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It's more the repeated 'rule of three' that's getting me here. That said, this is a relatively tame tack-on to a very meaty post, not worth harping on unless the project itself has…

An intern can be taught. If you try to 'teach' a craps table, they'll drag you out of the casino.

I can speak anecdotally, at least. My shoulders are pretty wide for my frame. When using most laptop keyboards and many standard keyboards, I have to tuck my shoulders in and twist…

Let's put it this way: the human author is capable of doing so. The LLM is not. You can cultivate the human to learn to think in this way. You can for a brief period coerce an LLM …

Perhaps that is an indictment of the news source you take in.

This seems to me patently absurd, because LLMs are not part of the probabilistic environment of the domain you're engineering; rather, you're injecting new probabilistic inputs int…

The universe may work this way, but we're not God, and modes of computation that work like this still inevitably be impossible for us to predict or comprehend. This may be interest…

Could it also be an artifact of using scrolls, and needing to sharply delimit 'pages' of text?

For that, I would look at early calculus/pre-calc, I think, examining infinite series and their properties and equivalencies. There's certain forms like that that have well known v…

That is a misreading of the article. It's more about discovery through quick, iterative prototyping, which can include rapid discovery of fatal flaws early.

As has been noted in other threads, for a low enough definition of reason, yes, certainly. But even an amoeba appears to reason better than an LLM, which only regurgitates by natur…

The grandiose claim would be that LLMs have reason to begin with. It is quite normal for things to not have reasoning capacity.

Distilling my thoughts on 'debiasing' here, and in a variety of other modern endeavors. It is better to have representations of reality that you can then discuss and grapple with h…

Certainly true! Expressing internal conflict and ideas in external, comprehensible ways is maybe the single most difficult challenge for the filmmaker. It's very hard to get right.…

I think Villeneuve - out of the current cream-of-the-crop directors - best understands how to /adapt/ for film. Chiang has a masterful grasp of the short story format, in turn. Bot…

I always custom-select hunks of my current work to assemble into coherent commits, where possible. I find it really helps me to rearrange the work I've done in my head in such a wa…

Reheated pure materialism. Not terribly interesting, and the only thing removing category distinctions here will do for you is give license to treat any organism however you wish -…

> But he does not see, or will not admit, that a return to ‘free’ competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of …

Trust me, I looked up dozens of references. All would mysteriously halt after several files - known issues with how the Archiver library works, and none with any kind of fix, basic…

I just picked up Java (via Kotlin) for the first time in four years, during which I've been doing Rails dev. I needed an AWS Lambda for zipping files into and out of S3. I banged m…

It's language straight from the Law, a mixture of phrases that emphasize the totality of the curse over all of life by reiterating it in a number of ways. See Deuteronomy 6 and 28 …

The point of the book is that he does not have a heart of gold, and must find redemption outside of himself. The book as a whole is a window into this wretched soul and the devasta…

When I used those libraries in .NET, they simply did not function, for unspecified reasons. I boiled it down to the smallest possible example, based on their docs, and data simply …

If you checked the /content/ of those classes, however, I suspect you would find that it does not actually cover the scope you expect.