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darby_eight

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    Comment #40369963

    > its reasoning capabilities To be clear, LLMs are not capable of reasoning.

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    Comment #40369941

    > deny the risk entirely, or to act as if it's ridiculous to be concerned about such things in my opinion is just an intellectually ignorant position to hold. This would take someo…

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    Comment #40369682

    > The risk of the rise of AGI can someone explain what the risk of this actually is? I just assumed it was a regulatory capture ploy. IMO it is massively distracting from the very …

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    Comment #40369507

    > Every language has morphemes for the simple reason that every word is at least one morpheme. Sure, if you define "morpheme" as a collection of syllables that's meaningful to peop…

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    Comment #40369485

    > you still need to disassemble the ROM up front and annotate it heavily before it can be recompiled. Why? Surely it's more straightforward to do binary-to-binary translation. No h…

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    Comment #40369448

    > Anyway, around here, even a small investment in reducing idling (or just cutting funding for traffic quiescence projects) would be equivalent to increasing vehicle fuel economy b…

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    Comment #40362688

    ok, use a flaming trash can instead. Same result.

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    Comment #40362675

    ? Is this a joke

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    Comment #40361396

    TBH I never thought to even call the speech processing in my a head a "little voice" until someone accused me of not having an inner monologue. I don't perceive it as audio at all …

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    Comment #40360770

    Only in languages that have morphemes! This is hardly a universal attribute of language so much as an attribute of those that use an alphabet to encode sounds. It makes more sense …

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    Comment #40360396

    > On a character level this should be trivial. Characters are not the semantic components of words—these are syllables. Generally speaking, anyway. I've got to imagine this approac…

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    Comment #40360321

    In the sense they're used as English prefixes, paleo is many orders of magnitude older than archeo. Hence words like "paleoarchaeology", which starts around 10kya.

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    Comment #40360317

    Sure, but I'd be absolutely flabbergasted if they didn't come from kidnapped Palestinians.

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    Comment #40360311

    > Graphics and PDFs are much lower on the priority scale. Unless of course you read books that have graphics or come in pdf form.

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    Comment #40360305

    I am not watching a video

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    Comment #40360043

    I smell Penrose bullshit in the air Of course the brain uses quantum mechanics, it exists in the real world. What has yet to be demonstrated is any link to consciousness.

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    Comment #40359999

    They've been the benchmark for amazon kindle books. They suck for pdfs or anything with graphics.

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    Comment #40359095

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    Comment #40359088

    > Black market organ harvesting of live prisoners didn't even cross my mind when reading this headline. It's not that crazy: https://www.westernmassnews.com/2023/05/11/getting-answ…

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    Comment #40359063

    I'm somewhat surprised people still watch YouTube with the horrible recommendations and non-stop spam

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    Comment #40358857

    Archeocomputation is better imo. "Paleo-" typically implies geological timescales rather than decades.

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    Comment #40358819

    Performant 3d acceleration in the guest OS is still quite difficult to find an open source solution for, and linux these days relies heavily on this for window management. Mac host…

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    Comment #40358772

    What is Visual Studio used for these days? Of course windows development, and I'm guessing xbox development too. Anything else?

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    Comment #40358738

    qemu works as well as it always did—which is to say slow as hell but good enough for automation in a pinch