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Fortunately almost all the functional features in the article, like range folds and negation wrappers, do exist.

> THUITFHNGL

Tragic Harvest Underwrites Infrastructure That Frobs Haptic Network Generation Load?

Oh I did. I just couldn't resist the temptation to have some fun with it. :-)

Can you help me out with an expansion of "TFA", when used to refer to the original post in comments? I simply don't believe that every commenter is using it to mean "The Fucking Article" in comments that are otherwise devoid of aggression or profanity.

I can't speak for anybody else, but when I see "TFA" I do indeed translate it as "The Fucking Article". But if it makes you feel better you can think of it as "The Friggin' Article" or "The Fine Article" or something else less profane.

You write C++ every day, and you didn’t understand the is_descendant_of/is_ancestor_of example? Or how you can use it to reverse a relation like std::less?

I don’t understand why I should care about this. It doesn’t appear to solve real problems. The examples are all dumb toys and simply writing a wrapper by hand is perfectly fine and easier to read.

It's as useful (or not) as you find this:

https://cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/not_fn.htm...

If you don't see any value in that, you wouldn't see any value in the similar `flip` function or other combinators.

> I have absolutely no idea what std::flip is supposed to do.

Just reverse parameter order. It seems very silly.

  void f(int, double);

  void main() {
    flip(f)(3.14, 1);
  }

You do realize it's not meant for silly situations like that, right?

I cannot imagine a not-silly situation where it would be used.

If I have a library that let me curry trailing arguments for a function, then I can see how something like std::flip() could be useful in letting me curry different arguments without costing extra lines of code. The library I had in mind is Google's RPC callbacks:

https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/main/src/go...

This library was written in the C++98 era. It might seem silly now because with C++11, we could use std::bind or lambda expressions instead.

I am insufficiently clever to imagine a non-silly situation in which it is useful. If authors only present silly use cases then I am inclined to suspect their creations are only useful in silly cases. If it were useful in solving real problems they should show that as an example!

57. I got a ton of shape rotation problems. Figured out a strategy for those:

Focus on the 3 pronged shape. It is unique in all 4 orientations. You can use this to filter out bad rotations. Then use adjacencies to filer out the rest.

This seems useful for folks who use Obsidian as a personal CRM. I got some queries with data view that I'm going to see if this can replace:

https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/

I often want to answer questions like:

- When was the last time I chatted with this person - What did we talk about - Who haven't I spoken to in a while

Dataview can generate all of the data from Bases (and a whole lot more), but Bases is a lot easier to use as you can build queries in the GUI and the data comes out in nicely formatted table where you can edit the fields directly in the table rather than needing to load each data item one by one to make changes.

And still after using and making changes in the GUI the query is stored in a nicely formatted and editable YAML file.

I think this flips at the frontier which may be what Tao is commenting on.

Tao is a) unusually intelligent and b) an expert in his field. Most people are neither very intelligent nor have expert knowledge in any academic subject. So Tao is pretty much the least representative LLM user possible.

You could argue that Tao is the most representative LLM user possible, because why would you need not very intelligent people use LLMs? Just replace them with LLMs.

I assume you wouldn't want to be replaced by an LLM.

For the paid job I am currently doing, I wouldn't mind being replaced by an LLM at all. Just give me the money, no strings attached.

I mean, THAT IS WHAT TECHNOLOGY IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE FOR. Nobody wants a job, everybody just wants to live their lives.

Seems like the same software could be used as a soundtrack for Tai Chi exercises. Would be pretty neat.

It seems possible, since Apple’s Vision framework can read body pose too. Maybe I can try it for the next update.

Honestly, this might have gone over better with messaging such as. "We added Ads to WhatsApp, here's what we're doing keep the user first"

There is a cult understanding that Instagram ads are highly relevant and quite useful at times and WhatsApp ads have the same possibility. But the messaging is quite poor.

> the scientific insights that got us to systems like GPT-4 and o3 were hard-won, but will take us very far.

Does anyone know if there are well established scaling laws for reasoning models similar to chinchilla scaling. (i.e. is the above claim valid?)

It's hardly faustian if your goal is to sell your product. If you have some weird hybrid sales/content-based ad revenue setup, then yeah, maybe it's faustian.

The document suggests unblocking OAI-SearchBot in robots.txt, and then clarifies:

> OAI-SearchBot is for search. OAI-SearchBot is used to link to and surface websites in search results in ChatGPT's search features. It is not used to crawl content to train OpenAI’s generative AI foundation models. Learn more (opens in a new window).

If you sell a product you want everybody to scrape as much as possible from your website.

Gotta start 'em young on dealing with government bureaucracy.

If it doesn't cost $200 of your time to claim $12, what is government for?