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pounderstanding··on Declarative Schemas for simpler database management
Do you keep the history of applied migrations? (Just in case subtle issue need to be investigated later)
pounderstanding··on Declarative Schemas for simpler database management
> they found SO many inconsistencies between environments

This implies somebody with admin rights makes alterations in ad-hoc way without first doing it in test env.

If they continue with adhoc stuff, then it means auto-generated migrations will be different in test vs prod. (I prefer to test exactly same thing that will be used in prod)

pounderstanding··on Declarative Schemas for simpler database management
Migrations give more control.

    Alter table foo add column bar;
    Update foo set bar=baz;
    Alter table foo modify column bar NOT NULL;
pounderstanding··on Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
"Llm thinks" is false advertising. (Maybe useful jargon, but still)

> Any Turing complete system can emulate any other Turing complete system, and an LLM can trivially be made to execute a Turing machine if you put a loop around it

Wouldn't it be more efficient to erase the LLM and use underlying hardware as Turing complete system?

BTW. Turing test is just admission that we have now way of defining human level intelligence apart from "you'll know it when you see it".

pounderstanding··on OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs
https://www.xkcd.com/1629/
pounderstanding··on Training LLMs to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space
Brain is subset of computers, but llms are not subset of brains.
pounderstanding··on Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
Hopefully constructive: Touch controls. If finger is lifted off, even for a second, new "center" is registered, which makes it quite hard to control without looking where the"center" is. Nice soundtrack, quite relaxing.
pounderstanding··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
> AGI doesn’t mean smarter than the best humans.

Technically no, but practically...

12 year old limitations are: A. gets tired, needs sleep B. I/O limited by muscles

Probably there are more, but if 12 year old could talk directly to electric circuits and would not need sleep or even a break, then that 12 year old would be leaps and bounds above the best human in his field of interest.

(Well motivation to finish the task is needed though)

pounderstanding··on Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows
Uranium deposits are relatively small. It will last 200 years or so.