kaiwen1

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by kaiwen1 6mo ago
"But what about <technology/option>?" That blank will not be filled in with today's technologies, but with technologies we cannot conceive of today and with an energy abundance that we can hardly imagine. Even in t
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by kaiwen1 9mo ago
Why functional programming languages are the future (again) Top comment: “The Quantum-Lazy-Linker in GHC 18.4 is actually a terrifying piece of technology if you think about it. I tried to use it on a side project, and the compiler threw an
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by kaiwen1 11mo ago
An easy prediction is that comparing articles will become standard practice for many people. I’ve already done that today.
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by kaiwen1 1y ago
Like many others here, I recommend giving org-mode a try. The main drawback is endlessly yak shaving it to your taste.
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by kaiwen1 1y ago
What's different is intention. A human would have the intention to blackmail, and then proceed toward that goal. If the output was a love letter instead of blackmail, the human would either be confused or psychotic. LLMs have no intent
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by kaiwen1 1y ago
RMB and Yuan are two names for the same thing. Maybe you're thinking of FEC? That ended in 1994.
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by kaiwen1 1y ago
I still use Quicksilver[1], the open source app that long predates Alfred and was the inspiration for it. I tried Alfred a few years ago but didn't see anything compelling enough to switch. Am I missing anything? [1] https:/&#x2F
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
I still used Lynx as my default browser while working on ships until 2020. Satellite internet connections at sea were slow and very expensive which made Lynx a good choice. But it turned out that the text-based, distraction-free browsing c
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Upvote for the mockingbird. One fellow has for years perched himself in tree near the sidewalk tables at my favorite restaurant. His songs are as good as the food. > only three species of birds survived the Chicxulub asteroid impact I th
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
If human-like cognition isn't possible on digital computers, it's certainly is on quantum ones. The Deutsch-Church-Turing principle shows that a quantum Turing machine can efficiently simulate any physically realizable computation
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Tangential, but... when my daughter was 8 or 9, we read _I, Robot_ together, and both both cried when Gloria's parents decided to separate her from Robbie, her robot companion. Such a fond memory to this day.
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
That article is dated 26 Feb 2025, not weeks ago.
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Pre-print paper that concludes “may”, so by implication, also “may not”. And also may, or may not, be harmful.
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
No. My memory of the advent of the WWW was a sidebar in PC Magazine in Nov 1993 with an FTP link to download the NCSA Mosaic browser. It was a wow! moment to visit the few sites that existed. But nothing like this. What we’re seeing now is
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
On one hand, I know I should "invest" in this ridiculous thing because it's practically guaranteed to surge. But on the other hand, I know I shouldn't because, like all crypto, it's just a steaming pile of ponzi gar
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Is the "deadly" due to an increase in confounding factors related to social isolation – drinking, lack of exercise, etc? Or does merely being alone, while still maintaining an otherwise healthy lifestyle, shorten life?
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
I live in org-roam nearly all day, every day, and the #1 feature on my wishlist is tagging. org-roam actually has a tagging feature, but it's very limited. org-supertag looks much better. Can't wait to try it. Great job, OP!
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Kling AI Studio(klingai.com)
14 points by kaiwen1 2y ago|0 comments
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
I know a guy who owned a tropical resort on a island where competiton was sprouting up all around him. He was losing money trying to keep up with the quality offered by his neighbors. His solution was to charge a lot more for an experience
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
This is not analagous. The sound of every English word give clues – and often precise guidance - on how to write it, but the sound of a Chinese word typically offers no hint of how to write it. If you give me some obscure English word, say
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Here's what Helen Keller had to say about this in _The World I Live In_: "Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. I cannot hope to describe adequately that unconscious, yet c
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Off topic, but eureka moments are my favorite go-to evidence for the absence of free will. No one chooses to have a eureka moment. They just arrive. And not just those moments, but every thought in every moment. They all just arrive, none a
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Helion Leaves Scientists Puzzled(bloomberg.com)
5 points by kaiwen1 2y ago|4 comments
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
I use Emacs Org Mode with Org Roam for journaling. I’ve customized it extensively to fit my workflow, but there is a risk. Unlike paper, in Emacs there’s a potential distraction lurking around every thought, every entry, even every keystone
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Terrible advice. I can’t imagine anyone following it. Not even Kafka.
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
In that case, as I understand it, the voice actor intentionally mimicked Waits, purposefully using his intonations, style of speech, and phrasing, all of which were not natural to the voice actor. He was intentionally mimicking Waits. I dou
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
There are many people with voices similar to Scarlett Johansson's. If SJ is unwilling to be a voice actor for OpenAi, then why should OpenAI not find a similar voice and use that instead? SJ certainly does not have a monopoly on all vo
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Just do math. A student driven merely by the pleasure of doing math without concern for external validation is lucky. But if external validation is a driver, that's lucky too. In both cases, math gets learned.
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
Molecular Biology of the Cell is one of my all-time favorite books. Read it 15 years ago, rereading it now in the 7th (newest) edition. If someone has read the books you've listed, done the exercise and has a comprehensive understandin
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by kaiwen1 2y ago
This is wonderful! If you want to go deeper, I highly recommend the textbook "Molecular Biology of the Cell". I discovered it in a bookstore 20 years ago and it consumed me for months. Every paragraph was a revelation. After heari

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