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by andy99 1y ago
I regularly exchange currency at the bank. There is a posted rate that I can get online. If I go to the teller, they will propose that rate as well, at which point I say "can I have the premium rate" and they say, ok, I can give y
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Canada is facing a housing crisis. Could it take a page from Europe?(cbc.ca)
3 points by andy99 1y ago|6 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
Yeah the fact that that statement got so much pushback in the comments sort of speaks for itself. I think in some cases, exposure to other views (or caricatures of them) is being confused with a widening Overton window in one's own gro
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by andy99 1y ago
It's not quite the same but since the dawn of smartphones, I've hated it when you ask a question, as a discussion starter or to get people's views, and some jerk reads off the wikipedia answer as if that's some insight I
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by andy99 1y ago
> Imagine you're a product manager trying to optimize your website’s dashboard. Your goal is to increase user signups. This would be Series B or later right? I don't really feel like it's a core startup behavior.
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by andy99 1y ago
I was trying to understand how this could be used for flights. I've seen either having to enter your last name and seat, or loyalty plan number to get in-flight wifi. Are there really airline wifis that give every mac address a free am
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by andy99 1y ago
It's very common in science for people to have had results they didn't understand the significance of that later were popularized by someone else. There is the whole thing with Damadian claiming to have invented MRI (he didn'
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by andy99 1y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, it seems you've never used OVH.
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by andy99 1y ago
Only a news outlet would consider disabling news notifications a risk. Obviously they risk losing views and ad revenue, there's absolutely no "risk" to the public. Personally I have all phone notifications off. There are a fe
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by andy99 1y ago
There are two legitimate points where copyright violation can occur with LLMs. (Not arguing the merits of copyright, just based on the concept as it is). One is when copyrighted material is "pirated" for use in training, i.e. you
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by andy99 1y ago
AI generated content quality is bad. That's the only issue that can have a business impact. This "what about the weavers and match dippers" makes good news articles for some audiences but isn't real, trying to roll back
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by andy99 1y ago
I had a vibe-coding phase that I think largely followed the popular arc and timeline from optimism through to disappointment. Definitely felt some burnout or dumbness after it, trying to get back into thinking for myself and actually writin
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by andy99 1y ago
Thanks! I do have ublock origin and can typically get rid of these if I need to. It's just the frustration of going to websites that ostensibly want me to read something that see fit to destroy my focus as soon as I try to start.
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by andy99 1y ago
As soon as some widget in the corner of a site wiggles to get my attention, I leave. If you/they want people to actually read their articles they shouldn't try to distract readers as soon as they start.
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The False Sense of Security in AI Red Teaming(forbes.com)
2 points by andy99 1y ago|0 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
Even though I think most people know this deep down, I still don't think we actively realize how optimized LLMs are towards sounding good. It's the ultra processed food version of information consumption. People are super lazy (ec
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The families paying £1,500 for 'private bobbies' to police their homes(bbc.com)
5 points by andy99 1y ago|1 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
The article still doesn't contain much information. Is this somehow non-conductive? And how is that possible?
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by andy99 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_earthworms_of_North... Also learning about this today. Apparently they're bad for ecosystems that had evolved with slowly decaying organic matter (because they eat it all q
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by andy99 1y ago
We investigate whether frontier language models can accurately classify transcripts based on whether they originate from evaluations or real-world deployment, a capability we call evaluation awareness. It's common practice in
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by andy99 1y ago
The better definition of equal performance would obviously be that the metrics for the detector - accuracy or false positive rate etc would be the same for all groups. I won't comment on why it's defined the way that it is. Edit:
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by andy99 1y ago
If a cult is preying on people, I'm against that, whether it's a chatbot that's central to their doctrine or some science fiction story or whatever.
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by andy99 1y ago
Right, s/AI\ Chatbot/Bible/ People with mental health problems are always going to find something to latch on to. It doesn't mean we should start labeling things as dangerous because of it.
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Google and Meta AI repeated satirical time zone article as fact(cbc.ca)
3 points by andy99 1y ago|0 comments
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by andy99 1y ago
I'm not sure, I see an argument that they're mostly overblown and a lot would have to be true for one of these proof-of-concepts to translate into a real harm in the wild. I definitely think they need to be taken seriously, just n
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by andy99 1y ago
Air canada already unsuccessfully argued that their chatbot was autonomous and so they weren't liable for incorrect advice it gave.
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by andy99 1y ago
While I agree, it won't be a purely "AI" disaster the way a plane crash is a direct consequence of the kinetic and potential energy associated with flying. s/AI/automation/ it's always bad to hook an unche
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by andy99 1y ago
Your quote reminds me of the concept of hashtag rap https://www.reddit.com/r/hiphopheads/comments/222piu/can_som... which is basically all rap music now. Interestingly it seems to have been a leading ind
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by andy99 1y ago
I think GenX gets largely absorbed into millennials and boomers when people make generalizations. The birth year cutoff for millenial has crept increasingly downward, subsuming what I remember as GenY, and I think for marketing purposes, a
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by andy99 1y ago
More advertising, more intrusive tracking and personal information collection (mandatory membership in something, swipe your license or scan some biometric, no cash options), more expensive gas. More nagging from your car about things that

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