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by _wire_ 2y ago
Thx, just wondering if that was an arcane bash idiom. Very tricky to get anything useful from the web about ''.
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by _wire_ 2y ago
> if [[ ''$(git status --porcelain) ]]; then > ... "''$(date)" What is the purpose of the '' syntax?
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by _wire_ 2y ago
> Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job Lemme rewrite this headline for a more interesting and relevant article that you might actually want to read: "Doctor hails notepad and pen as essential diagnostic tools.&
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by _wire_ 2y ago
> Some of it is surely teething problems... Just gonna adjust the temperature of your baby here, ok, now he should grow up just fine.
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by _wire_ 2y ago
> Anything goes! would Paul Feyerabend say. "You can’t go to a physics conference and say: I’ve got a great theory. It accounts for everything and is so simple it can be captured in two words: 'Anything goes.'”- Noam Choms
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by _wire_ 2y ago
>jaded in spite of astonishing progress We've all seen something that looks amazing, but few seem to know what we're looking at. I am unsettled by what I see as a division of thought between extolling AI's amazing effects
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by _wire_ 2y ago
My comment about what's "interesting" or not was an attempt cast out interesting responses as not offering a way forward to any qualitative evaluation of AI behavior. To be interesting is a quality of the those who regards, n
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Why is any of this "interesting"? Is the response interesting because you don't know it? —How does it know this? Is the response interesting because you do know it or might have offered it yourself? —Confirmation bias. Is it
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by _wire_ 2y ago
>We don't fully understand why current LLMs are bad at these tasks. In complete seriousness, can anyone can explain why LLMs are good at some tasks?
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by _wire_ 2y ago
"espionage-focused campaign found targeting network devices" Nice copy. —"multiple vendors" = Cisco and Microsoft... and others "these devices need to be routinely and promptly patched; using up-to-date hardware&quo
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by _wire_ 2y ago
When is a title not a synopsis of the article? Here's the rundown: - I am wearing a hacktoberfest t-shirt. - Some things are good, some are bad, including hacktoberfest. - Trying to contribute to a project you know nothing about is bad
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by _wire_ 2y ago
A title for a how-to article should offer hope that you can learn something from reading it. "I re-wired my brain" offers no such hope.
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by _wire_ 2y ago
I think this point is fair given that "AI" is a highly provisional term. This point implicitly re-frames the capability as search engine, and steers away from any idea of thought as an innate capability the AI device. As long as a
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by _wire_ 2y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with the article critique. Every output of an LLM is a hallucination. If you try to argue anything else, you need the machine to be able to judge the validity of a response. But it does precisely the opposite: it expe
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Truly LOL!
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by _wire_ 2y ago
There's no need for condolences, it's not personal. Business is churn and crisis. If you've never seen it yourself, it's only that it hasn't occurred to you -yet-. It's in the news every day with reports like T
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by _wire_ 2y ago
The entire market is a game and sham according to my experience: When employers actually need labor they hire who comes along and train them to fit the needed roles while managing attrition. But what I'm seeing is all about arbitrage.
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by _wire_ 3y ago
Aye. "Consider every ambiguity of technology as a personal marketing opportunity." The true topic at hand is that text substitution in scripted services is an eternal hazard of code injection. The point that regex-based input sani
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by _wire_ 3y ago
I recall looking into the details and feeling satisfied that the launch agent / daemon / helper was completely removed. But I did not perform a systematic examination of all file system state associated with the install. My point
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by _wire_ 3y ago
AppleScript offers a NL style where you code using an english language description of an imperative syntax. At first it seemed cool, but I quickly found it to be perverse and incomprehensible. These samples are from Apple's Guide: set
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by _wire_ 3y ago
It's been wisely pointed out elsewhere that pre-pending an empty cat saves the need to futz with the first stage syntax when reusing the pipeline. It serves a syntactic function.
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by _wire_ 3y ago
Choosing the Uninstall option found under Malwarebytes for Mac Help menu effectively removed the service for me.
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by _wire_ 3y ago
The language of this PR is mind-boggling hyperbole: >We've fundamentally changed the conversation by showing this can be executed safely and responsibly,” said Col. James Valpiani How did they show this? The evidence is anecdotal: A
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by _wire_ 3y ago
Why does the prompt intro take the form of a role/identity directive "You are helpful assistant..."? What about the training sets or the model internals responds to this directive? What are the degrees of freedom of such dire
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by _wire_ 3y ago
It's at this point that you may discover you have something you want to give, to your family, community, yourself. Your prosperity is the beginning of freedom. Very lucky position. Also very painful when you come into contact with othe
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by _wire_ 3y ago
Yes I can explain and it's not big deal: Morals are tenets of right and wrong. (Grace) Ethics is conduct judged under moral principle. (Law) Morals are truisms of the human disposition towards goodness. Ethics guide conduct towards jus
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by _wire_ 3y ago
Great references! Thank you for commenting. I dislike the figure of speech "A lot to unpack," but the Catt dialog on "the glitch" and electric current has a lot going on and I found it well worth the listen. In interview
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by _wire_ 3y ago
"You can prove the presence of bugs, but not their absence" —A Programmer The systems employ concurrency at multiple levels, where the system design lacks a unified paradigm for establishing its correctness. So concurrency "e
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by _wire_ 3y ago
This is a repost in reply context... It's true that mounting the affected Data partition on another machine won't help. And booting Recovery and mounting is equivalent to mounting on another machine. But it can help, as follows. B
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by _wire_ 3y ago
You have to wonder why in this age a trillion dollar computer company that helped usher the PC revolution would allow their systems to become crippled by a full storage device, especially when these devices are applied as indispensable tool

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