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EdwardDiego··on Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
Fair enough.
EdwardDiego··on Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
I would've been very surprised if Prolog to solve this wasn't something that the model had already ingested.

Early AI hype cycles, after all, is where Prolog, like Lisp, shone.

EdwardDiego··on Recent results show that LLMs struggle with compositional tasks
So we're only 12% from AGI?

I'm dubious tbh. Given we still can't simulate a nematode.

EdwardDiego··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
What does comment even mean.

I assume food was meant to be full, but why "trans"?

EdwardDiego··on The 'no. 8 wire' tradition in New Zealand
He flew, but he didn't achieve _controlled_ powered flight and was very adamant that the Wright Brothers deserved their fame for being able to steer the damn thing.
EdwardDiego··on Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet
My anecdote can beat up yours :D
EdwardDiego··on Using uv as your shebang line
Really curious as to your gotchas.

One thing that hit me in Pipenv, but worked well in Poetry, is when a given dep has different wheels for different platforms.

The pipenv lock lockfile would only include the deps for the platform you locked it on.

Poetry adds all platform variants to the lockfile.

And haven't found any documentation around uv's behaviour in this regard.

EdwardDiego··on Using uv as your shebang line
Not in any way relevant to an example of leveraging Python's new inline metadata PEP via uv.
EdwardDiego··on Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
You kinda think that someone who is in favour of "masculine energy" would, you know, choose to not bend the knee.
EdwardDiego··on I don't like Docker or Podman
I really hate "skill issue" as a response
EdwardDiego··on Framework Fatigue: The Real Reason Developers Get Angry About New Tech
If you're rejecting someone for having 4 years of Vue.js and you want React experience, well, you're either crippled and close to failure and desperately need to parachute in a JSX slinging ninja to avoid bankruptcy, or, you're hiring for stochastic parrots in human form, as opposed to hiring intelligent developers who can learn what needs to be learned.

I've never been hired for a framework, nor have I ever hired for a framework.

So. Je m'oppose the employability claim.

However, I do get annoyed when everything is gotta be in <X> lang or we're using <Y> tech that is designed for a different use-case, because someone read a few too many whitepapers or blog posts and has chosen a technology because it's new and shiny and hypey, with minimal thought as to whether or not it's actually useful for your given situation.

EdwardDiego··on Why do bees die when they sting you?
Okay champ.
EdwardDiego··on Why do bees die when they sting you?
Obviously because Tree-of-Life didn't survive on Earth, so we could never achieve our final form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pak_Protector

EdwardDiego··on Why do bees die when they sting you?
In Māori culture in NZ, tribal elders (kaumātua) function much the same, they are the keepers of knowledge, history and cultural practices for their group(s).

I suspect you'd find the same in many cultures that didn't have writing to transmit knowledge.

(There's also the aspect of "mana", a very hard word to translate, "face", "influence", "power" or "really respected" are good approximations.

A kaumātua with mana accords your group (iwi/tribe or hapu/sub-tribe) with their mana.

So, say your Granddad was a renowned warrior or diplomat, even though he's in his 80s, the respect his opponents developed for him still persists, and flows onto you.)

EdwardDiego··on Why do bees die when they sting you?
Yeah, I was hoping the article would mention this, but no dice. :(
EdwardDiego··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Your social credit score just got upgrade! You may now use high speed trains!
EdwardDiego··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Wow, jump straight to the bad faith assumptions huh?
EdwardDiego··on Nepenthes is a tarpit to catch AI web crawlers
I was just reading about one of these today, that occasionally eats small mammals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepenthes_attenboroughii

EdwardDiego··on Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit
> but the batteries are very expensive, and are a huge fire hazard

Have you seen how the fire risk petroleum presents? It's crazy.

EdwardDiego··on Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit
Not like there's a history of steam explosions or hydrogen formation in historical nuclear reactor incidents.
EdwardDiego··on Natrium 'advanced nuclear' power plant wins Wyoming permit
Okay, we had a partial meltdown in prod, and released some radioactive iodine-131, so that goes on the sad face side of of the retro board.

But on the good side, we _didn't_ have a hydrogen explosion due to some late-night troubleshooting, great work Carl!

But we learned a lot, our alerts were confusing, and our metrics didn't surface coolant level or the relief valve that was stuck open.

So next sprint, let's focus on monitoring and cross-team knowledge transfer! 3 points, right?

EdwardDiego··on I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
Yeah not like Hindenburg researched a large Indian company with close ties to the BJP.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/3/1/modi-govt-allowed...

EdwardDiego··on What it's like working for American companies as an Australian
Kiwi working for US company, I identify with this 100%.
EdwardDiego··on Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires
Same issue Australia has, people keep building their houses on hills in the scrub because they like the views and/or nature.

But it's an ecosystem that has evolved for fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral#Fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushfires_in_Australia#Before_...

EdwardDiego··on Wends of Texas
Thank you :)
EdwardDiego··on Wends of Texas
Yeah, predeterminism, along with limited atonement, and perseverance of the saints, combines to form, IMO, a theology that is toxic at best, abusive at worst.

If I can massively oversimplify, it's a theology where Jesus came to redeem only the Elect that God had already chosen to be saved while he had chosen to send everyone else to hell, so that the Elect could see His mercy (to them, not those poor bastards on the down escalator).

And, perseverance of the saints is the icing on the cake, because it came to mean that if you ever disagreed with your church or its elders, well, you obviously weren't one of the Elect at all, enjoy the hellfire.

So it's a great theology if you want to run a small, obviously better than everyone else, in-group of the Saved, vs. all the unsaved sinners God has already condemned.

To see how perverse it could become in the extremes, look at the role it played in apartheid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner_Calvinism

EdwardDiego··on Wends of Texas
Red dirt?
EdwardDiego··on I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
Thank you! I'm very interested in that.
EdwardDiego··on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
...sure, maybe don't use this technique if you live on top of a large amount of abandoned coal mines.
EdwardDiego··on The psychonaut field manual [pdf]
If it worked, wouldn't practitioners rule the world?
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