Comment Re: Not an expert (Score 1) 71
To answer that, you first have to answer the question, "What is space?"
Comment Re:Not an expert (Score 1) 71
Some guesses are clearly wrong as they can be tested.
When we're talking about what happened before the big bang, what hypothesis can be tested? How do you collect evidence about that?
Comment Re:Not an expert (Score 1) 71
The usual assumption is that there is no source of the big bang, everything banged.
To be more precise, without evidence, then any hypothesis of what happened is just a guess, and can never be tested.
Comment Re:Or, counterpoint, it stole somebody else's work (Score 1) 96
Which in itself is appropriate (most employees of companies have a responsibility to protect trade secrets from competitors),
Attribution isn't a trade secret.
Comment Re:Ironically I was quite a trekkie until this yea (Score 1) 200
It was physically painful, and by 1994, they really oughta have known fuckin' better.
Television in the 90s (and before) was like opium. People sat in front of the screen and zoned out. Repetitive commercials helped with that procedure.
Whatever emotional pain you had in the day was deadened.
Comment Re:Or, counterpoint, it stole somebody else's work (Score 3, Interesting) 96
It is in that context that I said “it would be simpler if Levent was not an Anthropic employee” because I felt it would be inappropriate for an Anthropic employee to author OpenAI’s work. Importantly it was admitted that internal Anthropic models had been used in their proof of Euler blowup; I therefore felt I could not consider Levent to be an independent academic.
ROTFL this shows he's definitely thinking of protecting the company, not thinking about pure academic work.
Comment Re: The statement from the researcher to cries fou (Score 3, Informative) 96
I like this part:
I would like to be clear about what I am not claiming. I have not seen OpenAI’s proof. I do not know what their model did, or how. I do not know whether our data was used. I am not accusing anyone of anything. I am stating what I was told, when, and what was proposed to me.
Solid mathematician with solid logic. He only presents the facts, nothing more, nothing less.
Comment Re:I hope they don't expect Rust to do magic (Score 1) 67
ok, that one is beyond my ability lol
Comment Re:Amusing ourselves to Death :o (Score 1) 40
What SHOULD people be interested in?
Comment Re:I hope they don't expect Rust to do magic (Score 1) 67
Indeed, it's not like you can't read assembly (or machine code).
Comment Re:The latest New Shiny Bandwagon ... (Score 2) 67
Reminds me of when every webdev was extolling the virtues of Ruby to whoever would listen.
Ruby on Rails is the best dynamically typed language available for Webdev. Python has more developers, so if you build on RoR, you might need to train some people. If you want a statically typed language for webdev (usually better on very large projects), C# as a language is great, but the ecosystem around Java is better.
Wtf is the point of Rust at the to-the-metal level when by definition most of what you do will be unsafe memory wise?
Rust is useful when you have to work with incompetent programmers, which is most of them these days, especially those who write kernel drivers. If you encapsulate the driver accesses in functions or classes, then it's not that big of a deal. Encapsulation of some type is important though, you don't want to spread GPIO accesses throughout your code, that's sloppy redundant and repetitive.
Comment Re:I hope they don't expect Rust to do magic (Score 1) 67
They have absolute proof that they cannot do as well as the community, but they absolutely refuse to let the data flow.
I really wonder what they think they are hiding.
Comment Re:architecture (Score 4, Funny) 40
Let's be honest, there's not much you could do architecturally to make Los Angeles uglier. Even a small nuke attack (tragedy though it is) would arguably add interest.
Comment Re:Weird but kind of cool (Score 2) 40
that give many a slashdot commenter raging hardons.
You saying
No, I'm saying the second line in my hosts file is:
104.18.4.215 www.pornub.com
Comment Re:Now I want to go (Score 5, Insightful) 40
It means the LA critic establishment hates the museum, that's why they write like that. Critics in LA form a weird kind of hierarchical establishment, and they have some power because they can get quoted in news articles.
"Good at getting quoted" is an orthogonal skill to "being a good judge of art," and it's apparent that Lucas did not appropriately kowtow to the establishment in the way necessary to get promoted. The critics can't outright say it's bad, because if it's popular, then people won't trust them.
"Good at getting quoted" is an orthogonal skill to "being a good judge of art," and it's apparent that Lucas did not appropriately kowtow to the establishment in the way necessary to get promoted. The critics can't outright say it's bad, because if it's popular, then people won't trust them.
