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by JFingleton 2y ago
The thing is, Microsoft does make good software: Excel, Visual Studio, VSCode, Xbox. I don't believe the problem is the engineers, the leadership of Windows fails to understand what the OS is meant for: getting out of the way so you ca
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by JFingleton 2y ago
I'm not sure that's quite correct about the Turing test. From Wikipedia: "Turing did not explicitly state that the Turing test could be used as a measure of "intelligence", or any other human quality. He wanted to p
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by JFingleton 2y ago
My prediction: we'll be arguing about what AGI actually is... Forever.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
When I worked in the games industry, we would spent an incredible amount of effort, money and time on creating as realistic a world as we could muster out of the hardware. This would involve talented artists, animators, programmers and har
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by JFingleton 2y ago
A bit over my head - but can't Prolog achieve similar results?
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by JFingleton 2y ago
I have a million and one things I want to accomplish but can't due to lack of time and energy as I work full time. This includes reading, gardening, playing sports, learning to play the piano, etc. Of course some of that is consuming m
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by JFingleton 2y ago
There are other search engines that are on par with Google search from a few years ago. Brave search is particularly good. These were developed without the big bucks, so the tech has improved for smaller players at least.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
I really want to combine them with RAG, plus doing some agentic stuff on my home server which runs a number of services, some as Home Assistant. So I want it to read all the sensors every hour, and then message me if anything occurs out of
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Revolut (the banking service) and Revolt are both British I believe... Seeing as Revolut has been around for a number of years, as a British person I wouldn't have chosen a name so close to Revolut (for any product).
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Agreed - I usually scroll to the bottom of landing pages to see the Github link - which Revolt did not have. Perhaps a suggestion to the developers? It's an unwritten rule :)
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Indeed. VPNs were originally created to allow secure remote connections to and between LANs. The whole privacy thing is a by-product, and they're not that great at it. Tor exists and is far better at providing privacy.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Perhaps Homomorphic encryption can provide part of the solution in running services on untrusted Cloud platforms? Although with Microsoft's recent breakthrough in their quantum processor, I'm not sure whether quantum will be a hel
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by JFingleton 2y ago
The Chaos Engine forums - a site for game developers to discuss, moan, and celebrate fellow and former colleagues... Now moved to Discord due to this act. It really is a strange time we are living through. https://thechaosengine.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Perhaps we could: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption Someone far smarter than me could probably tell us if this actually works in the real world?
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Image/video generation could possibly be used to advance LLMs in quite a substantial way: If the LLM during it's "thinking" phase encountered a scenario where it had to imagine a particular scene (let's say a pink e
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by JFingleton 2y ago
"Fascism is a political ideology and movement characterized by extreme militant nationalism, authoritarianism, and a strong emphasis on state control" Just thought I'd post this here.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Breezy Weather: how have I missed this gem for all these years?? Thank you
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by JFingleton 2y ago
> Crypto is a very easy way to funnel bribes Interesting... are you able to expand on this? My understanding is that the $TRUMP coin runs on Solana, which similar to Bitcoin runs on a public ledger and therefore offers limited anonymiza
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by JFingleton 2y ago
> Twitter clone without the political baggage I tried out Bluesky last week in hope of finding a social network which ticked this box, but my feed was full of anti Elon Musk / Trump messages. So it was very political from my initial
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by JFingleton 2y ago
...but he really looks like a "Joe"! :D I did say "within reason"... which I realise is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
A social network requires at least being able to "friend" another user does it not? I don't think Hacker News has such features. It's a forum... And a bloody good one.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Hancock is great at showing civilizations that I would have never heard of if it wasn't for his "journalism" (that's he's self-appointed title). He's a good communicator and I feel like I learn at lot from his
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Here in the UK there's been a boom in robot delivery over the years: https://www.starship.xyz/ "Slow but steady" I would call it.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
> Brave supports bringing your own LLM e.g. through Ollama It's a shame Brave is so far ahead of the game but no one seems to notice.
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by JFingleton 2y ago
> If you put 1000 dumb people together, they don't magically become smart? Do they not become smart*er* though?
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by JFingleton 2y ago
I suppose it depends on how you define "intellectual". If you define it as someone who can talk for hours on end, and make a success out of it, then I'd say that's pretty smart. He's a comedian too (not seen any o
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by JFingleton 2y ago
Fridman has interviewed some pretty smart people - so I would say the shows are intellectual, rather than the hosts themselves (although Lex is a smart guy IMHO). I like the long-form interview format - it's allowing the listener to m