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Antibabelic
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Comment #49120837
Most of their code is locked behind closed doors.
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Comment #49120808
You can't bring a steak to a vegan potluck and say "Come on guys, we won't get sued over this!"
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Comment #49017602
"AI Use Disclosure: A majority of this code base was crafted by hand without any use of AI (which can be seen from the project's Git history)." So much for "human programming is ob…
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Comment #49004670
It is pedantic. Saying that people should say CPC instead of CCP adds nothing to the conversation. If it grinds your gears then maybe starting with organizations like the Encyclope…
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Comment #49004124
Prolog is a very practical language for particular tasks. Languages are tools that fill different niches. Besides, people do stay with Prolog. The language has been going strong fo…
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Comment #49004084
Sarcasm?
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Comment #48397741
A language is a set of sentences. A sentence is a finite sequence of symbols drawn from an alphabet. In this sense, mathematical operation tables are absolutely a language. As are …
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Comment #48320200
> Here we ask whether, in a task where gestures are particularly useful—namely, spontaneous demonstration in which no real object is present—speakers of a high-gesture (Italian) an…
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Comment #48220609
I don't have an ad blocker on my laptop. The ads I get are pretty much entirely generic and irrelevant to me, I don't remember ever consciously clicking on an ad.
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Comment #48218678
> That human would be turning down a potential Fields Medal for this discovery. While interesting, this result is not Fields Medal material.
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Comment #48193583
The end result is the same: an SVG file. Definitely doesn't matter to an LLM what produced it.
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Comment #48193112
Second place is small?
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Comment #48193040
I think the parent comment is wondering if it was originally drafted in English and then translated to Latin.
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Comment #48192359
This is a lot of very confident assertions. > you do decide to actively go against it for decades because you like doing things your way Perhaps there's a good reason why a develop…
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Comment #48190115
I don't understand this response. Human artists can and do make SVGs.
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Comment #48189512
My day job is not in the tech industry. I am an editor. Literally nothing has changed for me in the last four years.
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Comment #48176613
Prolog is an elegant abstraction. One of the points of abstractions is that they let us concentrate our optimization efforts in one place. Prolog benefits from many decades of rese…
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Comment #48176570
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerminusDB [1] https://github.com/terminusdb/terminusdb
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Comment #48176564
Richard O'Keefe in The Craft of Prolog: "Elegance is not optional".
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Comment #48176336
Erlang has very little in common with Prolog, which is a language in an entirely different paradigm (logic programming). Early versions of Erlang were implemented in Prolog, which …
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Comment #48136544
It's not clear to me what you mean, can you elaborate?