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by andy99 1y ago
It's all relu these days
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by andy99 1y ago
This doesn't feel at all credible because we're already well into the sigmoid part of the curve. I thought the gpt5 thing made it pretty obvious to everyone. I'm bullish on AI, I don't think we've even begun to unde
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by andy99 1y ago
Same thing with Enron. They spun their money losing projects off into new businesses that were capitalized from Enron stock (which kept going up) and so somehow all of these spin offs were also solvent but only because of the value of the s
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by andy99 1y ago
No. There is a difference between being a contrarian who is making a bet and acting on their different viewpoint, and someone who is simply a debbie downer and wants to say something negative all the time with no skin in the game. Marcus is
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by andy99 1y ago
There should be a [Gary Marcus] tag in the link, it's all one needs to know, as soon as I saw that I closed the page. (I notice in retrospect it does show that it's a link to his substack so I guess that's sufficient warning,
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by andy99 1y ago
LLMs are deterministic*. They are unpredictable or maybe chaotic. If you say "What's the capital of France?" is might answer "Paris". But if you say "What is the capital of france" it might say "Pragu
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by andy99 1y ago
The fact that you think the consultants were actually listening and raising your ideas with management shows they were good at their jobs. Providing this impression is one of their core functions.
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by andy99 1y ago
I cancelled prime because like all "prepaid" things, it's basically a scam or they wouldn't offer it. When I used to have it, half of the items were "not eligible for prime" and many more were "add-on item
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by andy99 1y ago
It's pretty heavily dark patterned for me. When you go checkout there is a big prime banner inviting you to click now that looks the the default "next screen" button, and smaller fainter text below saying "continue witho
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by andy99 1y ago
Also got this about an hour ago. I had previously applied to YC so thought it was about that, then saw Important: A refundable deposit is required for authorization. and realized it was a scam.
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by andy99 1y ago
The more important point (and this is really like a high school civics debate) is that the government and/or a big tech company shouldn't decide what people are "allowed" to say. There's tons of dumb stuff online, t
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by andy99 1y ago
Yeah at the time I get the impression they were banning dissent, not just egregious or dangerous content (whatever that even means). I though most places came to their senses a long time ago and walked back that heavy handedness, I'm s
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by andy99 1y ago
Earlier today there was a post about someone submitting an incorrect AI generated bug report. I found one of the comments telling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45331233 > Is it that crazy? He's doing exactly
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by andy99 1y ago
Am I misunderstanding this one? GET still sends information to another server, what is the "read only" aspect?
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by andy99 1y ago
> As a content publisher, I am very interested in any proposal that results in me getting residual payments from AI scrapers. So you use a public resource and presumably like the upside that comes with sharing on it, but you want to limi
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by andy99 1y ago
Cloudflare business model is basically to hold the internet for ransom. Why would anyone assume good faith?
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by andy99 1y ago
Agreed, and definitely a sign something is very wrong with the internet.
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by andy99 1y ago
I used to take the Montreal metro to work just carrying my laptop. Someone I kmow from a big European city was very surprised and said nobody would do that there, it would make you a target for theft. Here I wouldn't think twice about
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by andy99 1y ago
Commenting for reach
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by andy99 1y ago
Why more dangerous? For the same level of IC, AI tools will let people show off their skills more quickly, i.e. show faster how smart or dumb they are. For nontechnical managers, it will let them ask lots of dumb questions and have stupid i
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by andy99 1y ago
Yes that was my first thought too.
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by andy99 1y ago
I still maintain that the original tweet about it was a joke, or at least not a suggestion for doing real work but just a reflection on the freedom of yolo mode coding. It wasn't meant to be instructions.
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by andy99 1y ago
As an aside, this feels very familiar as a sci-fi weapon, does that ring a bell for anyone? I was thinking William Gibson first but I can't place it there.
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by andy99 1y ago
> Would you have preferred the author had decided for his readers what information they should be interested in? I don't understand the implication here, but yes? Broader point, nationalistic click/flamebait shouldn't be o
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by andy99 1y ago
Yes my question was rhetorical, you can see how such suggestions get treated.
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by andy99 1y ago
Somehow "invasive Mountain View bloatware is harvesting data from Samsung users in the US" doesn't get the same attention.
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by andy99 1y ago
This is from February And the "Israeli founded" serves what purpose?
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by andy99 1y ago
These can be useful for labs training models. I don't see them as particularly valuable for building AI systems. Real performance depends on how the system is built, much more so than the underlying LLM. Evaluating the system you build
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by andy99 1y ago
- Hiring someone costs way more than they salary they receive - getting someone reliable who works for such low wages is especially hard - people are cheap generally and don't have the disposable income - I think many people have house
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by andy99 1y ago
Yes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_cipher

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