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by percentcer 7d ago
Despite what the marketing material would have you believe you can always see the fold. Even when it's fully open. Folding screens have been a solution in search of problem for like a decade now
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by percentcer 13d ago
Relying on CoT (and, similarly, asking the model to explain its actions) for analysis has always seemed pretty silly (naive?) to me, but maybe I'm missing something. Why do are we so committed to preserving it? And do non-textual model
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by percentcer 16d ago
I don't understand how RuneScape managed to get the traction it did. 2004 was the same year World of Warcraft came out!
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by percentcer 4mo ago
This whole article is just (barely) rephrasing a few popular twitter threads from the past week.
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by percentcer 4mo ago
Unfortunate thumbnail on that embedded video
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by percentcer 4mo ago
what is the Decimation thing?
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by percentcer 4mo ago
Los Angeles just needs buses that come through frequently enough to obviate the need to check the schedule. Also dynamic bus routing, which would reduce the total number of buses required for this.
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by percentcer 5mo ago
I think the alternative should be "this is not blue". I was served what I would call a "teal" or "turquoise" but the alternative button shows "this is green", which it was not.
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by percentcer 6mo ago
it's not a bad trade!
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by percentcer 7mo ago
This is one of those things that seems like a nerd snipe but would be more easily accomplished through brute forcing it. Just get 76 people to manually type out one page each, you'd be done before the blog post was written.
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by percentcer 9mo ago
Why wouldn't a qualified developer just run the code? Takes two seconds instead of ... whatever you're going for here.
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by percentcer 9mo ago
Dumb question but what stops browsers from rendering TeX directly (aside from the work to implement it)? I assume it's more than just the rendering
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by percentcer 10mo ago
This was the original goal of the Cornell box ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_box , i.e. carefully measure the radiosity of a simple, real-world scene and then see how closely you can come to simulating it). For
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by percentcer 11mo ago
The only thing that ever made this click for me was that the columns can be interpreted as the values for the new, post-transform basis vectors
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by percentcer 1y ago
“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
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by percentcer 1y ago
Not quite the same but check out A Canticle for Leibowitz
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by percentcer 1y ago
I like programming. It's fun, and sometimes it even requires creativity. There are plenty of times when it's not that fun, and doesn't require any creativity (because whatever it is has been done by someone else a thousand ti
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by percentcer 1y ago
on, off, and the other thing
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by percentcer 1y ago
Assistants can be taught
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by percentcer 1y ago
Predatory AI-generated site feeding off parents' anti-screen anxiety, no thanks. We need Klutz to come back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klutz_Press
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by percentcer 1y ago
These time-to-complete estimates seem reallyyyyyy aggressive to me. I dunno maybe I'm just the slowest programmer in the world.
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by percentcer 1y ago
Why is it important to force reindustrialization?
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by percentcer 1y ago
Isn't this just a form of next token prediction? i.e. you'll keep your options open for a potential rhyme if you select words that have many associated rhyming pairs, and you'll further keep your options open if you focus on
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by percentcer 1y ago
Should everyone wear the same size shoes?
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by percentcer 2y ago
marcan addresses this argument in an adjacent thread: > Out of tree doesn't work. People, both in the kernel and out of the kernel, want things in tree. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1e8452ab-613a-4c85-adc0-0c4a2
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by percentcer 2y ago
"arrowlike entities"
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by percentcer 2y ago
Sounds terrible!
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by percentcer 2y ago
If I have two Queens in play am I untargetable? (each Queen protects the other?) EDIT: ah, was confused by the cheat sheet on cuttle.cards ( https://www.cuttle.cards/img/cuttle_rules.pdf ). The main page mentions the mut
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by percentcer 2y ago
Why do these sell for so much more than the value of the note?
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by percentcer 2y ago
it's kinda crazy that they have normies doing this job

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