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by _xnmw 3y ago
It's Steve Jobs' legacy and a function of the authoritarian, highly controlled process he created. A democratic self-directed environment like Google or design-by-committee like Microsoft could never produce such a product line. E
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Now I have an excuse to purchase high powered machines. As a programmer who doesn't play games, edit video, or do anything requiring a high-powered graphics card, I always eyed high-end rigs as a wasteful indulgence. Not anymore! Now I
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by _xnmw 3y ago
LLM's are an incredibly useful tool which I plan to use extensively, but to think it is even in the same category as biological life is incredibly stupid. Man (and other animals) have Life -> Awareness -> Will -> Speech ->
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by _xnmw 3y ago
This is already available with Rewind.ai + their GPT plugin and I've already asked such questions and got good answers.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Very interesting, but not what I expected when I heard the word “ChatGPT”. In fact I don’t even see evidence of an LLM at work here, just AI-generated SQL queries.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Uh, I just use a window manager.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
I regularly dump all my Proton and Gmail to a local macOS folder and use DevonThink for nearly-instantaneous full-text search.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
Maintaining separation of powers.
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by _xnmw 3y ago
One example I've seen recently is when asking to quote the specific source of information from a book. For example, I was recently using ChatGPT to ask questions about Russian grammar, and it is quite useful for pointing me in the righ
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by _xnmw 3y ago
There are different types of bilingualism. Making an active effort to learn a second language for no reason other than cultural interest is a totally different activity from being forced to learn the dominant language as a disadvantaged min
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Love the idea! But the most essential features of Airtable are: filtering, grouping, and views. Without that it's a nonstarter. I don't see that here. Still, will be following your development.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Please someone build the same thing for JetBrains, where the AI has access to the full context of my project, and I can tell it "add a feature here" and then review the code before committing.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
> At what point does abstraction and reasoning turn into "sentient understanding"? This is a loaded question, you're assuming that abstraction and reasoning can somehow magically "turn into" sentience, whereas I
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by _xnmw 4y ago
A boolean logic gate or just old-school software programs perform some level of abstraction and reasoning, but that is not "sentient understanding".
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by _xnmw 4y ago
> If AI's outputs were literally indistinguishable from something that truly understands these concepts, then there's no practical difference if it really "understands". This reduces the concept of understanding to so
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Quality of output does not mean that the process is genuine. A well-produced movie with good actors may depict a war better than footage of an actual war, but that is not evidence of an actual war happening. Statistical LLMs are trying real
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Quality of output does not mean that the process is genuine. A well-produced movie with good actors may depict a war better than footage of an actual war, but that is not evidence of an actual war happening. Statistical LLMs are trying real
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by _xnmw 4y ago
I still hold that it doesn't "understand". Even if it answered all questions perfectly, stopped making mistakes, and produced fully working programs better than the best crack developer teams, that still doesn't mean it
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Yesterday I just used it for the first time instead of checking the Postgres docs for some obscure JSON operators. I just asked it this: "I have a postgres database with a json column with the following structure: [1, 2, 4, 4]. How do
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by _xnmw 4y ago
> Yesterday, I watched someone upload a video file to a chat app, ask a language model “Can you extract the first 5 s of the video?”, and then wait as the language model wrote a few lines of code and then actually executed that code, res
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ChatGPT for Me(rewind.ai)
2 points by _xnmw 4y ago|0 comments
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by _xnmw 4y ago
“Just a scaled up primate brain”? And so a nuclear ICBM is “just” a scaled up bow and arrow!
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by _xnmw 4y ago
I live in Ukraine and I don't agree with this at all. The arts are very much alive during war. The opera houses and theatres are full, songs and art are flourishing, and if anything, the artistic instinct has only been further inspired
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Ask HN: How to reduce malicious free trial abuse?
1 points by _xnmw 4y ago|2 comments
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Every Angel Is Terrifying(youtube.com)
1 points by _xnmw 4y ago|1 comments
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Depression, and almost all mental disorders, can't even be defined or reliably identified by any diagnosis test, leave alone finding a biological cause. Found a book recently on the topic, "Cracked: The Unhappy Truth about Psychia
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by _xnmw 4y ago
> 8-20 people in a flat structure like our hunter gatherer ancestors use to do Citation needed. Even wolf packs have alphas, as I understand "hunter gatherer" societies were even less flat, if you disobeyed the leader you had
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by _xnmw 4y ago
Source: I was born in Toronto, and have been to many of the Western cities you mentioned, and didn’t know anything else until I moved to culturally homogeneous Ukraine. The difference is night and day. Life is just more meaningful and I hav
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by _xnmw 4y ago
I've noticed a recent spate of crackdowns on "hustlers" in the Eastern European space. See the recent takedown of Andrew Tate in Romania, for example, and now this.
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by _xnmw 4y ago
1. Large-scale free movement of people between administrative states is called "an invasion". Why doesn't Ukraine just let Russians walk into Kiev? 2. Because it would lead to further concentration and centralization of power

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