qayxc

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by qayxc 25d ago
True. Physical capabilities can be added with ease. The actual problem isn't the actuators anymore, though. Very useful for a remote controlled puppet ala "Surrogates" (the film), still not quite there yet when it comes to pe
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by qayxc 25d ago
The thing has no real arms, hands or carry capacity, so what would be the point? Running up the stairs is the easy part after all. The difficult part in such scenario is lack of orientation due to smoke, obstacles like locked doors or falle
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by qayxc 25d ago
> If you were ever trapped on the top floor of a burning building, should we just send a car up there? Riddle me this then: what role does a robot that has been built to run real fast play in that scenario? Sure, a good deal of engineeri
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by qayxc 25d ago
Absolutely. I was impressed by ASIMO and Atlas. Running fast, though, doesn't seem all that impressive by comparison, but yeah YMMV.
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by qayxc 25d ago
My contacts at various factories and my own eyes after touring said factories tell me that the assembly lines have been mostly run by programmed (no quotes required, just SPS) robots for the past 50 years or so. Welcome back to the 1970s I
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by qayxc 25d ago
It would've been impressive 15 years ago. People seem to forget that first humanoid robot capable of competently walking was showcased by Honda 26 years ago. over 20 years ago, the updated version was capable of running and climbing st
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by qayxc 25d ago
Nah. What's often overlooked when seeing these (mostly) propaganda events is the fact that the actual autonomy of these machines is still lacking. We've had purpose-built machines that outperform every human at specific tasks for
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by qayxc 25d ago
I don't see the difference. Is a humanoid robot not a machine? What surprises is that it took so long to achieve this. It took Honda 20 years to get to ASIMO in 2000. I'm not surprised by the fact that 26(!) years later, a humanoi
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by qayxc 1mo ago
Developing coding skills is both easier and more difficult than ever at the same time. 50 years ago the main barrier was access to hardware - computers were big, expensive, and not easy to come by for average people. 30 years ago, the bigge
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by qayxc 1mo ago
Everything old is new again. The reason natural language never caught on for programming, is that natural language is inherently unsuitable for the task of formulating precise and unambiguous instructions for a machine. Numerous attempts ha
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by qayxc 1mo ago
> Preferably, don’t give the AI access to the codebase. [...] If the AI does have access to the codebase, this access is read-only. also > I don’t follow all these religiously. So if you need an overview of a system, you can and shoul
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by qayxc 2mo ago
> Long distance/time dependencies could develop and be naturally maintained via complex decentralized indirect but intertwined economic arrangements. But that would require causality-breaking FTL, no? Otherwise the speed of light it
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by qayxc 2mo ago
> You might be able to have everybody go there frozen. Common trope in sci-fi, pretty much impossible in practise. Humans aren't capable of surviving being frozen, we lack the genetic machinery for that. Could you breed/enginee
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by qayxc 2mo ago
I'm very confident our species will last longer than the next 1000 years. Our current civilisation, though, now that's a completely different story.
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by qayxc 3mo ago
It's much much more complex than that. Climate is only one factor and by far not the most important one. Prosperity and structure of the city plays a much more important role. Singapore is an outlier because it's a rich country on
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by qayxc 3mo ago
> The recent trouble with the Borkenkäfer was just a consequence of monoculture. Even worse. It was monoculture of trees that aren't even native to the climate zone. The trees were imported from Scandinavia for their superior lumber
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by qayxc 5mo ago
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by qayxc 5mo ago
It does, though. UB and associated optimisations wouldn't be an issue if defined behaviour would not have an impact on performance. If the cost would be zero or negligible, the compiler wouldn't need to care and hence warnings lik
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by qayxc 5mo ago
> Given that Apple has been making its own CPU cores for years now, I suspect overflowing checking on Apple CPUs is virtually free (aside from code size). Never make guesses based on a particular programming language. In Apple's own
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by qayxc 5mo ago
Interestingly enough, the act of writing notes is evidentially a very effective learning method.
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by qayxc 6mo ago
> Apparently it is bureaucracy without purpose after all? No it's not without purpose at all. The purpose is to know who could be drafted in a timely manner should the need arise. There's currently 2 major wars - sorry "sp
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by qayxc 6mo ago
First of all you don't need it. Secondly, the regulation even states that the right is granted automatically anyway. Technically, the rule had been in place for the past 45+ years anyway - even when there was mandatory military service
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by qayxc 6mo ago
> or rather - a state slave That's one way to put it. The other would be 1 year of paid community service (which the alternative services ALWAYS were).
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by qayxc 6mo ago
And this regulation violates this how exactly?
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by qayxc 6mo ago
That applies to XML, AsciiDoc, LaTex, ReStructuredText, and all the others as well. Apparent simplicity seems to be the most appealing factor, IMHO.
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by qayxc 6mo ago
But there are libraries that do that, e.g. https://avaloniaui.net
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by qayxc 6mo ago
This doesn't necessarily relate to the inference itself. No models are exposed to input directly when using web-based APIs, there's pre-processing layers involved that do undocumented stuff in opaque ways.
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by qayxc 6mo ago
This is an interesting observation. So maybe it has nothing to do with the model itself, but everything to do with external configuration. Token-limit exceeded -> empty output. Just a guess, though.
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by qayxc 6mo ago
Look at Python - similar story. Once a reasonably usable global package registry exists, this is exactly what happens. Languages and standard libraries evolve, shipped code more often than not doesn't.
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by qayxc 6mo ago
> you don't see C programmers creating shared libraries to determine if a number is odd, or to add whitespace to a string. Believe me, if C had a way to seamlessly share libraries across architectures, OSes, and compiler versions, s

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