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by granularity 1y ago
Nice! On the leaderboard I'd like to see code size vs cycles in a 2D plot with the Pareto front highlighted.
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by granularity 2y ago
Oooo, link to a photo, please!
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by granularity 2y ago
Exactly: > Participants were recruited from the Essex University Economics Lab sample pool. ... The median participant was a graduate student with two years of work experience. Hard to see how econ grad students play-acting boss says muc
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by granularity 2y ago
Are the scare quotes around wisdom because you're embarrassed to admit that such a thing exists? ;) Since it seems you've thought about it a bit, I'm interested to hear your definition of what is / isn't wisdom in a
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by granularity 2y ago
Thanks for the links! Seems like we don't need to mask prior to the first compare, since the low order bits only matter if the high order bits are equal (in which case, we can also safely compare lower bits). Or am I missing something?
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by granularity 3y ago
> Tesler's Theorem (ca. 1970). My formulation of what others have since called the “AI Effect”. As commonly quoted: “Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet”. What I actually said was: “Intelligence is whatever
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by granularity 3y ago
Here's the actual story about that quote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Armstrong#First_Moon_walk
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by granularity 3y ago
I read “attaches all these numbers to each other” to mean concatenation, not addition. Presumably you’d want to encode a “next book” token too. This kind of compression is known as arithmetic coding. It does work.
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by granularity 4y ago
I like the concept, but if you upload a photo you took, the page will tell you: "These human-made source images were used by AI ... to generate this image." Where "this image" is your photo.
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by granularity 4y ago
> we’ll use period-correct graphs, created on Office XP So beautiful.
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by granularity 5y ago
Agreed, and I second the Looom recommendation.
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by granularity 5y ago
> And of course you need firmware as well. Love this. It's like Obama's "the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go". Clearly Mr Smith has done his homework on the subject of military technology and has learned a Te
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by granularity 5y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_luck
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by granularity 6y ago
If you like bad movies, this one manages to be bad on a number of interesting dimensions at the same time. Highly recommended!
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by granularity 6y ago
I wasn't aware of the Symbolics / SDI connection: > The market created by funding from SDI was quite forgiving. The government was interested in creating complex Lisp programs and Symbolics machines were the leading alternative
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by granularity 6y ago
The takeaways (for me) were that: 1) a small number of high-status parents with different priorities than the broader community will often (without malice) influence a school's administration such that the community's more fundame