RevEng

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by RevEng 8mo ago
I was with the author on everything except one point: increasing automation will not leave us with such abundance that we never have to work again. We have heard that lie for over a century. The stream engine didn't do it, electricity
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by RevEng 8mo ago
The article shows an example of hybrid search using RRF.
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by RevEng 8mo ago
So it's okay to 3D print a gun as long as you have a serial number? That seems to reinforce that 3D printing shouldn't be banned, especially by blanket technical means.
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by RevEng 9mo ago
You are assuming a very specific form of generation. There are plenty of levels in between. Simply saying "AI" isn't sufficient to make an argument.
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by RevEng 9mo ago
The same argument applies to AI generated or assisted music. Anyone can write a prompt and get a song. It takes judgement and taste to pick a good song and choose to publish it.
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by RevEng 9mo ago
Why remove this? Who made a ticket saying "Remove sort by upload date"? This isn't something that happens on a whim. What is the benefit to YouTube?
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by RevEng 9mo ago
Even as a principal software developer and someone who is skeptical and exhausted with the AI hype, AI IDEs can be useful. The rule I give to my coworkers is: use it where you know what to write but want to save time doing it. Unit tests ar
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by RevEng 9mo ago
While the Twitter recommendation is strange, the assertion that we will suddenly have leisure time is demonstrably false. For decades each new technological advance was supposed to make it so we could work half as long because we could get
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by RevEng 9mo ago
Writing the paper is a very small part of the research. It's entirely likely that - like many of their students - they love the research but hate writing papers. They are very different skill sets.
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by RevEng 9mo ago
That sounds very suspicious.
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by RevEng 9mo ago
Sadly, yes, it's true. New AI projects are getting funded and existing non-AI projects are getting mothballed. It's very disruptive and yet another sign of the hype being a bubble. Companies are pivoting entirely to it and neglect
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by RevEng 9mo ago
While I agree entirely about what Grok teaches us about alignment, I think the argument that "alignment was never a technical problem" is false. Everything I have ever read about AI safety and alignment have started by pointing ou
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by RevEng 10mo ago
They do ask. When you set it up it presents 5 agreements to accept, only 2 of which are required. ACR, voice recognition, and a few other questionable this are covered under those optional agreements. I simply didn't accept them and as
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by RevEng 10mo ago
You can stop it much earlier than this. At setup time it gives you several policies to agree to. Only two of them are required; the rest are optional. The optional ones include Live Plus and several other systems for monitoring and advertis
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by RevEng 10mo ago
The process is reproducible even if the outcome isn't always identical. Outside of computing and mathematics, real world processes never result in the exact same output - small variations in size, density, concentration, etc. will occu
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by RevEng 10mo ago
I live in a province in Canada where the electrical system is owned and operated by a crown corporation. They are mandated to maintain a very high uptime and they do through several means including redundancy. Our electrical bills are cheap
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by RevEng 10mo ago
This is exactly where I find myself. I've been asked several times to take on management, but I have no interest in it. I got to be a principal after 18 years of experience by being good at engineering, not management. Like you said, I
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by RevEng 10mo ago
While I have no particular love for AI generated code, I think this has nothing to do with AI. Software has been unreliable for over a decade. Companies have been rushing out half baked products and performing continual patches for many yea
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by RevEng 10mo ago
How exactly does one make software that makes it impossible to view or transmit CSAM? What is looking at each picture, each video, each text message to make this determination? This is the same classic "wiretap everything" solutio
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by RevEng 10mo ago
Between you and your provider the downloads are over HTTP. The distribution of content between the Usenet providers is over the Usenet protocol which predates HTTP and the WWW.
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by RevEng 10mo ago
Having worked with this stuff a lot, privacy isn't the biggest problem (though it is a problem). This shit just doesn't work. Wide-eyed investors might be willing to overlook the 20% failure rates, but ordinary people won't,
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by RevEng 10mo ago
What a world we will live in when everyone with skill and experience has moved in to management. Then who will be doing all the work?
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by RevEng 10mo ago
I argue that the first dark pattern is the "hallucination" that we all just take for granted. LLMs are compulsive liars: they will confidently and eloquently argue for things that are clearly false. You could even say they are psy
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by RevEng 10mo ago
That's not a matter of training, it's an inherent part of the architecture. The model has no idea of its own confidence in an answer. The servers get a full distribution of possible output tokens and they pick one (often the highe
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by RevEng 10mo ago
They gave up on that a long time ago.
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by RevEng 11mo ago
These growth requirements are simply infeasible. Semiconductor density, speed, and power efficiency grow much slower than doubling every six months. Creating custom silicon for this won't help - plenty of companies, including Nvidia, a
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by RevEng 11mo ago
I'm finding myself in this position right now. For almost two decades I have worked as a software engineer, slowly learning more and becoming more capable at designing and developing software. Yet, we have a significant lack of leaders
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by RevEng 1y ago
Hosts alone won't solve many ads. Plenty of companies include their own annoying content from their own domains. uBlock lets you get far more fine grained, blocking specific paths.
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by RevEng 1y ago
Idealism does with capitalism. Executives and shareholders don't care about ideals: they want money. All of the questionable things Google has done have been in pursuit of ever larger profits.
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by RevEng 1y ago
The big reason for me was that it "just worked". Altavista was the biggest player at the time but you had to learn a while query language to get good results. Google's search engine took plain English keywords and have releva

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