jjoonathan

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by jjoonathan 5mo ago
"Similar" is doing substantial work. If this is your only clue, it is likely to mislead you for at least 50% of the game, and I strongly suspect you will have fun anyway :)
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by jjoonathan 5mo ago
Outer Wilds, the video game, does a brilliant job expanding on this theme if you're hungry for more. "There's more to explore here." Warning: progression is gated behind knowledge so spoilers are worse than usual and The
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by jjoonathan 5mo ago
Outer Wilds vibes! I love it! (It's a video game that does a brilliant job touching on similar themes to The Last Question. If you liked The Last Question and can fit a video game into your life, you will probably like Outer Wilds. War
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by jjoonathan 8mo ago
It is, but he got the macroeconomics backwards so enjoying it on an aesthetic level rather than a mechanical level is still the right choice.
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by jjoonathan 8mo ago
The internet itself went through a similar growth pattern without astroturf. The original users were all researchers, which served as a strong implicit filter, and then the new users were students who had to be taught Netiquette every Septe
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by jjoonathan 1y ago
No, that was 4o. Agreed about factual prompts showing less sycophancy in general. Less-factual prompts give it much more of an opening to produce flattery, of course, and since these models tend to deliver bad news in the time-honored &quot
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by jjoonathan 1y ago
Yeah, the heavily distilled models are very bad with hallucinations. I think they use them to cover for decreased capacity. A 1B model will happily attempt the same complex coding tasks as a 1T model but the hard parts will be pushed into a
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by jjoonathan 1y ago
ChatGPT opened with a "Nope" the other day. I'm so proud of it. https://chatgpt.com/share/6896258f-2cac-800c-b235-c433648bf4...
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Good point. Still, I have to imagine that the engines themselves are dual use in some regard. GNSS or spy satellites maybe? These days it seems like everyone and their dog has a GNSS constellation, but it wasn't always that way.
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Yes. The idea was to keep the engines (and engineers) out of the hands of the other likely buyers. You've seen how soviet military surplus gets around: the same channels work for rocket engines, and those engines work in ICBMs just as
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Offices revalued due to increase in WfH? Those dastardly Democrats must be at it again!
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
If it were 400BCE they'd blame writing this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and no
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Academics? Almost all of the free speech complaints I see these days come from the right, from people who would feel insulted if you called them an academic.
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
> There's no other scalable solution given existing copyright law. (Informercial hands slip on screwdriver) Call Today for our $29.99 special grip that solves all those slippery screwdriver problems you definitely have! There is no
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
The feature lag wasn't the problem, the bugs were the problem: the only reliable OpenCL implementation was the one from Nvidia, but this meant it tended to drive people towards Nvidia rather than steal them away.
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
She turned the company around and got it on the right path, but in interviews I get the feeling that she might also be responsible for the "Hardware 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.... eh, maybe software can be 5th" culture and AMD's deep
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
They can absolutely be recycled, lol.
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Sounds like a big step back from the car charges at home and is "always full" without ever "filling up", except on roadtrips, where it schedules periodic rest stops.
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Nobody cares about preachy commercials, except in that doing the opposite of what they preach makes you edgy and cool. A big celeb getting caught doing something gauche and getting dogpiled in the press? That is what effective deterrent l
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
It should be. "Allowed in the US" is a bar so low that you can get oil out the end of it.
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Oh no. Ohhhh nooooo. No, no, no! Xilinx dev tools are awful. They are the ones who had Windows XP as the only supported dev environment for a product with guaranteed shipments through 2030. I saw Xilinx defend this state of affairs for over
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
So I knew that AMD's compute stack was a buggy mess -- nobody starts out wanting to pay more for less and I had to learn the hard way how big of a gap there was between AMD's paper specs and their actual offerings -- and I also kn
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Yeah, if this article wanted to be remotely even-handed, examples are plentiful. How many times has the Laffer Curve been trotted out to claim that reducing taxes on rich people will increase receipts, only for it to not happen that way? Or
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
That's like calling Arnold Schwarzenegger a weakling because Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson was stronger.
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
> given their protection is imperfect and not like actual vaccines Since when were "actual vaccines" anywhere near perfect? The COVID vaccines were unusually good for vaccines, not unusually bad. Even a low-efficacy vaccine can
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
They were able to assess the efficacy by looking for illness, not death. It takes some verrrry "special" framing to twist this into anything but an enormous success: > BNT162b2 was 95% effective in preventing Covid-19 (95% cred
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
The vaccines were so good at their job that the hospitals were full of unvaccinated people even after most people got vaccinated, and this astonishing feat of efficacy persisted for quite some time. Normally I'm sympathetic to a bit of
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
We have millions of devices in the field older than that on the same D-cell LiSOCl2 battery they shipped with. Some of them even take magnetic measurements with powered excitation!
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
In my corner of the world (electric/water/gas utilities), we had been using proprietary techniques that matched the "NB-IoT" description for 20 years, and they weren't new then. It was fun to watch the public dialog
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by jjoonathan 2y ago
Oh, you're in RAMP mode! Yeah, that drifts too much to hold a load calibration. This is expected behavior, it's designed to trade away precision to get speed. This will be worst on the 8350, which is completely unsynthesized, and

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