lambdaone

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by lambdaone 2mo ago
IP-only != fibre. Try reading my comment above in its entirety. You can also read this for further enlightenment about SOGEA: https://www.btwholesale.com/products-and-services/data/sogea... I wish I had a link for
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
No, it's still sitting on my machine. It was just a quick-and-dirty shim on top of an LLM service, and not worth maintaining. And it ate tokens at an amazing rate updating every character's point of view.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Right now, Openreach are maintaining two entirely different local loop networks, one baseband and other IP. My experience of their PON network is that it's rock solid, and that's clearly where all the effort is going - it's m
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
It's half right (the worst sort of right) digital data is carried over ADSL/VDSL as OFDM analog waveforms, albeit with frequencies well above the audio range.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Soon to be repeated in the UK, by the end of January 2027. We've now passed the tipping point where doing telephony end-to-end entirely over IP is cheaper that keeping the baseband analog PSTN going. The main network backbone, of cours
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Even the bus route articles seem to have drawn sufficient reliable-sources attention to merit them being kept. The policy is clear and definitive.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
For me the most plausible argument for "quantum consciousness" was made by Roger Penrose. I still don't believe it; we can demonstrate wavefunction collapse using experiments like the delayed-choice quantum eraser without an
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
I think you'd have great difficulty in doing either, as you are imagining what you think it might be like to be one of these animals are are almost certainly unable to encompass what they might feel it to be like; the case of bats
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
> Consciousness is the echo chamber of the quantum domain [citation needed]
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
What makes this most interesting from my point of view is that this is a specific enough theory that it might be amenable to experimental investigation.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
I wrote a text-based adventure game engine that implemented quite a detailed world model. The results were very engaging indeed, but after a time I realised that while its game world was hugely detailed to the point of individual characters
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
I see it's been nominated for deletion today. Looking at it, it's been marked for attention for two years, so it's not as if people haven't had time to do anything about it.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
You can write about whatever you like and put it on the web, just not in Wikipedia for which, as has been said exhaustively above, there are clearly laid out admissions criteria, not just the whims of a "select group". You are ent
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
Actually, I see the article has already been moved to draftspace, so nothing has been lost, except visibility, for which you will have to establish notability; you have six months to work on this before it gets deleted, and you can always
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
The existence of EverybodyWiki demostrates the usefulness of Wikipedia's restrictions. Nothing is stopping you from either putting up your own website or writing on any of the free-access wikis; the reason people treat Wikipedia as a v
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
"They are maniacal about deleting things that I consider noteworthy but others don't" is exactly the point of the notability policy in the first place. Otherwise Wikipedia would almost instantly fill up with crap.
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
The deletion discussion also takes time and consensus, and even then isn't irreversible; you can move the text to draftspace, [1] and try again when you do have proof of notability. Even if the article is deleted before you can respond
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by lambdaone 2mo ago
The sad (or wonderful) fact is that anyone can write a new programming language now; I could for example use Claude create a wrapper on top of an existing languge (for example, a Python-like syntax wrapper for Scheme) in a few hours and st
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
What practice? I'd like to see non-trivial uses of this outside scenarios other than this [0] which even now seems to show slow but steady improvements over time. As for the Machiavellian scheming aspect, this seems to me to be very
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Structured thinking and deliberation are indeed important, but you can also make LLMs do structured "thinking" if you work hard enough, and generate quite plausible reasoned arguments with valid real-world results, and you can get
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Yes, but there aren't any people in that one.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This happens all the time to me. The model emits thousands of lines of high-quality code, making vast progress very quickly, but on the way does a few very, very stupid things a human being would never have been silly enough to do. Then it
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I had never heard of Mponeng Gold Mine. Terrifying.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Tesla's semi-autonomous FSD falls in the uncanny valley between being good enough to lull you into an inattentive state, but not reliable enough to be better than humans with all possible unforseen situations of the sort that cause rea
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Even asking a human being why they did a certain thing is questionable. The research on choice blindness seems like a pretty definitive debunking of post-hoc rationalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introspection_
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I think a better way of putting this is that humans think they can accurately re-tell what their consciousness was doing. Whether they actually can, or even if consciousness exists at all as a thing outside the perception of consciousness
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is the crucial point. It has vastly increased my hobby programming "velocity", but has improved my day job performance by perhaps a quarter at most; so much in programming is not the task of programming, but mapping the probl
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I happily go abroad and speak with my hosts in my rudimentary German, and we are all happy. Sometimes we shift to their slightly-less-rudimentary English, and that's good too. Although we sometimes resort to machine translation to look
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
DMCA notices are meant to be submitted "under penalty of perjury", and false notices could in theory result in civil action being taken against those who send them. In practice, neither of these occur even if the sender is a real
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is pretty much the backstory of Dune. In the first novel, the character Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam says: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted o

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