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LLMs need to compress information to be able to predict next words in as many contexts as possible.

Chess moves are simply tokens as any other. Given enough chess training data, it would make sense to have part of the network trained to handle chess specifically instead of simply encoding basic lists of moves and follow-ups. The result would be a general purpose sub-network trained on chess.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

Adding to my sibling comment, time is also mostly used as a coordination system. Being offset by a few minutes would make aligning meetings with your remote coworker an even bigger nightmare than it is now.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

Using caps doesn’t make this affirmation any more true.

While you’re correct that it does massively help, money is only a resource, which you can use to trade for a lot of things, but there are people, things and abstract concepts that money can’t buy.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

You’re checking the return value of the command here. Do you wrap all calls in an if?

I believe the author was talking about set -e (often used with -o pipefail), so that any unhandled error simply exits the script.

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há 2 anosdiscuss

> there is no demand for (paid) background removal anymore as every iPhone can do it nowadays.

PhotoRoom begs to disagree with this statement.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

… brings a counter theory to the parent comment to clearly explain why conclusions are hard to draw, then explicitly states that it’s inconclusive.

The bad faith and passive-aggressive tone were unwarranted.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Stranger than speaking out loud with your headset on?

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Smart people don’t consider themselves better than people around them.

This article is so annoying.

It has some truth to it, e.g. the mismatch between incentives and success, or even the corporate bullshit to avoid saying hard truths are on point. But the second part lacks the proper reasoning needed to establish the self-proclaimed intelligence of it author. Comparing software development’s product building with fencing competitions is so far-fetched, yet most of the arguments of the second part build on this premise. You don’t need amazing individuals to build a great thing, what you need is a great team. That’s why most people try to address the system. It’s hard to do when you factor in individual incentives, but it’s not because everybody is dumb, it’s because everybody (smartly) addresses their own self-interests above the company’s.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Of course you patch it, but you don’t assume that every system affected by this 0-day got exploited. You try to check if some were and it’s obvious that people at Microsoft are doing exactly that.

Not saying that MS’s response was great, but I agree with GP that the whole thing is hyberbolic.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Great article, the example makes the point really clear. It probably applies just as well to other languages by the way.

Two small notes after completing my read:

1. You're using `npm prune --omit=dev` after the build. It's probably fast enough, but I'm wondering if it wouldn't be worth it to install the dependencies in two steps: first `dependencies` in a first image, then in a second image, copy those and rerun `npm install` to also install the `devDependencies`. You could then copy in the final image:

  - The production dependencies from the `deps` image
  - The built code from the `build` image

2. Also, it's probably a detail, but you're copying the entire app folder in the final image, maybe you could save some extra bytes by only copying the built artifacts (e.g. `dist/` in most setups).

jerska

há 3 anosdiscuss

Sorry but gotta say it the way it comes to my mind : « no shit, Sherlock ».

Listen to your body. Always.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Congratulations on the launch of such a nice replacement (and improvement!) of Algolia Places. It's much needed in this space.

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