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by TillE 4y ago
It'd be cool to have an LLM that's trained almost exclusively on books from good publishers, and other select sources. Working out licensing deals would be a challenge, of course.
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by TillE 4y ago
I'm genuinely excited to see their AR/VR headset announcement. Not so much the hardware itself, but their whole pitch. I don't think Apple would be working on a device like this unless they had some kind of new angle for it.
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by TillE 4y ago
Totally agree with this, but I think it's very likely we'll see AI-written pop hits. They've basically been churned out factory style for years anyway. And if that does happen, expect a far more exciting backlash movement, li
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by TillE 4y ago
std::unique_ptr is of course the opposite of shared ownership, in that it requires you to explicitly transfer ownership if you need to do that. It's a beautiful feature which improves code clarity and reduces bugs.
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by TillE 4y ago
The only semi-serious use of Twitter polls I've ever seen is stuff like "which game should I stream next". It's very obviously not a representative sampling of anything except your most engaged followers. I'm sure o
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by TillE 4y ago
This whole thing is so silly because it's not doing anything you couldn't do with Photoshop, it's just easier and faster. That's not a fundamental shift. Even before the internet, the rule has always been: check your sou
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by TillE 4y ago
> A Twitter Verified Organizations subscription is $1,000/month This part just seems like an unambiguously horrendous idea. It's more friction for potential advertisers, and there's gonna be a ton of large organizations wi
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by TillE 4y ago
Right, anthropomorphization is the biggest source of confusion here. An LLM gives you a perfect answer to a complex question and you think wow, it really "understood" my question. But no! It doesn't understand, it doesn'
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by TillE 4y ago
That last bit is exactly right. The UK has proposed all sorts of plainly moronic online restrictions, which never actually get implemented. They simply don't have the clout to push around enormous American companies. It's a tiny c
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by TillE 4y ago
Also you can almost certainly use a newer compiler to target old OSes. The real problem is when you have a big pile of ancient, unmaintained code that uses long-deprecated stuff. At that point, no, you really can't expect to seamlessly
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by TillE 4y ago
That's what gets me about Elon more than anything. It's not the substance of his politics, it's that it's all so shallow, so unoriginal. There are a million interesting discussions to be had in the world today, but he&#x
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by TillE 4y ago
Right click your back button and you can jump back to previous sites.
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by TillE 4y ago
If you live in anything like a real city and don't absolutely need a car to commute, the misery of street parking alone vastly outweighs any kind of occasional benefit. But it's nice to have a license so you can rent a car if you
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by TillE 4y ago
Some BIOSes (Gigabyte, I think) will also read NTFS, so if you've got a Windows install, that's another easy option.
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by TillE 4y ago
As various lawyers have commented on Twitter, this seems like an insanely blatant violation of labor laws. Just a straight up written confession of illegal retaliation. Unless they have some obscure exemption that nobody else knows about, I
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by TillE 4y ago
Definitely the kind of mistake that gets made after losing an enormous fraction of your institutional knowledge.
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by TillE 4y ago
Agree, sometimes it's fun and relaxing to have really clear, well-defined goals to work towards.
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by TillE 4y ago
Doesn't really tell us anything. It's a lot easier to port an engine vs writing a new one from scratch, especially if the new system is also just an ARM64 processor with an NVIDIA GPU.
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by TillE 4y ago
Slow enough to notice is slow enough to annoy somebody out there. Yes certainly there are diminishing returns, but if you can be noticeably faster than your competitors, that makes a really good impression.
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by TillE 4y ago
I think phones are now perhaps approaching a plateau of "good enough" for anything resembling the current applications, but 2GB of RAM definitely ain't there. That doesn't cut it for a modern multitasking OS with loads
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by TillE 4y ago
If you name something Bard, it's at least partly a reference to Shakespeare. Also known as The Bard. What are Shakespeare's works best known for? Language.
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by TillE 4y ago
But imagine Google takes that query, does the search, then feeds the search results into an LLM and gets it to synthesize all that information. Basically, what if Google's little info boxes weren't garbage? That alone would be a h
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by TillE 4y ago
I wish Apple still made a nice, inexpensive iPod Nano. That was my favorite "MP3 player", and I'd gladly go without a headphone jack on the phone if I could still have a separate portable music device that wasn't garbage
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by TillE 4y ago
It's best understood as an extremely sophisticated collage tool. We can make vague analogies about how training ML models is sort of like human learning, but ultimately it's not actually that. It will still spit out stuff like wat
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by TillE 4y ago
That doesn't answer the question. In the hypothetical future where such companies no longer exist, where is the new AI training data supposed to come from?
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by TillE 4y ago
Yeah seriously, unless you're really young, the internet and the smartphone are absolutely seismic cultural shifts that changed everyone's lives. Compare 2023 to 1993. LLMs have a long, long way to go to get anywhere near that. Al
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by TillE 4y ago
The article does say they've seen "abnormally high failure rates in the field", so it's not just that.
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by TillE 4y ago
Speaking as a professional C++ developer for the past 20 years, I think this sums it up well. A modern project should be able to use most of C++17 at least. Even if you still need to target some ancient garbage like Windows XP, you can use
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by TillE 4y ago
The Steam app itself is also pretty great. I didn't fully appreciate that until the Epic Games Store, which runs about as well as a sloppy Javascript app from ten years ago. It's been in the same dire state for years. Meanwhile St
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by TillE 4y ago
It's funny cause A* (a slight modification of Dijkstra's algorithm) is explicitly an algorithm that operates on graphs. Applying it to a "navmesh" is actually conceptually simpler than thinking of a grid-based game world

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