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by __loam 2y ago
I love go. Now to continue with modern systems languages, here's ziglings: https://codeberg.org/ziglings
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by __loam 2y ago
I am a bad artist but I do make art, and have been trying to make art over the past year or so. I've made less than 200 pieces over that time but I can still go back to work that I've spent hours on and remember the decisions I&#x
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by __loam 2y ago
It really needs to be said that AI "artists" have confused productivity with quality. I actually don't go to DeviantArt to see your ai generated garbage. I care more about people who are willing to do interesting things with
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by __loam 2y ago
Profitability is optional.
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by __loam 2y ago
I disagree that that's always true. AI consumes some value and produces some other value. I'm skeptical that the output value will be worth more than the amount of money and electricity invested in this stuff.
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by __loam 2y ago
AI is useful, that's kind of the issue. It looks amazing until you realize how expensive and unreliable it is.
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by __loam 2y ago
Science is moving faster than ever and this dude is really like "people don't ever invent anything new actually"
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by __loam 2y ago
LLMs seem to be unsuitable for a lot of work.
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by __loam 2y ago
Pedantic opening line aside, I think software engineers in general underestimate how much of our electrical infrastructure still runs on coal and natural gas, and also underestimate the amount of time required to stand up new capacity on &q
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by __loam 2y ago
There are two ways to reverse course on anthropogenic climate change: reducing energy use and displacing dirty power sources with clean ones (including fission). I've heard takes like this one that its a net good that companies like Mi
851.
by __loam 2y ago
That's a reason in favor of teaching ethics
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by __loam 2y ago
Talking about it can't hurt
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by __loam 2y ago
Yeah what I've heard I've heard about it is that recruiters hate it and have moved away from cold applications. Networking and working with recruiters is way nicer and a lot less work in my experience. And I of course think they&#
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by __loam 2y ago
I think you're actually pointing towards a bigger issue here, which is that chatgpt can help poor candidates get over the interview process and into your org despite not knowing what they're doing. There's also a deeper comme
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by __loam 2y ago
Measuring soft skills and knowing how to hire the people who have them when your organization needs them is a different problem imo. Obviously there are problems with giving guys with decades of experience graph theory problems when the pro
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by __loam 2y ago
You should not be allowed to graduate from a software engineering program without taking a course on ethics.
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by __loam 2y ago
If you think the machine tools are near human level, you're why technical interviews are still in use.
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by __loam 2y ago
Supply and demand determines price, not the hopes and dreams of investors.
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by __loam 2y ago
Is infrastructure and scale not an expression of technical ability? It should have been obvious that Meta and Google would bury a tiny company with less than 1000 employees given the amount of capital they can leverage for compute, talent,
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by __loam 2y ago
You're saying the quiet part out loud here.
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by __loam 2y ago
Yeah that's what Human Feedback Reinforcement Learning does lol
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by __loam 2y ago
Mental health crisis waiting to happen lmao
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by __loam 2y ago
Different architecture can result in hundreds of millions of dollars more in training costs no?
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by __loam 2y ago
Bio-ethics is an extremely important aspect of the field in most research involving human and animal subjects. When we don't know about bio-ethics, we do fucked up shit as a society like the Tuskeegee Syphilis Trial. We did gain useful
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by __loam 2y ago
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."
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by __loam 2y ago
I think this guy is hitting on something deeper here, which is that these things took an absolutely enormous amount of capital and burned a lot of public goodwill to create, but the end product isn't living up to that.
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by __loam 2y ago
I'm creepin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39935200
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by __loam 2y ago
They took a billion dollar investment from Microsoft lol. You don't get to just to whatever you want if people are giving you that kind of cash.
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by __loam 2y ago
I'm sure Microsoft invested billions in this company so it could become a library.
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by __loam 2y ago
ChatGPT is offered by the for profit arm of the company. The relative success of that product with respect to it being profitable is irrelevant to it being for profit.

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