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It is a feature in Rust, not a bug :-) (I know you didn't say it is a bug.) The error-tagged union is PgResult - which means it contains bool as the result if things go well. (The …

I had the 2012 print edition. One of the best books available - the best book that I knew - about GC at that time. Anti-pattern: Regarding the 2023 e-book edition, I do not see a w…

I am writing this for you as well as those who are likely to read this later as well. From the quoted snippet from the original article, purportedly AI-generated: > Not a tutorial.…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25985705

Darn. I write exactly like this. You need to consider that people write in different ways, and the LLM is choosing from among the different styles.

I watched this last week. The part about veering constantly to navigate the maze of internal politics is fascinating. The compromises he had to make, like not being able to put in …

Just in case anyone does not know, that is a Base64URL-encoded string. Used by JWT.

Merry Christmas to everyone. Being a non-Christian and it being Christmas time, I am sharing one verse from the New Testament that is, in my opinion, useful - or at the very least,…

What confused me was this: "Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image.". The word "them" implied plural. I …

It need not be a dichotomy. I also laughed at the title. At the same time, I found the original article useful.

>Now remove the two men, just keep the dog, and put them in an OpenAI livestream that looks like the attached image. Where is the image given along with the prompt? If I didn't mis…

>which are known to produce predictable fMRI signal changes in distributed brain regions. Wondering how they created that baseline. Was it with fMRI data (which has deviance from a…

I use version managers for Python, Node, Ruby, and others. But for Java, none. I have all the recent versions of Java on my Linux and Windows devices. I download the zip and extrac…

Observations and personal opinions, after glancing through the slides: * The entertainment industry will be transformed drastically. Music and movies will be transformed by AI to s…

So, to summarize: >Used "dictionary learning" >Found abstract features >Found similar/close features using distance >Tried amplifying and suppressing features Not trying to be snar…

Other than visualizing, creating custom nodes seems to be the most interesting available operation (at the time of writing this). API Guide: https://github.com/google-ai-edge/model…

It is very low indeed, and a large percentage of the cases are involving strains from other countries, but hopefully the number is not real zero[1], even after discounting the stra…

As far as I understand it, they used 25 human and 12 squirrel samples. Comparison was done among medieval red squirrel strains, medieval human strains, and modern red squirrel stra…

About the female whale whose dorsal fin was punctured: "Ólafur appears to have developed a personal kinship with the whale" A macabre kinship that involved spearing her calf. And e…

Just want to point out that this is a free book. Direct link: [1]. Also, the real content is only a little over 200 pages. The rest is notes, references, and other resources. With …

I cannot edit this anymore. Yes, meant that the control Aptiv had over Motional will now be with Hyundai, practically. The point I was trying to make was that this was titled in Ap…

As part of the deal, Hyundai is also getting control of Aptiv, with 85% of the shares. It will be interesting to see what Hyundai will do with it.

The story starts with Genghis Khan's plunder of Merv and the mass murder that was ordered by him. It mentions the artisans who were kept alive. Then it swerves to the plunder of Me…

Anything which has clear paths to decision making, does not need AI. Anything which requires only massive data processing, does not need AI. Regarding the adoption: The crux is men…

The way releases are done and security is handled, one can argue that it makes sense to stay one major version behind - as long as it is a version to which security patches are app…