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Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @05:05PM (#49984128)
Got an example hosted on a platform that isn't owned by Twitter's loser owner?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ this right here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Re:Brood War Korean Translations on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:12PM (#42742112)
ok but where are the vods?
Dude's English is solid for a shut-in. Wonder if he studies online. Fun game idea, though. Basically Home Alone.
Re:The ten year anniversary of the Healthcare.gov rescue on Friday October 20, 2023 @01:20PM (#37958881)
As a civic technologist currently contracting, I feel like more Americans should know that procurement rules all but prevent federal offices from doing their own software development and that most of it is, as you wrote, subsubsubcontracted.
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Re:Are Any Words the Same in All Languages? on Friday September 08, 2023 @12:18AM (#37429256)
re: the Nahuatl origin of chocolate, my money is obviously on xocolatl.
Then don't
Re:Clone-a-Lisa on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:43PM (#37194091)
Whoa, nearly 70% on my first try! https://imgur.com/a/6ZmDqXU
Re:It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp on Thursday July 27, 2023 @01:07AM (#36889158)
It took me a while to grok monads, and the IO monad, and longer still to figure out how to compose them in safe ways, and manipulate execution order, etc. But: now I can write typesafe applications, and I produce fewer bugs when I work in non-FP languages (I get paid to write Java.) Lisp is a starting point. Haskell is where it's at. I recommend learning the style, even if you never produce production code in it.
Re:XAI on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:43PM (#36698600)
That is, indeed, an observed phenomenon. I work in human behavior in Washington, D.C., in a position where I am paid to think about the causes of harassment, discrimination, and violence, and how we, if we believe it is valuable or necessary to reduce these behaviors, how they come into existence, arrange human affairs such that their costs are minimized. I am not some random left-wing hack for whom fascism is anything to the right of Stalin. Musk is definitely on the fascist spectrum.
Re:XAI on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:13PM (#36697975)
Слава Україні, орк.
Re:XAI on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @01:12PM (#36697944)
The 10 kids while repping on his $44 billion dollar Titanic transphobes, homophobes, etc. I'm not talking about fascism as in "kill all of the people of a certain ethnic group," but there are, if you're in the study of ideology, politics, moral epistemology, etc., smaller, lower-case fascisms before people start calling you "Fuhrer." There is something in Elon's behavior and signaled preferences that very much comes across as a bio-Darwinistic, egoistic, self-maximizing project, e.g. a fascism.
Re:XAI on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @12:48PM (#36697503)
Yeah, I'm not going anywhere near this. Musk had the world beating a path to his door, until he outed himself as a petulant man-child and a fascist.
Re:A Student Loan Pause Has Made Borrowers Worse Off on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:37AM (#36226020)
I don't expect anything but anti-government propaganda from Reason.
Re:The tiny corp raised $5.1M on Thursday May 25, 2023 @02:23PM (#36074184)
Define "fix." Twitter is a tool used by extremists to reach massive audiences. Some of those extremists have socially destructive and violent objectives. Responding to harassment and hate speech involves understanding the psychology of harassers and racists so that incentives can be designed not to reward those behaviors. IMO, "fixing" Twitter isn't just about fail whales and 500 errors.
Re:The tiny corp raised $5.1M on Thursday May 25, 2023 @12:15AM (#36067002)
That wasn't precisely by choice though, IIRC.
Re:The tiny corp raised $5.1M on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @11:58PM (#36066920)
This is the George Hotz MO: I trust him to create a lot less than I trust him to optimize, and I trust him with optimization only in a very narrow technical sense. "Optimizing" Twitter by reducing headcount to 50, regardless of the social or revenue consequences, is actually stupid. Optimizing a whole mess of software that exists between your tensor and the hardware is a decent idea.
Re:The tiny corp raised $5.1M on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:05PM (#36065975)
The math isn't super difficult. Some books will try to throw a mess of differential equations at you, but some simple calculus is all you need for backpropagation.
Re:The tiny corp raised $5.1M on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @09:03PM (#36065965)
George Hotz is a talented engineer but he absolutely does not have the social science background to "fix" Twitter.
It is painfully clear that Musk isn't the brains of the operation, but the showman.
The government isn't helping yet. Nor should it.
I think that's the point.
Came to say this. The point seems not to be give an "all sides showing" but specifically to remove language that's designed to trigger our subcortical response systems.
What's up with all of these 18 feudal builds?? And to Hell with the Portuguese fast castle, organ gun OP on arena.
ok, but who but TheViper or DauT has this issue? ಠ_ಠ (As a Japanese main, nerf Aztecs.)
To the degree these "solutions" (in all their varying degrees of effectiveness) did not solve the problem they intended and caused new harms, then yeah, those values and mechanisms of social control are bad.
Re:Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:29PM (#34973695)
Big facts. Write Scala, stay frosty.
Re:Ask HN: What companies have publicly available handbooks? on Monday February 27, 2023 @02:00PM (#34960484)
TTS at GSA: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov (Yes, we got Vim listed on a government website: https://handbook.tts.gsa.gov/tools/text-editors/)
Ok, hi! My name is Boxxy...

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