EliRivers
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Comment · 2 days ago
While I can't speak for other places, in the UK, if you haven't been careless and report quickly enough, your refund is not dependent on anyone being caught.
Comment · 7 days ago
Indeed; but for the author, the challenge was not to produce a good translation of anything, or to develop a good automated process for doing so. It was to bash together a website that churns out translations, without even a specified level of quality. For the author, these are all challenges of making a process to do something; not to produce any actual artifacts of quality.
Comment · 7 days ago
I can solve any engineering problem (that I can come up with) with the help of artificial intelligence.
Great. Practical nuclear fusion power, please.
Comment · 9 days ago
One might almost say evolutionary. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31163155/ , for example
Comment · 14 days ago
"I thought there was a big need for turbine reactors to keep the pace of AC."
I understand it can also be done with battery powered systems, which respond an order of magnitude faster than gas turbine stabilisers.
Comment · 15 days ago
Indeed. Turns out the doorman is doing a number of additional tasks, not just opening the door, and thus cannot be identically replaced with an automatic door opener. And here we are, right back at the start of the conversation.
Comment · 17 days ago
I have worked with some who believe everything it says, copy paste code without thought no matter how bad a solution it is, spend hours in pathological loops iterating in circles and getting nowhere, and various other ways to generate a lot of code that kind of works so long as you don't go beyond limits and constraints that the software engineer committing it has no understanding of.
I would definitely like some way to know if they can be trusted with an LLM or if someone is going to be hard reviewing everything they submit forever. Don't know quite how to test that but asking them to use an LLM must be part of it.
Comment · 20 days ago
sound an alarm if a stove burner is on but no person is detected in the room
Can you turn that off or do you just have to put up with the noise?
Comment · 28 days ago
They are fundamentally suited to everything not proven to be outside their modelling ability.
This doesn't seem to make much sense. Surely us being able to prove that something is outside their modelling ability doesn't affect whether it is or not. If I prove something true tomorrow, whatever I proved was also true today.
Or do we have a proof that everything beyond them has already been proved and there are no more proofs left to find?
Comment · 1 month ago
Apropos, some of the most wholesome community spirit I've seen in recent years has been amongst the degenerate gamblers of wallstreetbets.
Comment · 1 month ago
Well what if rather than a Tesla+, one bought a cheaper EV instead? In the UK, the Leapmotor T03 seems to go for around 16000 GBP new. That's actually not much more than an equivalent petrol car.
Comment · 1 month ago
It was going to be celebrity meat. As in, genetically identical to celebrities. In some circles, it would become de rigueur to host dinner parties at which one served meat cultured from the people throwing the dinner party. I wanted to see that future.
Comment · 1 month ago
That's not the definition of socialism in any case.
In many cases it very much is the definition of socialism.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, it is. Beyond simple examples, I've fixed segfaults by identifying the assembly where it happens, tracing that back to the lump of source where it happens, guessed which piece is accessing memory and deducing from surrounding code how it was meant to be protected against.
In that case, the pattern matching was against every segfault I've ever fixed, which is a lot, and traipsing through assembly, which is also a lot. Lots of experience in tracing back to source code. So did that. Matching patterns. Didn't understand the language, don't know what it's trying to do, but I know what memory access is (because I've seen the pattern "access memory" a lot in my life) and this piece of code must be matching that pattern; whatever this code is, it must be touching memory. Now scroll up and down to look for similar code in other places, that I also cannot read but I can see when things look the same; match the pattern of pieces that work with this piece that doesn't. Oh, this looks the same but it has this extra piece; part of the pattern matches, part does not. Matching patterns. What if I copy it, paste into the bad place, apply a single change to match the symbols I see in the bad place, and see what happens... fixed.
It's not something I do every day and it's not nearly as good as actually understanding it, but the problem was solved and I did not know what the code was trying to do or how to read it.
All the above aside, surely it must be possible, because we have machines that do exactly that. They're made of statistics and patterns and they're doing it. Right in front of us. There is nothing else in there and they're doing it right now.