mwkaufma

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by mwkaufma 5d ago
Speculating about future technological risks is at least more fun than acknowledging immediate systemic financial risks.
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by mwkaufma 8d ago
If you add "fits in a register" to your list of correctness requirements, then it's no-go even if the source has less cognitive overhead.
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by mwkaufma 8d ago
Three days late homie
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by mwkaufma 12d ago
So, next-token predictors
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by mwkaufma 14d ago
Question isn't how can a function closure be represented anywhere, but how it can be represented in a way that can be aliased by a vanilla C function-pointer, which is a more specific and challenging question.
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by mwkaufma 15d ago
The lady doth protest about the lady doth protesting too much, too much.
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by mwkaufma 18d ago
Complexity measures the worst-case, not the amortized case. If you want to report proportional cycles for more fine-grained per-feedback, fine, report proportional-cycles, but that's not Big-O, so don't use that notation.
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by mwkaufma 18d ago
need to represent the "captured-variables"/closure
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by mwkaufma 18d ago
You've introduced an idiosyncratic definition of "worst-case" that nobody else uses to redefine proportional cycle-counting as "complexity", so yeah, I guess in your novel terminology that makes sense, but it isn&#x
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by mwkaufma 18d ago
Every O(n) is O(1) if n = 1. Complexity measures worst-case by-definition, not all cases.
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by mwkaufma 18d ago
Isn't O(n - k) or O(len(l1) + len(l2)) just O(n)? Instead of blurring the line between complexity-analysis and cycle-counting, just print both the complexity and the est proportional cycle-count as separate measures.
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by mwkaufma 19d ago
Awkward prose of GenAI.
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by mwkaufma 21d ago
I know it's not just for the branded inverted asterisk, but is it just for the branded inverted asterisk?
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by mwkaufma 21d ago
Cosmetic improvements. Term originates from observations of asian-associated car decorations, which based on context is either a bigoted pejorative or an ironic compliment.
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by mwkaufma 1mo ago
Tellingly, the legal tendency The Economist finds alarming involves workers asserting their rights.
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by mwkaufma 1mo ago
The "delusions of grandeur" phase of the hype cycle.
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by mwkaufma 1mo ago
The ram usage in this case is an order of magnitude lower if you install ublock in edge, as other comments have noted. Why would a system level GC affect wasteful adtech? Any marginal efficiency gains will be wiped out with more adslop. Nat
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by mwkaufma 1mo ago
So the best way to run a controlled trial is to maximize the external noise and confounding variables?
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by mwkaufma 1mo ago
It's not strictly true that all physical disks are just license keys - those are marked on the packaging.
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by mwkaufma 1mo ago
Won't an LLM, prompted for a CVE report, always hallucinate one even if it isn't there? Why would they "settle down"?
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
This very article mentions windfall profits tax multiple times.
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
Why?
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
If only there was some link to a readme which would answer this question.
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
Buzz-word soup.
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
No, just a much more mundane rhetorical bait-and-switch. Ranking the "greatest logician" is purely-subjective, not a truth-value. Barging in like the kool-aid-man to bellyache that Harper isn't applauding Frege in an article
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
"obviously" -- keep telling on yourself.
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
Given that the case for "greatest logician" can be made for at least a dozen candidates, picking the bigot is conspicuous - especially raised specifically in contrast to Gödel who literally had to flee the Nazis. "Show us you
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
One might gently recommend reading the "Political and social views" section on Frege's wikipedia entry before hitching your hot-take wagon to that particular horse.
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
... it does?
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by mwkaufma 2mo ago
Garbage collection. It's in the leading paragraph of the article so I can see why it's easy to miss.

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