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by Insanity 11mo ago
Which has been happening for centuries. I’m actually not arguing against this being a bad idea though lol, just giving some historic trivia.
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by Insanity 11mo ago
It’s like this with most animals that we have learned to live with in close proximity. Zoonotic viruses are responsible for many of our diseases today, but through natural selection we are adapted to many. This is partly why European diseas
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Yah, I ended up googling it. Seems like I wasn't missing out on much lol.
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by Insanity 11mo ago
6 7?
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Very touching current XKCD. https://xkcd.com/3172 . Guess this also means I’m getting old as I remember the earlier comics about his partner going through this. I think this is the first one I read after I became a “weekly r
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Any time I read something like this my first thought is "cool, AI is now meeting an ill-defined spec". Which, when thinking about it, is not too dissimilar from other software :D
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by Insanity 11mo ago
I mean.. we suspect there's a level of fabrication by early Roman historians. In your specific quote - it's more that record keeping (to that detail) happened after-the-fact and based on oral traditions. Just take a look at Sueton
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Came here to post the same. I read SPQR last year and really enjoyed it, then watched a bunch of her documentaries & interviews on YouTube. She just seems to really enjoy herself talking about Rome/Romans which makes sense given ho
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Does she write her own lyrics? Or does someone else write those for her? I’m not saying she is or isn’t intelligent, and either way she clearly is talented in some area of music, just wondering if she is a singer or singer/songwriter :
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by Insanity 11mo ago
I know of her name, but I couldn’t name a single song of hers. Luckily we don’t all enjoy the same music, that would be boring as well! :)
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by Insanity 11mo ago
It was interesting and a fun read, but not a “good piece of writing” in my opinion. Apart from some spelling mistakes, the sentences droned on and it read more like a semi-coherent rant than a thoughtful piece on “being a pop star”.
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Same, that’s what HN is for! Glad my question sparked an interesting discussion about LoTR haha.
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Why is your example absurd? I read LoTR and definitely had the sense that Sam & Frodo were gay. I actually thought the hollywood version sanitized this away entirely and assumed it was because it'd be 'too controversial'
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Is this what you get when you hire prompt engineers instead of actual software engineers? lol.
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Technically the file system hosts more files now than 20 years ago. Not a great excuse though lol
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by Insanity 11mo ago
After reading the article I get what it’s saying.. but isn’t any MRI _technically_ physics-based.
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by Insanity 11mo ago
Having terrible opinions in one area doesn’t discount what you do in another. I’d say Stallman has overall had a positive impact on the technology landscape even though he clearly has messed up views when it comes to “sexual ethics”
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by Insanity 11mo ago
I heard that the anxiety from caffeine is worse when you haven’t eaten. No time to check resources for that at the moment
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by Insanity 11mo ago
I mean.. to play devil’s advocate.. they don’t need to understand how LLMs fundamentally work any more than how most programmers don’t understand assembly if all they do is build agents and prompt engineering lol.
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by Insanity 1y ago
I forgot which blogpost mentioned it, but to paraphrase it states that managers won’t understand why you can’t just fix a bug like this in a few minutes like you would in traditional software. This might be one of those cases, where the pro
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by Insanity 1y ago
The keyboard feels good to type on, it's quiet enough to not make me self-conscious when using it in the office, and I enjoy the layout (lower 'backspace' key and smaller form factor). Plenty of things to like - the ghosting
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by Insanity 1y ago
I'm hoping for L4D3 in my lifetime lol. L4D2 is still my most played game of all time (~3000 hours in that game). I love it.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Toronto healthcare generally is quite below the bar. When I moved here 5 years ago, I was told that hospitals are short staffed, ambulances have significant delays, and when you do finally get care you are rushed through the system. Fortuna
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by Insanity 1y ago
I will just go on a tangential rant. I have the HHKB pro 2 as my daily driver, and my one gripe is the low polling rate. So when I press shift to make a character upper case, it sometimes uppercases two. Never had that on other keyboards ye
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by Insanity 1y ago
This is going to be an instant buy for me, and my first VR device ever. I've used the previous Steam VR headset over at a friends' place many times, but never bit the bullet to get one myself. The fact that this can run standalone
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by Insanity 1y ago
If only they spent these resources on bringing “slide over” back to iPad in its original form.. :( This looks kinda lame. I already have a pocket for my phone, it’s my.. pocket. Or I can throw it in any other pouch if I don’t have pockets.
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by Insanity 1y ago
You are absolutely right! But common patterns of LLMs today will become adopted by humans as we are influenced linguistically by our interactions - which then makes it harder to detect LLM output.
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by Insanity 1y ago
This is really cherry-picked as you call out. Plenty of computer science related signatories as well. And besides, a professor of e.g Anthropology can still advocate for critical thinking and evaluating claims.
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by Insanity 1y ago
Well there is Mistral.
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by Insanity 1y ago
It's a tricky balance to strike. I don't want EU to fall behind further in the AI race, and I do want them to be more competitive in the tech landscape. At the moment, EU really isn't competitive in tech (and neither in tech

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