abraxas

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by abraxas 9mo ago
Excellent idea. So many modern buildings age so poorly. Maybe this will give some starchitecs a bit of a pause...
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by abraxas 9mo ago
The people that will be accessing this technology are not the people you want to have access to this technology.
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by abraxas 9mo ago
If there is one future tech I hope we never reach it's this. The downside risks are even worse than runaway super intelligence.
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by abraxas 9mo ago
What about Fei Fei Li's lab? I think they are generating true 3D worlds rather than frames of a video? Although that probably precludes her from having animations in those worlds...
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by abraxas 9mo ago
> if you wanted imagination you don't need to make a video model. You probably don't need to decode the latents at all. Soft disagree. What is the purpose of that imagination if not to map it to actual real world outfcomes. For
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by abraxas 9mo ago
You elected yourself oligarchy. Good luck getting rid of it now.
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by abraxas 9mo ago
Yes, absolutely yes, The dotcom bubble was precipitated by lots of people in mainstream media sounding the alarm. Ditto for the real estate bubble that led to the stock market collapse of 2008.
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by abraxas 9mo ago
It seems that something that does away with human friendly syntax and leans more towards a pure AST representation would be even better? Basically a Lisp but with very strict typing might do the trick. And most LLMs are probably trained on
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by abraxas 9mo ago
> The apocalypse is delayed, permanently That is your survivorship bias. There are societies that collapsed never to rebuild or became mere shadows of themselves. I'm not just talking complete collapses like the Easter Island or the
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by abraxas 9mo ago
In the 80's he was considered a crackpot and a menace. In 2026 he'd make a fine member of the US government if he was a bit younger. Not much younger as it's a geriatric ward through and through but just a wee bit.
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by abraxas 9mo ago
And I'm the counter anecdotal case of your anecdotal case. I have a page long list of failed psychiatric regimens that included drugs alone and drugs combined with talk therapy. None of them effective. I won't say that I'm cu
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by abraxas 9mo ago
As a European living in North America I developed a weird cognitive dissonance. When I'm in North America the regular printer page (US Letter) seems too squat. When I'm in Europe the A4 page looks too svelte. I now need an in-betw
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by abraxas 9mo ago
Americans don't usually have friends. Just "contacts". Working age "parties" are often just cloaked networking events.
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by abraxas 10mo ago
A thousand years almost. As a Pole I have no faith in Russia ever becoming anything other than a savage hostile wart on this planet. It's not just their leadership. It's the nation. More accurately their culture. Their malice is a
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by abraxas 10mo ago
Someone held a door open for me so I had to pick up the pace. I'm ugly so strangers aren't nice to me.
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by abraxas 10mo ago
I don't know what greatness it brings to the table. I'm sure it's fabulous. Nonetheless, in the Java of yesteryear we packaged shit into .war files and deployed to app servers. Took all of 30s. Projects (Java backend + JSP fr
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by abraxas 10mo ago
And so pray tell, what benefits has the industry produced by herding around JS and python in the last two decades? Java was a decent language and getting better and its tooling was stellar, beyond anything those two ecosystems can muster to
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by abraxas 10mo ago
Quite honestly if you put ai aside and just look at VsCode and typescript which is a common drug of choice these days the Java plus Eclipse of 20 years ago was the superior toolkit. At least semantic search and refactoring worked reliably.
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by abraxas 10mo ago
Actually I'll go against the grain here in saying this but I do find LLMs quite useful for a number of tasks. However you won't find an argument that the first two decades of the 21st century were mostly a waste of time in terms o
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by abraxas 11mo ago
Well, that's just the esoterical nature of physics, no? I mean the old adage that "if you think you understand quantum physics you do not understand quantum physics" is a reflection of this.
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by abraxas 11mo ago
There has to be a happy medium between the tersness of the current notation systems and the verbosity of code-like expressions. We just need to rethink this so more people can learn it. Math still stands a bit like writing did in ancient cu
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by abraxas 11mo ago
They invented Ozemipc. Restraint is unamerican.
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by abraxas 11mo ago
You sound exactly like that turkey from Nassim Taleb's books that came to the conclusion that the purpose of human beings is to make turkeys very happy with lots of food and breeding opportunities. And the turkey's thesis gets val
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by abraxas 11mo ago
Yeah, seems like the agent industry is spinning wheels a bit. As that old adage goes, when there are a hundred treatments you can be sure there is no cure.
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by abraxas 11mo ago
Depression is almost never caused by actual life circumstance - just by your response and usually a delayed response. Also you should try your SSRI prescription. They really aren't very strong drugs. You might get mild relief or if you
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by abraxas 11mo ago
Absolutely. These random namedrops of drugs are irritating. People respond to different psychiatric medications in wilddly different ways. And actually, the majority do not respond at all. Throwing a random name of some random medication h
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by abraxas 11mo ago
> Why take a chemical that is a bit like rolling the dice on how it’s going to modify fundamentally what you are? Because sometimes that is the last thing that's left. When everything else has failed it may be the only hope that sta
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by abraxas 11mo ago
The coin operated carts are wonderful and I'm glad that most European stores use them. Why this is so bothersome to North American shoppers I'll never know (actually I think I do know after watching some of the clips).
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by abraxas 11mo ago
someone that infirm likely shouldn't be driving.
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by abraxas 11mo ago
yeah, the last digit matters. But sometimes the second last as well because of teen numbers: 22 pliki wysłane 12 plków wysłanych

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