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  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.detoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•A tautology is a tautology.
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    2 days ago

    (a <=> b) <=/=> [(b => TRUE) <=> a]

    This is a critique of honor societies which do not serve a point in proving someone’s “honor”. The college requirement is essentially: Join this club to prove you have joined this club. Anyone can join an “honor” society without demonstrating anything related to honor, meaning:

    ([Joining an honor society] => TRUE) <=> [Being allowed to join college]

    Being allowed to drive a car implies having a license and having a license implies being allowed to drive a car. Neither of these implies TRUE - in an ideal world at least.

    By the way, TRUE is a tautology because it is always true, which is the definition of a tautology. Unnecessary repetition is not a requirement of a tautology.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    26 days ago

    The issue with this definition is that it’s overly broad. For instance, a hash of a picture could not exist without that picture. Nor do certain downscalings, like 2x2, 3x3 or 4x4. There must be an exact pixel value you can legally downscale any image to without violating copyright. Similarly, there is a point where creating a book’s synopsis starts violating copyright and where a song sounds too similar to another one.

    And based on their size, LLMs - in my opinion - cannot possibly violate copyright for their source material because they couldn’t possibly store more than a couple of bits per work. Only works that occue frequently in the training data can actually be somewhat reproduced by LLMs.

    By the way, fair use doesn’t even exist in every - including my - jurisdiction.

    This has lead to people being successfully sued for copyright infringement because they posted pictures of their home online that contained a copyrighted wallpaper in the background.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.detoGames@lemmy.world•Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live!English
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    1 month ago

    Wouldn’t that be akin to adding new features? Adding support for previously unsupported (due to their lack of existance) hardware is a feature imo.

    Besides, while a program may eventually be bug-free, no modern computer has flawless hardware so creating a large program without bugs will always remain a thought experiment.

    The only possible reason to do it would be if an alien civilization were to demand producing such a program or else they’d destroy Earth (similar to Erdős’s thought experiment with finding Ramsey numbers). Perhaps with all of humanity’s resources and a few decades this could be done.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.detoGames@lemmy.world•Cyberpunk 2077 - Update 2.2 is live!English
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    1 month ago

    Eventually: Yes.

    There are a finite number of bugs (or bug types rather, you could have infinitely many bugs from the same few lines of code) and it will take finite time to fix them all. You cannot know when you have fixed all of them though. But some games have gone above and beyond with fixing bugs, like Factorio where you will not encounter bugs without explicitly looking for them.

  • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•In the space of 1 week, a second open-source Chinese AI model equals the best investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars into.English
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    2 months ago

    It’s a little on the rambling side. While it does show the steps it takes, I’m sure it gets annoying when it considers more and more edge cases.

    Q: What is the longest word in this sentence?

    Let’s see. The sentence is: “What is the longest word in this sentence?” I need to find out which word is the longest in this sentence.

    First, I should probably list out all the words in the sentence. Let’s break it down:

    1. What

    2. is

    3. the

    4. longest

    5. word

    6. in

    7. this

    8. sentence

    Now, I need to count the number of letters in each word.

    • What: 4 letters

    • is: 2 letters

    • the: 3 letters

    • longest: 7 letters

    • word: 4 letters

    • in: 2 letters

    • this: 4 letters

    • sentence: 8 letters

    Okay, so “sentence” has 8 letters, and “longest” has 7 letters. So “sentence” is longer.

    Wait, but is “sentence” the longest? Let me check again.

    What: 4

    is: 2

    the: 3

    longest: 7

    word: 4

    in: 2

    this: 4

    sentence: 8

    Yes, “sentence” has the most letters with 8 letters.

    But wait, is there any word with more than 8 letters? Let’s make sure.

    Looking back at the list:

    • What: 4

    • is: 2

    • the: 3

    • longest: 7

    • word: 4

    • in: 2

    • this: 4

    • sentence: 8

    No, “sentence” is the longest word in this sentence.

    But now I’m thinking, maybe there’s a word that’s longer that I’m missing. Maybe there’s a word within “sentence” that’s longer, like if “sentence” contained another word within it.

    Wait, no. Each word is separate. I think I listed all the words correctly.

    Alternatively, maybe there are multiple words with the same length, but in this case, “sentence” is the longest.

    Wait, perhaps I should consider punctuation. Is there any punctuation that might be considered part of a word?

    The sentence ends with a question mark, so “sentence?” would be 9 letters if the question mark is included. But typically, punctuation is not considered part of the word. So, “sentence” is still 8 letters.

    Alright, so “sentence” is the longest word with 8 letters.

    But just to be thorough, maybe there’s a word that I missed or miscounted.

    Let me count again:

    • What: W-H-A-T, 4 letters

    • is: I-S, 2 letters

    • the: T-H-E, 3 letters

    • longest: L-O-N-G-E-S-T, 7 letters

    • word: W-O-R-D, 4 letters

    • in: I-N, 2 letters

    • this: T-H-I-S, 4 letters

    • sentence: S-E-N-T-E-N-C-E, 8 letters

    Yes, definitely 8 letters.

    So, the longest word is “sentence.”

    But now I’m thinking, maybe there’s a word with a hyphen or something that I need to consider. Like “well-known” would be two words, well and known, but without a hyphen, it’s one word.

    But in this sentence, there are no hyphenated words.

    Alternatively, maybe there are contractions, but there are no contractions in this sentence.

    So, “sentence” is clearly the longest word.

    But to make sure, perhaps I can measure the length programmatically.

    If I were to write a simple program to find the longest word in a sentence, I would split the sentence into words and then find the word with the maximum length.

    In Python, for example, I could do something like:

    sentence = “What is the longest word in this sentence?”

    words = sentence.split()

    max_word = max(words, key=len)

    print(max_word)

    That would output “sentence?” but since punctuation is not part of the word, I should remove punctuation.

    So, perhaps:

    import string

    sentence = “What is the longest word in this sentence?”

    words = sentence.translate(str.maketrans(‘’, ‘’, string.punctuation)).split()

    max_word = max(words, key=len)

    print(max_word)

    This would output “sentence” without the question mark.

    So, yes, “sentence” is the longest word with 8 letters.

    But now, out of curiosity, I wonder if there are any words with more than 8 letters in this sentence. Clearly not, but maybe in a different sentence.

    Alternatively, perhaps there’s a way to make “sentence” longer by considering it with punctuation, but as established, punctuation is not part of the word.

    Wait, maybe there are words with apostrophes, like “it’s,” but in this sentence, there are no such words.

    So, in conclusion, “sentence” is the longest word in the sentence “What is the longest word in this sentence?” with 8 letters.

    Final Answer

    [ \boxed{\text{sentence}} ]