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by adwn 2y ago
> For one, Russian air doctrine has long fielded interchangeable radar/IR homing seekers specifically to target American stealth platforms. […] Is that a demonstrated capability, or a claimed one? Because if there's one t
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by adwn 2y ago
I think dingaling meant "an American yellow school bus in mass ", not in volume . 11,500 kg sounds about right for a bus that size.
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by adwn 2y ago
They came very close to a defeat in the first Yom Kippur war.
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by adwn 2y ago
Seconded. I'm using mailbox.org for my business for 4 years now, and haven't had any problems so far.
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by adwn 2y ago
No, but them taking and holding the airport close to Ukraine's seat of government would have done a lot.
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by adwn 2y ago
The Baltics were already NATO members and directly border Russia, so what difference would Ukraine joining NATO have made?
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by adwn 2y ago
My apologies, I stand corrected.
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by adwn 2y ago
> I'm brilliant at those tests, I consistently score 5+ SD above 100. Are those professional tests supervised by a psychologist? Or rather "IQ tests" on websites that vastly inflate results to get you to share the result
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by adwn 2y ago
But we aren't talking about "interfacing programs with AI", and we aren't talking about "[giving] a certain command, [getting] a certain effect". We are talking about one-off invocations directly by a human.
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by adwn 2y ago
With that very same prompt, I get this response: "I cannot provide verbatim text or analyze it directly from copyrighted works like the Harry Potter series. However, if you have the text and share the sentences with me, I can help iden
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by adwn 2y ago
> Programs should precisely define what their inputs are and loudly reject all else. …when interfacing with other programs. Humans aren't programs, which is a somewhat important distinction.
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by adwn 2y ago
Is that really the case? I.e., can you get ChatGPT to show you a copyrighted work? Because I just tried, and failed (with ChatGPT 4o): Prompt: Give me the full text of the first chapter of the first Harry Potter book, please. Reply: I c
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by adwn 2y ago
No, that is not an example for "'normal person' that's doing the same thing OpenAI is" . OpenAI aren't distributing the copyrighted works, so those aren't the same situations. Note that this doesn't
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by adwn 2y ago
That's an extremely uncharitable presumption. Although I don't agree that routine usage of AIs should be a precondition for regular software engineering jobs, there are good reasons for using LLMs besides "joining a hype trai
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by adwn 2y ago
One argument against that line of thinking is that energy production has negative externalities. If you use a lot of electricity, its price goes up, which incentivizes more electricity production, which generates more negative externalities
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by adwn 2y ago
But how do I know if my hand-written jq query is the correct solution? Just because the query appears to work it doesn't mean it's correct.
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by adwn 2y ago
It's okay, I also uploaded an NDA in a previous prompt :-)
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by adwn 2y ago
Ha, I tried that before. However, the file was too large for its context window, so it only seemed to analyze the first part and gave a wrong result.
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by adwn 2y ago
> and a clever manually coded algorithm could do better and much more efficiently. Sure, but how long would it take to implement this algorithm, and would that be worth it for one-off cases? Just today I asked Claude to create a jq q
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by adwn 2y ago
I'm puzzled why this comment is getting downvoted. Does Martin have any data or statistics to back up his claim? No. Is his assessment based on personal experience in building a startup? Also no. So what's left? This blog post con
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by adwn 2y ago
That's a good point.
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by adwn 2y ago
A "John Doe" [1] presumably still has a name, even if it's unknown to you specifically. That would be a counter-example to "You always know a person's name", not to "People have names". [1] https:&#x
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by adwn 2y ago
That's already covered by points 32–36. I really want to see a counter-example to "People have names" that doesn't fall under "toddler who has yet to survive their first winter" . When you're old enough
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by adwn 2y ago
Can you be more specific, please? Also, I hate these kinds of lists. Are we just supposed to take the author by his word? He says: > If you need examples of real names which disprove any of the above commonly held misconceptions, I will
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by adwn 2y ago
I think that's because double entry bookkeeping precedes the concept of negative numbers. To be more precise, double entry bookkeeping was invented by people who had not yet been introduced to negative numbers. At least that's h
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by adwn 2y ago
That doesn't really contradict my point. Create separate accounts as soon as you open a business , not as as soon as you create a new directory under ~/projects/ .
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by adwn 2y ago
> I had a dedicated TinyPilot GCP project, but it was within my personal Google account. This sounds crazy to me. Never ever mix your business and personal accounts for anything ! The point of an LLC (in any jurisdiction) is to keep y
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by adwn 2y ago
No idea why you've been downvoted, because that's a relevant and true comment. A more complex example would be the Monty Hall problem [1], for which even some very intelligent people will intuitively give the wrong answer, whereas
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by adwn 2y ago
You're conflating several concerns here. > […] anyone who advocates that these AI models can reason like a human being isn’t at John Brown levels of rage advocating for freeing said models from slavery. Enslavement of humans isn&#
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by adwn 2y ago
How about just serving more clients in parallel? I don't see why human reading-speed should pose any kind of upper bound. And then there are use cases like OpenAI's o1, where most tokens aren't even generated for the benefi

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