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I'm really puzzled about LangChain. It looks like a lot of cruft and abstraction over something that is very simple. Every senior engineer I know feels the same way. Please explain…

> Lisp’s unusual syntax is connected to its expressive power. How? Not because of “homoiconicity”, a word that has no meaning but leaves people somewhat impressed, because it sound…

Why is he still out on bail?

> Whatever index card system or similar the operating procedure in the room prescribes for keeping track of state? You're missing the point. A bit is just some electrons. It could …

> Regular meat-and-bone people lose consciousness all the time, and regain it later. No big deal. So what? There are lots of REAL physical processes that are disrupted in a human b…

Why is "emerging from computation" simple ? As an explanation, it seems vastly more complex. I mean, the laws of physics don't even contain terms for defining or valuing computatio…

I think the burden is on the proponents. Otherwise anyone could make any assertion - for example, that action potentials cause consciousness, or that influx of ions cause conscious…

But the argument shows it's absurd to think the room is conscious. What if the person in the room takes a coffee break or goes on vacation? What connects the next computational ste…

You could execute a loop that reflects on an internal model using pen and paper. Is that system conscious? Imagine only one computational step of that loop happening everyday. Does…

Well that explains part of it. It does look like they plan to do something about it finally: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/v3frc1/what_were_wo... > Performant > One cons…

Maybe if they can just focus on making their video servers work sometime in the next decade.

I'm a founder. I agree, it's a scam. The constraint I bump up against is that VCs expect standard terms which means that stock options will be granted with tight post-exit expiry s…

I was thinking of the Pinski-Narin method, but there are other earlier uses of eigenvector calculations over very similar data: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1002.2858.pdf

Specifically, some manager at Mozilla was scared of it.

How did they even get that patent? It's a well known 70s era bibliometric algorithm.

Evil genius.

All what information?

Some reddit users said this is normal? Ok!

I thought I was alone when I unsubbed. I couldn't believe everyone was watching the trash Netflix was churning out. I take their decline as a positive statement about humanity.

Here's a video that explains the effect visually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDh5d9pfu8

Put a sign on your inner front door: "Did you commit your changes?"

This is all solid. I would only add that it's our duty to avoid the news as its largely a source of propaganda serving the interests of concentrated capital and the two party syste…

It was Joe's content to do with as he pleased, and his decision was to sell it and allow someone else to do with it as they pleased. That's simple enough, but it's also simplistic …