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    Comment #49235792

    but you don't have separation of church and state... thats a poor comparison. religious dogma eats into nearly all public discourse.

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    Comment #49169211

    HN crowd is not representative of the world at large. consumers don't care. cost and convenience are primary motivators.

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    Comment #49147212

    yes thats the main reason, agda , coq similar ideas

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    Comment #49145464

    re: wargames https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1iboomc/i_spent_a_...

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    Comment #49102751

    agree. If oia and hf are anything like generic startup / corporate america, IT and security is always seen as a cost center and goes to the lowest bidder. Do we really think they'r…

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    Comment #48929390

    no it doesn't work at all -- because the LLM isn't sentient, emotional, nor does it care for the user

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    Comment #48929382

    No. Even for large models that a good mental model. This is parroted all over and is wrong. Its not going to generate out of distribution answers. Its a probabilistic function of t…

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    Comment #48639821

    Its for reasoning not generating art?

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    Comment #48624703

    and the heating

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    Comment #48624688

    butterfly and the swoop are both essentially useless too compared to their reference devices

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    Comment #48387667

    Thats the definition of cherry picking and survivorship bias

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    Comment #48330520

    no? this isn't what it argues at all. did you read it?

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    Comment #48330509

    It's not widely known and mostly spun in MSM as fringe theory (thanks to marketing by big AI cos). this is a well written essay, and if it helps the discourse all the better.

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    Comment #48330225

    Its also cheap, and fire retardant compared to other finishing. It used to be lathe+plaster. And before that plain wood.

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    Comment #48330189

    China does it and it works well. We just need governments with executive planning capabilities. In my country (Canada) we only have myopic politicians who only care for re-election…

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    Comment #48143839

    Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

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    Comment #48143821

    false dichotomy.

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    Comment #48079674

    so you can do the transformations (see the rlisp macro section)

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    Comment #48044606

    26% means not ai 3/4 times...

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    Comment #48044513

    If you don't have stakeholders I contend you probably don't have a product, or you're building the bare minimum MVP which upon becoming a product will be woefully inadequate, gener…

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    Comment #47934919

    That's only true if you're making something that's already been done.

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    Comment #47516541

    python isn't untyped, its dynamically typed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2351190/static-dynamic-v...

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    Comment #47516493

    I feel like thats really oversellign coro -- theres still a TON of boilerplate

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    Comment #47381092

    Aren't utilities, by definition, state owned? Or is that also backwards in america?