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scaredginger

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    Comment #49153123

    They didn't need the disclaimer for this to be obvious AI slop

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    Comment #46533898

    Normalising by mass is a poor way to assess food's protein content since different foods have greatly different water contents. E.g. beef jerky has much higher protein per 100g tha…

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    Comment #46096250

    Bit of a nitpick, but I think his terminology is wrong. Like RL, pretraining is also a form of *un*supervised learning

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    Comment #45718438

    Looks like the impl uses a HashMap. I'd be curious about how a trie or some other specialized string data structure would compare here.

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    Comment #43581740

    There may be some cost to each resistance gained, reducing the fitness of the bacteria

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    Comment #40891072

    I think the AI bubble may have some interesting parallels with the dot com bubble ~25 years ago. The internet was revolutionary and transformed the global economy. However, most of…

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    Comment #40867788

    Yeah, no. If I know what my data look like, I can choose an order of summation that reduces the error. I wouldn't want the compiler by default to assume associativity and introduce…

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    Comment #40620404

    That's not how I'd express it either. Insurance is a positive EV bet on a log-utility basis

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    Comment #40362048

    You don't make many friends being a moral relativist

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    Comment #40135944

    Maybe a nitpick, but virtual inheritance is a term used for something else entirely. What you're talking about is dynamic dispatch

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    Comment #39947961

    Also, Terraform Industries (natural gas company)

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    Comment #39846943

    And some won't, so they'll remain directors

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    Comment #39644460

    https://archive.is/IzfVe

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    Comment #39552204

    Obtaining an uncontested lock absolutely doesn't require calling into the kernel

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    Comment #39527422

    You might be interested in Odin. It's very focused on numerical computing and has certainly taken some design hints from Go

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    Comment #39433038

    It was shielded

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    Comment #38819684

    Can you explain this 'common sense'? I was under the impression that Tether was in the business of taking USD (with the promise of returning it) and earning interest on that USD wi…

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    Comment #38799844

    I think this counts as a bottom-up DP solution

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    Comment #38779277

    I'm pretty sure you can perform tests and find defects without actually flying the rocket

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    Comment #38141240

    > Note that Carbon is not ready to use

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    Comment #38045678

    https://archive.md/eIXcA

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    Comment #37971935

    [citation needed]

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    Comment #37745984

    https://archive.is/ynX9Y

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    Comment #37702392

    https://youtu.be/I25UeVXrEHQ