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by IKantRead 3y ago
> AI is (still) eating the world. Citation needed. I work in this space so am fairly optimistic, but it's worth pointing out we're still mostly talking about AI hype. Nothing has really been eaten at all yet from what I've
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I think what you're describing is basically something I've pointed out in different contexts: for many areas concerned with AI, content is already effectively written by "AI", it's just humans following the algorith
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As someone who has been doing a lot of work in SD, I just wanted to strongly second this. Stable Diffusion and the like are much closer to when photoshop first appeared than they are to than the completely automatic art generation machine
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I was a sophomore in college, it was strange because people didn't have smart phones and many people didn't have cell phones. I remember class starting and a student said, very calmly after receiving a text message about, "oh
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> CEO says firm is smaller than ideal but positive for margins Sounds like "quiet cutting"[0] to me, only I'm guessing the CEO's target was slightly less people quitting. It's remarkable how quickly startups have
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Just yesterday I was thinking to myself "I wonder how long it will be until we start generating prompts using code and then we're just writing code again"
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I recently came across an in-progress book from Manning, "Peer-to-Peer Web Applications" [0] that, despite a fair bit of crypto/web3 references, seems to be targeting an audience of people looking to build more robust/co
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Real-Estate Doom Loop Threatens America’s Banks(wsj.com)
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Thank you for pointing this out! I have quite a few Chinese friends and they never cease to be entertained by the long list of "Chinese" proverbs that American's claim to know. It turns out that since for most of Western hist
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> The focus on the top 10 in vector search is a product of wanting to prove value over keyword search I'm surprised to see less mention of the use of vector search in RAG. The reason top 10 (or less) is so important in RAG is that y
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> You're saying, let's pull that lever. First off, I'm not saying "starting tomorrow now fossil fuels!", I'm saying you must keep fossil fuels in the ground to avoid worst case. And the start of that means
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> I'm curious how you think that the damage of climate change can be worse than this. Oh, much worse. First off we, fertilizer or no, we're already facing crop failures in the US [0] and will continue to face even more extreme
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Wait until you see what climate change does with continued carbon emissions! But this has always been the problem with stopping climate change. We are choosing between lesser, but certain immediate pain vs larger but less certain future pai
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I do believe that included in "only action" is: keep fossil fuels in the ground. The idea that we can only mitigate is insane. Yes we've already signed up for a lot of pain as a civilization, but as long we keep burning fossi
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I still chuckle a bit when people get anti-scrum, because I've been around long enough when agile/scrum was the disruptive thing. Of course in practice agile/scrum/whatever has turned into the same cargo-cult nonsense th
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I don't think you should criticize others just because you've adapted to what is clearly a dark pattern. I clearly see the "continue reading" now, but I definitely recall the first time I saw this popup not seeing it a
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by IKantRead 3y ago
In the US, which is the region I'm citing for covid deaths, HIV causes ~20,000 deaths a year [0]. Last I checked people are quite considered with global HIV death, especially since they can obviously be reduced dramatically. 0. http
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Or the million+ deaths in the US from Covid, which I have seen brushed off on HN as not a big deal. It's remarkably how quickly people incorporate tragedy as normal when it doesn't fit their worldview. If you travel to 2000 and to
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> wet-bulb event It's probably already too late, but I keep seeing people confusing the concept of "web bulb temperature" (all temperatures have a wet bulb temperature, even ones very pleasant for people) with "the hu
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> Crypto was a total scam. As someone who have been very anti-crypto for a long time, it wasn't always a complete scam. The first wave of the crypto boom, before anyone that wasn't a programmer had even heard of it, there w
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I work in this space and think that it's far more rational to accept the axiom that LLM progress will not be significant than to bank product work on assuming it will increase drastically . I do think we still have yet to squeeze the
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I think they're HF averse because HF is fairly anti-NSFW content and it's pretty clear that civit.ai has a fairly large NFSW focused audience. On top of that HF is just hard to use for your average user. Civit.ai is just "c
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by IKantRead 3y ago
Sampling is widely accepeted to have originated from the 1970-80s Hiphop scene, where traditional DJs (playing other people's music, like the do today) started to get clever with how they were combining different tracks. Rappers would
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by IKantRead 3y ago
I do find it interesting how little in the larger AI art conversation the idea of borrowing already exists in various art forms and each art forms unique culture of accepting this comes up. In folk music for example, performing someone else
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by IKantRead 3y ago
This is a great comment. I was self-taught and then went back to school, so I have pretty good experience with both paths. I hear a lot of time from developers "I never use those fancy algorithms!" or "I've never needed
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by IKantRead 3y ago
AI will only replace the work of creatives who have already turned themselves into AIs long ago. There are plenty of writers and illustrators out there who have trained themselves to churn out reproducible garbage over the years in order
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by IKantRead 3y ago
> It fails to deliver a consistent representatiuon of reality. I'm curious by what precisely you mean by this. Last I checked, reality itself has problems consistently representing itself.
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I really want to agree with this, but the trouble is that an unstated prerequisite is that you need a team of developers that have a strong sense of software design. A sensibility I've come to believe is drastically in decline in mor
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by IKantRead 3y ago
For a first pass I highly recommend reading the Ethics backwards, and only focusing on the collaries and the notes at the end of each section. Ignore the axioms and proofs for the first few passes through the book. The content and notes a
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by IKantRead 3y ago
The best advice I ever got regarding Spinoza's Ethics was to read it backwards, and focus on the corollaries (and notes at the end of sections). If you start the Ethics at the end you find a great introduction to reading Spinoza: &

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