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How is, say, `age = 5; print(f"Age: {age} years old")` not easy for beginners? IMO it's as easy as it gets: you want the value of `age` printed {HERE}, so you just put it where you…

I'm a HUGE fan of f-strings and I think they should be added to more or less every language in existence. (This is just to show how much I like f-strings, not to be taken literally…

Are there any real-world time-series that are known to be easy to forecast? Something I could use as an example of "this is what forecasts look like when it's actually possible to …

Yes, I'm diving a bit too deeply because I don't really know what "thinking" is and therefore I don't understand how we can so confidently say that LLMs don't think, even though th…

LMAO at how the two of you sound authoritative and knowledgeable, but neither linked to ANY studies (or at least personal anecdotes) to support your claims. Yet here we are, warnin…

What's "thinking"? What's "agency"? What's "human-like agency"? If "agency" is making decisions and performing corresponding actions in the real world, then LLMs most definitely LO…

Petition to force everyone saying "you need to read about XYZ" to provide at least 2 sources where one can actually read about XYZ. - If you can't provide any sources, it's safe to…

> Streaming services rent you access. Digital stores sell you a license that can be taken away. Physical media gives you an object that is yours, offline, and in your hands. > > Ph…

Yeah, the article reads like they suddenly realized that trees are alive and rushed to make their discovery a law. Look how ridiculous this sounds: > Desrochers' film, called Des a…

Seems like plotnine renders plots using matplotlib and has matplotlib as a dependency: https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine/blob/f6f5cb424f38329c5267...

It seems like the major difference between plotnine and lets-plot is that plotnine wraps Matplotlib (and thus works everywhere Matplotlib is available, but doesn't offer much inter…

Well, hopefully this is indeed the case!

Yeah, "they" probably simply have our FaceID data that we're willingly collecting ourselves, supposedly for our own security.

So does this mean that, say, Apple actually doesn't have access to our FaceID data? Otherwise there'd be no need for no laws: just force Apple, Google, etc to share face informatio…

Wait, this isn't real, is it? Is there actually an intermediate model that translates DeepSeek's thinking from its "alien language" into human languages? That's not actually the ca…

According to https://github.com/rawbytess/hissab , it's not even close to being an alternative to Wolfram. Hissab is described as "A strict, unit-aware natural-language calculator"…

> ...no stable identity to it ... what's doing the thinking? The model (its parameters, its architecture and the inference algorithm) is doing the thinking. That's what we call "Ch…

Yeah, pretty sure the vast majority of people in general doesn't understand what "consciousness" or "subjective experience" even mean or what the brain does. Or it's just me and I'…

I'm pretty sure it doesn't misunderstand the original. The original says that the aliens don't understand how meat (humans) can be conscious, have language and be basically like th…

Just in case, you don't even need Pluto or Jupyter to display Unicode plots — they're rendered right in the terminal

Initially I thought this was a joke (Julia doesn't seem to be popular enough to be one of the cornerstones of Jupyter, compared to Python and R), but indeed, Jupyter's documentatio…

LLM tell? Inanimate objects and concepts are treated as actors all the time: the series converges, the function reaches its maximum, the sun shines, the wind blows, history repeats…

Not this exactly, but IMO they're saying that since the text is presumably AI-generated, it kind of can't be beautiful? Or shouldn't feel beautiful? Or it's beautiful, but... it's …

Right, I'm just hyperbolizing to capture the overall vibe of "you may think it's beautiful, but it's AI, so it's actually not good" of three comments here. Didn't mean to put words…

Person: finds the article beautifully written. The comments: "but it's AI, so you aren't allowed to think that it's beautifully written!!!!" This doesn't follow. For instance, ther…