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About jstanley

James Stanley

james@incoherency.co.uk

https://incoherency.co.uk/

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    Comment #49248250

    There are 101 boats called freedom but they're all the same boat because they're not de-duplicated.

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    Comment #49211249

    > The numbers are as good as they can get That doesn't mean they don't warrant error bars. Error bars aren't there to show that you didn't do a good job collecting the data, they'r…

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    Comment #49194400

    You think you would be better off if the industrial revolution were stopped in its tracks?

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    Comment #49182238

    Because nobody did it on purpose?

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    Comment #49157434

    Do you have an encyclopedic knowledge of which terms are regulated and which ones aren't? Don't you think it would cause more confusion if people expecting to buy a Jamaican beef p…

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    Comment #49126859

    I can get behind deliberately misspelling as "genious" when using it sarcastically.

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    Comment #49126851

    Oops, my mistake!

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    Comment #49126518

    > How do you make an std::array of a given type? std::array isn't a thing in C, so you don't.

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    Comment #49124644

    We call a proof that is not tautological "wrong".

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    Comment #49121710

    > * measurements, when executed correctly, are objective with numeric evidence, thus some people are wholly incapable of measuring things for the same reasons some people cannot in…

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    Comment #49095833

    > You already correct yourself and revise your speech in an append-only rolling edit. No, I think before I speak and say what I planned to say. What do you do, sir?

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    Comment #49089919

    Doesn't work outside the US sadly.

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    Comment #49088869

    It's so bizarre to me that people want to do this. Can't you type faster than you speak? Doesn't your speaking inhibit your thinking? Aren't you self-conscious talking out loud? Ho…

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    Comment #49081770

    > giving each hash function it’s own bit table is equivalent to having one bit table with a number of bits equal to that of the sum of the numbers of bits in each hash function. Th…

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    Comment #49067533

    Seems to me that as long as the total number of bits is the same it makes no difference whether each hash function has a separate table or not. EDIT: Although, https://chatgpt.com/…

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    Comment #49058480

    Saving any nonzero amount of lives for any unbounded cost is not necessarily a good trade, if there are ways to save more lives for the same cost, or the same number of lives for a…

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    Comment #49054122

    > I don't forsee politicians in either country handing over their power to AI They won't see it that way, but also programmers don't see ourselves as having handed over our power t…

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    Comment #49048845

    Is it just me or are these almost all terrible? Almost all of them are animated, move when hovered, move when clicked, or sometimes all three. Just awful. LLMs keep making buttons …

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    Comment #49045234

    This is exactly the kind of take that the comment you replied to is talking about.

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    Comment #49032154

    Can you elaborate on how a hobbyist with a 3d printer could use this process?

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    Comment #49019534

    Not if the new weights don't influence the old outputs.

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    Comment #49010891

    It's reassuring to know that even a supergenius's ChatGPT session is one sentence from the human followed by 3 pages of LLM output.

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    Comment #49007176

    Were you using the Gemini image generator though? The article is about using LLMs to do drawing via tool calls.

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