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I'm confused about their definition of RL. > ... SFT is a subset of RL. > The first thing to note about traditional SFT is that the responses in the examples are typically human wr…

You seem to have a very narrow view of what is a relevant or a valid comment. Just because a counterargument doesn't completely refute the original comment, or "introduces" new con…

Indentation of comments also means something. GP was not responding to the neuroscience comment.

It's still pretty meaningless unless you have some idea what the previous profit was (which the average headline reader probably doesn't). 95% of last quarter's profit could be a t…

Maybe they don't believe there are no elephants in Germany. If someone came up to you on the street and said "You are an elephant. Are you an elephant?" you wouldn't say "yes".

I agree that treating production vs non-production as a dichotomy can be problematic, but that doesn't mean some systems aren't more sensitive than others. Also security is not one…

> is best avoided, phobia or no. Strongly agree. I briefly developed a morbid fascination a few years ago, which then developed into a rather unpleasant sort of phobia/aversion.

> It's really not a lot to grok, at least by most other language's standards. Yes, but people have been attracted to Python largely because it's not like a lot of other languages. …

Indeed. Any suggestion that economists (neo-classical or otherwise) don't care enough about relative price changes is utterly ridiculous. They just don't call them inflation .

I can't see where they criticize the term "black box". So, ironically, this is just a complaint that they used some terminology you don't approve of.

Standard notation like sigma for sum isn't really a descriptiveness issue, everyone knows what that means. Not dissimilar to programming languages using `+` instead of `plus()`. No…

It seems like broader adoption of Markdown (or similar lightweight markup) would greatly help with broader adoption of git.

Many software projects have their documentation in Git. That is partly to have the documentation sitting alongside the code, but I would argue it's also because Git is good for man…

Nobody has mentioned pull requests, content review, managing commit/write privileges. There's a bunch of basic workflow things there that version control systems can facilitate. Th…

For drafting yes, but at some point someone will probably want to edit or review the parts collectively. It's easy to prematurely consolidate the chapters into one file, and then a…

Good point, but then the question is why haven't more suitable diff tools been developed?

I assumed most people were talking about dealing with single sites. From your previous comment about API documentation and "hand evaluating" Javascript I gathered that you were too…

The title is problematic but I don't see how that justifies someone calling the whole article low quality or spam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_td1X_c5Gg

Related episode of Build For Tomorrow (formerly Pessimists Archive) podcast: https://player.fm/series/build-for-tomorrow/you-are-not-addi...

Definitely applicable here. There's no way we're going to eliminate all problems with spaces etc, so why invite trouble. I wouldn't say it's always poor engineering though, especia…

This. People are saying spaces improve ergonomics. Unless everyone always quotes their paths in documentation, emails, etc -- which they won't -- I say it actually reduces readabil…

I'm a bit surprised the DuckDB file size is that large (5x Parquet, and nearly as large as sqlite). I haven't used DuckDB, but I thought it had columnar storage and so would have b…

I don't believe there is any 'just parquet' library for R. The `arrow` package is perhaps the easiest way to handle parquet files in R.

According to [0][1], car makers are unwilling or unable to switch from older Intel chips to modern (smaller process) Intel ones. Switching architectures doesn't sound more feasible…