ElFitz

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by ElFitz 10mo ago
> to claim users actually prefer bad product designs One could argue many users seem to prefer badly designed free products over well designed paid products.
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by ElFitz 11mo ago
> such as the belief that bare-metal means “server room here in the office” I remember the day I discovered some companies, and not just tech ones (Walmart, UPS, Toyota,…) actually own, operate, and use their own datacenters. And there c
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by ElFitz 11mo ago
Re: NASA chasing around for Saturn V blueprints and the blueprints for the equipment needed to make the actual rocket parts.
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by ElFitz 11mo ago
> The best and cheapest weapons are the ones never used, but making no weapons at all is the most expensive choice in the end. As a big part of Europe is learning at great cost.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary had an interesting take on that.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
It has proven very useful to a great number of people who, although they are a minority, have vastly benefited from TTS and other accessibility features.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
According to Wikipedia, the Russian constitution mentions the following: 1. Everyone shall have the right to the inviolability of private life, personal and family secrets, the protection of honour and good name. 2. Everyone shall have the
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by ElFitz 1y ago
> Inference APIs aren’t subsidised I may be wrong, but wasn’t compute part of Microsoft’s 2019 or 2023 investment deals with OpenAI?
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by ElFitz 1y ago
> or not saying it’s better to cause thermonuclear war instead of misgendering someone So does GPT-5. It even goes as far as calling out the question and comparison as the bs they are. Edited for readability: > Those two things are no
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Even when instructed to say "I don’t know" it is just as likely to make up an answer instead, or say it "doesn’t know" when the data is actually present somewhere in its weights.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Maybe. But a modern revolution also doesn’t need physical violence. People in power only have power in so far as others believe and enforce it. The emperor has no clothes.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use for your knowledge base?
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Wonderful, thank you!
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by ElFitz 1y ago
There was something similar about using evolutionary algorithms to produce the design for a mechanical piece used to link two cables or anchor a bridge’s cable, optimizing for weight and strength. The design seemed alien and somewhat organi
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Is that what they mean in the Wally paper post by > In previous private search systems, for each client query, the server must perform at least one expensive cryptographic operation per database entry. ?
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by ElFitz 1y ago
> Now it looks to me that the whole input must be encrypted with key k. But in the search example, the inputs include a query […] and a multi-terabyte database […] That’s not the understanding I got from Apple’s CallerID example[0][1]. T
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Honestly, regarding the whole "LLM slop" thing, I don’t care. I get why others do, but I just don’t. I don’t care how that sausage is made. Heck, sometimes gen AI even allows people who otherwise wouldn’t have had the time or skil
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Funnily enough, fecal transplants (Fecal Microbiota Transplants, FMT) are a thing, used to help treat a range of diseases. It’s even being investigated to help treat depression. So…
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Would you care to provide some facts to support your affirmations?
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by ElFitz 1y ago
I’d add to that that classical music was made at a time recording and listening whatever you want, whenever and wherever, wasn’t a thing. Many pieces were intended as a whole, and optimised for specific settings. I’ve long thought I wasn’t
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Now that would be a sight.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
No, I just saw the job posting and thought it might be relevant.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
https://app.gun.io/app/jobs/e67a983a-7b18-4d12-9aaa-f533129f... Perhaps also put a way of contacting you in your bio.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Exactly.
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by ElFitz 1y ago
> He's just not getting paid anymore. Or the credit. Or even just the feedback. Even LLMs get at least some feedback.
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The Timeless Genius of Kodak's George Eastman (2012)(technologizer.com)
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Financial Immaturity(2lr.substack.com)
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by ElFitz 1y ago
There’s one business book I’ve actually enjoyed reading and somehow learned more from years after reading it than while reading it: Business Adventures. It’s a bit silly, doesn’t pretend to be a guide, provide any wise advice of any sort,
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by ElFitz 1y ago
Very interesting, thanks! Same thing for fans in a desktop case, a laptop case, or on a graphics card. They cool down the CPU / GPU / desk to case even when said computer is in a closed room. Hadn’t thought of it this way, but it’
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by ElFitz 1y ago
We later replaced the backpack with a home-made open mesh grid onto which the receiver was strapped. But that just bought us a bit more run time without actually solving anything. From what I’d gathered at the time, it was a common issue wi

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