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    Comment #45417400

    Back prop and attention are just extensions of interpolation.

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    Comment #44636620

    Even worse, a lot of municipalities are losing population. But no-one wants to drop everything in their lives and move to a dying city, specially not high intelligence individuals …

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    Comment #44636394

    A huge portion of why home prices dont fall is because most people dont pay for their homes up front, the actual cost of the home after the interest is 2x the total loan amount. So…

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    Worse, most if not all "REST" apps have security vulnerabilities because of how browser front-ends handle authentication. To handle authentication "properly" you have to use cookie…

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    Comment #44496674

    Disassociates the value of the underlying assets which devalues the currency. Probably why regulatory bodies had to get involved.

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    Comment #44415533

    What about arresting and sending to the mental hospital multiple times to deal with psychopathic caregivers whose purpose is ultimately to make you homeless? A good Christian or an…

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    Comment #44415369

    Simply put the observer affect shows that somethings cannot be measured without causing change to the system hence may not be verifable. Maybe the only way to make enough random lo…

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    Comment #44410707

    The fact that in different parts of the world the voices can be helpful instead of intrusive makes me feel like the drugs are not the problem but how external forces view the drugs…

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    Comment #44368013

    You could argue it's all the nice GPU debugging tools nVidia provides which makes GPU programming accessible. There are so many potential bottlenecks (normally just memory access p…

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    Comment #44351508

    Cant even tell you how many times vibe code leaves obvious security bugs. Atleast it makes me feel like my job isn't going away anytime soon.

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    Comment #44350626

    Problem is with the numbers 36. Everytime i see those related to cars or "random passwords" I know somethings going to happen. As a developer I'll manually change those numbers if …

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    Comment #44348930

    Honestly at work LLMs seemed to make me less productive. For side projects they help but I've seen papers indicating this is the case for industry. We as engineers have let the rec…

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    Comment #44342479

    And Israel is the only country actively fighting it’s neighbor.

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    Comment #44342443

    Next would be manufacturing your own smartphones. Sad that not making weapons and enslaving your own populace makes you subject to external countries.

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    Comment #44338878

    China subsidized startups which generates additional industries. If anything you are proving the US doesn't understand research or science behind producing electric vehicles and si…

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    Comment #44313056

    A different view would be these apps are “arresting” young children. By forcing them to interact with the application, wouldn’t be surprised if in 10-20 years negative health effec…

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    I feel like that's just the result of having a native package manager making natural bloat and a compiler which hasn't had decades of work.