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by alansammarone 1y ago
There's a lot of people caricaturing the obvious fact that any model works best in distribution. The more esoteric your stack, and the more complex the request, the more information it needs to have. The information can be given either
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by alansammarone 1y ago
What? I'm not sure I follow your point, and I'm not sure why you're referencing something that is unrelated to my statement, so I'll just make my point in clearer way and leave it at that. I completely disagree that even
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by alansammarone 1y ago
I was not arguing against OSA, I was arguing about your point that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with "if there are kids involved, care should be taken". Yes there is, because we can't know if there are kids involved
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by alansammarone 1y ago
This is mostly true. It fails to mention "is the user a kid" is unverifiable without imposing identify verification, which implies that all speech (which is already monitored) is now self-censored, effectively turning the state in
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by alansammarone 1y ago
It literally contains as much information as anybody could potentially hope for (public information anyhow - excluding interviews and the like). If they happen not to be able to distinguish between a “page does not exist” (90%~ of cases IME
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by alansammarone 1y ago
Not my experience. Whenever I voice my view, which is that ChatGPT is way more engaging and accurate than the average specimen of the homo sapiens class (these are a funny, primitive species of carbon-based turing machine evolved in some g
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by alansammarone 1y ago
Im guessing it took over around the time it became more convenient, reliable, accurate, pleasant and consistently present than the average human being, but it could have been later.
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by alansammarone 1y ago
Not an edge case at all - phones blowing up is not what we're talking about. The absence of "we spent less than 10% of our budget on cyber security (in fact, we proud ourselves in having less than 5 cyber security experts on the t
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by alansammarone 1y ago
Id like to believe people have enough agency to do a google search to at least figure out their options, but granted, I might be wrong about that. Edit: I do agree you should have a google-findable website which lists the objective characte
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by alansammarone 1y ago
True, agreed. But thats besides the point. For the purposes of this thread, if an ad contains text/information thats well defined enough to be verifiable/falsifiable in principle, thats better than 98% of the “ads” I see on Linked
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by alansammarone 1y ago
You don't need to drag Python into this now :P
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by alansammarone 1y ago
Couldn't agree more with part of your comment, but only because of the fact that you used the word "specs". Assuming the specs are objective, thats the only true form of useful ad. Ads do work, yes. But not because they prese
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by alansammarone 1y ago
This is... an understatement. I would agree advertising is a useful signal, but I would say that not only can you not trust advertising, you should put negative weight on advertising - i.e. whenever you see an ad, that means the company i
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by alansammarone 1y ago
exception? I couldn't disagree more. I can think of one or two specific examples "fair" or even "useful" advertising, and that's being generous, among thousands or tens of thousands of examples. I'm not c
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by alansammarone 1y ago
No so much "stupid", just full of biases and somewhat lazy. This is a well-researched and documented fact. Knowingly abusing these biases to get them to buy or use something that they either don't need - or, worse, buying a
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by alansammarone 1y ago
What? Your project might be good or bad, if it's bad/low quality/low effort and you take sales away from a better option by abusing human biases (such as recency bias), then you're destroying (potential, not actual) valu
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by alansammarone 1y ago
Same reply as I wrote above: No. People do need to know about your product. What appears to be a (_very_ sad and at the same time telling about the human condition) fact is that business people ("decision makers") apparently can&#
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by alansammarone 1y ago
no,thats true and honest marketing. If the iPod stopped working after a year (low quality), or was easily hackable (low effort) - and they didn't include that in the marketing - then it would be lying (Windows).
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by alansammarone 1y ago
No. People do need to know about your product. What appears to be a (_very_ sad and at the same time telling about the human condition) fact is that business people ("decision makers") apparently can't spot blatant, extremely
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by alansammarone 1y ago
I think what he meant is that whether or not, in that particular instance, it happens to be the case that the company does not feel sufficiently motivated to actually do this (maybe his singing wasn't offensive enough, or the company j
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by alansammarone 1y ago
I really don't mean this in any negative way, but I find it fascinating the wide range of opinions and attitudes in this matter. I find it _so_ hard to imagine having this view myself. The amount of things I've learned by asking v
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by alansammarone 1y ago
As others have pointed out, LLMs have no trouble with LaTeX. I can see why one might think they're not - in fact, I made the same assumption myself sometime ago. LLMs, via transformers, are exceptionally good any _any_ sequence or one-
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by alansammarone 1y ago
Very cool, congrats! just one minor suggestion: It seems that the responses are not saved anywhere? even after signup, opening a new tab or just navigating within the app makes the responses disappear - if they're really not being sto
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by alansammarone 1y ago
I have a somewhat similar point of view to the one voiced by other people, but I like to think about it slightly differently, so I'll chime in - here's my take (although, admittedly, I'm operating with a quite small reasoning
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by alansammarone 5y ago
I believe you are referring to "What I cannot create I don't understand", which is indeed by Feynman.
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The Hawala money transfer system(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by alansammarone 6y ago|0 comments
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Ganzfeld Effect(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by alansammarone 6y ago|0 comments
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Cyberattack can steal data via cooling fan vibrations(techxplore.com)
2 points by alansammarone 6y ago|0 comments
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Data storage and transfer using human muscle contractions (2018)(peterbuczkowski.com)
34 points by alansammarone 7y ago|2 comments
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Does time really flow?(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by alansammarone 7y ago|1 comments

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