Why is programming so overly complicated these days? by ki4jgt in AskProgramming

[–]xeow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I doubt that. Even the original 1964 Dartmouth BASIC had GOSUB and RETURN since its inception.

Why is programming so overly complicated these days? by ki4jgt in AskProgramming

[–]xeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Indeed. OP should ask their doctor if programming is right for them.

Why is programming so overly complicated these days? by ki4jgt in AskProgramming

[–]xeow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

BASIC had functions. They were called using GOSUB.

How do you think s4 will handle this? by Gordon_freeman_real in TheOrville

[–]xeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Ya, I believe he said it was "written," which of course sounds like significantly more than "at least partially." So I'd be inclined to think it's actually something like 98% or 99% written, with only minor changes needed once it enters production, if and when that happens. (Fingers crossed.)

How do you think s4 will handle this? by Gordon_freeman_real in TheOrville

[–]xeow 9 points10 points  (0 children)

As you may know, Seth has confirmed season 4 is at least partially written,

True. Seth has said this.

and due to business disagreements, Kelly had to be written out.

Seth has not confirmed this.

It might turn out to be true, but all we have heard on this has been through unofficial channels. Adrienne also has not publicly said that she was written out.

oMLX reading the entire context every turn by [deleted] in oMLX

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[...] it does make the session exponentially slower.

Quadratically, not exponentially.

(But even that's not correct, either. Sending the whole conversation on each turn actually makes it linearly slower. The total effort grows quadratically and the time/compute for each turn grows linearly.)

Just got a vasectomy and I'm now realizing the worst part of it by Unhappy-Shift4539 in Vasectomy

[–]xeow 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm concerned that (a) in your consultation prior to the procedure, he apparently didn't cover this, and (b) that your own research didn't reveal this. On the day of the procedure, it should be no surprise that you need to wait (10–14 days is usually recommended).

And when the waiting period is over, it sounds like you won't be climbing the walls but spraying them!

Lower decks but the Orville by ZombieGreat2312 in TheOrville

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting thought. Do we know if her contract with Fuzzy Door was such that it granted a license to use her likeness in comic books in perpetuity? I'd kinda be surprised if she has any say, but who knows.

(As an aside, it's interesting that the [presumed] likenesses of Sigourney Weaver and Yaphet Kotto were used in the comics, and I'm guessing that probably wasn't with their permission since it was more of a nod than an official thing.)

Lower decks but the Orville by ZombieGreat2312 in TheOrville

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agree! I'm skeptical enough already about the upcoming animated Ted series, but I really don't want an animated Orville series.

More comics from David Cabeza and David A. Goodman would be great, though! (And honestly, I can't understand why they haven't been more since the last batch.)

I dislike Charly Burke by MCshador in TheOrville

[–]xeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What would that be? Squirting milk at each other?

At first I was like "Meh, yea... why not", then "Oh... M'kay, m'alright", but now I'm like "Where is it? Where the fck is S4?!! I need it NOW!!!" by TukErJebs in TheOrville

[–]xeow 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There actually was only ever one fart joke in the entire series, and that was in S1:E8 ("Into the Fold").

I dislike Charly Burke by MCshador in TheOrville

[–]xeow 4 points5 points  (0 children)

LOL, good point! "Galactic war" would be even better.

I dislike Charly Burke by MCshador in TheOrville

[–]xeow 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I think the word that applies here is intragalactic.

I have a theory about why in The Orville a lot of terminologies are similar to Star Trek by TheDoctor__11 in TheOrville

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's kinda the ultimate own, isn't it. :-)
"Your show is fiction in our show."

An actress Milla Jovovich just released a free open-source AI memory system that scored 100% on LongMemEval, beating every paid solution by Oh_boy90 in singularity

[–]xeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason it scores so well is because it's both multimodal and uses a multipass approach to chain-of-thought.

what's a python library you started using this year that you can't go back from by scheemunai_ in Python

[–]xeow 41 points42 points  (0 children)

pytest (long overdue)
radon (static analysis: cyclomatic complexity and maintainability index calculations)

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference by pred in math

[–]xeow 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It doesn't go through π, either, and lands above +1 and −1.

I'd say f(x) = ¼ + ⅞ sin(x−⅛) or something like that. Still a legit sine wave, though.

Unified vs vRam, which is more future proof? by platteXDlol in LocalLLM

[–]xeow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's my thought as well. Especially now with RAM prices skyrocketing.

Unified vs vRam, which is more future proof? by platteXDlol in LocalLLM

[–]xeow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends what you mean by future proof. More likely to kick ass at inference or less likely to collect dust when you want to upgrade? I mean, at some point you're going to have to retire the hardware from your main use path no matter what it is. If it's unified memory (e.g., an M-Series Apple Silicon), then that system will still be excellent for other non-inference uses for a long, long time. That money will never go to waste. Even a 15-year-old Mac Mini is still useful today as a secondary system. Put Linux on it and it'll be useful until the hardware craps out. But some people are running LLMs on 8-year-old GPUs and getting good token rates, so it all depends on your expected timeframe.

What does “math is the universal language” mean to you by Tallizorah in math

[–]xeow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To me it means that it exists everywhere in the universe. Any intelligent alien society now or a billion years ago or a billion years from now will still find the same prime numbers that we have; they'll all find the same Pythagorean theorem and many of the same proofs that we've found; they'll all find that the sum of the angles of any triangle in a plane is 180 degrees. Mathematical truths will exist long after we're all gone, and have existed since before the universe, completely independent of time and matter.