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Re:Musk accused of worsening smog with unauthorized gas turbines at da...
on Thursday August 29, 2024 @04:00PM (#41394713)
Either they approved the construction of the data center and the use of energy necessary to run it or they didn't. How exactly do you think data centers operate if not by utilizing hydrocarbons and releasing the pollution into the environment? Please go ahead and explain to me how a data center can operate without pollution.
Re:Musk accused of worsening smog with unauthorized gas turbines at da...
on Thursday August 29, 2024 @03:20PM (#41394370)
The data center has to run on something right? The government approved the construction and presumably they were also aware of the energy requirements so why is he being blamed for doing what was approved by them?
Re:OpenAI is shockingly good at unminifying code
on Thursday August 29, 2024 @01:13PM (#41393056)
I have to ask the obvious question: how do you know the unminified code is semantically equivalent to the minified code? If someone knows how to verify LLM code transformations for semantic fidelity then I'd like to know because I think that would qualify as a major breakthrough for programming languages and semantics.
Re:Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle
on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @07:28PM (#41374390)
Re:Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle
on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @06:52PM (#41374134)
It's actually a lot more interesting than what the article explains here. The immune system essentially goes through a process of hypermutation and can be compared to a hashmap which is populated during the first few years of one's life. After that the hashmap is essentially frozen. This is why early immunization is very important because being exposed to mild pathogens when young helps one's immune system recognize and deal with similar pathogens later in life. The immune system only gets worse over time which is why eventually most viral infections overwhelm the immune system and either cause death or cancer.
Re:Why don't we have personalized search engines?
on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:46PM (#41351743)
I built something like this using manual screenshoting, OCR, and indexing with Meilisearch but now there are tools to do this automatically like perfectmemory.ai. You can definitely build something yourself by gluing a bunch of open source tools like I did but if you want something ready-made then it kinda already exists if you are willing to trust your operating system or 3rd party software engineers to not leak your information.
Re:Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C?
on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:41PM (#41351715)
This is super cool but what's interesting is that this same kind of bootstrapping problem exists for hardware as well. What makes computers? Previously built computers and software running on them. The whole thing is really interesting to think about.
Re:Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mist...
on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:21PM (#41332763)
Any sufficiently advanced type system is indistinguishable from Prolog.