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by Verdex 3y ago
Thanks for the link. I saw the youtube video advertised to me by the algorithm, but wasn't about to waste my time watching it. After decades of trying to get C-style systems programming right, we're still finding unsafe memory re
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They are. Computer was an occupation filled by humans long before it was mechanized.
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Regan faced the engineers and fought to keep the annoyance from reaching his face. "What did you call it?" "POS." Brenda's bubbly demeanor was reflected in a little dance that she did while saying each letter in a
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While I'm open to the idea that breakthroughs can come from unorthodox places, I don't think that Mullis is the best example. My highschool biology teacher had some negative opinions about the guy and claimed that it was an open
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Personally, I take bigger issue with the people who hire the telemarketer. While I can imagine a person revelling in their telemarketing position, somehow I suspect most people working are just trying to get enough money to not starve befo
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by Verdex 3y ago
And it doesn't even need to be some sort of authoritarian thing. Someone could just offer really cheap, highly functional devices that just happen to also have ads. You can get your own doorbell, but if everyone else has a doorbell wi
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Maybe? Every gas pump I've gone to in the past half decade has had a TV playing ads at me. So at least part of the oil company ecosystem has an ad component.
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> Three strikes" and... what? Red alert! Let me drop everything and read the damn article right now, because it could be "three strikes and you lose your Google account", which is kinda big fucking deal. This is an interes
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> Even Uber is becoming an ads company... Yeah, with youtube it kind of makes sense that the ads would be there. Uber (TIL), Windows 11, and non-media experiences/services/goods in general looking for ways to sell ads makes my
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by Verdex 3y ago
I don't really understand either side of the equation here. So, on the one hand you have people who use ad blockers. The first retort that comes to mind here is: Well, we'll take our business elsewhere. Which is odd because wit
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by Verdex 3y ago
Yeah, I saw that quoted part, although, I suspect that if I show up with a bunch of AI assets that I can prove are 100% mine, then the reviewer is likely to error on the side of Valve not being sued. Meanwhile, AAA blockbuster studio will a
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by Verdex 3y ago
I don't think it's really about enforcement. It's more about liability. Valve has an official position that they don't allow AI content (apparently). When the lawsuits show up they can say that they don't serve an
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In the deep past, I considered design to be an industry full of poets and philosophers. I suspect I got this impression from home improvement shows where they bring in an interior decorator to toss throw pillows around. Then I ended up wo
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by Verdex 3y ago
My theory is that there are three ways to "know" something: 1) Socially 2) Intuitively 3) Structurally Each with their own pros and cons. Structurally is more or less having a mathematical proof of the knowledge. Intuitively is
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by Verdex 3y ago
From what I can see, I agree with your point here. I've had a parallel thought for a few years now. Historically, if you wanted something done and you weren't going to do it yourself, you needed to find someone else to do it for
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Interestingly enough, someone made a response video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7MIJP90biM Although, to be sure, the response from management et al will almost definitely indicate that this isn't what they were l
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I'm not trying to infer it. It's another possibility that would explain results besides the stated one that dogmatic thinking and not looking for more information go hand in hand. Interestingly enough the dogmatic view is that do
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Neat experiment. Although, I was able to guess a higher than average number of dots correctly, I wonder if I would feel differently had I been under the average. The explanation given at the end is interestingly to me. However, consider t
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And that's when the attack comes-- not from the front, but from the side, from the other two trolls you didn't even know were there.
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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sl
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by Verdex 3y ago
The AI is more than happy to escalate to a supervisor ... it's just that the supervisor is the same AI but using a different voice. After spending 30 seconds lamenting how you just can't get good help these days, the AI superviso
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by Verdex 3y ago
> Would a standard US 8 fluid oz glass of ultrapure water kill? If it would, this seems like a good mystery novel gimmick. If the pure water gimmick doesn't work out, then maybe for your mystery novel switch over to heavy water, whi
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As a child, there seemed to be some "excitement"[1] around The lion, the witch, the wardrobe. I really didn't get the allure and ultimately the whole cs lewisian fiction arena was something I stayed away from. I figured tha
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Interestingly enough, my threads here are deterministic because they always just wait for the execution to finish. So they're the same as not having them. My plan was to go back and store off the threads generated and have something e
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Off the top of my head, something like this comes to mind: class X { private static int _staticCount = 0; private int _memberCount = 0; public uint Stuff(int input) { if (input <= 0) {
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This feels like an interesting insight into not just why LLMs might have trouble understanding some code, but also why people might have trouble understanding some code. I wonder how gpt handles code where multiple objects of the same class
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My takeaway from all of the GPT successes and failure (the linear algebra vs riemann hypothesis cases being one example) is that language and jargon can have built in structural constraints such that by having a good LLM you can get good re
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by Verdex 3y ago
Philosophical question. I learned the pronunciation of Euler long ago, but I still sometimes use the incorrect pronunciation because I want to make sure people who don't know the correct pronunciation understand what I'm about to
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And if superintelligence is possible then it assumes that it is useful. There are plenty of dumb systems that get good enough results. You can get better but it costs 10k times more for 1% gains. So why bother. Also if superintelligence
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> Security of technology is really a process > But we can probably rebuild 90% of the existing world in a "Safer" manner right no I strongly agree with this mindset. The only caveat I would offer is that some architectural

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