Baeocystin

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by Baeocystin 1y ago
I had no idea it was so common! Fascinating article, thanks for posting it.
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by Baeocystin 1y ago
Stephen Baxter wrote a short story about such. It sticks with you. https://web.archive.org/web/20080725045740/http://www.solari...
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by Baeocystin 1y ago
This essay is (painfully) apt, and it reminds me of where I was when I finally switched, to my great relief, from being a Maximizer to a Satisficer*. It was all just Too Much, and I was feeling overwhelmed with responsibilities. And my dri
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by Baeocystin 1y ago
I still have vivid memories of getting the 'reduced cost' meal ticket for school lunch. They made all of us with the reduced tickets stand in line and wait for the other kids to get their food first, where all the other kids had
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by Baeocystin 1y ago
That vacuum tubes(!) were part of that package, and were able to be that robust, still floors me every time I think about it.
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by Baeocystin 1y ago
Back when I was taking CogSci classes in the 90's, The Bicameral Mind was introduced as a 'this is almost certainly completely wrong, but it makes a great starting point for a lot of great discussion', and it certainly bore o
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by Baeocystin 1y ago
If I said "gosh, I can't believe you can actually think at a human speed, having to use words for everything! It's like having to speak out loud when you're reading, so slow! Have you been diagnosed by a professional o
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by Baeocystin 1y ago
Not the person you're asking, but as someone who also doesn't have an inner monologue, no, I literally never think either of those two things you gave as an example. I feel the feelings they describe, but they never bubble up to m
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
I majored in CogSci at UCSD in the 90's. I've been interested and active in the machine learning world for decades. The LLM boom took me completely and utterly by surprise, continues to do so, and frankly I am most mystified by
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
I assume they're getting these massive windows via RAG trickery, vectorization, and other tricks behind the curtain, became I've noticed the same as you- things start dipping in quality pretty quickly. Does anyone know if I am cor
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Fuck. That is a bleak assessment.
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
I ask people to unplug their Ethernet cable and tell me the colors they see on the wires all the time. I don't care, of course. But they'll happily do that, where if I ask them to verify if the cable is properly plugged in, 99% o
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Let him be bored, and provide the tools so that he learns how to make his own fun.
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
My suburban neighborhood here in the bay area is mostly cul-de-sacs, and on the 4th of July about half of them close off the entrance to non-residents/family, and have a collective BBQ in the middle of the circle. Several of our neigh
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
FWIW, this has been my experience as well. When I lived in poor neighborhoods, yeah, we had more property crime. We also had a tremendous sense of community; I knew everyone, they knew me, food & favors were traded happily. The block
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Yep! I'm glad to hear that someone else had the same misaligned initial expectations. Keeping it vague to avoid spoilers, but the fact that I'm still unsure if the protagonist's action at the very end of the story was an e
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Ha! Good point. No argument there.
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Seconded. Blindsight remains one of my favorite meditations on the Mind's I (not a typo) that I've read. Echopraxia, the 'sequel' (the events occur at the same time as the events in Blindsight, with a completely differe
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
The only repeating use I've found for these so far is object detection in Frigate (NVR software).
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
No, I'd do that in a heartbeat. There are so many things I want to do, try, read, or learn, and yet I will never have the time, because I have to work. A high end salary for a minute of pain is so much better than what I currently
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Current LLMs decohere rapidly, and as far as I am aware, this problem seems like a fundamental to the architecture one.
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Ok, that's hilarious. Thanks for posting it.
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Uncooked greens have always had the highest rate of food poisoning/parasites/whathaveyou. It's not a new thing.
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Due to a gnarly accident, my right arm was in a cast for six months. They had to change the cast several times due to shrinking soft tissue, and by the time the cast came off, from wrist to elbow was all the same width. It was awful. But
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Funnily enough, there have been a few times over the past couple of years I've been asked by younger co-workers to read something for them that was written in cursive. I hadn't really realized it had become such a (comparatively)
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
I was a reasonably competitive BW player until the Korean teams arrived on the scene. I'll always appreciate how they elevated the level of gameplay. Really nice guys, too, I learned a lot from playing with them, and it was fun talk
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
The older I get, the more I realize that so much of the divide in the tech field is simply between the two camps of "the tools are the interesting part" vs "getting things done with the tools is the interesting part".
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
I have a very common name, and monkey's paw wish managed to get the unnumbered version for my gmail address. It has been a significant amount of work just dealing with all the derppelgängers out there who use an address they don&#x27
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Not OP, but I'm assuming he means that they are maddeningly black-boxy, if you want to know how the sausage is made.
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by Baeocystin 2y ago
Microfiche are amazing, that's what I remember most.

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