wildmanx

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by wildmanx 4y ago
> An AI generates a game. But it hasn't! This is just another step in the BS storm coming out of the latest AI hype. The language model has reproduced something that has existed before and was likely part of its training data. That&
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by wildmanx 4y ago
(Feb 2022)
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> > It hasn't aged well. > You’re wrong, it’s aged quite well. Part of the problem is that there are many people in the field of security with overly strong opinions. This is not healthy. The field is full of know-it-all peopl
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by wildmanx 4y ago
And sometimes that's what provides the edge over your competition.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> This is a lie Please check out what the word "lie" means and until then stop using the word. Hint: The post you replied to did not claim something of which they know that it's not true.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> I am paid to write code not sit in 10 meetings a day. If I raise the issue everyone gets all pouty. Then it's time to move on. This is not a way mature adults should be handling such a situation. A passive-aggressive reaction isn&
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> a concrete helmet is literally worse than useless. Is it? It would still absorb energy upon impact. Which, in contrast to popular belief about bike helmets, is its main function. Yes, ordinary bike helmets will also just break. But in
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> The stationed troops and machines were not nearly enough to handle the situation, see my sibling comments. You can't suppress protests of several millions with 300k not-so-willing troops and 5000 not-so-good tanks I don't kno
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Transport them? What are you talking about? The Soviets had bases all over the place in Eastern Europe. The case being discussed here, Eastern Germany, was just behind the iron curtain, remember? Soviet troops were at ~300 locations on the
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Playing devil's advocate .. it will also get the kids more disconnected from the natural environment that we're embedded in, after all. You know those statistics of so-and-so-many kids out of 100 don't know where beefsteak co
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by wildmanx 4y ago
While I appreciate the hacking potential here .. I fail to see the point beyond it. You won't save any money over buying the salad at an expensive organic store. You won't help the environment (all the plastic and heating and elec
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> For me, hydroponics really drove home how remarkable plants are: from a bin containing nothing but water and salts, a fully-formed plant emerges. I feel this is a remarkably underappreciated feat of nature. Some people compare a plant
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> If this law, all by itself, was perfectly enforced, the UK would bankrupt itself just on the extra spending in the prison system. That conclusion ignores the interdependence of those effects. If people knew that it's going to be p
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by wildmanx 4y ago
It saddens me how many smart people are working in such an unethical field.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> The problem is that what's employable isn't actually computer science, but trendy industry nonsense... You may be going a bit hard on the industry. I see where you're coming from, having a long academic past myself and s
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Check out this paper: https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/propositions-as... Page 2 gives some background in how Turing's work fit into the problems that Church and Hilbert were about.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> There are still some areas I have not covered, because they have never been of much importance for my work I think that's a main difference. With a degree you tend to learn / get taught things upfront of which you don't
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Where do we find your podcast? http://localhost/ shows really weird contents, I probably have the wrong URL.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Sometimes I'm wondering whether this is the future, or whether we (as an industry teaching the next generation) are taking shortcuts that will hurt us in the long run. Honest question. I don't have the answer or am insinuating any
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by wildmanx 4y ago
A solution is to have somebody in each FE team with a "that's what the masses use" device. Screen-wise, CPU-wise, RAM-wise, network b/w wise. And let them use it as a primary dev device. Doesn't sound sexy, no. Comp
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by wildmanx 4y ago
GP may have meant that this is useful outside of bisecting something in the main branch. For example, you may want to get your tree in one of the intermittent states and play around with it. Run some tests, try how some object behaves, to b
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by wildmanx 4y ago
> since 7 doesn't increase cleanly, I probably have to custom-code the final update to 100 manually, What do you mean with "not cleanly"? bar.update_smooth(i * 100 / 7) Once i is 7, this will be equal to 100. No matte
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by wildmanx 4y ago
I've used quoted searches now and then in the past, as recently as last week or so, and it definitely did not work. There were no usable results, none of the results shown did contain the exact words. Is there a bug somewhere?
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Hm? The nukes dropped in august 1945. Nazi Germany had long surrendered by then. In part because the Red Army had come all the way to Berlin.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Unfortunately, having a big name from MIT on your grant application as co-applicant significantly increases your chances for funding. You get the money and do the majority of the work, they get to claim disproportionately much credit for th
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Exactly! What we are discussing here is an ad-hoc solution. That $4 device will work for how long? A week? A month? Then we're up for the next one. A continuous stream of aid is necessary to keep this solution going. So, it's no
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by wildmanx 4y ago
That's not an answer to my question. I meant, how sustainable is it to keep depending on foreign aid? Obviously dirty surface water that does not suffice for the whole population is not sustainable. But in the long run, creating new de
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by wildmanx 4y ago
There are not many people around anymore who have witnessed it and can tell the difference. And it's a good example of my point. Once thing that's for sure is that the relative importance of "western allies" vs. USSR in
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by wildmanx 4y ago
The market is tapped. Just not by the U.S. / western countries.
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by wildmanx 4y ago
Indeed. The article links to the MIT News article https://news.mit.edu/2022/solar-desalination-system-inexpens... The three involved researchers from MIT are grad student Lenan Zhang, postdoc Xiangyu Li, and professor

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