IdiocyInAction

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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
Because the computer in this case is relying on a vast repository of human knowledge encoded in these languages to go from 1 to 3. Machine code was probably not in the training set. Would be interesting if you could train a GPT-N model to b
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
I guess it's to make people quit and get out of paying severance?
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
It's actually anti-non-NAFTA, as can be seen in the inflation reduction act.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
Did you read the article? Tech progress in the areas the article talked about slowed down like 70 years ago.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
On the other hand more people are retired and in schooling than ever. Someone also has to produce the surplus for those people.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
A lot of nasty ideologues that caused massive suffering also believed that
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
I'd wager that if you would put it to a referendum, the vast majority would prefer access to Meta's services for free to GDPR in Europe. Max Schrems isn't helping anyone.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
Both China and Russia eschewed US tech and they have much, much healthier tech industries than Europe. The US also doesn't really believe in foreign competition ("Buy American", recent huge industrial subsidies as part of the
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
I trust the app to be a more reliable intermediary between me and the restaurant rather than ordering directly. I trust that the app is more technically sound (I've had problems ordering from 'bespoke' apps and websites) and
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
A country no EU nations had any defense obligations to.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
Germany and the rest of the western EU nations could decide to stop arming Ukraine and stop doing sanctions against Russia.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
> substantially below median intelligence and work ethic to make a very nice living with little more than token effort as is the case in software I disagree that you can make a nice living room with "substantially below median intel
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
> Computation is not consciousness. Memory is not intelligence. Yeah I stopped reading after that bit. I try to follow the new developments in ML somewhat closely and there are some genuinely unprecedented things in there.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
It's not just less pollution though. It's less people that might fulfill valuable societal roles that scale with the number of people and in many developed countries less people to look after/produce value for those in old ag
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
I don't think that something like CoPilot is what most GH users had in mind when they published their code. Also, licenses exist (which CP demonstrably doesn't give a shit about).
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
Quant finance might be indistinguishable, but that‘s still a small portion of finance. Traditional finance is still way more people-oriented.
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by IdiocyInAction 4y ago
Well, not everyone agrees with the conclusions made by the article. For example, here it is argued that the graph used by the article is suspect: https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2020/01/17/debunking-the...
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Some of my favorites, in no particular order: Foundation by Isaac Asimov Dune by Frank Herbert Permutation City by Greg Egan Blindsight by Peter Watts Anathem by Neal Stephenson Story of your Life and Others and Exhalation by Ted Chiang Chi
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I think it's meant to be a quip about Ruby on Rails.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Biden said to "buy American" and still has tariffs on the EU, so I am not sure who should retaliate.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Language barriers, legal differences between countries, etc. Also less availability of capital in general.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
The US started this already by imposing tariffs on European goods like steel.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Well, there is also the fact that there are fewer really good tech jobs in Europe that would hire those maintainers. (I am European).
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I don't think it is necessarily about being "smart" - a story like this simply confirms many biases people have about big, "evil" corporations and even very smart people are prone to confirmation biases. Mind you, I
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
You do realize what the destruction of the economy would entail? That it would mean that many people would lose their livelihood and suffer?
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Note that it's 68% who have some kind of job and 50% who have full time employment. Well, I think, considering that German is pretty much a must in Germany and that it must be an incredibly hard language to learn for people from Syria,
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
The first few chapters of many books about ML will go over these, like Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
I don't think GDPR has failed. In fact, there have bern multiple times where I have been happy that it exists, since I knew that companies were limited in their ability to save data about me.
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
> European stock markets have been essentially flat since 2009 while American stock markets have 3X’d. The DAX30 (German Index) tripled since 2009. The British and French indices did pretty much move sideways though. The growth of the S&
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by IdiocyInAction 5y ago
Every time I try and use this I have to look up the syntax. It does deliver stunning graphics when used right though.

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