Closi

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by Closi 4y ago
You are (usually) buying a perpetual licence which is revocable, not renting a licence, so the language is correct. Common usage of the word 'buy' also applies here - the term 'rent' would be confusing to a customer and
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by Closi 4y ago
I guess there is also a point which is that it isn't 'artificial' intelligence - it is just intelligence. Like we don't say that planes artificially fly, they just fly. I mean technically it's non-natural flight, bu
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by Closi 4y ago
Agree - the success of flash was that it was designer-first rather than developer-first (and I miss that!). Things like theatre.js look great, but very quickly their documentation make it clear that you are expected to use javascript. Flash
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by Closi 4y ago
> DeepMind has made very impressive demos and papers, but they have yet to add one dollar of revenue to Google's bottom line. Further they have drained billions from Google. You could say the same about OpenAI and Microsoft, they dr
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by Closi 4y ago
The other element here is quality content - you probably aren’t just training on public internet data for commercial LLMs, hopefully you can train on scanned books too, and closed academic journals, radio transcripts, photograph stores, map
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by Closi 4y ago
> Isn't that the best case for AI generated content, logical-sense? or are you suggesting more (e.g 'source of meaning')? I just mean that the approach sounds logical, although the best approach isn’t always the one that a
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by Closi 4y ago
The same wasn't true for images - it has been easier (so far) to directly compute the images than it has been to train them to use photoshop or illustrator. Similarly, neural networks have already been shown to be able to directly simu
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by Closi 4y ago
Wow, that quickly went from "ah this looks like it would be a cute thing to reproduce" to "oh god, this is way more wildly complex than I thought!"
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by Closi 4y ago
I think they decided that Apple is a coopetitor - i.e. they are a competitor on multiple fronts but they ultimately need to support their products operating on Apple's platform.
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by Closi 4y ago
Smart - they are currently trialling GPT/AI features so the keyboard will help you rewrite text.
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by Closi 4y ago
Not directly, other than their Facebook where people are giving feedback. As an aside, I suspect these bing-related features are the only reason the product was brought back from the dead. Looks like Microsoft are adding features to allow y
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by Closi 4y ago
Worth noting that they did announce they were discontinuing it and removed it from the app store in October, then brought it back quickly after.
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by Closi 4y ago
Alternative theory - When the iOS application was discontinued and they had removed it from the app store in October, they redirected their support site to just the android version FAQ's and have forgotten to switch it back. Thus iOS s
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by Closi 4y ago
Do we really want a fully open source GPT-4 at this stage? Considering there are calls already to slow down development to allow society time to adjust, open source GPT-4 would be giving it an instant turbo-charge as very quickly we will ha
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by Closi 4y ago
Running server farms to quickly give answers to users, like bing or ChatGPT. The models produced have to be fast and efficient to support capacity/cost, which has some detriment to quality/accuracy.
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by Closi 4y ago
> Something just doesn't feel right with the idea that you can be under obligation to help make a case against yourself in a legal proceeding. Well that’s kind of the whole thing with discovery - the court is asking the company to d
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by Closi 4y ago
Yeah but ‘Turing complete languages’ have their own limitations compared to no code, like being comparatively slow to develop in. (In quotes because many/most no-code environments are Turing complete, but you still wouldn’t want to dev
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by Closi 4y ago
To me, an AI company would be a company that offers products with AI capabilities (regardless on if they are just calling an API). We have plenty of web hosting companies that don't own a server, energy companies that don't own po
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by Closi 4y ago
That's the same thing with all technology choices though - if requirements change substantially you always risk a rewrite. If write a full-code application with all your logic in server-side .NET and suddenly your users have a requirem
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by Closi 4y ago
Agree entirely. As an additional point - If I have an entry-level clerk who does 2 hours of work per day that could be automated by putting a dev to work on building a solution for a month or two, it won't financially stack up. I also
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by Closi 4y ago
Totally agree - right tool right job. Sometimes writing a full web application is the right solution, other times you just need a database with a front end and a low-code solution is best, other times an excel spreadsheet will be the right
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by Closi 4y ago
I agree with that statement, but disagree with the conclusion ('because of that no-code solutions are not useful'). The benefit of low-code is that you can spend more time understanding the root causes of the problems, and be able
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by Closi 4y ago
> Designing a solution worth a damn is actually the most difficult part of the software development process. Low Code tools lie to customers by implying that the writing of code is the hardest part. I don't think there is a lie here
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by Closi 4y ago
Retool can do quite a few things excel can't: - Allow significant/good multi-user access - Change control - Less fragility - Allow editing large datasets (e.g. stored in Postgres) in a controlled way - UI elements without diving i
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by Closi 4y ago
Wow, Yes HN headline is definetly false.
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You can make objective statements by benchmarking, but by the nature of benchmarking you need something to benchmark lower to be able to conclude that something is performing poorly. Benchmarking is comparative - that’s the whole point - so
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by Closi 4y ago
How do you get the data relevant to that ID? If the answer is a call to a shared database, you might as well not have RabbitMQ.
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by Closi 4y ago
Why do we assume that Twitter, a global communications company which has had offices in Dubai, might not consider the nonstandard transliteration requirements of Arabic, the 4th largest language in the world, which would mean that they woul
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by Closi 4y ago
I think it would be pretty easy with the language models we have available these days. And there’s always the options of having unsupported languages or inferring it from user settings or user location. From a product perspective you will n
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by Closi 4y ago
I don’t think it should be an ID - these platforms are really made for creating distributed event-driven systems.

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