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I'm self-taught, and I'm mostly avoiding[0] AI while I learn. I regularly see the phrase 'know how to code', but I'm not sure what the consensus criteria are for that. Typically this kind of beginner question would be…
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3 or 4 years ago, I started SICP on a machine I no longer have. Iirc I was working in Scheme but there was some tricky setup involved. I'd like to start again, but I don't have the free-time to explore the…
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I blew it off in college because my instructor did not speak english. I regret it more & more each year.
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My mom is retiring and will soon no longer have her company laptop. I'm a 'old thinkpad with xubuntu' guy, so I have no idea what's worth spending money on these days. She uses an iphone, so I'm tempted to say mac even…
- The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (AI, 1994) (localroger.com)
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It seems like there's a lot of disagreement about what constitutes a safe model or what is too ‘censored’. Why not just focus on the three laws?
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Is it a physical hardware difference? Is it just a convention? I haven't read 'What every programmer should know about memory' yet, but I've read K&R and Stroustrup's principles, and while that lifted the curtain on a…
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Regardless of whether or not you think a US CBDC is a good idea or not, if one is implemented, what will the technical[0] details look like? [0] I mean from a computer science standpoint more than a financial one, since…
- First 12 test chambers of Portal on N64 (github.com)
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I'm a self-taught programmer and I've done lots of messing around in Python, but I want to bridge the gap between what I know and what I would have learned in school. There's lots of 'everyday' stuff that was tripping…
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I've got a neat little CRUD app in mind and I'm going to need opengl/ES for a couple specialized UX views that involve lots of elements. I thought about WASM, but I want to charge a little subscription ($5-10/yr) and so…
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I heard a rumor that adobe is now scraping right from the app's canvas and although I'm okay with stuff I post getting scraped, collecting my workflow crosses the line for me. Then it occurred to me that I've never read…
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My dad always said he thought I'd make a good architect because I like thinking about qualitative, quantitative, and aesthetic design all at once. But in college I turned away from it because A. I really prefer more…
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I remember all this stuff about Gary Gensler/ the SEC/ CFTC working hand in hand with SBF to craft "crypto regulations". SBF was going on and on about "embracing regulations" and "regulations are good for us" in…
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It was all over the place rumor-wise, and now there's radio silence.
- Illustrator Kim Jung Gi has died at 47 (youtube.com)
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Right now I preface languages with terms like "familiar", "comfortable", "confident" to indicate the amount I've used a particular language. But for most of them I feel like I'm in a pool and never touched the bottom,…
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It seems to me that if users could rate the results of a prompt, that could build a dataset with (seed, settings, prompt, rating) that could be used to further and rapidly refine 'holes' in the model.
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At the end of highschool in about 2010 I was pretty interested in becoming a lawyer. But all signs pointed to it being a terrible financial decision: -law school grads I knew unemployed for years -lots of debt, no way…
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Or before/after Shannon’s paper on a mathematical theory of communication?
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We all know google search is dying. What's next?
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My main computing device is a Lenovo x220 with xubuntu. It does 99% of what I need; I love it. I also own a 2021 Ipad Pro. I bought it as a Nomad Sculpt and Procreate machine. However, I've really been getting into…