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I find it ironic that so many OSS projects are or are considering banning LLM usage. After all, without OSS, LLMs would never have been this good at coding. Shouldn't OSS be the fi…

A big part of open source is about reciprocity: you taketh, you giveth. Do LLM companies give back to the community?

I kinda feel this way about variable names in physics. You could call the (x,y,z) components of the magnetic field (L,M,N), see [0]. There are so many people who call that utterly …

I'd be curious to know if this helps on supercomputers, which are notorious for frequently hanging for a few seconds on an ls -l.

I'm sure many researchers have English as a second language, and rely on LLM to fix their grammar and vocabulary.

How would this work for a personal blog? Would I need to be careful not to endorse or even talk about companies and products? And if I didn't have to, wouldn't that open the door f…

I've had the bad luck that my first prescription was quite wrong: incorrect axis for astigmatism, and incorrect spherical (I basically have only astigmatism, no spherical). So for …

> encode laws into some sort of machine code Don't need to encode it in some sort of machine code. Just need a git repo with the law so we can submit a PR to the CA assembly and ge…

> With books, movies, series and music I like to own physically only my personal favorites that I know will use many times. I don't own many DVDs, but when I see them in my bookshe…

> There are countries running on 95%+ renewable electricity right now[1]. That list ignores that countries trade electricity. If, say, Germany produces a lot of electricity by rene…

Great article. I have two comments: 1. Procrastination seems to be a type of early stopping. I knew I had a good strategy in school! 2. Something that seems to be sorely missing in…

Other purpose than being a psychological trick, what purpose could pointing out the lack of evidence at the time have? Instead they could have written something like "We found the …

If passenger rail increases, then goods rail must decrease and go onto trucks. Or, one could let goods rail go at night, but Germany is noise -sensitive, so that's unlikely to happ…

Same for me, except my prescription is stable. The first doctor I went to got it wrong, and every doctor since was too hesitant to change it. One even got it right, but said nothin…

> we only learned that older people pick all-H or all-T more. I think we learn that older people are less willing to put up with silly instructions.

Yes, exactly!

It's pretty obvious if you ignore the great leap backwards... I mean forward, coming down from ~40 births/1000 in the 1950s and 1960s to ~20 in the late 70s and after.

> There have been 3 times in the past month where I got an order of magnitude speed up because SciPy implements a very complex but highly efficient algorithm which I would never ha…

If you know German, there is an entire book written in this style, introducing a simplifying spelling and grammar each chapter [1]. It is called "fom winde ferfeelt", a pun on "Gon…

> I wouldn't want anything to be added by default This line of reasoning works really well for those who understand (and want to understand) how git works. I know plenty of people …

> is there really any practical value in this sort of research In many ways it is too early to do this research, so it is a kind of art (as is a lot of research, imho). As long as …

> I'd also go as far as saying if you need to cram crazy hours shortly beforehand to pass any exam or test then you're not really qualified to pass. I've had a professor who said t…

One thing this article misses are medical procedures that improve the quality of life, but have no bearing on life expectancy. For example, if you knock out your front row of teeth…

You mean, the little ant on the floor? I barfed at 1-based indexing for about a week, but now it is as natural as anything. I would compare 0-based and 1-based indexing with whethe…

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