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Comment #35072289
> until this gets independently replicated. hmm, very interesting. I don't think it works like that anymore. The next step has got to be commercial availability. else investors to …
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Comment #35072236
like how success of a species becomes the failure of the same species. the endless cycles of success and failure. also in multi-generational wealth: poor and hard working become su…
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Comment #35070146
> Actually, a simple, well-crafted command builder that can query real-life recipes would do. but if you want to "raise some funding" you better find a way to talk about "chat-gtp …
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Comment #35061703
category theory is 'native 2-dimensional' math. i.e. category theory explains everything in terms of graphs, where a graph is made from two different sorts of 'entities', nodes and…
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Comment #35048979
on the other hand, this same pattern of "authoritarianism" is what we all learn to have when becoming adult members of our societies/cultures: it's an expression of one persons' in…
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Comment #35048901
> The author is proposing a model that [allegedly] does a good job of explaining why we see unexpected behavior I agree, and go even further: models that explain behavior are all w…
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Comment #35048849
sounds to me like a wave with a positive and a negative part. which IMO is what drives constructive/destructive interference in waves. my take away is that any LLM that can behave …
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Comment #35048187
nonetheless, to witness the entire cognitive process of the author, as misguided as you find their conclusions, is a positive constructive experience isn't it? IMO, the main point …
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Comment #35044506
I think atm the Fed is the main force holing the USA together, considering all the bi-partisan polarization all ways to divert the "voltage" across elite and commoner classes which…
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Comment #35044382
most certainly. another example of dumb and costly mistakes is putting a capitalistic-optimization scheme in charge of medical care alas, for some reason (many of them, indeed) mos…
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Comment #35027733
I fear the end game of a fully propieatary software world is that the only real way people interact with computers is app stores, programming is not something people can learn onli…
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Comment #35012911
this is "GOOD BUSINESS" and bad (evil) everything else. oh the humanity
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Comment #35011551
ah, so focus on the inherent void behind all reality... very zen ...this is a skill that is difficult to develop, hard to teach, and impossible to test (if somebody can do it)
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Comment #35011345
time to do a Peru (or Bolivia, or Chile, or Argentina, or ....). best of luck to the CIA agents "NOT" working on it (plausibly deny... wink wink )
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Comment #35003793
but the moon milk cows are at the moment getting decimated by the moon cheese lovers in a mad rush to make more pizza; they're at war! it's a risky time to do moon business, there'…
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Comment #34988589
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Comment #34973100
call me old school... but why is this even on github? there's no code... just a README (an advertisement?) with a tutorial and a link to download a binary blob this feels like some…
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Comment #34972931
I'm on a deep strange trip into the differences between "animated" and "inanimated" entities with only the loose idea of "emergent phenomena" to "guide me" on this winding road
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Comment #34971399
this is the kind of thing truly making computer science into a science. with all this "deep" learning technology, understanding based on principles is no longer required, heck, suc…
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Comment #34970703
under this logic, a sack of lead ought to 'rule over' a living animal because of being heavier
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Comment #34940004
I have not ever studied POSIX academically ( curricularly ) but: > a small set of minimalistic APIs that remain stable over time but from what I've gathered (over years, by 'osmosi…