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bergen··on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
Depends on the context - in a scripting language where you have some kind of console you just don't copy all lines, and see what each pipe does one after another. This is pretty straight forward. (Not talking about compiled code though)
bergen··on Yahoo is selling TechCrunch to private equity firm Regent
More big money swooping up journalism, what could go wrong.
bergen··on Tether and Circle are battling to win the US stablecoin market
From a "neutral" perspective it gives them legitimacy From a "maximalist" perspective it gives you access to government From a "scammer" perspective it gets you tax dollars and average Joes
bergen··on X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links
If your sycophants eat everything you'll throw at them there won't be any need for justification. Which completely baffles me. The US digital technology sector seems to be full of yes man and groupthink, and it's getting worse.
bergen··on Bypass DeepSeek censorship by speaking in hex
Or just download the model.
bergen··on Blinkenlights
In this context Project Blinkenlights in Germany should be mentioned. They are using big buildings and illuminate the windows to create some kind of public pixelart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights
bergen··on Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram
cacophony = chaos, so a lot of mixed opinions that don't really make sense would achieve just that. I would not expect thought out and stringent discussion from throwing a bunch of bots at every discussion
bergen··on 38th Chaos Communication Congress
We were a group of 5 and there were 3 separate presales for public. We all got tickets and it worked out pretty decently, like last year.
bergen··on The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
You know they are Walmarts brands
bergen··on Sora is here
https://xkcd.com/605/
bergen··on Marine pilot loses command after ejecting from F-35B that kept flying
The interesting thing here would be to find out what "basically" means in that context.
bergen··on Mira Murati leaves OpenAI
This is not a culture thing imo, being honest and transparent makes you vulnerable to exploits, which is often a bad thing for the ones being honest and transparent in a high competition area.
bergen··on Diffusion models are real-time game engines
How is what you think they say not clear?

We present GameNGen, the first game engine powered entirely by a neural model that enables real-time interaction with a complex environment over long trajectories at high quality.

bergen··on All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
Even besides daylight savings time, timezones exist. England and Spain are on a vertical axis, yet the timezone differs by 1 hour. Cross the border from spain to portugal and time jumps a full hour, so there are people living 100 Meters apart with 1 hour time difference.
bergen··on I Received an AI Email
None of your problems in the first sentence are solved by LLMs. I do not dispute AI research and applications and their benefits, but the current LLM and GenerativeAI hype is of no value to hard scientific problems. Otherwise I agree with you.
bergen··on Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts
Is there? One is actively killing citizens the other is still a reckless disregard for human life in general.
bergen··on A Devil's Bargain with OpenAI
Pretty sure they had something in the contract that OpenAI can train on their data, so it is an afterwards legitimation of something already performed (allegedly)
bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
I really don't understand what you are on about. A beehive is the very definition of 100 percent following natural law. A beehive protects it's worker when a worker is attacked, following your line of argument then, this beehive is somehow capitalist and has rights? At the same time you're arguing that this swarm of animals doesn't follow the law of nature and therefore is communist which at best bizarre and at worst delusional.

Your mashing togehter things without any coherent explanation what you mean. Also you fail to provide a simple example beyond "the evidence is clear" you don't even say what evidence you're refering to.

bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
And this societal rights are based on a shared understanding of what is moral and amoral, often dictated by works of religion or historically stemming from such.
bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Of course you defend yourself and your kind from harm. But that is completely separate from the fact if it is allowed. There is no law in nature preventing this. Sometimes internal conflict is solved by violence and accepted.

Your first paragraph describes a group sharing a common will and organisation based on natural instinct (like a hive of bees), your second paragraph disputes this organisation as a group for humans, decide for one it can’t be both ways.

bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
>Marriage without children is an issue of morality, not rights. It was historically an issue of rights And children rights are a fairly new thing.

And no, you are wrong - your right not be attacked is based on morality, you say "attacking someone is wrong" - there is no law in nature preventing this.

But you made no point for your argument - just stepping through mine with comments.

bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Musk profited of what he saw benefited him, yes he pushed forward EV technology and put other carmakers under pressure which is good. But he is an completely unhinged egomanic who has no respect for working people, even those working for him and often lies for his benefit, to workers, shareholders and reporters, this is documented hundreds of times
bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
>Real estate is not cash. It's cash spent. But it is hoarding wealth.
bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Mesopothemia was based on morals as far as we know, and they lay the foundation for many technical and scientific advances. And your rights are based on religious and ideological morals. Why do you believe the debate about Roe v. Wade exists? Why do we consider infidelity so bad it can break a contract of marriage? What is marriage? Those are not laws of nature.
bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
No Musk builds nothing. There is a huge team he leads, consisting of engineers and scientists and they develop technology that Musk then sells. He's a glorified cars salesman. Maybe he was essential to get the rockets built, but neither did he build them, nor contribute essential technical details, so that it would be uniquely him who could do it given same financial backing.
bergen··on Ex-OpenAI board member reveals what led to Sam Altman's brief ousting
Pretty sure Paul Lauterbur was no douchebag and good products and inventions can come from good people.
bergen··on One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence
The frequency of "eating stuff" should be a multiple of "being on a plane" I would assume
bergen··on One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence
Use a seatbelt most of the time in a plane is his suggestion, which really isn't hidden. I for one take the suggestion and will do so, because there is no inconvience, but the OP clearly stated that you're supposed make your own decisions.
bergen··on The oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year
This is ignoring seasonality, of course Winter temperature can not be as high as summer temperatures but still break historic records (just as an example)

This is somehow a given when talking about seasonal data.

bergen··on The man who killed Google Search?
Could you link it please? I have unfortunately no idea what you are referencing
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