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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
> On a noisy TypeScript repository, it improved F1 by 0.246 and used 12% fewer tokens. The useful predictor was lexical noise, not whether the language had strong static types.

What is "lexical noise", which appears to be a key term in the argument, and why is it not defined? Does it mean that an identifier could show up in, say, a docstring in a non-structured way where a semantic tool would not identify it?

Makes sense to me that LLMs, which are language based, would match better with a tool that searches at a language lever rather than at a deeper structured level.

Comment · 2 months ago
Wouldn't "the typical person has above average number of legs" or some such be better?
Comment · 2 months ago
This is not general to all subjects in Danish universities. I studied physics in Denmark and while the majority of my exams after the second year match this description (though not all), my impression is that this is not at all the norm. Students in the humanities in my dorm, for example, seemed to have an overwhelming majority of several-day take-home written exams (with no associated oral defense).
Comment · 3 months ago
It seems like you're just clutching at strals now
Comment · 3 months ago
Lethal self defense?
Comment · 7 months ago
How is it even possible that we've reached a point where "yes, this is obvious and pretty unsurprising" is the default response to spying on an industrial scale.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
My version of Firefox (146.0 on Debian) has exactly this. If I select a sentence and right-click, I get the menu item "Translate selection to <LANGUAGE>". In the resulting box, I can change the language pair - but the defaults that I have seen were also reasonable.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/website-translation has the text: "A new Translate selection feature has been added starting in Firefox version 128, that enables you to highlight and translate selected text."

Edit: Sorry, I misread the comment to say that there was no such menu item. Edited to reflect this.

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Comment · 11 months ago
That would (mostly if not always) work in the sense of reproducing the layout of the pages, but would defeat the purpose of preserving the semantic information present in the TeX file (what is a heading, a reference and to what, a specific math environment, etc.) which is AFAIK already mostly dropped on conversion to PDF by the latex compiler.
Comment · 11 months ago
Why have you failed though? Is the point to try to deceive people to think that XKCD actually published something else? Why not modify the xkcd one without hinding the fact that you modified it?
Comment · 1 year ago
What defines private sites, I wonder – beyond "such as local IP addresses like 192.168.0.1, single-label hostnames, and shortlinks like intranet/"?

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