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This is accurate and the parent commenter here seems to be echoing a common misconception. Either they are confused or they need to elaborate more to demonstrate that they have a v…

When I read an article about Python optimizations, I typically expect to have significant objections. But this one was great, actually.

>Implementing `pipe` would be fun, but I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader. I like exercise: https://gist.github.com/stuarteberg/6bcbe3feb7fba4dc2574a989...

On the other hand, the authors make plenty of other great points -- about the fact that LLMs can produce bullshit, can be inaccurate, can be used for deception and other harms, are…

The author makes this assertion about LLMs rather casually: >They don’t engage in logical reasoning. This is still a hotly debated question, but at this point the burden of proof i…

Honestly, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I'll just say it: Brainfuck is not a great programming language for production use-cases.

Gotta love the word “just” in that first paragraph. The majority of the research money behind most (if not all) drugs, is spent well after academia’s contribution. Clinical trials …

Personally, I think I would, at least at first. If someone without the necessary expertise chimes in with an unhelpful answer within minutes of a question being asked, then everyon…

It think the parent's point here could be rephrased like this: Copyright law treats "involved a human" vs. "involved a machine" as fundamentally different just because humans are s…

There are at least two potential issues pertaining to copyright law here, and it's not clear which one you're asking about. That's why the responses you're getting here seem to be …

You might already be advanced beyond high-level introductory material, but this short book chapter by Chris Lattner himself was a good read for me (a casual reader, not a compiler …

The answer is that once you’re able to definitively recognize it in at least one form, you’ll start to recognize similar, not quite identical forms. The sapling form is not quite t…

I'm afraid you have it exactly backwards. The problem isn't that it doesn't work -- the problem is that it does work. And to the extent that it isn't perfect, well, it's still impr…

The Systems 1 & 2 analogy has also been made by Emad Mostaque, (CEO of Stability AI). He probably wasn’t the first, I bet.

The Koyaanisqatsi cinematographer went on to become a director himself, and made the movie “Baraka” in the same style. IMHO, it’s even better.

Some people like granular comments, and some people only want high-level comments. I’ve long suspected that both camps are correct, because they’re using different languages. A sin…

According to Dmitry Kobak, some details in these figures are merely convergence artifacts, and no longer produced when using more recent versions of UMAP. https://twitter.com/hippo…

He explicitly mentioned that path…

Matt Yglesias’s new podcast “Bad Takes” did an episode about this, covering some of the meta-issues (as you might imagine). https://www.grid.news/story/podcasts/2022/09/30/bad-take…

This question wording is very unfortunate: “Do you mind if your comment is made public?” Many people will respond with the opposite answer they intend to convey. This is especially…

If you are willing to accept the various caveats that come with -ffast-math for your own library, then it looks like it's okay to use -ffast-math during compilation , but not durin…

I'm a big fan of the logging module, but it can't solve the problem of silencing or redirecting noisy C extensions. For extensions which you control, maybe the ideal option would b…

The redirect() method shown in this post only works for output that is written via the Python sys.stdout handle. If your code links against C/C++ extensions that have internal prin…

As a variant of option 2, could one create a new tag at the pre-merge commit?