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@dantheclamman mh... not exactly what I was thinking xD
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It's not a mind-altering insight, but it the most memorable thing I learn from a Daniel Dennett talk. He compared digital simulations of evolution with a real-world example using robots. The robots evolved into two distinct diurnal and nocturnal populations adapted to the background light […]
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When you do experiments in the real world you get all the complexities and interactions "for free" and the trick is to remove as much as you can to make the results interpretable.
When you do simulations, you start with nothing and any interaction needs to be implements explicitly.
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@tjmahr.com Kinda. I just like the cleanliness of using just f(), especially when adding other arguments to the function, which makes it easier to use autocomplete and nice IDE stuff.
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More accurate signs.
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Gotta love accurate signs.
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I had to be careful. It almost managed to grab me!
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@koen_hufkens Also known as "python".
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@brenttoderian.bsky.social I never understood why people even considered the option. The only difference between Uber/Lyft and cabs are the use an app to get to passengers instead of calling to a central dispatch. So why would their effect on cities be any different?
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Trying with a larger version of #DeepSeek. Not a lot of improvement... apparently "the" has a 'd' in it.
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Random reddit users 1 month ago gushing over this model and how cheap it is. How is it that OpenAI folks were blind-sighted by it?
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Ok, so apparently #Australia got it's independence from the British on the 1st of January 1901? Australia is the sad child with a birthday on new year!
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(TBF, it's not like this sort of thinking was uncommon at the time... or today)