@SealOfTheEnd @nearcyan it's an engineer's job to figure out the implementation.
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And risking readers finding out errors in the code? Or maybe worse... having people figuring out how easy the idea behind these smart-looking symbols actually is?
Daniel 🦔@DanielW_Kiwi
Why do academics write code like this in papers? Wouldn't a real language make more sense?
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@martinmbauer Where is the arithmetic error?
My reading of it is that this is an issue of different data. Surely Chris would not have written based on the 1.5M value
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Not being able to do basic math should be considered as problematic as illiteracy. How can you expect representatives to make correct decisions if they can’t verify such simple calculations?
Secretary Chris Wright@SecretaryWright
Even if you wrapped the entire planet in a solar panel, you would only be producing 20% of global energy. One of the biggest mistakes politicians can make is equating the ELECTRICITY with ENERGY!
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This chart is being horribly misinterpreted.
This is not where the training data of AI comes from, it is a study done by a SEO firm that claims to show how often sites come up at least once in THE WEB SEARCH FUNCTION of certain AI agents when they do a web search for more info.
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@MichaelAArouet The answer is that southern Italy is full of DNA from North Africa
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@schutzsmith did you know that you can buy laundry service?
it's probably the same price as you pay for your laundromat, and they fold your clothes too.
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Little Known Life Hack: I do my laundry at the laundromat. I have a washer and dryer at home but I find it’s faster and easier to do it in 2 hours every two weeks than a little bit every other day.
Also forces me to take some time listening to an audiobook. 😁
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seattle is gonna spend $7B to get light rail to my neighborhood in a decade or two
for the same price we could fund 1 minute frequency buses with dedicated bus lanes for 100 years starting tomorrow
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Ryan Moulton@moultano
Dedicated bus lanes have 90% of the benefits of light rail at 0.01% of the cost, but they can't shake the connotation that the bus is for the poor, so we keep dreaming about light rail.
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I really hate most of the online coverage of crime and legal cases exactly for this reason, it's very murky fact wise, and we don't have access to what juries and lawyers and cops/judges see much less understand the relevant legalities involved so it's a cesspool of misinformation 95 percent of the time when something hits the outrage virality online mobs
JayMan@JayMan471
Stella’s take on the Scottish girls let’s me make this point: if these girls were in the exact same situation and the exact same place/time, but were brown or *black*, none of you would care and would be saying even worse things about them. It’s OK to have in-group favoritism, that can be helpful. One way I have a different take than Stella is that I recognize the importance of *symbols*. These girls could be powerful symbols. That said, the situation is still WAY too murky and clear information about what actually happened remains lacking. I would suggest understanding what Stella is *actually* saying before you attack.
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@jiqizhixin I met similar issue in Tencent Yuanbao using Deepseek engine.
It just randomly threw out weird characters once a time. I checked and found it out.
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DeepSeek V3.1 has a serious bug: it randomly outputs “extreme” / “极” / “極” in unexpected places. This breaks code compilation, corrupts JSON, and more. Many suspect the root cause is data contamination.
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@HawaiiFalcon @Jeffrey28627067 @ItIsHoeMath From what i recall, that 2-3% range is alleged for misattributed fatherhood. i haven't checked the data, but i think that in our analogy that might be something closer to planting evidence than speeding.
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@GitNeo @Jeffrey28627067 @ItIsHoeMath My wager is actually 2-3%. Just like spouses who cheat, some are pretty good at not getting caught. Or they break just enough of the rules to let coworkers roll their eyes and let it go, but not enough to get their brother a citation. They're human, just like the rest of us.
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This is why cops don't help with the Big Problem happening right now, and why they brutalize you when you try to do something about it.
They hire as many guys like this as they possibly can, who only care about having power over others. They couldn't care less about their city or country as long as "I get to do what I want and not you."
I've met cops who bragged about speeding off the clock like this guy. I met a cop who confiscated coke from someone and then bragged about using it himself. I could say worse but it'll be too specific.
This is how the powerful get people to control their own kind - they look for this personality type and say "you get power as long as you obey"
Insane Reality Leaks@InsaneReality
Not even on duty and going twice the speed limit 😮💨🚔
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@Jeffrey28627067 @HawaiiFalcon @ItIsHoeMath are there really only a tiny handful? where can i check how many there are
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@HawaiiFalcon @ItIsHoeMath 0.01%. Maybe less based on the sheer number of people who hate cops and the fact there's only a tiny handful of videos of cops misbehaving. In the age of the cellphone, everything is seen, and there's nothing people love more than hating on cops.
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Here is a random thought I've been having for a while already. People were making 3D games WITHOUT hardware acceleration in 1998. Surely today in 2025 CPUs are magnitudes more fast than in 1998.
So you can probably make a software rendered 3D game today that looks and performs much much better than Thief and don't have to deal with the bullshit that is the modern Graphics API and be EXTREMELY portable. It's not gonna be the cutting edge AAA gaming, but you can surely make something indie-ish cutesy low-poly no problem.
I feel like today it's more feasible than in 1998.
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Mate. I wrote a simple 3d engine in x86 assembler at some point of my life.
C++ is piggybacking on assembler.
Actual programmers code in bits and have two buttons on their keyboard: 0 and 1
Here is a picture of you: xkcd.com/378/
Тsфdiиg@tsoding
@kore_sar Yes, JavaScript is a Toy Scripting Language piggybacking off of an Actual Programming Language like C++. Nobody implements JavaScript in JavaScript.
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first i thought scaling laws originated in OpenAI (2020)
then i thought they came from Baidu (2017)
now i am enlightened:
Scaling Laws were first explored at Bell Labs (1993)
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@teortaxesTex foreign students pay a lot of money to go to schools, that's all it is.
it isn't necessarily the bottom 15% that takes them: think of a supply and demand curve.
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ok this changes things. Are the Chinese so desperate that they'll settle for the bottom 15% schools? I guess Americans are better at special needs ed, but uh… Is Lutnick just playing the H20 gambit again? Making the CCP lose face, to undermine Trump's concession from their side?
TheBlaze@theblaze
Ingraham: "How is allowing 600K students from China putting America First? Those are 600K spots that American kids won't get." Commerce Sec. Lutnick: "If you didn't have those 600K students, the bottom 15% of colleges would go out of business."
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@apralky Just to be clear, "Engineer King" is a concept lifted more or less in its entirety from the "Philosopher King" of Plato's Republic. It would actually be considered ideal.
Plato laments how most leadership is simply hereditary or of convenience. There are simply way more wordcels
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@apralky This is wrong on most counts. I recommend reading Thucydides and Plutarch for a better idea of classical athens, and the biographies of just about any acclaimed leader (e.g. Napoleon, Alexander, Genghis khan) for their background.
Most wordcel leaders job badly e.g. Pericles
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probably the biggest midwit meme the San Francisco class believes is that top tier shape rotators genuinely have better models of complex emergent societal systems than top tier wordcels, but they just can't articulate them as well-- and wordcels are just snakeoil merchants good at selling their bad models
completely untrue and anti-lindy
if you have interacted with IQ135 engineers you know that if you spawned them in a political powergame (inter-national or intra-national) they'd be rather helpless and lack the necessary intuitions to effectively navigate.......... they also have poor taste and cultural awareness which we have long conceded as crucial for navigating complex adaptive systems
they constantly glaze this archetype of the Engineer King/CEO which is kind of weird given it's clearly not much of an archetype at all (engineering has been a relatively low status profession basically always & everywhere until the current iteration of hypercapitalism gave it a modest boost)
philosopher kings on the other hand are clearly lindy for a reason
do you think every civilization in history of the world has consistently utilized near-exclusively nontechnical wordcel leaders because they were all morons & didn't know any better?
if you told an NPC in classical athens why they haven't put the best bridge-builder in charge of the polis he’d look at you like you’re insane
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@matt_beard_ this only happens on topics where we aren't clueless. straight crazy how they're right about everything else
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How is it possible for the New York Times to get this so completely wrong? Apple ahead of Anthropic in AI? Did nobody read this before it went out?
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@CoinDealerDCL @ljupc0 @mattyglesias right. i omitted that i was conditioning on the population for whom such vehicles are even relevant at all.
there is a population for whom EVs make no sense, let alone self driving ones, and this population is nontrivial.
but 70% among those who want it in 50 years? likely
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@GitNeo @ljupc0 @mattyglesias Adoption ain’t hitting 70% in our lifetime unless they figure out how to put FSD into used ICE vehicles.
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