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by andyfilms1 5mo ago
It's sustainable in the literal sense, I.E. a tailor can simply tailor forever without needing to constantly worry about keeping up with new tools or technologies, or needing to upgrade or change their methodology constantly. The tech
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by andyfilms1 5mo ago
A little suggestion in case you decide to try again, just don't worry about constraints. If you're making one-off parts for yourself, just sketch what you need and don't worry about trying to make it parametric. Get the part
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by andyfilms1 5mo ago
If you use something like OnShape or Fusion, you could easily get comfortable enough to model those parts in about a day. Once get the hang of it, you'll be amazed how fast you can work. It will take much longer than a day for AI to ge
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by andyfilms1 5mo ago
Replacing your workers with AI: --You lose control over their "salary" --You lose control over their "schedule" --Your company becomes reliant on another party that does not share your interests or values, and can stop w
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by andyfilms1 5mo ago
I genuinely think any ML approach to detecting ML will always be unreliable. Models can be intentionally poisoned or tricked, and there is a lot of incentive from AI users to do so. It will always be a losing battle against a moving target.
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by andyfilms1 5mo ago
Oh man, a non-web version of this would be an insta-buy from me
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by andyfilms1 5mo ago
Their engineers are still trying to figure out how to make backlit keys. Just give them another two decades, I'm sure they'll crack it.
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
Oh no! Anyway
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
It's lunchtime
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
Sure, but local AI is still a black box. They can be influenced by training data selection, poisoning, hidden system prompts, etc. That recent Wordpress supply chain hack goes to show that the rug can still be pulled even if the software is
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
Sure, but unless you're training them yourself they can still be compromised with poisoning or bias. They're still black boxes even if you're running them locally.
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
I would bet any amount that when the time comes to turn AI into a utility, they will fight it tooth and nail.
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
Package manager incidents (like leftpad) have shown that just because it's open source doesn't mean it can't do damage to your project.
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
It has always baffled me how quickly, and how voraciously, people started to rely on privately owned AI systems. AI is not something discovered by scientists and plucked out of the ether. It's engineered and controlled, for profit, by
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
And while we're at it, stop with the popups and notifications. I don't care about the new features in a browser update. Ideally, nothing at all has changed. I don't want a "tour" of the software I just installed. I,
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by andyfilms1 6mo ago
I work in a creative field, and we've started to get a lot of clients using AI to generate initial concepts for us to build upon. The problem is, they're not actually thinking about these concepts, they're just generating unt
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by andyfilms1 7mo ago
Except, calling it a "tool" is exactly why OP feels bad. Simply phrasing it another way, I.E. "OP paid for a service to implement a feature he wanted," would completely remove the guilt and be more technically accurate
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by andyfilms1 7mo ago
Another calculator with no backlit keypad. Am I the only one that wants to use a calculator after the sun goes down?
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by andyfilms1 7mo ago
If I see a company using an AI generated image or video for their product, my first thought will always be, "What are they trying to hide?"
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by andyfilms1 7mo ago
I've been wondering if a diffusion model could just generate software as binary that could be fed directly into memory.
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by andyfilms1 7mo ago
I understand the frustration but I don't understand the logic. The businesses who paid the tariffs (who were literally sent an invoice that they paid) should be the ones refunded. How would the government even be able to determine if a
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by andyfilms1 7mo ago
At what point does this just wrap all the way back around to being genetic algorithms? I'm also reminded of the old software called Formulize, which could take in a set of arbitrary data and find a function that described it. http:&#x
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by andyfilms1 8mo ago
I love the idea that this guy was easily able to scrounge up a florescent bulb in a beer coozie, but a desk fan is somehow unobtainable.
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by andyfilms1 8mo ago
For a given calculation on given hardware, the 100th digit of a floating point decimal can be replicated every time. But that digit is basically just noise, and has no influence on the 1st digit. In other words: There can be multiple "
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by andyfilms1 8mo ago
I feel like we're both in similar minds of opposite sides, so perhaps you can answer me this: How is a deterministic AI any different from a search engine? In other words, if you and me always get the same results back for the same pro
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by andyfilms1 8mo ago
I don't think he's missing the point at all. A band saw is an immutable object with a fixed, deterministic capability--in other words, a tool. An LLM is a slot machine. You can pull keep pulling the lever, but you'll get dif
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by andyfilms1 9mo ago
I've never understood this train of thought. When working in teams and for clients, people always have questions about what we have created. "Why did you choose to implement it like this?" "How does this work?" &quo
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by andyfilms1 9mo ago
>That particular AI models have their own bias and are eager to inject it is among the reasons why a skilled user and an unskilled user will have very different results, not a reason why that isn’t true. Not quite what I mean. If you and
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by andyfilms1 9mo ago
A key difference is that each of the mediums you mentioned are deterministic and unbiased (to a certain degree.) The the work created can therefore be inferred to be a "pure" expression of the artists intent. A pro photographer an

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