y ago
“Most important one in physics this century”: I’m hoping the room-temperature superconductor pans out, but even if it does, the century is young! This time in the 20th century, relativity was “obviously” the most important discovery of the
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by evouga 3y ago
Arxiv has its own problems. You can find dozens of proofs on the arxiv that P=NP and that P!=NP. What does peer “review” look like here? Most people won’t bother to write an article specifically rebutting one random incorrect proof. Now som
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by evouga 3y ago
What I really like about this explanation is that it highlights the fact that entropy is not a natural property of the physics system: entropy is only defined with respect to some coarse-graining operation applied by an imperfect observer o
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by evouga 3y ago
Well since circa mid-2010s the Internet is apps. Or app-like centralized web sites (like Hacker News). People want to install a single “Lemmy” app on their phone that shows them all Lemmy content and lets them post to all instances, using
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by evouga 3y ago
What’s the endgame here? Who is buying ripened accounts with lots of karma and why?
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by evouga 3y ago
Leading up to the blackout, there were multiple threads on Reddit asking for alternatives to visit instead. None of those threads received any non-joke replies. The only thing that will make Reddit change course is serious competition. Prob
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by evouga 3y ago
There was a magic period of time lasting about a decade when internet search Just Worked. If it was on the public web Google would find it. Search worked so well I took it for granted. Today I avoid Google search at all costs, and use it ma
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by evouga 3y ago
What you say is true, but the rolling hash solution is susceptible to potential hash collisions while the trie is not.
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by evouga 3y ago
The AI boom has been 6 years of massively-overhyped vaporware followed by 6 months of massively-overhyped services that occasionally deliver the goods. People need some time to recalibrate.
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by evouga 3y ago
Seems like a flagrant strawman to characterize AI as a “well-poisoning machine.”
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by evouga 4y ago
I passed Calculus BC almost 20 years ago. All this time I could have been designing and implementing a practical self-improving AI architecture? I must really be slacking.
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by evouga 4y ago
“no one emails”: that hasn’t been my experience or observation at all. Email remains by far the most common channel for professional communication. Sure, my coworkers will send me Slack DMs. Random professional acquaintances do not.
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by evouga 4y ago
It makes sense to me that the economy overall is doing well but that the tech sector specifically over invested during the pandemic and is now contracting.
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by evouga 4y ago
There is not really any new insight in the post, though cellular automata are indeed a good way to explain entropy, coarse-graining, etc. The breakthrough (if it exists) must be in his computational irreducibility theorem, which he alludes
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by evouga 4y ago
I think a lot of what's happening is that there is not necessarily a correlation between the technical quality of a piece of art and its cultural influence and legacy. The former is far, far easier to evaluate "in the moment"
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by evouga 4y ago
This doesn’t make any sense to me. My private forks are * mine* and I most certainly do not want GitHub guessing at whether and when to permanently delete them without my consent. Companies of course have the right to manage access to thei
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by evouga 4y ago
Well, this is a very interesting theoretical breakthrough, but it remains to be seen how it benchmarks in practice. The constant and log factors might be steep for practical inputs.
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by evouga 4y ago
I was talking to an NSA recruiter last year, though, and they told me they routinely report applicants to the FBI for confessing to crimes during a polygraph. So damned if you do, damned if you don’t… (For a recruiter he did an uncanny job
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by evouga 4y ago
> You could even have it write unit tests based on the JIRA ticket description. This is a wonderful point: writing unit tests is exactly the kind of mind-numbing tedium that I'm super excited to automate away.
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by evouga 4y ago
Right. Would we be impressed if a layman could pass the bar, given infinite time and access to the entire Internet (including the copious amount of bar exam study guides and worked example problems)? If not why are we impressed that a langu

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