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Cake day: August 19th, 2023

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  • Don’t hate on my man Innocent III, he said he was against attacking Christians and excommunicated the crusader army for attacking Zara. The sore loser Alexios IV Angelos offered the crusader army too much to ignore (from Wikipedia):

    There, Alexios IV offered to pay the entire debt owed to the Venetians, give 200,000 silver marks to the crusaders, 10,000 Byzantine professional troops for the Crusade, the maintenance of 500 knights in the Holy Land, the service of the Byzantine navy to transport the Crusader Army to Egypt, and the placement of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the authority of the Pope, if they would sail to Constantinople and topple the reigning emperor Alexios III Angelos, brother of Isaac II.

    That fucker got ousted by the public one year later and didn’t deliver anything so he essentially scammed the whole crusade. The other parts of the army not simping for Venetian and Thessalonian rat plans just went straight to Acre instead.













  • Gradually typed is a great description because it’s neither fully static or dynamic. TS does allow you to circumvent the types too easily to be called statically typed.

    const strings: string[] = ([1] as any[])
    

    Is ok in TS land so the type of strings is not really static so to speak because you can assign whatever to it. Writing this in Dart would give

    error - The argument type 'List<dynamic>' can't be assigned to the parameter type 'List<string>'. - argument_type_not_assignable
    

    if I’m not mistaken.






  • Yeah absolutely, I’m specifically talking about AI as a neural network/reinforcement learning/machine learning and whatnot. Top of the line weather algorithms are now less accurate than neural networks.

    LLMs as doctors are pretty garbage since they’re predicting words instead of classifying a photo into yes/no or detecting which part of the sleep cycle a sleeping patient is in.

    Fun fact, the closer you get the actual math the less magical the words become. Marketing says “AI”, programming says “machine learning” or “neural network”, mathematicians say “reinforcement learning”.