WalterSear

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by WalterSear 2y ago
A 'quantum observer' is merely a physical system that interacts with the quantum system being measured. It doesn't have to be conscious or animate.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> Could they have remained as independent organisms and use their massive energy budget to evolve independently? This presumes that their energy budget was massive to begin with, rather than being selected for over time.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Because it's foundational social contracts rely too heavily on the Fundamental Attribution Error.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
You work with engineers who confabulate all the time: it's an intrinsic aspect of how the human brain functions that has been demonstrated at multiple levels of cognition.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Humans 'hallucinate' like LLMs. The term used however, is confabulation: we all do it, we all do it quite frequently, and the process is well studied(1). > We are shockingly ignorant of the causes of our own behavior. The expla
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by WalterSear 2y ago
I think they are primarily suggesting that you take it slow. I'd wager a lot that your craving was due to the psychology of the process you performed, not some actual physiological withdrawal. If you took your time and found other thin
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> For instance, I bought Super Mario World for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. That game is locked in. And can't be taken away from you by the sunsetting of game servers. And this isn't just a problem for multiplayer g
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> I own the disk and can play the game as long as I have the disk. Depends whether the game is 'online-only' or not.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Valve doesn't refund you if the company shuts down their game servers, afaik.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
They are referring to no-resale and no-third party repair clauses, and the like.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> "... brimming with Staphylococcus bacteria, a bacteria commonly found on human skin." On our skin?!! The horror! >"Although most species of staphylococcus are benign,..." Fearmongering intensifies. >"In 2
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by WalterSear 2y ago
So, "I'm all right, Jack", to use another Victorian era colloquialism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_alright,_Jack Except, we are all Jack.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> You can say the same thing about humans 1. Holy shit. 2. You can't apply Moore's law to humans.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Shh!! It's working! It's working!
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos saw his warehouse workforce as necessary but replaceable, and feared that workers who remained at the company too long would turn complacent or, worse, disgruntled. https://www.vox.co
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by WalterSear 2y ago
They've been successful by, been selected for, being "out of touch". Why would they stop now?
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Apparently Amazon agrees with your friend, at least as far as warehouse workers go. > Amazon is facing a looming crisis: It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024, according to leaked Amazon internal research from m
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by WalterSear 2y ago
People post to it for days after the months starts.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Apart from autocomplete, I got zero utility from Copilot, whereas I'm doing most coding via prompts in Cursor. Maybe GPT4o changed things.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> I don't find coding assistants to be very useful. I've come to notice a correlation between contemporary AI optimism and having effectively made the jump to coding with AI assistants.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
R&D is still not where the vast majority of their money is spent.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> the vast majority of costs in getting a new drug onto the market Debatable. > according to these firms' annual reports, 16 percent of revenues was taken as profit, and • 31 percent went for marketing and administration. That&#x
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by WalterSear 2y ago
I shop there because the obesity epidemic has made it too hard to find pants in my size at other stores.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
It's one of my favourite features. It allows me to commit rapidly while I'm working without losing my train of thought, making for embarrassingly more utile commits. I'm not sure how summarizing things myself (and presumably,
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by WalterSear 2y ago
> Just look at all the separate classes for different model providers for tackling minor input/output differences. It's bizarre: Standardize the API via individually wrapped endpoints. WTF? Yes, after spending more time trying
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Yes, everyone. It's bloated and ambitious and being built way too fast, and making very confusing design choices. But the alternatives I've found, such as Microsoft's Autogen, are arguably clunkier.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
This is from 2020.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
GPU credits are certainly paying salaries at NVDA. https://justdario.com/2024/05/no-nvidia-is-only-one-piece-of...
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by WalterSear 2y ago
Synthetic and generated data is also real and shouldn't be underestimated. LLM training can be very counterintuitive at times.
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by WalterSear 2y ago
A.I. Has Become a Technology of Smug Pshaw, Pshaw, I Didn't Understand Blockchain Either And Look How That Turned Out.

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