flaviat

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[–] flaviat@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago

Woah i had no idea. Apparently he also made a web crypto miner used in hacked sites.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 8 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (4 children)

Was checking out the QOI image format and the politics of the dev and found that he is pretty comfortable around the ladybird people. (sigh) Also the r slur on twitter.

Really amazing that such a simple format achieves PNG sizes and faster encoding speeds. 1-page specification, though it's more like 2 with a bit bigger text, for bragging rights.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago

That is the kind of writing that absolutely anyone can get a thing out of. Will cause me to introspect.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I misinterpreted this reply as the guy in the post being hired as a police officer. Thank god.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 24 points 3 weeks ago

Yet another LLM guy claiming it solved a problem when in fact it was already solved, with it being told almost exactly where and what to look for. Cold reading for use-after-frees.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Now I'm wondering if an infinite sequence of nested LLMs could achieve AGI. Probably not.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So "unintentional moderates" are those that both choose deliberately to believe in centrist political ideology and to participate in groupthink?

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

The Wikibooks book on statistics is surprisingly decent. Hopefully it inspires the reader to acknowledge that there are a lot more things to study apart from Bayes.

[–] flaviat@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

So perhaps one alternative way to estimate their quality is to check the number of citations, many have more than 100 citations, which is a sign of quality

Andrew Wakefield's 1998 paper has 457 citations on PubMed