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Steam Machine 8 months ago

Turns out that a company that is not publicly traded and run by people that only care about stock prices, can actually care about their customers.

Why not do a CI pipeline from the beginning instead of relying on trust that no one ever forgets to run a check, considering adding CI is trivial with gitlab or github.

Crazy that it took this long to allow parameter validation and transformation before calling super in the constructor.

That was something that always bothered me because it felt so counterintuitive.

Why wouldn't you factor in training? It is not like you can train once and then have the model run for years. You need to constantly improve to keep up with the competition. The lifespan of a model is just a few months at this point.

Calling Their Bluff 11 months ago

Do people not use their own government as the entry point for visa applications? I just go to the website of the foreign office of my government which has a list of the requirements to enter every country in the world and what needs to be done and how. I have never started with a google search.

Sure, it was never my intention to make it seem like a general statement, just highlighting that there is a large class of problems for which it is true.

As you point out there are many problems that higher complexity classes than NP.

At the heart of the P vs NP problem lies the observation that solution verification seems to be much easier than solution generation. If that applies in this context is another question but I think it is not unreasonable to assume that the judge needs to be less powerful than the performer.

Or in other words, I don't need to be a chef myself to decide if a meal is good or not.

Search will fold into AI. ChatGPT already searches for answers on given prompts.

There will no longer be a reason to interact with a search engine directly for most people, AI will decide by itself if it retrieves from memory or performs a search.

Dark patterns 12 months ago

Plenty of people work in weapon manufacturing or other jobs that bring way more harm to people than a website popup.

I think it is practical when highlighting text and then pressing " once puts quotes and the start and the end of the highlighted region.

But I agree that in normal input it is often annoying.

For me the usefulness of LLMs is proportional to how shitty google has become. When searching for something you get a bunch of blog spam or other SSO optimised shit results to pages that open dozens of popups asking you to subscribe or make an account. ChatGPT gives you the answer immediately and I must say I find it helpful 90% of the time.

For simple coding questions it is also very good because it takes your current context into account. It is basically a smarter "copy paste from stack overflow".

At least for now LLMs do not replace any meaningful work for me, but they replace google more and more.

I don't understand how no language has really figured out dependencies in a way that is truly sharable. It seems like docker is the only way to create applications that can be build and run everywhere without headache.

but when pushing to git it would get transpiled to the most common subset.

What about the other direction? I don't think it will be very useful to not be able to read the exact code you wrote after the fact. Feels like writing a book but every sentence you enter is instantly rephrased by ChatGPT to sound more convoluted.

I would love to hear if anyone can think of any one thing nearly as useful in so many ways.

What about a computer? If you make the argument that it is a composite of many different elements, so is a deck of cards.

Pi Chess Board 2 years ago

The issue with these "ghost chess" implementations are always the same things

1. How do captured pieces get removed? 2. How to handle pieces that move through other pieces (knights, castling)? 3. How to promote a pawn?

I have never seen these solved in something that is not awkward and neither seems to be the case here.

Anyone interested in more recent examples, look up the binaural versions of some of Jean-Michel Jarre's albums.

Most of his music is very experimental but I recommend "Zero Gravity" from "Live in Notre Dame - Binaural headphone mix". It is a straight forward EDM track.

It is in the article that the screenshots are from RustRover, so the argument is that other IDEs should also implement this feature.