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Re:Tomb Raider on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:28PM (#36173415)
These were rather direct descendants of 8-bit games like Bounder: fast-paced, colorful, modest in size and ambition […]”

Whoa… I could call “Corporation ” many things… a proto-FPS, a quasi-RPG, a precursory attempt at something like System Shock… But it definitely wasn’t your typical run-of-the-mill platformer or standard action title. It may have failed at what it set out to do, but it definitely was very ambitious!

Re:Asia Sentinel Blocked in Singapore on Friday June 02, 2023 @11:25PM (#36173400)
Well if they are one thing that is consistent and predictable…
I very much agree that this data is extremely valuable, and losing it would be a terrible blow for research communities and even understanding our own ecosystems
Re:27 years later and the Psion 3a is still wonderful on Friday June 02, 2023 @07:47AM (#36163877)
That’s true, and I would have liked the BlackBerry more if the pointer worked better and the software was better. That was the kicker for me. I do miss Graffiti – especially with all the trouble I have with the iPhone keyboard. It is a constant frustration, and it always has been
Re:Apple’s big test of data integrity on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:35PM (#36133483)
Thank you for putting this all in perspective. While I am one of the more vocal users calling for Apple to implement user-data integrity checks, the numbers you’ve put forth in this article imply that the potential risks are indeed quite minimal.
Re:A Mechanistic Interpretability Analysis of Grokking on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:14PM (#36133337)
You don't talk about human analogs of grokking, and that makes sense for a technical paper like this. Nonetheless, grokking also seems to happen in humans, and everybody has had "Aha!" moments before. Can you maybe comment a bit on the relation to human learning? It seems clear that human grokking is not a process that purely depends on the number of training samples seen but also on the availability of hypotheses. People grok faster if you provide them with symbolic descriptions of what goes on. What are your thoughts on the representation and transfer of the resulting structure, e.g., via language/token streams?
I honestly feel it’s good for creating plug-in systems, but it offers app-level portability, unlike docker which provides system-level portability
Re:Chocolate and the Steam Engine (2014) on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:23AM (#36123954)
that would probably work, but take much longer to melt initially and require more kneading of the bag
Re:Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:01AM (#36123779)
Oh, I can see myself playing this for hours because I'm a Tetris fan.
Question....if satellite TV that already beams microwaves to earth has issues during cloud cover...how will this be any better? Sure the power may blast through but the efficiency of that will drop depending on the weather.

Well, I guess progress is progress. If you don't try, you won't know. You keep going until you get it.

However here is an idea, what about using this for, i don't know, powering habitats etc on the Moon?

Re:Production AI systems are hard on Monday May 29, 2023 @06:51AM (#36112685)
So on appoint! Even the god father of AI (Geoffrey Hinton) is wrong about this. Yann LeCun, who is his student way back also isn’t afraid to point that out as well.
Re:Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer on Monday May 29, 2023 @06:38AM (#36112594)
what are some available prompts? for example, I see there are "<s_synthdog>" and “<s_iitcdip>", what are some other options? I tried to use made-up ones such as "<s_what>" and seems it also works, why? what is the meaning of prompts here? Thanks