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by superbatfish 22d ago
The quote you're referring to came from the study's lead author, a Brit. Presumably he was referring to soccer (which everyone else calls "football"). Furthermore, a soccer field and an American football field are reas
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by superbatfish 22d ago
>this lacks empathy for the struggle to survive The article addresses that objection.
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by superbatfish 6mo ago
This is accurate and the parent commenter here seems to be echoing a common misconception. Either they are confused or they need to elaborate more to demonstrate that they have a valid complaint. For instance, this would have been a valid
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by superbatfish 6mo ago
When I read an article about Python optimizations, I typically expect to have significant objections. But this one was great, actually.
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by superbatfish 1y ago
>Implementing `pipe` would be fun, but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader. I like exercise: https://gist.github.com/stuarteberg/6bcbe3feb7fba4dc2574a989...
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by superbatfish 2y ago
On the other hand, the authors make plenty of other great points -- about the fact that LLMs can produce bullshit, can be inaccurate, can be used for deception and other harms, are now a huge challenge for education. The fact that t
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by superbatfish 2y ago
The author makes this assertion about LLMs rather casually: >They don’t engage in logical reasoning. This is still a hotly debated question, but at this point the burden of proof is on the detractors. (To put it mildly, the famous &quot
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by superbatfish 3y ago
Honestly, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I'll just say it: Brainfuck is not a great programming language for production use-cases.
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by superbatfish 3y ago
Gotta love the word “just” in that first paragraph. The majority of the research money behind most (if not all) drugs, is spent well after academia’s contribution. Clinical trials are very costly, they usually fail, and yet they’re quite im
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by superbatfish 3y ago
Personally, I think I would, at least at first. If someone without the necessary expertise chimes in with an unhelpful answer within minutes of a question being asked, then everyone who comes after must check their answer before deciding if
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by superbatfish 3y ago
It think the parent's point here could be rephrased like this: Copyright law treats "involved a human" vs. "involved a machine" as fundamentally different just because humans are special-cased, not due to any deeper
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by superbatfish 3y ago
There are at least two potential issues pertaining to copyright law here, and it's not clear which one you're asking about. That's why the responses you're getting here seem to be answering different questions. 1. Are t
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by superbatfish 4y ago
You might already be advanced beyond high-level introductory material, but this short book chapter by Chris Lattner himself was a good read for me (a casual reader, not a compiler expert). http://aosabook.org/en/llvm.ht
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by superbatfish 4y ago
The answer is that once you’re able to definitively recognize it in at least one form, you’ll start to recognize similar, not quite identical forms. The sapling form is not quite the same as the vine form, which is not quite the same as the
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by superbatfish 4y ago
I'm afraid you have it exactly backwards. The problem isn't that it doesn't work -- the problem is that it does work. And to the extent that it isn't perfect, well, it's still improving all the time. You cited
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by superbatfish 4y ago
The Systems 1 & 2 analogy has also been made by Emad Mostaque, (CEO of Stability AI). He probably wasn’t the first, I bet.
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by superbatfish 4y ago
The Koyaanisqatsi cinematographer went on to become a director himself, and made the movie “Baraka” in the same style. IMHO, it’s even better.
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by superbatfish 4y ago
Some people like granular comments, and some people only want high-level comments. I’ve long suspected that both camps are correct, because they’re using different languages. A single line of Python data analysis code is often worth 20 line
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by superbatfish 4y ago
According to Dmitry Kobak, some details in these figures are merely convergence artifacts, and no longer produced when using more recent versions of UMAP. https://twitter.com/hippopedoid/status/1318917878364672001?
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by superbatfish 4y ago
He explicitly mentioned that path…
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by superbatfish 4y ago
Matt Yglesias’s new podcast “Bad Takes” did an episode about this, covering some of the meta-issues (as you might imagine). https://www.grid.news/story/podcasts/2022/09/30/bad-takes-ep...
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by superbatfish 4y ago
This question wording is very unfortunate: “Do you mind if your comment is made public?” Many people will respond with the opposite answer they intend to convey. This is especially likely for non-native Engish speakers, but will also affect
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by superbatfish 4y ago
If you are willing to accept the various caveats that come with -ffast-math for your own library, then it looks like it's okay to use -ffast-math during compilation , but not during linking (because it links in crtfastmath.so, as th
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Woman accused of tracking boyfriend with Apple AirTag, killing him with car(washingtonpost.com)
71 points by superbatfish 4y ago|52 comments
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by superbatfish 4y ago
I'm a big fan of the logging module, but it can't solve the problem of silencing or redirecting noisy C extensions. For extensions which you control, maybe the ideal option would be to offer logging configuration, or callbacks, o
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by superbatfish 4y ago
The redirect() method shown in this post only works for output that is written via the Python sys.stdout handle. If your code links against C/C++ extensions that have internal printf calls, then you need something lower-level, which ca
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by superbatfish 5y ago
As a variant of option 2, could one create a new tag at the pre-merge commit?
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by superbatfish 5y ago
I don’t think knowing the “internals” is really necessary. I like git and use rebase frequently. But I know almost nothing about the internals. To me, it’s just a convenient way to keep track of big stacks of patches. That’s enough to under
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by superbatfish 5y ago
I agree: Many people have half-baked commit messages. And many erroneously assume that a PR is always a single atomic code change, rather than a sequence of pseudo-atomic changes. As an industry, we should be nudging people away from tho
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by superbatfish 5y ago
From the headline, I thought this would be about github’s squash merges, which represent an extreme anti-pattern to any sane developer.

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