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sxzygz

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About sxzygz

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Would appreciate an invite to lobste.rs

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    In the future, which I guess is now, John-types will have to decide between wrangling agents, or being tool calls for things agents can’t themselves do. I’m not at all against AI, …

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    Comment #49040621

    Says the man with a professorship in a public university in the most socialist and bureaucratic of Canadian provinces. A man whose "research" is to use public money towards improvi…

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    Comment #48712520

    I don’t really want to participate in this discussion, however: As I stand on the flats of Salt Lake, the Earth is definitely flat. Also, I’m sure there are brown cows that produce…

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    You give me a rational candidate for √2 and by the argument of the submitted article I “construct” another rational candidate with strictly smaller numerator and denominator. You g…

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    To be a little more concrete, what it means to prove a negation ¬P (not P) is to assume P and construct an impossibility from it, like 0=1 (assuming those symbols exist in the theo…

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    I don't think this is an IPv6 address literals problem per se, but instead a URL encoding/specification problem. There really is too much historical baggage here to unpack. That's …

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    The interview itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6Y2uQn_wvc

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    Comment #47576312

    The problem with this ambition is that it turns mathematics into software development. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this per se, however what happens is that, as in softwa…

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    Comment #47361139

    Please submit this link to Texico. I think it deserves a broader audience.

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    I agree. It’s the same specious argument that equates a human experiencing a work, be it art or code, with AI training on that work. I wanted here to write a more detailed rebuttal…

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    Comment #47231215

    I believe they were attempting to link to https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/454 a paper titled How to Win the Clone Wars: Efficient Periodic n-Times Anonymous Authentication.

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    Comment #47227165

    Absolutely looking forward to this. The Risks & Challenges section is a bit disheartening but necessary.

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    Comment #47005435

    The posted link is has had its hash anchor removed by the forum system. The correct link is: https://theoverspill.blog/#1cf766bc7d58238f348c4a4a2ee9273a Bad time to be deploying CP…

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    Comment #46992980

    I desperately hope the PLA starts its own Youtube channel in response. :-) http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjs... For those planning to join Team America.

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    Thanks for the link to the post. I also watched her talk posted elsewhere in these comments. We’re lucky to have people like her doing the hard work for free software. > most of th…

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    I don’t know which of my detractors to respond to, so I’ll respond here. It should be clear that I’m only interested in compute and not a GPU expert. GPUs, from my understanding, h…