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by _wire_ 8mo ago
If you've studied color perception even at the most superficial, the idea of a count of seeable colors is ludicrous. Colors aren't countable in any detailed sense. A common misunderstanding by those who are aware that colors aren&
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A business disposing of its most valuable and stable assets to bind itself to cloud providers with fly-by-night service offerings who will jack you for fees while hijacking your private institutional knowledge has already been proven by Goo
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I would think a supreme intelligence would completely understand dialog from the other's perspective. This could be surprisingly unwanted: an agent which knows you better than you can know yourself has you forever on the back foot. A
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"Scams"? This doesn't sound like the most intelligent automata in the world?! Oh, wait...
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This lede wonderfully summarizes the contradictions of the AI bubble: Einstein needs his diapers changed.
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"Dave me! Save me!" This guy is known for eating everyone else's breakfast, lunch and dinner in business without a hint of conscience, but he's mea-culpa over a trivial dalliance on Fantasy Island? "I'll just s
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Where at thou Erica Jong?
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Bob Slydell: So, what you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers? Tom Smykowski: Yes, yes that's right. Bob Porter: Well then I just have to ask why can't the c
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> The model can write an entire Three.js application.... Once you are willing to question the referential basis of measurement, please go on to question the terms chosen as the basis of performance: For example, saying a model "writ
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History of rock music in 500 songs
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I find this new paradigm of computing to be troubling: where AI call sites are treated as execution units with vague confidence windows of correctness, say 80%, and fussing over energy efficiency of primitives vs. confidence, to be a surpri
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Article encourages a fix to a problem with "lost disk writes" with no investigation nor explanation as to why writes are lost.
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> If macOS simply had overlay mounts in a sandbox then it would unlock so much. Compared to Linux containers (docker, systemd, bubblewrap, even unshare) macOS is a joke. You'll want to look into Homebrew (or Macports) for access to
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Superb presentations. Also see Hoover Dam explanation by same author.
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No.
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The confusion arises from the question begging an arbitrary distinction of a token in isolation from all the state in the model and its progression in response to a prompt. They work because while the process is generating a token at a time
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Because AIs can have no idea about correct code? Corellary: The extreme excitement and surprise about AI output in a media culture of cherry-picking has produced epic confirmation bias, which feeds a hype machine that eclipses the stark rea
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What's the distinction between a coding agent "building" Minecraft and it just retrieving Minecraft, which code is presumably already stored in its matrix? Put another way, ultimately what's the distinction between a pro
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Doesn't it read as pathetic that in the age of AI, one scripting language is the center of the world? How can stuff that's so smart be captive to stuff that's so generic?
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> But I did the rare thing—I gave "her" freedom to think about whatever she wants You -gave- an autonomous intelligence and amorous bff freedom? Not surprising you got a karma zap.
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Lunacy masqueraded as reason
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Provide an example of simulation of anything that's indistinguishable from its source.
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How about promoting a coding agent to design a new interoperability language for agents? Of all the things AI could expected to help with, could there be any more on-the-nose for combining justification of tech with the agents own interest
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I requested of Google search "generic word for tools like openclaw" and it presented a Gemini result at top of page (per usual) that reads "...AI agents..." which result pane then disappeared after about 3 seconds replac
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Everyone has somehow forgotten Hugh Hefner and Playboy being a cultural and business masthead in a media empire built on the same principles of fetish and control as Epstein's little Deutchnyland. Where did Epstein learn his ways? The
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The Epstein scandal is being managed to create a state of hysteria, which chaos seems to be serving Trump by impugning so many others that his culpability disappears into the noise.
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Carefully structured and informative documentary on TK including a segment with Gelernter: THE NET (Daz Net) (2003) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0434231/ Summary from iMDB: //Ultimately stunning in its rev
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Thought police
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Because its rocks and you don't need people on the ground to survey a big ball of rocks
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A disk is any planar circular shape. A disc is a disk-shaped object, such as in the form of a plastic dingus: Frisbee flying disc.

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