FeteCommuniste

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by FeteCommuniste 2mo ago
To a man with a hammer...
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by FeteCommuniste 2mo ago
Welcome to Gastown!
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by FeteCommuniste 2mo ago
It's not a new medium, just a faster way of pumping out (mostly crappy versions of) the same thing.
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by FeteCommuniste 2mo ago
You heard it here first, not liking slop means you're a Nazi.
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
The vast majority of Cervantes's work was not in poetry, either. I think the idea is more "emblematic national storyteller" than poet in the narrow sense.
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
What on earth is "politically charged" or "inaccessible" about Frost or Ingalls Wilder? It's not like they threw in Gertrude Stein or William Gaddis.
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
And France has Molière, and Portugal has Camões...how many authors should be listed?
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
Heh, we're closer to the Beowulf poet than the Beowulf poet was to Homer.
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
> The differences with bullying via social media are: the difficulty to escape it in space or time as well as its reach. Just log off of Instagram / TikTok / wherever. Or block the people bothering you. If anything I'd say
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
Interesting reversal of the "think of the kids" argument, though: think of the kids who could have used their phones to document their mistreatment at the hands of alcoholic perverts.
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
Portable desalinators exist.
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
> Humans aren't deterministic Thus why we replaced computers (flesh and blood people writing out calculations) with computers (silicon-based number-crunching machines).
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by FeteCommuniste 3mo ago
Yes. Potentially life-saving drugs in RCTs are usually compared to "standard of care," i.e. already-approved treatments, not to placebos.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
The two feed into each other. "Publish or perish" ups the incentive to pump out shaky papers to pad resumes. LLMs make it easier to churn them out.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
The sloppings will continue until morale improves.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
American children are pretty hefty.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
MRI uses RF wavelengths, which are measured in meters. Ultrasound waves are measured in fractions of a millimeter. Wavelength is not the relevant factor here.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
The instinct of many people (myself included, a lot of the time) is "feed the AI the problems from the domains I'm least good at / familiar with" because those ones are the most frustrating and where I'm the most li
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
The big ones (oriental, not German) unfortunately come into my house pretty regularly. Setting out poison helps but hasn't rid of us of all of them.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
For me it's less fear than an instant "I must kill it / get it out of here" feeling. A big spider or centipede gives me a more intense "creepy crawly" shiver but a cockroach is way higher on the disgust scale f
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
The "writing part" is not neatly separable from the "ideas part," much as AI-writing defenders would like to pretend so.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
If you're outsourcing your writing to AI, I assume you're outsourcing your thinking to it as well. And I don't really care what some weighted average of all human text written on the topic "thinks."
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
Precisely. "We're doing this with AI" reads as "we don't care enough about this to pay a person to do it."
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
Also his "Coding Train" videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCodingTrain
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
Nice examples, I think I landed on that page quite a while ago. I love Processing and Perlin noise. One thing I enjoyed was using Perlin noise values to compute a "region" on the canvas and making the behavior of a particle depend
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
Got a Monty Python vibe: https://youtu.be/79TVMn_d_Pk?si=x2yAyxKNJDow8enp&t=124
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
I don't know, I was never one to "assign roles" to AI myself, but if it ends up working for some people in practice, then I guess it might be worth examining why.
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
Also Black Cube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
It's from the old Tom Lehrer song, "Wernher von Braun."
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by FeteCommuniste 4mo ago
I imagined it as kind of a shorthand for "you should be spending my tokens on looking for / addressing issues like X, Y, and Z," where X, Y, and Z are the sorts of things that an expert in [insert domain here] would be likely

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