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by alexvoda 4y ago
That is a great analogy. I would say that just as every person is unique so is every company unique. And just as there is plenty of pseudoscience plaguing psychology so are MBAs full of pseudoscience. Two fields that are far too obsessed wi
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I think I would consider them split when the different modules are interchangeable so there is de facto an interface. In the case of the brain, while certain functional regions are highly specialized I would not consider them "a small
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I agree. I guess what they mean is you can use the existing adapter for your language. The PostgreSQL organisation should create some trademarked badges to properly label the levels of compatibility other products offer.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I read about Petals (1) some time ago here on HN. There are surely others too, but I don't remember the names. 1. https://github.com/bigscience-workshop/petals
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There are already LLMs hosted across the internet (Folding@Home style) instead of in a single data center. Just because the swarm infrastructure hosting an LLM has higher latency across certain paths does not make it a swarm of LLMs.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
My point was that spam is the perfect use case for this tech. Of course there are other possible use cases, but spam and fake news content creation are the perfect fit. AI will enable one to easily clone the writing style of any publication
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by alexvoda 4y ago
> I mean, it probably is right, but this "I don't know something, but I trust what the chatbot told me" is what worries me about the rise of the LLMs. I share the same worry with regards to the way humans will use AI, alon
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> Reading and validating code is way easier than figuring out how to write it in the first place Not at all. I would even say it is harder because the code being reviewed is priming you. All code is a leaky abstraction and if you don&#x2
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And what is a business that is fine with occasional (or frequent) bullshit output? Fake-news and spam.
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LLMs are already running distributed on swarms of computers. A swarm of swarms is just a bigger swarm. So again, what is the actual difference you are imagining? Or is it just that distributed X is fashionable?
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The equivalent for computers would be L1 cache on the CPU which is tiny.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
A machine generating confident bullshit will be the perfect companion for con-men to partially automate their workflow. Humans are really gullible for the appearance of confidence. And humans are also very prone to wishful thinking.
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Wikipedia has a fascinating article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_quackery
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You are overlooking an important use case: SPAM. Spam of all kinds and at automated-industry scale. Imagine blog-spam written in a variety of styles so you can no longer easily identify it as such. Imagine chum-boxes that no longer repeat t
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by alexvoda 4y ago
You can't program GTP in anything if you can't program. If your prompt is garbage then the output will be garbage and if you don't know how to program you won't even realize the output was garbage. It's not the lang
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Homelessness is out of control in the US and elsewhere too. The real question is whether there was a statistically significant difference compared to previous years ceteris paribus (same location, same time of year, etc.). Also the influx o
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by alexvoda 4y ago
Actually it can vary "from not that" far to "all the way" (StackOverflow). It depends very much on the schema and the type of workload. But in general people really underestimate how far an RDBMS can take you.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I agree it there were several missed opportunities. Mozilla Prism was basically PWA before there were PWAs. Mozilla gave up all of the head start if had with regards to embedability and extensibility.
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by alexvoda 4y ago
There were also, among others: - InstantBird, a multi network instant messenger client - Celtx, a media prepoduction software - Boxee, a HTPC app - Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader Many of these either vanished or transitioned to somethin
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I am arguing that whether the notion of TikTok or Apple or CocaCola is reified for you or me is absolutely irrelevant. They are reified to the vast majority of people so much so that even if a significant portion of their material substrate
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I don't think it is impressive in any way. It's pompous bullshit that is really hard to believe they really believe it themselves and can now be generated by AI. It's, like, saying that instead of seeing a chair, they now gai
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by alexvoda 4y ago
But did it match what people were saying about yourself?
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I was not aware of all you wrote. I guess thanks for picking up the ball when I dropped it. As an eastern European, for whom high school had almost nothing to say about American history (other than WWII) and afterwards I originally learned
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by alexvoda 4y ago
I would like to read the article. Unfortunately I don't really know of resources to point you to. These are mostly my thoughts. Most probably though influenced by a diet of sci-fi. I can however expand on them. For somewhat recent and
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by alexvoda 4y ago
This is off-topic sophistry. Your argument that "TikTok is an idea" does not syllogistically connect with "TikTok should not be banned" because the connector "Ideas should not be banned" is invalid. Intangible
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Your argument is a bit too philosophical. But going by that definition (intangible construct) plenty of ideas have been banned before without issue. I do think there is merit in understanding that TikTok can be a threat vector unlike Facebo
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Slavery is an extreme form of discrimination where the out-group is deemed subhuman. And discrimination is something the US has struggled with since the very beginning. It is the very notion that some people deserve to be restricted more an
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Power is a slippery slope. That does not mean that it has a single destination or that going down the slope is irreversible. It just means that reversing an imbalance of power is harder. Such a change can only be brought to a halt if the im
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by alexvoda 4y ago
> You just said we should never make new things criminal. I did not say that so do not twist my words. I never even said hacking should be legal. I said that in the current context the legality of hacking does not matter because either l
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by alexvoda 4y ago
If you mean the first part then here is a quote from John Ehrlichman, the White House Counsel and Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs under President Richard Nixon: > “You want to know what this was really all about?” he ask

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