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dennis_moore

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About dennis_moore

I have a horse named Concord and a penchant for flowery social justice.

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    Comment #43666651

    Cultural learning has definitely been observed in animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_culture

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    Comment #42608096

    Ah yes, it can be quite fun chasing down heisenbugs like that, half sarcastically :)

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    Comment #42206184

    > One is that math nerds at school insisted on intimidating for the win and I just hated it. For me the worst part was the teachers that encouraged that behavior and did the same.

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    Comment #41623455

    Could the conclusions generalize to other types of anxiety such as GAD or OCD?

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    Comment #41388357

    Which profilers in particular are you referring to because I've always thought that Callgrind is a profiler? perf?

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    Comment #40606397

    It works until it doesn't at which point you have a massive, useless pile of uninterpretable garbage.

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    Comment #40491126

    This is great: I like both the concept and how responsive the implementation is. Please consider open sourcing it.

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    Comment #40398283

    > A canonical list of references from a leading figure would be appreciated by many. That confirms the opposite, no?

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    Comment #40398266

    I failed to find any evidence that this person is an OpenAI employee, but please correct me if I'm wrong.

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    Comment #40154698

    > “if I didn’t chose to do it you cannot be angry at me." Yes I can, because I didn't choose to be angry either.

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    Comment #38943069

    I think that the term "software system" can have a much broader meaning than the one you are using here.

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    Comment #37796074

    Not sure if raw data size is a good metric. One usually gains more information by reading a book than watching a movie.

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    Comment #36210908

    I was not advocating for "online slacktivism", I was merely giving my opinion of what rules or laws ought to be introduced to the effect, akin to copyright laws or open-source lice…

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    Comment #36209281

    This made me think that we, as a society, ought to have some sort of convention to mark AI-generated images as such, like a small watermarked symbol in a corner.

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    Comment #33193395

    Shut up and calculate!

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    Comment #33098729

    "To call a function, the program should place the first six integer or pointer parameters in the registers %rdi, %rsi, %rdx, %rcx, %r8, and %r9." This sounds like System V, hence G…

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    Comment #33027444

    But now I'm curious to know which quotes you're referring to...

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    Comment #31490231

    If you're looking for an accessible introduction/overview, try Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A. Gallian. It also includes lots of applications, some of which are relevant…

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    Comment #30571281

    Also check out Philip Wadler's Programming Language Foundations in Agda: https://plfa.github.io/

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    Comment #30570691

    With the EU having banned Russia from its airspace, I wonder what route these flights take.

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    Comment #30351548

    I like this idea of incorporating trust and reputation. As for the curation of websites not scaling, some time ago I thought about the possibility of a search engine where the user…