NiloCK

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by NiloCK 5mo ago
Reddit also has ~1B MAU. If it's an echo chamber of AI hatred, then I think this makes the case that there are substantial numbers of people in that camp also? AI as a product is bimodal in terms of the opinions people have of it.
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
I'm surprised by this request. People detest AI. Local subreddits are filled with posts "calling out" usage of AI by local businesses or governments. Consensus is that persons who are found out to be be AI users should be
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
Also just load. I'm sure many github services are closer to capacity / logjam at 11Am on Tuesday than at 3AM Saturday.
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
The general trend is that cost of entry in a lot of domains is collapsing. Every sniffed out systematic service overcharge can be aggressively undercut by competition. "Your margin is my opportunity", etc.
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The New Rule of Writing in the AI Age: Don't Be Too Good(aidanking.blog)
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
What's unfortunate about that?
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
I find this comment hard to square with another of yours in the thread: > ... If they have your message history and see your mum is dying, they can spike flight tickets for example. And they will know exactly the highest amount you can a
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
From my comment: > Cameras on the aisles as well can enforce that individual tags update while nobody is within 15 feet, etc.
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
The whole is composed of parts, ergo there is no whole. This seems incorrect to me. We too are amalgamations of inanimate components - emerged superstructures. Just cells. Just molecules. Just atoms.
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
This is possible in retail, or will soon be. Canada's major grocery chain has migrated entirely to LCD price tagging that can receive OTA updates. There are now no paper price labels in the store. The same chains have extensive camera
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
To clarify, because a number of posts here sort of suggest the confusion: the article here isn't about the LLM recognizing works that were in the training data. EG, The Old Man and the Sea off the shelf. It's about pegging the
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
Another more general comment: There general interest across a variety of disciplines to kick the tires of LLMs with respect to their competence in DOMAIN_X. This is good in general terms, but, especially with larger studies, they tend to be
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
I think the headline oversells this a little? The reported variance in Sonnet 4.6's estimates here are actually quite low, and in general terms, not so bad across models. Damn paella. This does seem like a task well suited to a for-pur
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by NiloCK 5mo ago
Another option here is an auto-rotate if assembled in the wrong orientation.
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
So this is pretty devastating to my general workflows [1] right now, and poorly timed to boot, with no wind-down at all. It was clear (see the linked post from 70 days ago) that the current offering was unsustainable, but I'm a bit tak
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Interesting to see an offering with this heritage [1] proposing flat earnings rates for inference operators here, rather than trying to sell a dynamic marketplace where operators compete on price in real-time. Right now the dashboards show
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
On the latency point - your requests are still going through the coordinator of the system here. So on average strictly worse than a large provider. You - Darkbloom - Operator - Darkbloom - you, vs You - Provider - you --- On the censorship
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Did she also catch him with a wrench?
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
You know that plumbers charge by the hour, right?
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
I am working on [1] a modernized open (AGPL) stack for interactive tutoring systems. SRS++, with hooks for defining your own pedagogical protocols over knowledge dependency graphs, Elo rating systems, etc, and with an eye toward gracefully
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
When you taught, what was a typical uptake like? I came in and out of 'actively juggling' through time, but I was at least 20 years with strong two in my off hand before four really started to do four for any real number of throws
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Out of curiosity - can you juggle four balls? I can , but I wouldn't describe having two two-ball capable hands as being half-way there. If forced to put a number on it, something like 20% is the best I could do.
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Just as easy to write a wrapper to the tool you want to restrict. You ban the restricted tool outright, and the skill instructs on usage of the wrapper. Safer than just giving an instruction to use the tool a specific way.
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
> It used to feel like I was tending a public garden filled with other people who might enjoy it. It still kind of feels like that, but there are a handful of giant combine machines grinding their way around the garden harvesting stuff a
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
I don't understand this. Many small errors distributed across a large deployment sounds a lot like normal mode of error prone humans / cogs / whatevers distributed over a wide deployment.
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
> The site guidelines were written pre-AI and stop making sense when you add AI-generated content into the equation. Note: the guidelines are a living document that contain references to current AI tools. > Consider that by submitting
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Twelve year old account and who knows how much lurking before that and I've never noticed this. Good lord. Optimistically, I guess I can call myself some sort of live-and-let-live person.
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
This is the top reply on a substantial percentage of HN posts now and we should discourage it. It is: - sneering - a shallow dismissal (please address the content) - curmudgeonly - a tangential annoyance All things explicitly discouraged in
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
Because of the "wasn't that bad" part. The point is that growing up in the presence of LLMs may well diminish specific capabilities of the users. But that on balance, future generation with newer tools don't find themsel
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by NiloCK 6mo ago
But did this grind humanity to a halt? Yes - specific faculties atrophied - I wouldn't dispute it. But the (most) relevant faculties for human flourishing change as a function of our tools and institutions.

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