Lerc

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by Lerc 3mo ago
Fish disks were an incredible contribution to the Amiga community. The impact of a dedicated and contentious curator cannot be understated. I think a lot of platforms today could be transformed if they had someone doing a similar contribut
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Knowlege should not have ownership. Training and distillation should be allowed Granting people some form of control over knowledge only serves the public interest inasmuch it provides incentive to create more of it. Mass media, effortl
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by Lerc 3mo ago
> to be able to do well in web design. That's kind-of why I don't think they're doing that. Anything beyond something that works with a simple design templates looks, well, like they tried to do too much with a simple de
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Do any of the vision models render the SVG and look at the result. Perhaps more importantly can they do that during reinforcement training. Learning how to critically analyse the appearance of what it generates would be quite useful. Manua
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Well I would expect them to have been around for longer if they were to be ancestors of mammals.
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by Lerc 3mo ago
But they are not claiming that current models are better than humans but later developments might. Do you think that a descendant of a fish could be a playwright or put on a play?
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by Lerc 3mo ago
If you benchmark is to be better than a human familiar with the task at hand, then you will be disappointed. If you are not expecting them to be as good as people then their failures seem wholly unremarkable. The specific nature of tbe fai
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by Lerc 3mo ago
I think any protection from exploit that is designed by encoding observations of existing exploits can only be described as a mitigation, and is impractical without a huge workload in maintaining an active database of observations. Virus ch
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by Lerc 3mo ago
That makes more sense. Over what period do the index funds have to meet the levels? It seems like any coordinated change caused by modifying the structure of an index would cause quite volatile behaviour unless it had specific mitigation
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by Lerc 3mo ago
I'm inclined to think that it would have been better that they followed the existing rules for inclusion, but I don't see how this is a cause of performance or an expression of performance. I understand that investments made durin
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by Lerc 3mo ago
I don't follow that logic, why does wanting something sooner imply higher expectations of results? Did musk explicitly claim he expected exceptional returns? I don't think I'd be surprised either way, but I'm not sure
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by Lerc 3mo ago
It surprises me that this seems so consequential to observers. According to a quick search, around 40% of IPOs are below their IPO price at their one year anniversary. I'm not invested in this myself, figuratively or literally. I gues
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by Lerc 3mo ago
> I almost agree with all of the LLM critics That seems unlikely given the diverse nature of mutually exclusive opinions that exist out there. Critics seem to run the gamut from LLMs being incapable of even the most basic of functions t
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by Lerc 3mo ago
>Latent space is simply a (multidimensionally) sorted collection, it's only a piece of the pie. I agree about the small piece of the pie, but I can't really see it as a sorted collection. The essence of many dimensions is that
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by Lerc 3mo ago
I seem to recall both of us being children once, although admittedly not at the same time. The research my daughter does as part of her charity work probably counts as well.
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Well I guess it is true that I don't have children of that age. My daughter is on the board of a charity that deals with youth issues though.
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Would it not be a better approach to remove any incentive to provide an addictive product. Companies don't do that just to be evil. Evil is just the byproduct of money. Make it illegal to advertise to anyone under the age of 18. Ma
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Removing a means of bullying that leaves a trail is not the same thing as removing bullying. It's just removing undeniable bullying. If people truly agreed that children needed to be protected from the desires of others, teaching the
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by Lerc 3mo ago
You don't get situations where you can say that group theory would solve this bit really well and this bit could have been done with addition and shifts, but we have already committed to using calculus so unfortunately we can't us
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by Lerc 3mo ago
>and you "completely rational" people keep insisting AI is 100% perfect and better than any software developer. I don't think I know of a single person who has seriously suggested that. I think the most optimistic I have
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Burnout is a symptom of prolonged unsustainable engagement. I think it is a false narrative to say that the majority of people who are leaving platforms were overcommitted to that extent. I think it is the simple fact that the platforms no
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by Lerc 3mo ago
>I really empathize with those who loved the craft of code golf, algorithms, literate programming, the elegance of micro structure of programs, etc. and who see their world under threat. I love all of those things but don't feel t
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by Lerc 3mo ago
I was thinking of the Zig community but I agree that there seem to be some tribalism on HN as well. Possibly the thing that will determine the long term survivability of each will be the respective attitudes of dang compared to Andrew. Put
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by Lerc 3mo ago
>When I read the post, my first thought was that I wouldn’t want to build things in Zig, because any technical decision I make, good or bad, might subject me to this kind of article from their BDFL. I think it is worse than that, the co
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by Lerc 3mo ago
>Can't help to think of a recent HN post about most AI-generated projects being abandoned within months. Why? Because most projects are abandoned within months. Why should they be any different in that respect?
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by Lerc 3mo ago
that mangled word is 'typically' btw. but while I'm here I should point out I wasn't thinking you need AI for this. I was thinking maybe you need this for AI. As a testable way to insulate yourself from AI overreach.
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by Lerc 3mo ago
Libraries rypicly have an interface of function calls. That is different from an interface of set of polled values with a few signals. Any library that can write to memory through provided pointers, or can return non primitive data has a po
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by Lerc 3mo ago
We don't need things taking control from us. Or dictating the terms for manipulating an already defined interface. If that means you have to make a small thing that is designed to do just the task at hand but to do it well, I am all f
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by Lerc 3mo ago
I have been aware of this for some time, I come from an age before frameworks. This isn't something realised, so much as seeing a further supporting argument.
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by Lerc 3mo ago
I take your point that this seems to be the implication of what Dijkstra was getting at. But the term itself is not evocative for that reason. It resonates because people clearly don't think it is a meaningful question as to whether or

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