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    the toy problem is for demonstration purposes. this is a lived experienced in everyday programming of performance sensitive fields. those apps tend to be vastly more architecturall…

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    Comment #49156391

    quite loaded words there. "knowledge", "relationships". the llm must be able to output the correct code when the input says something like 'place object x to the left of object y' …

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    yes. in the sense that they probably wouldnt want to do this but the law forces them to do an extremely dumb thing. they're paying for the books, no shady things going on there. wh…

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    Comment #49008431

    technology is just a red herring. GTA-level whacky NPCs will have NPC behaviour regardless of what situation you throw them in. The same "person" that shows absurd behaviour like t…

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    Comment #48556526

    this is true, but in practice the EU and its local governments have a giant issue with incompetence when it comes to the specifics of regulation. it's overregulated and sometimes e…

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    Comment #48552935

    Not ragebait, actual question. Isn't this kind of scenario exactly the kind of thing where capitalism is supposed to generate a lot of competition that makes everything higher qual…

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    I think the steps would be like this: - get understanding of ordinary vector linear algebra. - understand what vector dot product does and why - understand why an orthogonal set of…

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    5 microseconds is a whole lot of time for just a branch misprediction, which is on the order of a few nanoseconds. probably a lot more important stuff going on and focusing on the …

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    the answer is a big depends. but I can give you some ballpark intuition. perhaps it's easiest to think about regular image processing because it uses the same hardware. you can thi…

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    it's not meaningless, it has several direct implications about the nature of reality. consider that subjective experience - to put it in the weakest and most general statement - cl…

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    Comment #45115087

    no, the first principles could be reduced to the domain that you're working in, which in this case would be non-relativistic physical optics. that is, the description of electromag…

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    Comment #45115028

    with one eye you have temporal parallax, depth cues (ordering of objects in your vision), lighting cues, relative size of objects (things further away are smaller) together with yo…