KrugerDunnings

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Comment · 3 years ago
I already told you I don't want to talk about this here and now. It is not dumb but it is disrespectful to demand explanations from strangers, like I have time for this.
Comment · 3 years ago
Well it's there in the name, they add machine learning to Postgres. They are not the only ones doing this, I am working on a similar idea and I don't think all of us are as misguided as the crypto bros of 2022. This is as much about Postgres as it is about AI. No one has yet successfully communicated what those in the know are seeing, and it is sort of hard to explain but relational databases are a good match for AI. Personally my strategy is to try to build compelling application instead of an infrastructure play, but to each its own and I wish them the best.
Comment · 3 years ago
That be fine also. I've been playing around with sixel and it's a great way to add plotting to a repl.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'd love some sixel support to embedded graphics in the terminal
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Universal grammar in the way that Chomsky suggested, a sort of structure all humans must have in there brain, is not a thing. But I believe there is something like the "universality of grammar" where the human vision system or motor system can have a grammatical quality to them. In that sense that there is ambiguity in which tree structure represent the world. I've seen this in many places but I am not sure if someone has put this into (better) writing.
Comment · 3 years ago
Well I am at least glad that someone name drops someone other then TBL.
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The big lie about the semantic web is this ridiculous notion that it is machine readable just because it has an unambiguous grammar to parser and has ontologies to disambiguate homonyms.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sentence embeddings have been great for improving semantic search, but I am still struggling with finding relevant documents for numerical values. Questions like "what people where born in 1992" or "people with at least 4 children". One thing I can do is pre-process the data by transforming the date of birth into boomers/zoomers/millenials and the like but this does not help on the question side if people don't know what to ask
Comment · 3 years ago
Lets break down the three clains in reverse order:

1. Are there primitive societies of hunter-gatherer that are not self aware, as in they don't pass neurological test that measure this?

2. From a evolutionary perspective what is the advantage of this sexual dimorphism and given that this advantage exists why did this advantage disappear afterwards and become present in both sexes. Are there any other traits where woman are shown to have larger divergence. I thought men where the "weak" sex in this regard.

3. If consciousness is recent then how do you explain conscious trails and self awareness in lower primates, is this also a case of convergent evolution?

Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, in my career I've seen a OO extension of C written in XML that required a custom eclipse plugin to write. A language where you defined a function like: function foo() while (...) ... end while; if (...) ... end if; end foo, because those guys loved the C++ style of putting comments at the end of control structures. Finally there was the language you had to write in excel that was exported to CSV that in turn was used to generate XML that was parsed before compile time to generate java code with System.out.println and was finally loaded at runtime through some dynamic loading. I never had any respect for these people as engineers, I was very KrugerDunnings early on in my career but I don't think I was to entirely to blame for always knowing better.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are a lot more middle man then that, a lot of CEO and CTO i've met had an almost active disintrest in anything technical or even practical knowledge of there product, not knowing the priorities is in there own backlog or not knowing what an init system is or does but ask you how to start a process when a computer starts. Unbelievable what people complain about in meetings without having googles that problems in MONTHS. Most people just secretly hate technology and will grasp at anything that gives them an excuse not to care.

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