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  • What's the ROI? If 15% of wild caught fish are used to support fish farms that produce twice as much, it's not as obviously a bad thing. There'd need to be another food source though.

  • Only if you're trying to get a numerical point evaluation. For example, one can use Fourier series to represent complex signals in terms of sine waves, and then reproduce the sine waves with hardware to reproduce the original signal. This is how a simple synthesizer produces different kinds of tones.

  • Would not be surprised if it's getting confused about a wallet sponsorship

  • Just wait til you find the 1-1/2" screws

  • We aren't trying to establish that neurons are conscious. The thought experiment presupposes that there is a consciousness, something capable of understanding, in the room. But there is no understanding because of the circumstances of the room. This demonstrates that the appearance of understanding cannot confirm the presence of understanding. The thought experiment can't be formulated without a prior concept of what it means for a human consciousness to understand something, so I'm not sure it makes sense to say a human mind "is a Chinese room." Anyway, the fact that a human mind can understand anything is established by completely different lines of thought.

  • Shoutout to my fort myers and cape coral homies

  • This fails to engage with the thought experiment. The question isn't if "the room is fluent in Chinese." It is whether the machine learning model is actually comparable to the person in the room, executing program instructions to turn input into output without ever understanding anything about the input or output.

  • Hom functors exist for locally small categories, which is just to say that the hom classes are sets. The distinction can be ignored often because local smallness is a trivial consequence of how the category is defined, but it's not generally true

  • You can get blight free versions of JavaScript too, if you use TypeScript.

  • In a hypothetical and highly unlikely world where everyone had to pay Oracle to use Java, everyone would switch to something else. It would be guaranteed suicide. Anyway, in that world, they would need to both make this ridiculous decision and win an unwinnable legal battle afterwards. It's not a realistic concern.

  • What's the lockin? Is it really harder than just swapping the jdk path to switch between Coretto and OpenJDK? I understand Coretto being preferable for performance and security patches but I don't imagine it's that big of a deal if one eventually had to switch

  • No but you have 8 boobs like a cat, enjoy

  • Yup, you'll notice the only thing distinguishing C from R^(2) is that multiplication. That one definition has extremely broad implications.

    For fun, another definition is in terms of 2x2 matrices with real entries. The identity matrix

     
            1 0
        0 1
    
    
      

    is identified with the real number 1, and the matrix

     
            0 1
        -1 0
    
    
      

    is identified with i. Given this setup, the normal definitions of matrix addition and multiplication define the complex numbers.

  • One definition of the complex numbers is the set of tuples (x, y) in R^(2) with the operations of addition: (a,b) + (c,d) = (a+c, b+d) and multiplication: (a,b) (c,d) = (ac - bd, ad + bc). Then defining i := (0,1) and identifying (x, 0) with the real number x, we can write (a,b) = a + bi.

  • Reminds me of 2048 making a slightly worse clone of Threes and then releasing it for free.

  • I don't really query, but it's good enough at code generation to be occasionally useful. If it can spit out 100 lines of code that is generally reasonable, it's faster to adjust the generated code than to write it all from scratch. More generally, it's good for generating responses whose content and structure are easy to verify (like a question you already know the answer to), with the value being in the time saved rather than the content itself.

  • O notation has a precise definition. A function f : N -> R+ is said to be O(g(x)) (for some g : N -> R) if there exists a constant c so that f(n) <= cg(n) for all sufficiently large n. If f is bounded, then f is O(1).

  • Before I blocked the instance I had nothing but miserable interactions with Hexbear users, and it had nothing to do with political opinions.