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by gsam 2y ago
And that's actually a really honest answer. Whereas someone of the opposite opinion might be like parroting in the general copying-template sense actually generalizes to all observable behaviours because templating systems can be turin
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by gsam 2y ago
I don't like wading into this debate when semantics are very personal/subjective. But to me, it seems like almost a sleight of hand to add the stochastic part, when actually they're possibly weighted more on the parrot part.
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by gsam 2y ago
In my mind, the pure reinforcement learning approach of DeepSeek is the most practical way to do this. Essentially it needs to continually refine and find more sound(?) subspaces of the latent (embedding) space. Now this could be the subspa
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by gsam 2y ago
> Neural networks are notoriously bad at graphs. AlphaFold is based on graph neural networks. The biggest issue is that we still do not know how to best encode graph problems in ways neural networks can exploit. Current graph neural netw
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by gsam 2y ago
In my view there's two modes of creativity: 1. That two distant topics or ideas are actually much more closely related. The creative sees one example of an idea and applies it to a discipline that nobody expects. In theory, reduction o
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by gsam 3y ago
Anyone else think that there is already primitive image data encoded in biological data? Essentially basic shapes and patterns which are passed down semi-generationally.
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by gsam 5y ago
Do you have somewhere to send you some details? Otherwise, you can probably find a mail on my Github with the same name.
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by gsam 5y ago
Category theory isn't the only way to solve this. Arguably a purely continuous dynamical system like differential equations with certain boundary conditions would similarly work. Discrete dynamical systems however, are much better at
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by gsam 5y ago
That's fair, I was more speaking about XML and its use as a form of binary transport. Things like WS-Management and explicit SOAP obviously came a little bit later, and SOAP-like technologies were popularized for more general use in th
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by gsam 5y ago
CIM/WBEM goes all the way back to 1996. They essentially wanted a management infrastructure on all kinds of devices (including different architectures, so actually C made sense then), but that also notably included remote access. At th
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by gsam 5y ago
Implementing it with a hylomorphism is actually quite clean, however, understanding the plumbing to get there is not. The principles are generally quite simple, however, there's no non-mathematical wordings to describe it.
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by gsam 7y ago
Have you seen any signs of which compression algorithm might be the one affected? Presumably it's one of their more snowflake ones. If it is in a library, surely SMB isn't the only affected resource? Perhaps it's not the libr
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by gsam 7y ago
It's not actually clear that they prioritize their own products all that much. Certainly in regards to Project Zero, it seems the point is that they are detached from the rest of the product teams. (Correct me if I'm wrong) Outsid
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by gsam 7y ago
Depends on what you mean by Linux. The ABI Microsoft were attempting to emulate was absolutely Linux. (This API business is exactly the issue with Oracle vs Google over Java).
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by gsam 7y ago
No, a lot of cross-platform applications are going to be using this infrastructure IIRC still. In this case, they only need a subset of the Linux APIs and they can optimize it to produce the right translations.
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by gsam 8y ago
Because they aren't starting from nothing? They're starting from humans -- the more we can usefully encode about our knowledge of ourselves, the more time we can skip in evolutionary effort. The mutation rate is also rapidly accel
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by gsam 8y ago
As a counterpoint, I would like to say that a lot of research still is 'routine intellectual work'. Movers and shakers are rare and far apart. The vast majority of academia are collectively and slowly boiling over problems, rather
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by gsam 8y ago
> Otherwise, you're implyjng that the developer of that technology would either release the technology as completely driverless or not release it at all. In some ways that statement is true. Ford and a number of other companies refu
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by gsam 8y ago
As someone with a great interest in comic paneling, I can agree, but there's so few that seem to do so. Not only that, but the vertical format (particularly as it pertains to optimization for mobile devices) leads to a number of negati
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by gsam 8y ago
> For anything that takes more than half a second or so, it's usually a big win and can turn minutes into seconds. As a counter to this, I purposefully try to use CPython in order to force me to find algorithmically optimal solution
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by gsam 8y ago
Those services used to also carry RSS, but they silently removed them not long after Google Reader shut down. That might be unrelated, but still.
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by gsam 8y ago
I wouldn't say minor, but a reasonably attentive driver would have probably slammed the brakes, even if it was too late.
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by gsam 9y ago
To add, close mentorship with a core member of the team is one of the ways to get around this hurdle. Anything less formal than that, in many cases, it's fairly impossible (unless you have some very similar experience you can draw from
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by gsam 9y ago
It's no surprise people reject concepts they don't adequately understand. I don't know who exactly you could blame here. But if they all understood what it meant, I don't believe nearly as many would be rejecting it.
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by gsam 9y ago
I somewhat disagree. The opposite can also occur. Because everyone is gambling on the house market, the amount of productive places for investing diminishes as they are left to be forgotten. This can be obviously self-perpetuating but this
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by gsam 9y ago
That's not true. Both had RSS up until 2012 or so. They were hidden to the average user though.
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by gsam 9y ago
Facebook and Twitter killed theirs though. I find that deplorable.
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by gsam 9y ago
I agree. But I like to have one particular feed of 1,000 unread articles and every now and again I like to pick a few to read. It's a stream of mostly research related news and it's constant and overwhelming. But it's nice to
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by gsam 9y ago
Depends where you are talking about. In some countries, phone credit is used as a (primary) currency and trading platform.
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by gsam 9y ago
Now more than ever, I would actually prefer to be running a Mozilla OS phone. The reasons why it was important are even more relevant today with vendor lock-in and the continued flow of out-of-support devices.

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