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donnowhy

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About donnowhy

don the "no why"... because I know why

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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…