linguistbreaker

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Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder if there is a rigorous/formal method to identify 'monotonicity' in code? Seems like it should be straightforward...
Comment · 1 year ago
They may both be barriers but I have to concur that Qualcomm's especially is well known for the patent strategy and a good portion of their revenue comes from licensing IP that is de facto industry standard if not unavoidable in all implementations due to physics/compsci or regulation.
Comment · 1 year ago
Prompt engineering was just trying to fit all the context into one prompt - but actually there would often be a series of prompts both positive and negative so...

I get coining a new term and that can be useful in itself but I don't see a big conceptual jump here.

Comment · 1 year ago
Mindfulness and building the habit of letting go - let thoughts pass by like clouds, or landscape passing from a train. You notice the thought, but do not dwell on it.

The initial stage of dwelling gives thoughts footholds and reinforces them without evaluation of their validity. If a thought is worthwhile, you'll come back to it because it will stand out in the landscape of thoughts that went by.

Adopt of mindset of letting thought flow over and through you rather than catching each one and dwelling on it. When thoughts are shallow and numerous, this is like brainstorming.

Comment · 1 year ago
Java's API docs are very complete and explicit.

Certain points about the language, as well as certain long-existing open source projects have been discussed ad-nauseum online. This all adds to the body of knowledge.

Comment · 1 year ago
My take on choice of language:

1) Java has the largest, oldest and most explicit data set for the LLM to reference, so it's likely to be the most thorough, if not the most correct.

2) Go with the language YOU know best because you'll be able to spot when the LLM is incorrect, flawed in its 'reasoning', hallucinating etc.

Comment · 1 year ago
I strongly agree. FAANG has the money to do the research. LLMs are far from intelligent - AGI will require a number of other advances.
Comment · 1 year ago
Exponentially bad word choice even... since we're using that word however we want now?

I don't think this is meaningless or non-constructive pedantry - we're a technical community and those are technical words.

Comment · 1 year ago
I hadn't heard of this and it's fun to think about.

It's 100,000 s/day as opposed to our current 86,400 s/day which is not far off.

Hours, however, were twice as long.

They had time pieces that displayed both together.

Comment · 1 year ago
Polonius was famously wrong about everything.
Comment · 1 year ago
The POTUS should not have this authority obviously, BUT

As "Ivies" grew their endowments at hundreds of percent faster than their student bodies, they became essentially hedge funds that do some education.

Comment · 1 year ago
i believe pineapple pizza is a favorite and they'll eat the whole damn thing.
Comment · 1 year ago
The article says "individual cells within MMB consortia are not genetically identical, they differ slightly in their genetic blueprint."
Comment · 1 year ago
Love the writing as well as the content here.

Especially fascinated by the coordinated replication.

Also curious about magnetotactics - why would such a small scale organism need to orient to such a large scale phenomenon (the earth's magnetic field)? Wouldn't it make more sense for this electromagnetic sense to be used for smaller scale orientation in their environment?

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