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There's no inherent, technological reason to feed the historic data into the prompt, though. You could train a network with a second input for model-states, and during inference, f…

> And it kind of assumes that qualia have an ultimate > physical manifestation - rather than being merely a > rhetorical device. Denial of Qualia has long been an outlier position …

This is exactly the thought-terminating cliché that I see everywhere, and it's driving me up a wall. We have absolutely no idea what consciousness is, but everybody is 100% sure th…

I fully agree with this. I find it strange how quickly the novelty of AI chatbots has passed. This used to be a thing of science fiction, that people dreamed, fantasized about. Now…

That's also great for integration testing their systems, if they have any code in a language where datetimes are a value type.

This doesn't really when the CLI tool needs to access any data in your /home. There isn't a straightforward way using standard POSIX tools to share a directory with another user. (…

The point is they can't tell.

Mineral oil is what people use these days, but it is much less funny. In practice, any oil will do, although olive oil is not suggested - smells nice at first, but will break down …

> The Cray supercomputer were fluid cooled back in the 1980's, the entire > board had an inert liquid flowing across it. You can still do this with any computer, by the way: just s…

> The idea that only nerds care about the cost of things is... absurd. For hardware purchases, laypeople may go about it the other way from what nerds would do: instead of deciding…

One obvious use case is edge computing, such as in industrial applications that cannot tolerate the risk of a network link or cloud service going down. Even embedded use cases are …

In German, it's also extremely annoying that even common compound words will not be suggested. Google Keyboard has somewhat improved here, but FUTO Keyboard still drops the ball on…

Yes, but Hetzner is not "some low-end provider". They have proper, high-quality datacenters with all the redundancy you want, excellent connectivity, great service, and much better…

Not only is "arguments are evaluated left-to-right" less easy to formalize than you think, it would also make all C code run slower, because the compiler would no longer be able to…

Yes, this surprised me as well. Credit card and Paypal information should give the police everything they need to identify the criminal (in a way that's much more simple and reliab…

People are already not using libraries because they'd rather rot their brains on TikTok than read a book. (Also, for information lookup, the internet and search engines exist, and …

This is quite amazing. The quality of the created palettes is surprisingly good. For the fourth iteration (guarding against phantom blue from shadow pixels), I wonder if it may hel…

You can of course take a SQL dump that is version-independent, but if you're serious about creating backups, you want to take backups of the actual on-disk format of the WAL, becau…

(I'm kidding, but I'm sure someone has a pie-in-the-sky geoengineering startup about to disrupt topography using either AI, blockchain, or both.) Well, there was that plan to use s…

Late capitalism is when a traditional tea recipe is referred to as "homemade ClubMate (R)".

For the use cases outlined in the OP, a 36% performance gain for an optimization that complex would be considered a waste of time. OP was explicitly not talking about code that car…

Funnily enough, in the blog post you linked Scott Alexander also ruminates about how he never previously questioned journalistic attempts to dox Satoshi Nakamoto.

> Signal insists on using your phone number too, refusing user ids or anything that will make analysis hard. That is no longer true, you can use user IDs now. For the other problem…

Great tool that wrote the blog post in the OP also, so it's quite versatile.