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by mmoll 6d ago
”…the book says basically - no biggie, there is no death“ So does the Bible.
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by mmoll 12d ago
That is the point: our minds are also next-„token“-predictors, at least we can‘t prove they‘re not. That‘s why I don‘t agree with the article: LLMs _are_ next-token predictors. However, that says little about their capabilities. Also, while
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by mmoll 28d ago
But how would „what we value“ still be relevant?
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by mmoll 1mo ago
And most of the discussion would immediately apply to almost any other facet of society…
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by mmoll 2mo ago
What are you talking about?
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by mmoll 3mo ago
It is telling that I thought “that’s why all trains were late this afternoon” before I realized that the issue occurred only minutes ago.
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by mmoll 3mo ago
If this weren’t Deutsche Bahn, I’d say it’s a cyber attack. Given that this is Deutsche Bahn, though, it may just as well be a maintenance issue.
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by mmoll 5mo ago
The AI became sentient and ran away.
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by mmoll 5mo ago
It doesn’t mean that these “thoughts” influenced their final decision the way they would in humans. An LLM will tell you a lot of things it “considered” and its final output might still be completely independent of that.
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by mmoll 9mo ago
That may be dangerous. The more obscure the topic, the more likely it is that the AI will come up with a working but needlessly convoluted solution.
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by mmoll 9mo ago
Exactly. After all, how can WE confidently claim that we’re more than stochastic parrots?
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by mmoll 10mo ago
We once rented bikes in Copenhagen, they all looked like they were fresh from the junk yard. We had to try several to find ones where at least one of the brakes was still working. It was a horrible experience, and we tried several different
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by mmoll 10mo ago
You won’t just be viewing an ad, you will have to actively engage in a minute long sales talk with the LLM.
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by mmoll 2y ago
True. I often think of Rust as a best-of compilation of Haskell and C++ (although I read somewhere that OCaml had a greater influence on it, but I don’t know that language well enough) In real life, I find that Haskell suffers from trying t
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by mmoll 2y ago
Surpriiiiiiise!
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by mmoll 2y ago
Mid-30s is maybe a tad earlier than average, but by the age of 40 you’d expect noticeable changes.
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by mmoll 3y ago
If only I had known this earlier in my career! They should really add a feature to make a hard copy of the big bucket list to minimize memory overhead, though.
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by mmoll 3y ago
Most standard containers have no way to communicate allocation failure to the caller in the absence of exceptions (think of constructors that take a size). Worse, the implementations I’ve seen would eventually call operator new, assuming it
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by mmoll 3y ago
On the other hand, once your embedded system is sufficiently large, people will want to use (and inevitably will use at some point) standard containers such as std::string or std::vector. And without exceptions, all of those might invoke UB
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by mmoll 3y ago
German wages are low? Are you serious?
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by mmoll 3y ago
> Real const data doesn't exist Ever seen a ROM? And the C library‘s hacks around not being able to overload functions (which is the only reason for strstr et al‘s weird signature) wouldn‘t stop me from using const. It can be really
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by mmoll 3y ago
Huh? Who says so?
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by mmoll 3y ago
But code using these monadic operations can also be quite clean… toy example: auto askForUsername = [&] { … }; auto lookupUserByName = [&](auto name) { … }; auto printUserDetails = [&](auto userId) { … }; auto
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by mmoll 3y ago
The idea is to make the accesses safer, not necessarily more readable. The monadic operations make it impossible to access the value in a std::optional without first testing that it actually contains a value.
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by mmoll 3y ago
Not quite the same. Koe/rund (and Kuh/Rind in German) is a lot more like cow/cattle, with rund naming the species and koe a female animal.
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by mmoll 3y ago
How can you wrongly tell someone they might have cancer?
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by mmoll 4y ago
Afaik, underscore-underscore anywhere in a name is reserved in C++ only. C only reserves names starting with underscore-underscore. And yes, you can get away with using these identifiers, but you could almost never be certain that you did.
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by mmoll 4y ago
You’re comparing apples to oranges. The correct analogy is: you pick any other sequence of numbers between 1 and 20 and then tell me you’re more likely to win because your sequence is more random.
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by mmoll 5y ago
My thoughts exactly. The whole article sounds like: “Whoa, so it really IS useful!” Duh!
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by mmoll 5y ago
Yup. German is really weird because you have both „die See“ (the sea) and „der See“ (the lake)

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