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by ijk 1mo ago
The early pre-United States had pamphlets and newsletters. Like, a lot of them. It was a big influence on the early post office. You could get rich running a printing press but you did it by printing for the masses. The yellow journalism er
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by ijk 2mo ago
I wonder if it partially because "write like a human" is kind of a vacuous request. Like, it's the objective everyone including me has been saying that we want, but there's no one way to write like a human and and humans
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Hyra: A simple yet effective scaffold for general discovery(hy.tencent.com)
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by ijk 2mo ago
The portable gas turbine is a somewhat separate issue, in that it's highly illegal but if you have more money than god you can just pay off the fines and the judges. It's relatively easy to avoid being that egregious about it if y
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by ijk 2mo ago
Technically the current best chess engine is a neurosymbolic hybrid. But I have found that sometimes the best use of an LLM is to write code for symbolic AI.
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by ijk 2mo ago
Yeah, unfortunately "LLMs are bad at counting" seems to apply to counting parentheses. With modern tool calling I wonder if a better way to go about it is for the LLM to express the program changes as a function or otherwise use a
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by ijk 2mo ago
Except you can express the higher order structure in s-expressions too, and using an AST usually means expressing it as a different syntax than the other parts of your program. Or maybe I've just been sleeping on the power of Javascrip
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by ijk 2mo ago
From the outside Meta's attempts to pivot from open source releases to fast follow closed models fell flat when they tried to prematurely monetize it. They could have owned the open weight model world but tried to pivot to closed weigh
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by ijk 2mo ago
I did start a blog in that time period and this is the first time I've ever heard of this. (Admittedly, I wasn't trying to directly make a living off of it.)
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by ijk 2mo ago
If we use the S&P 500 as a proxy for the top 500 companies, I would guess that a lot more than 0% will be gone by the end of 5 years. It's hard to find non-paywalled sources for business analysis, but from what I can find it'd
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by ijk 3mo ago
Back when red LEDs were the new cheap lighting option everything was great: red doesn't affect noght vision as much and at least for me it doesn't seem to prevent sleeping on the same way that the bright white LEDs do.
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by ijk 4mo ago
Hence the drive to control the compute hardware. If your competitors can't run inference at competitive scale and cost, they can't challenge you.
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by ijk 4mo ago
Historically one pattern this took was patronage. Most famously associated with sponsoring artists, but historically it covered a wide variety of professions. The patron gets power, influence, the ability to call on a guy who can do the thi
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by ijk 4mo ago
Closing a question as a duplicate because there is already a question with similar wording (but assuming an entirely different tech stack, architecture, coding style, and goal) is a frequent enough experience that it became shorthand for th
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by ijk 4mo ago
Ah yes, programming: the discipline which famously only has singular right answers to problems, such that programmers never get in arguments with each other about the correct approach to solving a given problem, and there are no long runn
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by ijk 4mo ago
A sink that has large but finite capacity to absorb something can reach an irreversible tipping point when an additional shock happens. There are many examples of this in nature. (And in Nature [1].) One interesting one that I think is unkn
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by ijk 4mo ago
I agree in principle, but every time I run a debugger on modern C++ it makes it clear that, rather than being a simple and cutesy transformation, "compiler optimization" is actually black magic.
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by ijk 4mo ago
Yeah, private universities being unionized is more recent.
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by ijk 4mo ago
It's not. In the US, public university graduate student unions started in the 1970s. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduate_student_employee_unio... Which is not to say that conditions in graduate schools (or
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by ijk 4mo ago
Where I encounter it at the higher education level is that academic-level research almost universally has maximum word counts or page counts rather than minimums: if you think you can get your point across in fewer words, you should. No rev
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by ijk 5mo ago
Literacy. Percentage of children to survive to adulthood. Global food surplus. The was a big phase shift over the course of the 20th century...
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by ijk 5mo ago
So the individual website has to subscribe to the surveillance operator's IP location verification service, or be fined.
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by ijk 5mo ago
I don't understand the need for age verification. I mean, I understand what it effects it has, and why many parties want to perfect their expanding panopticon, and why screaming think of the children makes politicians' brains turn
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by ijk 5mo ago
Secure encryption has been classified as controlled munitions in the past. Making SSH illegal is well within the range of possible futures. It'd be a stupid future, but it's a stupid present so I'm not going to rule it out on
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by ijk 5mo ago
There were a lot of millennials at the time. Still are, it's just that they're pushing 40 instead of 14.
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by ijk 5mo ago
In the US, homelessness per capita peaked in the 90s. It remained relatively high afterwards compared to the pre 1980 numbers, and has recently spiked higher in the wake of 2020 and following, but in the 1990s there were a lot of homeless p
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by ijk 5mo ago
Now I want to see this implemented via vacuum tubes, similar to running Eliza on punchcard-driven mainframes...
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by ijk 5mo ago
> The authors of the study weren’t stupid. They knew the LLMs would provide poor results. They ran the study to quantify it and create a resource to spread the information in response to the rise of AI carb counting apps. Yeah. I think i
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by ijk 5mo ago
I was complaining about AI generated clothes being misleading marketing, deceiving customers as to whether the garment even exists. And then I learned that the pre-AI norms weren't any less fictional: they made an exemplar garment and
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by ijk 5mo ago
That's an interesting bit, where reducing friction too much can eliminate the side effect that is actually driving the desired results. Do you want to count calories, or do you want to lose weight? Sounds like it's possible to hyp

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