phasefactor

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by phasefactor 10d ago
Very cool, will there be any recordings? Assuming it is being presented.
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by phasefactor 20d ago
It can be both full of fluff and have actionable take aways. This is dozens of pages long and reading it thoroughly will net you maybe a dozen useful sentences. That ratio is the problem people are complaining about.
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by phasefactor 20d ago
I was not claiming they are not correct punctuation/syntax. My claim is just no one uses them that frequently... When you see dozens of them in the first few pages of a document it raises suspicion.
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by phasefactor 20d ago
It is more about the document containing more than sixty of them. They are a completely legitimate piece of punctuation, but even prolific pre-LLM users did not tend to go that wild with them.
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by phasefactor 20d ago
I guess prolific em-dashes is not considered a sign of LLM writing anymore.
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by phasefactor 20d ago
"Be bold" by saying nothing of any interest. I have to agree that this is basically just fluff. Anyone put it into pangram yet?
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by phasefactor 2mo ago
Sometimes? But for scanning I can use a cheap worn copy as long as the pages are clean. Most books I would rather have a digital copy. I had four or five book cases full of stuff and it makes moving difficult. I originally started scanning
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by phasefactor 2mo ago
Correct, it was switching to unlimited lending instead of one lend per physical book that got them in trouble.
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by phasefactor 2mo ago
Easier to send them through a duplex scanner (or put them in a flatbed one if they are fragile). Cheaper than buying the automated ones with the page turning robot arm. I have done it at home for my books since the mid-00s.
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by phasefactor 4mo ago
Creating the python extractor at all was sort of bizarre. The argument given was that it is too difficult for a developer to spin up a whole dev environment just to compile a tool, but the C extractor is a single C file that only depends o
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by phasefactor 4mo ago
The training kicks in and my knee-jerk reaction to not one of the graphs starting at zero is to discount the trustworthiness of the entire article, whether that is well deserved or not...
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IBM Quantum Computing Summer School Registration Open(ibm.com)
3 points by phasefactor 4mo ago|1 comments
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by phasefactor 4mo ago
Registration is now open for Qiskit Global Summer School 2026: A decade on the cloud—the latest entry in an annual, global program designed to help students, researchers, and developers build practical skills in quantum computing. The two-w
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by phasefactor 4mo ago
Love it, the article referring to a statement by a LinkedIn spokesperson: "The first part of that statement is false, as you can see from the screenshot above. Given the obvious untrustworthiness of that half of the statement, we didn&