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> given how atoms are mostly empty space and how the universe itself is mostly empty space

Are they? You've forgotten the wave/particle duality, which is appropriate, because it's analogous to the broader argument.

There are (at least) two ways of understanding reality. One is done wth science and analysis, the other isn't. One can be broken down into "things", the other features conglomerates of those things. Just saying "well microscopy and deconstruction don't work on this, so it doesn't exist" is literally absurd.

The rest of your comment there is just a strawman.
I could understand these arguments, in a way, when they are about IP that hasn't been used in decades. But Nintendo still exists and is still producing Mario games. Why should any other company be able to use the Mario theme?
Nassim Taleb has a great bit on it: characteristics of "natural" systems tend to settle on gaussian distribution on a long enough time frame. Weight, life span, force, height, skills... On the other end, systems that we have created have metrics that tend to not follow the normal law: money, electricity consumption, size of houses, etc.

It's not a perfect match and I'm not trying to write a white paper on anything. It's just a way to warm up the reader to the essay point.
The amount of users who care about Mastodon is negligible when compared with the amount of Twitter users. People have already voted and Mastodon got the thumbs down.
Fortunately someone took care of the Nord Stream pipelines.
It all really depends on your definition of IT person.

Some IT Helpdesk people are most definitely not IT, they just have a knowledge base they look things up, assuming they can' understand what you are saying.

Many companies offshore this to places like Jakarta, and you are left with really dismal service many times, and non-existent escalation paths almost guaranteeing corporate escalation for important issues.
I was using Waze a couple days ago while connected to CarPlay, but at a dead stop with the car in Park. The route selection screen on the phone wouldn't let me choose a particular route (HOV route) but it also wouldn't say why. It just either didn't respond to the input or else the route label flashed but didn't actually activate. The CarPlay screen only included the non-HOV versions of the routes, so I just plain couldn't pick the route I wanted.

I unplugged the phone for two seconds, picked the HOV route, and then plugged it back in, but I was infuriated by it.

This is not a knock on CarPlay, but rather Waze's UX decisions. It requires GPS access to function, it can tell if I'm stopped or not.
You are a great example of the too good to be helpful crowd.

"Things should have a good doc and you should read it".

I could not have come up with a better example in the article.

This is just perfect :)
How Many Weeks Do You Have Left? A Reminder to Seize the Day
How much health precision do you need? Make hp an int. Or like a /64 fixed point.
Such a smug blog posting from a social media network with 56 users or so...
What about Transformers?

And GPT-3 is fundamental improvement to earlier LLMs. Same goes for speech recognition which went from highly parametric to end to end in the last decade. Many other things like stable diffusion, TTS, etc.

It's like github's UI. If you use it daily, you maybe notice a little change here or there, but it doesn't disrupt you much. But now if one checks github screenshots from 10 years ago they look so different.

Say for example Youtube's auto transcription feature. I remember when it launched, it wasn't that bad but got many things wrong. Now it's really good, still making mistakes but gotten much better.
As technology progresses, it will probably be possible to scan human brains and make digital copies. With the digital copies, and further study, at some point humans will likely fully decode and know exactly how brains work.

At that point, there isn't any magic or mystery. You can create androids who are as equally intelligent as humans. Maybe we will place some limits or restrictions on them, as safeguards, but no telling how that will work out as time goes by. We might not be too far away from such a day, relatively speaking. Maybe it will take another 25 to 50 years. But it looks like we will get there, if we don't self destruct before then via nuclear war or some other catastrophe.
No, I presented it as a counterexample to the claim that LLMs just statistically regurgitate existing data.
Highly recommend the book: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman.
To expand on this, one of the most common tricks is Nucleus sampling. Roughly, you zero out the lowest probabilities such that the remaining sum to just above some threshold you decide (often around 80%).

The idea is that this is more general than eg changing the temperature of the softmax, or using top-k where you just keep the k most probable outcomes.

Note that if you do Nucleus sampling (aka top-p) with the threshold p=0% you just pick the maximum likelihood estimate.
The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s
The price is fine, I'm more so talking about not having a pricing section on the main website and instead being on another website domain.
Well, in this case, if a unit is converted to a different type and back, it would just keep its (absolute) value of HP (in this case 1), no need to scale anything.
> Want to join Mastodon? First you have to choose an instance...

This is one of the essential problems that frustrates normal users from moving to another social network. We are yet to talk about the mediocre 'search' function, co-ordinated instance-level bans, rouge moderators, instances shutting down / falling over, etc.

Techies love discussing about how complex something is, where as the majority of users do not care especially normal users moving from Twitter to Mastodon which from the looks of it, was no 'mass migration'. As many instances have closed registrations, if the largest instances re-opened them it further defeats the purpose of federation and encourages instance centralization.

We haven't even mentioned the strong network effect of Twitter being the major reason why little to no-one other than the 'screaming techies of the Twitter apocalypse' got angry, packed their bags and moved to Mastodon. The event was as if it was a leaf falling out of a tree.
By that logic Microsoft is also incredibly altruistic ;)
On top of that, they need separation of state and religion.
Except that it is actually useful and pioneered a bunch of user friendly features that no one else bothered to implement.
As usual late to the party, but author here. AMA and all that.
Yeah, it's very much Alex Jones's favoured tactic as well.

I think the Gish Gallop is one of those situations where it's entirely valid to deploy an ad hominem - and the more ruthlessly, the better - since the only viable and time-efficient approach is to discredit the person so that everything they say is ignored by as many people as possible[0].

Some people are - understandably - squeamish about ad hominems, but if a person is a known bullshitter, liar, or simply parrots whatever they've heard elsewhere without regard for accuracy, it's often the best way of dealing with them becauase you won't have time to deal with the merits, or lack thereof, of their arguments individually.

The problem comes when the ad hominem is your default approach as, again, it so often is in the media and politics... and, indeed, in work and everyday life. I don't enjoy seeing it deployed against people acting or arguing in good faith, even where I disagree with them.

But if somebody is acting or arguing in bad faith, have at them.

[0] Yes, there might be some truth mixed in with the lies and bullshit, but you'll be able to get that same truth from better and more reliable sources. It's a better use of time and mental energy to simply ignore the unreliable source.
for you. Works fine for me and millions others.
ASUS Zenphone has a setting that lets you set a charging limit at 80, 90, or 100%.
I agree that the UX has become cluttered but Heardle was never integrated into the apps UX, it was a totally standalone website.
Can you give an example? I am unfamiliar (and interested).
How do headunits like that address changing settings that can only be changed from the infotainment?
That's funny! I'll still go ahead and attempt a somewhat serious answer. xD Arguably it's an addition to his original code that possibly modularizes his kernel in ways that he isn't familiar with, and that also might add completely new and unknown features to it. Thus it would probably behove him to read the Wiki either way. On the other hand, perhaps he's so 1337 that all he needs to do is to read the source code. My most major caveat here is that I don't myself know if there are any actual differences between his original kernel, and the code committed to the Arch Project. I thus think others are more qualified to say something intelligent about that, but these are my assumptions anyway. Hope you're having a great weekend! Skål!
It's not just maintenance, Microsoft has released several expansion packs to the original Age of Empires II, plus an Xbox port to boot.
We have artists for that. I heard they can compete with sota methods.
> because they don't give publishers the option to distribute their games using an offline, DRM free installer.

What does this mean? You can still publish your game through other channels if you publish through steam right? I mean there are games that are on Steam and other platforms.
> It's an amazing TA — better than any I've had in undergrad, and way better than office hours, where your prof don't really care and wants to go back to their research

It may be for trivial things (under which I mean that there is basically a verbatim answer on the internet that it had in its training data), but I don’t think it’s a good idea in general — if you talk with it on any topic that you are knowledgeable on, you notice it spews a bunch of nonsense and it is really hard to recognize that otherwise. And I’m not talking about just hard questions, something as basic as Java medior interview questions have sometimes glaring inconsistencies - it sounds techy and detailed, but ultimately wrong.
note that embedding and positional vectors are fixed and not trained with the transformer. The attention vectors are also computed in each step, but what is learned is the transformation of inputs to qvk vectors and the fully connected layers. There are some great people on youtube who explain the series of steps. I think this is the most comprehensive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw_PJdmydZY
The raw margin (per unit) can be high even when the manufacturer is a poorly run company.
Some aspects of the problem, exagerated for effect: boolean isDead = (new I("0.9")).divide(new I("55")).multiply(new I("0.1")).lessThan(new I("1"))
As someone who almost entirely moved over, I’d say you are right on average and wrong in practice - most of the tech people I follow are more active on Mastodon, and right now there is only a handful of people I actively go back to Twitter to read.
What definition of corruption are you using here?

As far as I can tell, an absolute monarchy that is run for the benefit of the ruler can still have rule of law and low corruption.

As an alternate history example, take Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore, but make him king and increase his salary to 1 billion SGD per year (instead of 1 million SGD per year). Change nothing else.

They would still be one of the least corrupt countries on earth, and have a judiciary that enforces the rule of law.

> Rule of law in a non-democratic polity inherently benefits its rulers more than other citizens.

That can and does happen in democracies, too.
People's computers are used for everything from doing everything from earning money, banking, managing their life, their money, their future. Video games by contrast are about as important as a flea on your dogs ass. It is profoundly weird to put the former at even slight risk for the latter. The fact that we are attempting to normalize this doesn't make it normal or sane.

Running always on software when the game isn't running and talking to resources on the internet is incredibly suspicious. The presence of the tray icon isn't causing users to "FUD" themselves. It is rather making this suspicious behavior—running continually—more obvious. The fact that you seem to think its just ordinary stupidity like leaving crap littered around your filesystem doesn't make it less concerning. People wouldn't be fishing around for traces of it to eliminate like purging a piece of malware if it weren't already acting like malware. If it was initially due to a bug that would be a fine time to communicate with users.

The right way to handle this is to say sorry we screwed up we wont punish people for liking a review in the future. If any aspect of the review is inaccurate the logical response is to have valve or the dev respond to this. If it really really doesn't belong you remove it. There is no scenario where you randomly ban people from reviewing it for voting the wrong way.

> if it was grossly breaking GDPR or such I don't think the game or the company could stay up long

How exactly do you propose that would happen? How would people learn their rights are being violated?

Lastly this is your only comment on this site and it seems to be a tad slanted. Do you work for a party involved in this?
AI = compression + goal. Though strictly speaking I think compression is only required in partially-observable and/or stochastic worlds where the information content of the world (far) exceeds the actor's model capacity.
they might have a resistor to indicate how much current is okay to draw, or they might be hooked up to a chip negotiating things like the voltage for the pd protocol, but usually it will be an asic that doesn't even really have firmware
From a practical standpoint Open-Source software is often also a hard sell, if you ignore the value of the gained freedom. This linked project isn't much different from someone running Gentoo with Libreboot and a custom kernel. Is it necessary or practical? Maybe not. Environmentally friendly to recompile everything? Nope. But that person probably learned a lot in the process and had some fun with it.

> I've never seen github pages down after years of using it.

Sure, though with those services the actual uptime doesn't exceed the user account's lifetime.
was. It's gotten a lot better.
> Burnout is just the moment whe you stop fruitlessly caring.

To me it was the moment I started breaking down in tears when getting to the subway station down my street, on my way to work. Every day.

The next time was when I could not speak about my job and the project I was working on without stammering and my mind going blank (and still couldn’t for months after quitting).

“Frustrated" and "stop to fruitlessly care" don’t feel like they even begin to describe that.

> But you -want- to care (about something) so not-caring leads to depression.

Having also gone through a decade-long depression before that, I’d personally say these two are very different beasts. Both are quite unpleasant, and neither is viable, but each in it’s own way.
I know very little of baseball, but there is a finnish variation of the game[1] where hitting the ball too far is ”illegal”. Also the ball is pitched differently which makes hitting it easier and more tactical.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesäpallo
That's not true, games without DRMs installed through Steam can be launched without having Steam running. It all depends on the publisher's policy, Valve is just complying.
The ship has sailed for car makers in terms of software. They lost the trust and what we are seeing are futile attempts. The only way they could win back control if some conglomerates would back some internally vetted Linux-like platform with industry third party/community support as a viable third alternative in addition to providing CarPlay/Android Auto. No single car maker can do this alone. I know it's unrealistic to expect this but there is no other option.

I wish at least Android Automotive would be developed with an AOSP-like model.
It makes for more creative challenges. If someone has a good idea for a Mario game, they could do it. If Nintendo wants to create something unique, they'd have to take more risks and create something new. We're talking one new character every few decades.
I never take loans other than a mortgage (which I paid off), instead I use money I saved up. If you have to take out a loan för the installation the calculation would change depending on how much the sharks take.

The installation produces between 12.000 and 15.000 kWh per year which either is used directly (about 1/3) or sold at wholesale rate. Price for 1 kWh varies between ~1.50kr and ~5kr, last winter there were some extremes going up to more than 10kr. The minimum of 1.50kr occurs when electricity is basically free and constitutes taxes and surcharges which are always levied. Average price paid per kWh lies somewhere between 2kr and 4kr. With an average self-consumption of about 1/3 of the production, i.e. 4000-5000 kWh this saves ~13.500kr/year. The rest is sold at market rate plus an additional 0.31kr/kWh feed-in payment from the network operator, the total average ends up somewhere around 1kr/kWh giving around 9000kr/year for a yearly total (savings+income) of ~22.500kr/year. The total cost for the installation was ~130.000kr (66.700kr for the panels, 27.500kr för the inverter, 21.500kr for the mounting hardware, 5000kr for the cables (about half of which is not used yet, meant for future extension), 6000kr for electrical hardware like overcurrent protection, fusing and AC breaker plus a bit for screws, clips and nails.

Without compound interest the payback period is 5.7 years, with current low interest levels it is not much more.

I can probably deduct part of the investment from taxes so this will bring down the payback period even more, in the end it will be somewhere around 5 years.
Those implementations are useful as empirical tests of what works/doesn't.

However, it's also useful to keep such academic debates going; since it's unlikely that our current abstractions are the most optimal. For example:

- Hoare added `null` to Algol because it was pragmatic; and he later regretted it. In contrast, "academics" like Milner added algebraic datatypes to ML, which turned out to provide a much safer alternative (Option/Maybe).

- "Pragmatic" languages like Python, Javascript, etc. added try/throw for exceptional control-flow. Then added for/yield for resumable control-flow. Then added async/await for concurrent control-flow. Meanwhile, "academics" refined Scheme's call-with-current-continuation into shift/reset, which allows all of those to be written in libraries, rather than having to keep changing the language implementation.

- Languages like ML and Scheme used call-by-value, which happened to make side-effects quite pragmatic. Meanwhile "academics" debated call-by-need semantics, Moggi figured out that effects are monadic, and Wadler added it to Haskell. That enabled a bunch of functionality that would have been undermined by the presence of side-effects (e.g. implicit parallelism, software-transactional memory, parser combinators, promises/futures, etc.)
You can use WiX Toolset version 4 to create Windows installers. Version 3 is Windows-only, but Version 4 runs under .NET "the-one-that-runs-on-Linux". It produces MSI files.

https://wixtoolset.org/docs/intro/
I stand corected.
I've been burnt out since Christmas. It has been five months. It was so bad that I started seeing a counselor purely because of my job.

The only good portion of my job is that the work is extremely light (healthcare and govt contracting) so I get a lot of time to myself.

Most of my good team and mentors have left in the past year and teh new execs are micromanaging fkers who'd rather have Mandatory fun meetings and have our cameras on during morning 0800 scrums because why not? "It builds teamwork!"

...I've resigned myself to looking for another job at this point.
Steam is possibly one of the least worse monopolies that have existed. It doesn't block the products from being sold on other platforms, takes care of quite a lot for those who use it.

I think it is lesser evil compared to having dozens of stores and accounts to manage with some of them dying and taking the products down with them. If you were to play range of titles you could possibly end up with quite many clients running in background, just for that having single big player is positive.
The MIT article is cited in this research paper and it is likely that it has been the one which inspired the start of this research.

However the progress made from the very primitive device described by MIT and the high-performance prototype made by the Chinese team has been huge.

The Chinese have used completely other materials, which enabled also a long lifetime, not only a better efficiency. There are many new constructive details which contribute to an increased efficiency. The design methodology used by the Chinese for the lossless optical filter is far more advanced and it enabled a much better filter with much less layers.

The MIT article showed an interesting idea, for which it was not clear if it can be successful in practice, while this shows a real device that needs only minor changes in order to become suitable for mass production (e.g. the replacement of HfO2 with TiO2 in the window coating and the replacement of the O-ring used in the prototype with hermetic glass-alumina bonding).

This device could be easily converted into a commercial product in a couple of years.
As someone who is extremely tuned into the sport and is also very familiar with the discussions around “why isn’t baseball fun to watch” this makes a lot of assumptions (namely what will or won’t cause humans from the world population to become either interested or disinterested in the sport) that might not be true.

It could be that “the type of baseball being played now isn’t as popular” it could be “the sport of baseball isn’t as popular with today’s demographics” or simply “other sports have eaten baseball’s lunch” but as the stat nerds love to say, we have no idea if there is correlation or causation between team play optimization and decreased viewership/attendance across the league. Lots of sloppy, but visually interesting play may or may not bring in more fans than three true outcome optimization but there’s no way to isolate that factor from all the other noise of general cultural interest. Maybe there was nothing MLB could do, and humans today just don’t like baseball as much, the same way American kids today are more inclined to play a video game than with a hoop and stick.
The goal of the feature removal is obviously to hide (censor) the displeasure of the audience towards certain videos, so I disagree that it is unrelated.
It says on the page, "This review has been banned by a Steam moderator..." Probably not even a contractor, but just a volunteer. And now Valve is taking a significant PR hit because of their ineptitude. You get what you pay for.
That's just your opinion though ;) Why should the process of producing a build artifact be different from putting the artifact into the right place? E.g. Makefiles usually have a 'make install' step which isn't all that different from uploading the build result somewhere, and make definitely counts as a build system.
The platform that didn't/doesn't bother with a Linux client? Why should I bother?
Re this news, I think the furter development of this company could be interesting. For the English language there are already some good alternatives. For the German language there is WhatImean,
www.whatimean.com
,which inlcuded a check of style and grammar.