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by K0balt 1y ago
So, I’m sorry that I evidently didn’t manage to convey my point effectively. The problem is that wave is accompanied by a measurement that deceptively buries the lede. Everyone knows hurricanes are wind. So they look for the wind speed to
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by K0balt 1y ago
Written by meta.ai But at least he’s trying to signal benevolence. People getting trapped into their projected image is a thing, so in this day and age I’m going to take this as a win.
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by K0balt 1y ago
But people have to keep creating to feed the AI! AI is extractive, not creative, so without people toiling away and adding actual creativity, current paradigm AI will become increasingly derivative and uninspiring… so the obvious answer is
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’d love to see a PowerPoint presentation that has a million man-hours of work in it. Oh, never mind, I probably have. But seriously, this comment can easily be true, and if it is , then it is an excellent example of a human endeavour that
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by K0balt 1y ago
The difference is that people know what 2m (wind driven) waves look like at their cities seawall. A 2m tsunami is a -completely- different phenomenon, because of its length. Depending upon the underwater geography, a 2m tsunami might flood
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yes, they are waves, but they are often very long waves. A typical 1m wave might be 20m long. A tsunami wave might be a kilometer long or longer. That is why people say they are like a tide. The wave arrives, then does not recede for sever
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yes, they are waves, but they are often very long waves. A typical 1m wave might be 20m long. A tsunami wave might be a kilometer long or longer. That is why people say they are like a tide. The wave arrives, then does not recede for sever
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yes, they are waves, but they are often very long waves. A typical 1m wave might be 20m long. A tsunami wave might be a kilometer long or longer. That is why people say they are like a tide. The wave arrives, then does not recede for sever
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’m guessing that with location access they can probably do it without adding any infrastructure, just an API.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think there is validity in debating the metrics by which a culture should be measured, but ultimately I think that the greater good is served by allowing each culture to determine its own path. This maximises diversity of approaches to pr
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by K0balt 1y ago
The people doing this are directly attempting to destroy a culture and replace It with their own. I think that should have some repercussions?
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by K0balt 1y ago
No, that’s what the subcutaneous tracking chip is for. lol. But seriously, for us it matters, since she is much younger than I am. We make an effort to signal that we are a committed couple so that people don’t make crass assumptions. Still
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Anybody in Tech in the Dominican Republic?
1 points by K0balt 1y ago|1 comments
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by K0balt 1y ago
So, influencers are toxic to businesses, that is great. Hopefully this results in widely banning them from private property and prohibiting random video recording in spaces that one assumes will be moderately private, like restaurants, gyms
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by K0balt 1y ago
100percent on board. A marriage is only as meaningful as the vows and the integrity of the people that made them. The guests are there to witness and to celebrate. Trying to make it about anything else only cheapens it. If you can, put eno
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, idk. I’m not against the idea of a 3 month value reserve as a financial security token to de-risk a marriage proposal, but it should be something that can be liquidated for a similar value. Just setting 3 months of your work on fire i
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s not just that, the economics of diamonds is completely fabricated. Idk about these days, but debeers used to buy up the vast majority of mined diamond, not to sell but to hoard or destroy them to maintain scarcity. I’m not even sure th
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by K0balt 1y ago
Dominican Republic. The medical tourism industry here is booming as well. The public sector facilities are not as nice, but you can get free care for the vast majority of basic things that a person needs, without worrying about a bill. Stil
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah, I run a coffee /cacao farm that employs a few locals, but obviously I don’t qualify for the government insurance. My insurance is private/ un subsidized.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Their assistant is weak. Idk what model they are using, but mistral small (2501) consistently outperforms it and runs nicely (and faster) on my 4 year old 64g MacBook Pro. FWIW 2506 has vision but it definitely pays for that capability in
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by K0balt 1y ago
They should monetize that kompromat with an onlyfans.
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by K0balt 1y ago
This. I moved in a developing nation with a GDP smaller than most US states. I have access to excellent modern healthcare and facilities, get more than 5 minutes in front of my doctor, often 1/2 hour+, and my (nearly 60 years old) heal
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think poster is looking at mortality risk, not mortality cause.
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by K0balt 1y ago
This is great. I set it up and was conspicuously swiping in bed. My wife is all hey, what are you doing? I’m all nothing.. put the phone down on the dresser. No, let me see your phone etc. I relent, she opens the app with sulphur smolderin
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The AI bubble: These are not the droids we are looking for(ctsmyth.substack.com)
2 points by K0balt 1y ago|1 comments
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by K0balt 1y ago
Hopefully this rant will be of some utility in helping to steer people towards more fruitful execution of their AI projects. My apologies to fellow engineers for the blunt edged characterizations and imperfect metaphors.
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think an often overlooked aspect of training data curation is the value of accurate but oblique data. Much of the “emergent capabilities “ of LLMs comes from data embedded in the data, implied or inferred semantic information that is not
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by K0balt 1y ago
Coming up with new arrangements of bits is not a particularly hard problem on its own, but the current crop of ai is certainly able to do that in the extractive process, in fact randomness is a key part of training and inference. But making
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by K0balt 1y ago
I believe it was MIT that ran a study a couple of decades ago that proved that people were unable to influence policy through voting because the effectiveness of lobbying put the vote inputs below the noise floor?
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by K0balt 1y ago
I too am deeply skeptical of the current economic allocation, but it’s typical of frontier expansions in general. Somehow, in AI, people lost sight of the fact that transformer architecture AI is a fundamentally extractive process for ident

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