allears

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by allears 8mo ago
The main function of any bureaucracy is to consolidate and increase its own power and scope. This is similar to (or is it the same as?) Pournelle's Law. Generally, any subset of an organization always wants more budget and scope, but i
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by allears 8mo ago
Needs salt.
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by allears 8mo ago
Really interesting. Much thanks!
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by allears 8mo ago
I for one welcome our new AI coding overlords. I worked with COBOL for years, often having to maintain old, complex, and undocumented code with totally uninformative variable and routine names. Trying to untangle this stuff was drudgery of
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by allears 8mo ago
Sounds wonderful, but if you go to the company's website, it doesn't say a word about pricing or availability -- doesn't give any specifications at all. This sounds like a start-up trying to get financed, not an actual resour
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by allears 8mo ago
Yes you do. Are you a techie? Do you have an inkling of how LLMs work, how they are put together? You are anthropomorphizing a computer system that cannot "think." It (definitely not "she") simply uses statistical techni
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by allears 8mo ago
His job depends on pretending that LLMs can somehow think or reason.
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by allears 8mo ago
You're damn right I won't see it. Won't be logging into Discord any more.
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by allears 8mo ago
Gift link didn't work. Paywall still in place.
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by allears 9mo ago
You don't notice it, therefore nobody else does? That's a pretty easy survey to take.
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by allears 9mo ago
There's a story (dunno if it's true, but it could be) about an anthropologist who is living with an African tribe to study them. He gets to know the tribe and is accepted by them, and one day a village elder invites him to join a
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by allears 9mo ago
I think this is a great summary and resource. No, it's not all you need to learn to sing, but it wasn't intended to be. Regarding singing on pitch and in tune, that too is a learned skill. A good coach or singing class will work o
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by allears 9mo ago
Whether or not it was remotely controlled, that's amazing agility and balance. Of course, dancing on an empty floor is a far cry from interacting with a world of objects.
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by allears 9mo ago
Because when I'm driving I only look in the direction I'm going. I never glance to one side or another.
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by allears 9mo ago
paywall
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by allears 9mo ago
SpaceX would only be harmed by the merger. They're a great company on their own, accomplishing amazing things and creating revenue. Tesla is going down the tubes, X still makes some money from ads but is basically just a propaganda out
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by allears 9mo ago
Due to our paranoia and isolationism, we will fall further and further behind the rest of the world.
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by allears 9mo ago
As the article explains, the subtext of the warning is "AI is incredibly powerful and its power and intelligence are growing by leaps and bounds, so send me more money." CEOs are salesmen primarily and techies only occasionally.
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by allears 9mo ago
In the long run, Trump might actually be a benefit to the international community.
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by allears 9mo ago
I rarely feel sorry for mega-corp CEOs, but this is one of those times.
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by allears 9mo ago
And of course that would burst the bubble. So adopt it or else!
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by allears 9mo ago
Ya think?
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by allears 9mo ago
That's a tough call, since music producers mix and match from many different sources. I used to use a program called Band in a Box, where you fed it the chord structure and picked a style, and it would generate pretty darn good instrum
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by allears 9mo ago
This just drives home the point that models are simply regurgitating stuff they see on the internet. There's no doubt a whole lot more text about early childhood trauma in their training material than there is about well-adjusted famil
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by allears 9mo ago
It's not the apps, it's the drivers. I've got expensive high quality audio hardware (RME Fireface 800) that doesn't have Linux drivers. Oh sure, I could invest $2000 to get a newer version, but that would just mean a ste
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by allears 10mo ago
The woman who was killed by ICE. Obviously, even though Grok has few if any safeguards, somebody had to specifically prompt for this, Grok didn't do it spontaneously.
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by allears 10mo ago
Fortunately, administrative department heads do not get to create or modify the law. Not that that's goiing to stop anybody.
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by allears 10mo ago
Sales pitch. Nothing objective here.
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by allears 10mo ago
Booze is the Republican drug of choice.
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by allears 10mo ago
Now that the US has abdicated world leadership in so many areas, it's good to see China pushing the envelope.

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