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Comment · 16 days ago
Beyond children, more people in the US in general are killed by drivers/cars than firearms. In the 25-44 age bracket, it's the most probable cause of death IIRC.

And, as an avid pedestrian and cyclist (and as a driver), the more humans we get off the road, the better.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
The title is >Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns.

Isn't being an anti-masker the opposite of this viewpoint? Literally saying, I only care about the returns for myself, even if creates negative value for others.

Comment · 8 months ago
As someone who is "into" programming languages (and making toy implementations of them), I think some of the most important macros are along the lines of Rust/Haskells `derive/deriving` for quickly enabling serialization, printing etc. Using a language without such capability quickly becomes frustrating once you move to any kind of "real" task.
Comment · 9 months ago
As someone who has been primarily writing Rust for the past 8+ years, I am actually unaware of any political drama surrounding Rust. It's just a programming language.
Comment · 9 months ago
Looking at their profile I'm inclined to agree. But I think in isolation, this one post isn't setting off enough red flags for me. At the very least, they aren't just using default prompts.
Comment · 9 months ago
No, it doesn't. The "I'm an expert at AI detection" crowd likes to cite things like "It's not X, it's Y" and other expression patterns without stopping to think that perhaps LLMs regurgitate those patterns because they are frequently used in written speech.

I assign a <5% probability that GP comment was AI written. It's easy to tell, because AI writing has no soul.

Comment · 9 months ago
Unclear why you think this is ChatGPT, doesn't read like it at all to me. Many people - myself included - use punctuation to emphasize and clarify.
Comment · 1 year ago
If you consider correctly citing a source that is explicitly provided in the context via tool use, then sure.

They absolutely cannot correctly cite sources otherwise.

Comment · 1 year ago
The value proposition is multi-cursor editing, which is very nice
Comment · 1 year ago
It's not totally novel, but it's very cool to see the continued simplification of protein folding models - AF2 -> AF3 was a reduction in model architecture complexity, and this is a another step in the direction of the bitter lesson.
Comment · 1 year ago
Probably because ByteDance and Facebook (spun out into EvolutionaryScale) are doing it
Comment · 1 year ago
Protein folding is in no way "solved". AlphaFold dramatically improved the state-of-the-art, and works very well for monomeric protein chains with structurally resolved nearest neighbors. It abjectly fails on the most interesting proteins - just go check out any of the industry's hottest undrugged targets (e.g. transcription factors)
Comment · 1 year ago
There's no problem with randomness in FP?

You could use a monad/external state for an OS-level RNG, or define a purely functional PRNG

Comment · 1 year ago
2016 remains one the greatest single player FPS games I've played (Titan Fall 2 is the other)

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