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  • As I’m reading the article, linked by David Gerard in the community created by David Gerard and moderated by David Gerard:

    Oh shit David wrote this?

    Seriously though great piece. Loved the closing paragraph.

    But in the end, gravity still works, and a balloon can be inflated only so much. The bitcoin bubble is an artifact of market manipulation and has no more economic substance than the Hawk Tuah coin does. The U.S. government may be ripe for plunder, but other nations need to take steps to shield themselves from the impact of rug-pulling on a global scale.


  • I think you would need to deliberately choose a mathematical problem to solve, otherwise the most difficult thing you’ll come across will be binary representations of numbers and why floats are FUCKING BULLSHIT (seriously though they can be tricky if you think they are just “numbers in a calculator”).

    If you want to really understand programming language theory, or computer science more generally, you will definitely need mathematics. But if the goal is “I want to tell this chip what to do,” you don’t need to learn a lot of math, in my opinion.

    Edit: also, if you need help with any math, feel free to DM me. I am a former math teacher and sometimes teach algorithms (basically screaming “what is your induction variable”) at the undergraduate level.


  • @khalid_saladtoTechTakesNever Forgive Them
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    But even if we assume that this is the case, and even if there are a lot of people that simply don’t try [to learn new technology]…should companies really take advantage of them?

    DISGUSTING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY









  • It’s built upon such a nonsensical ontology. The sentiment expressed in a piece of language is at least partially a social function, which is why I can add the following

    I AM BEYOND FUCKING LIVID AT EVERYONE IN THIS FUCKING INSTANCE

    to this response and no one will actually assume I’m really angry (I am though, send memes).

    Edit: not one meme. Not. One.

    Edit2: thank you for the memes, @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de. This one is my favorite. It feels Dark Souls-y.

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    Live crawfish with arms spread in front of bowl of cooked crawfish with caption “Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters”.




  • The first half was OK, but then they cited this paper.

    LLMs encode much more information about truthfulness than previously recognized. We first discover that the truthfulness information is concentrated in specific tokens, and leveraging this property significantly enhances error detection performance. Yet, we show that such error detectors fail to generalize across datasets, implying that—contrary to prior claims—truthfulness encoding is not universal but rather multifaceted.

    I haven’t read the paper, and probably won’t, but what the shit is this?






  • Dan asked me “what’s the fastest Big O notation?” and hey, to my credit despite not having a college degree, I knew the answer from self studying! “Oh, I know this. O(1) Constant time”, I said over the phone. “No, see it’s O(0). The fastest program is the one that never runs. It’s clear you don’t have enough experience for this role. So let’s test you on your sysadmin capabilities. Maybe you can redeem yourself there”.

    There is something about the simultaneous pedantry and total ignorance in this that is enraging. Everything is O(1) space because there are 1081 atoms in the universe, and everything is O(1) time because of the heat death of the universe, don’tcha know. Also did I just solve the halting problem?