niek_pas

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by niek_pas 4d ago
No first-party package manager.
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by niek_pas 14d ago
I find conventional Western notation works quite well for communicating notes, rhythms, and basic expression, but it breaks down pretty quickly once you move beyond that. E.g. a lot of the common techniques on electric guitar (bends, palm m
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by niek_pas 20d ago
I'm with you on this. I think this could actually be really useful but the effect is way too extreme. Additionally, the animation is quite stuttery on turns --- might just be my machine though.
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by niek_pas 21d ago
'Cultures' have never been units of 'insiders' isolated from 'outsiders'. Cultural change is inevitable and there is no reason assume 'changing significantly' is inherently bad. That's what histo
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by niek_pas 26d ago
There's gotta be nicer ways of saying that.
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
> Of course nowadays days I see the downsides of these devices and we're getting to a point where the cons outweigh the pros, but back when I bought the first smart phone (I guess in 2012 or so, I was relatively late to the party) i
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
What does ‘latent’ mean in this context?
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
A wise man once said, "not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts".
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
That is a fantastic name.
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
Prioritizing art over machines that generate mediocre code is not cynical
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
For those interested in some of the science behind the idea of “being bored is good”: the google-phrase you are looking for is “default mode network”.
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
Probably a lot: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526278/
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
As well as all the other species.
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
Unfortunately, "more capable / faster models that use less power" will likely mean those models will be used in more places than ever before. LLMs on laptops, on tablets, on phones, on fridges, in your web browser. See the Je
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by niek_pas 1mo ago
There’s lots of use cases where the current models do fine though. A chip that can run a current cheap model at 100x would be amazing for things like detecting prohibited content on Facebook. You don’t need the 2030 equivalent of Fable for
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by niek_pas 2mo ago
I consider eating meat completely morally reprehensible but a ‘trigger warning’? What do you do when you enter a supermarket? As for making the recipe vegetarian, the chicken you could replace with any protein of your choosing. There are ve
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by niek_pas 2mo ago
Me neither, though LLMs also provide services that don’t involve personal or sensitive data
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by niek_pas 2mo ago
> This site supposedly attracts the brightest of us What gave you that impression?
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by niek_pas 3mo ago
This is cool! I personally really dislike having AI on the leaderboard as it feels completely antithetical to human play.
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by niek_pas 3mo ago
Just today as I pushed some changes to Github, I was thinking how user-unfriendly Git's UI is: Enumerating objects: 5, done. Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done. Delta compression using up to 10 threads Compressin
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by niek_pas 3mo ago
It seems macOS Golden Gate (the upcoming version) fixes quite a few of the problems with Tahoe, so you might consider skipping Tahoe entirely.
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by niek_pas 3mo ago
This is definitely a good point. I imagine the max capacity for video models is significantly lower than for text models (there just aren't as many professionals in video as there are people who write text or code) but I could be wrong
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by niek_pas 3mo ago
For now at least, you can turn Apple intelligence off entirely in settings.
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by niek_pas 4mo ago
Unless I'm missing something, there's also nothing in the paper to indicate this is "all of human ingredients"? It looks like it's 11 data sources covering a bunch of common cuisines, with the English + Chinese sour
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by niek_pas 4mo ago
> Yeah agriculture is bad for the environment, but at least it feeds us to keep us alive This is true, but don't forget a _lot_ of agriculture feeds _animals_ that we in turn eat. If you want to make optimal use of land for human ne
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by niek_pas 4mo ago
Genuine question: do you add 'please' and 'thank you' to Google searches? If not, what sets them apart?
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by niek_pas 4mo ago
"Update your priors" is a common expression in English: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/update_one%27s_priors#English
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by niek_pas 4mo ago
I don't mean to sound elitist, but in a way, Haskell's difficulty is kind of the point of the language. The thing that's so elegant about Haskell is that it allows you to express programmatic constructs at a very abstract lev
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by niek_pas 4mo ago
RIP my browser history, I guess
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by niek_pas 4mo ago
What in the world is “other native” supposed to mean? Those languages don’t have names?

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