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by AvAn12 1y ago
How much of this is because Scale AI and others have had human “taskers” create huge amounts of domain-specific content for OpenAI and other foundation model providers?
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Or low-code / no-code?
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Remember when RPA was going to replace everyone?
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Agreed. In addition to the great historical observations below, I notice the progression from “Data Science” to “AI.” Ideally, data sci should have been about applying the scientific method to analyzing data — which should have come down t
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Agreee. Also money. Once we go from making things because they are cool / helpful / useful / amusing to making things to personally get rich, is enshitofication inevitable?
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by AvAn12 1y ago
WERE relatively common in NI in the 1970s and 1980s. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-66298630
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Any love for the other avatars? Power Pup? I think there were a few… Otherwise, thanks, this is great.
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Is the opposite testable? Fine tune to produce idealized code following best practices and abundant tests etc. Does this lead to highly ethical responses to general prompts? And are their other dimensions in addition to good-vs-malicious
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Opened and closed a FB account in 2012 - that's my customer lifetime journey with Meta products. Like I was saying, I have no interest in ad-supported products. And I would say that the burden would be on meta to persuade me why I sho
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by AvAn12 1y ago
It’s fine for you if you like it. The problem is that ubiquitous ads pollute the attention of those of us who don’t like it. Would have been a much different (and better) world if the early web established micro-payments as a way of fundin
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by AvAn12 1y ago
Cute but why? Human-based rankings rarely align and for good reason. In ranking, you are reducing multiple quantitative and qualitative attributes (and their combinations) to a single dimension. You will lose information. To illustrate fur
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by AvAn12 2y ago
What, Elon can’t afford another office building now?
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by AvAn12 2y ago
In the securities industry, "hype" - i.e. making claims which can not be fulfilled - is known as "fraud" and it lands people in jail. And, even with a ton of regulation in the securities industry, we still get some kind
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Larry should create a platform where anyone can VOLUNTARILY post personal data if they like - - and as long as he and his family members go first. As well as the board and execs of whatever companies will benefit from this. Go for it, and
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Analogy is not apt. If other countries are trying to pry into our data and systems, then the right move for google or any other tech company is to advance our defenses and make cybersecurity stronger, more available, and easier for compani
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by AvAn12 2y ago
At an average length of 3.7mm, that's around 46 billion miles of ants, if they march end to end. more than 10x the distance to Pluto for reference. Please check my math! (and if you want something crazy, do the same math for all of t
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Historically, HN has not been a forum for reasoned debate about political issues. Can we please keep it that way?
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Articles on lambda calculus are not political. Nor are articles on prime numbers, golang, Haskell, regex challenges, machine learning, GenAI, history of science, new products (Show HN) et cetera - the stuff I value HN for
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by AvAn12 2y ago
+1 for Sceptre
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Aren’t there some kinds of amoeba that can cross the BBB and take up residence in the brain? And fungal infections? (Or am I just thinking of horror movie plots?)
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Three legs to the stool - the NN algorithms, the data, and the labels. I think the first two are obvious but think about how much human time and care went into labeling millions of images...
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Did you not read that he just said he will use the military and government to jail his political opponents? Yesterday. So he may be different than Hitler in that he does not wear a moustach, but the promise to jail political rivals is a b
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Cool product! Still think Joel Spolsky was right that coders and engineers do best when they have an office with a door that closes though. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/19/where-do-these-peo... I
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by AvAn12 2y ago
PS I'm a long-time user of FastMail for personal. Highly recommended!
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by AvAn12 2y ago
Great feature! Would love to see this in Outlook (only option at work), gmail and others. Is this proprietary or some kind of extension of the email spec? Cheers
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by AvAn12 2y ago
> These startups break laws, pay the fines and end up just fine. That thought process puts them in the same boat as: Theranos, FTX, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Countrywide Financial, Enron, Washington Mutual, Kidder Peabody, and many
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by AvAn12 2y ago
A few things to exclude from training might include: - articles with mistakes such as incorrect product names, facts, dates, references - fraudulent and non-repeatable research findings - see John Ioannidis among others - outdated and incor
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by AvAn12 2y ago
This gets to some of the difference between human intelligence and LLM training. The machine remembers everything verbatim (plus a vector representation). Most people have faulty memory but somehow make a deeper encoding of the impact a bo
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by AvAn12 3y ago
Y'all probably also know that bog means "toilet" in British English...
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by AvAn12 3y ago
Wonderful! In the 90s a colleague and I wrote a book (EBRI Datebook on Employee Benefits) which was mostly tables. In addition to SAS, our other primary tool was an ancient language called Table Producing Language ("TPL"). Despit

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