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by tikwidd 2mo ago
I'm intrigued by the redirect to facebook.com/sorry.php. Are there any other .php url paths on facebook.com?
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by tikwidd 3y ago
It's because the first vowel in 'about' is an unstressed schwa. It sounds unnatural in English to stress or lengthen a schwa. (The only exception I can think of is 'evennn'. e.g. Bob and Sue are at a dinner party wi
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by tikwidd 3y ago
Is anyone else using XState on the backend? At work we have an interactive guided process/wizard that is currently implemented with an unwieldy low-code engine. I've been replacing this with a Node API that uses XState to encode p
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by tikwidd 3y ago
Matter does not exist. It is simply an abstraction to describe the relative progress of time. Every way we measure "matter" involves the progress of time: microscope, telescope, ruler, calipers, vibrations of photons hitting the e
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by tikwidd 3y ago
We now know that exoplanets and the conditions for life abound in the universe. Where the conditions for life abound, the null hypothesis ought to be that life abounds. In discussions of alien life and intelligence, we are often biased by e
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by tikwidd 3y ago
After training my physics simulator on thousands of hours of video footage of trees moving in the wind, arborists tell me the trees are much more realistic (they are getting worried that I might put them out of business). But the physicists
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by tikwidd 3y ago
ChatGPT-style AI should be called AC - Artificial Communication. It is trained on an extremely limited selection of utterances - most of our thinking is never written down. But no matter how many utterances are plugged in, the system will n
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I won’t see this animation myself, not unless I defy the idea it conveys(twitter.com)
1 points by tikwidd 4y ago|0 comments
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by tikwidd 4y ago
My thoughts on the incident, organised as a series of nested propositions. 0. The Nord Stream pipeline incident was not an accident. 1. The pipeline was sabotaged by a state actor. a. Only a state had the capability to carry it out und
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by tikwidd 4y ago
Thanks for standing by your principles on this one dang. I was hoping there would be some discussion of the SONAR buoy remote detonation story - is it plausible (from a technical perspective)? Has it been done before?
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by tikwidd 4y ago
Some random folk practices I've come across: * Blocking, stacking and pulling creep camps in DOTA. Unintended behaviours that became core game mechanics. * Comments in the tag section of Tumblr posts, to avoid the comments appearing in
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by tikwidd 4y ago
Very interesting, thanks!
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Ask HN: Stable Diffusion for Vector Art?
1 points by tikwidd 4y ago|4 comments
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Glassdoor ordered to reveal identity of negative reviewers to NZ toymaker(theguardian.com)
3 points by tikwidd 4y ago|1 comments
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by tikwidd 4y ago
How does the vocabulary generation work?
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by tikwidd 4y ago
Show the results and how you will achieve them at a business level of detail. e.g. "I will change parameters A, B and C of widget X" -> "I will optimise widget X to achieve higher throughput of process Y, saving you $Z dol
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by tikwidd 4y ago
The goalposts should be to create something useful, not trying to reach some nebulous criterion of "true intelligence". Submarine engineers don't labour over the question of whether their new designs are "truly swimming&
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by tikwidd 4y ago
There's nothing indeterminate about the algorithm though. It's a fixed set of instructions fed into a Turing compatible machine like any other program.
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by tikwidd 4y ago
An algorithm with an indeterminate output is still an algorithm.
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by tikwidd 4y ago
This program, like everything that has been called "AI", is following an algorithm. It's an impressive algorithm but not fundamentally different from my dishwasher. In the Enlightenment period, philosophers and scientists mar
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by tikwidd 4y ago
You still have to get from "unions are bad" to "union discussion should be censored".
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by tikwidd 4y ago
Why Only Us: Language and Evolution by Chomsky and Berwick if you're interested in some of the deeper questions in linguistics. It's a bit heavy but aimed at a general technical audience.
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by tikwidd 4y ago
I wish all that grant money was spent on trying to cure the underlying diseases.
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Foes now friends: US stealth pilot and the Serb who shot him down (2012)(bbc.com)
3 points by tikwidd 5y ago|0 comments
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Tilly Smith(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by tikwidd 5y ago|0 comments
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Do submarines swim?
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Next.js or a create-react-app project for the frontend, which you can host for free on Azure Static Web Apps. Azure functions or Google Firebase for the backend. With this approach you might not need to pay a cent depending on your usage, p
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by tikwidd 5y ago
A big downside with the Scuttlebutt system from a user perspective is that once I post something, it's out there forever. The best I can do is ask my friends to delete their copy of my post.
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'Wanna' contraction: When does nothing = something?(princeton.edu)
4 points by tikwidd 5y ago|0 comments
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by tikwidd 5y ago
> And on HN especially, where we all dive into systems engineering to build reliable pipelines and fix bugs to ensure they don't happen ever again... it's so weird to see the same ppl just say quit. Because that literally solve

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