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Re:Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers on Saturday December 20, 2025 @09:20AM (#46336378)
I’m curious, what was the rationale for forbidding it?
Apple group of companies, rather than a specific legal entity. A common distinction in financial journalism.
FYI: Lex, not Rex.

But a Rex Talionis is an interesting concept too.

On prompts only, with answers presumably from the teacher model (Gemini).

It was not trained or RLHFd on Arena replies or user preferences.

How so? Maybe in the past, but nothing announced today is open.
Re:AI Will Become Mathematicians' 'Co-Pilot' on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @01:31PM (#40660724)
For Tao, spending 10x time on aproof still means spending 5x less time than an average postdoc. He is incredibly fast and productive.
On all flights I have taken the flight attendants count the passengers on board before taxiing and check the lavatories. This method wouldn't have worked even with available free seats.
Re:Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:21AM (#39927786)
Zopf means “braid” and it also denotes a medium-size bread type, made with some milk and glazed with yolk, shaped like a braid, traditionally eaten on Sunday.
I like:

- “open weights” for no training data and no restrictions on use,

- “weights available” for no training data and restrictions on use, like in this case.

It‘s more likely to be incompetence than malice: even their 73.7% is closer to 72% than to 74%.
Re:Google Scholar PDF Reader on Thursday March 21, 2024 @10:07AM (#39778688)
Scholar is heavily used internally, it’s unlikely to be discontinued even if it has never brought any money to Google.
Note that the model is based on RoBERTa and has only 125m parameter. It is not competing against any of the new popular models, not even small ones like Phi or GeMMa.
Re:Don't Invent XML Languages (2006) on Saturday March 09, 2024 @10:37AM (#39652291)
Pedantic remark: HTML 4.0 is an SGML profile, but HTML 5 isn’t anymore.
They have fixed the image now.
Re:Antarctic English on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:55AM (#39559965)
For German there is an international body. Regional language differences are officially acknowledged. For example, Swiss High German has no Esszet and in Austria January is spelled "Jenner" instead of "Januar".
Re:Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @05:15PM (#39460396)
It doesn't work. There is no encoding for "OO".
Re:Simon Peyton Jones – Haskell is useless [video] on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:04AM (#39426914)
> Microsoft keeps paying the bills

For those who may not know it: SPJ was employed at Microsoft Research for a long time. He recently moved to Epic Games, where he co-developed the Verse language.

Re:Memory leak proof every C program on Saturday January 20, 2024 @05:07PM (#39072923)
Probably because some people find it funny.
Because there is no _intent_ to slander.
Re:The Most Compelling Reason to Use Firefox Is Sync That Works on Thursday December 28, 2023 @12:10PM (#38795621)
Hijacking the right click is useful for web apps like word processors, text editors, spreadsheets, image editors.
Because total dollar cost is dominated by major hurricanes, which are rare, therefore any underlying trend would be invisible under the stochastic noise.

Frequency at a moderate severity level is much more stable and can give better insight.

As other posters already pointed out, the severity of the events should be adjusted for inflation, building characteristics, and total exposure.

Re:We Investigated France's Mass Profiling Machine on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:13PM (#38571394)
You also do random audits, to check that the targeting follows the actual risk.
Re:Othello Is Solved on Sunday November 05, 2023 @08:00AM (#38150764)
AFAIK there are no good bridge computer programs. A crucial difficulty is making sense of the bidding phase, and of signals during the card playing phase.
Re:MathJax – Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers on Friday October 13, 2023 @04:30PM (#37875271)
KeTeX is faster, but supports a limited subset of LaTeX. MathJax supports essentially everything.

For most mathuses in blog posts KaTeX is going to provide a bettter user experience, but if you want to put a math paper on a webpageMathJax is the way to go.

Re:Austria rail operator OeBB unveils new night trains on Sunday October 08, 2023 @12:53PM (#37812170)
The shoe thing is an American peculiarity. In Europe I never had to take off my shoes, even when I flew to the US. And now some airports (eg LCY) don’t even require taking liquids and laptops out of the luggage.
Re:The Greening of Milan: Porta Nuova and Vertical Forest on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @12:48PM (#37767928)
About 10k EUR/sq.m.
Re:Nanofluidic device generates power with saltwater on Monday October 02, 2023 @02:32AM (#37734652)
It looks like they didn’t even build a PoC. All the results are simulated.
Re:33% of Gamers Are Disabled on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:45AM (#37360608)
It is a claim made in the art (around the middle of the text).

There is no reference to the source of that information however.

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