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by antonvs 5mo ago
And on top of that, that entire field has not reached a consensus answer, and answers that have been proposed have been shown to be flawed.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
fyi, "infallible" means never wrong, never failing, never making a mistake.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> ... against the actual work their company cares about doing. [...] stuff that matters This is a key point. Some engineers are having fun doing e.g. greenfield stuff with AI that they never would have had time for otherwise. Whether t
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by antonvs 5mo ago
It comes from EU law. E.g. Council Regulation No 269/2014 defines economic resources as "assets of every kind, whether tangible or intangible, movable or immovable, which are not funds but may be used to obtain funds, goods or ser
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by antonvs 5mo ago
If the program design follows the principle of making illegal states unrepresentable (credit to Yaron Minsky), the compiler can catch much, much more than most people realize. The process of designing a program like that itself catches a lo
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by antonvs 5mo ago
It is 100% LLM written.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
I've found OpenAI's personality setting works pretty well if you choose the professional personality and disable all the frills. I did that a while back so I'd have to go dig up the details. Since then it doesn't even en
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by antonvs 5mo ago
I didn't see them say anything about dignity. They said using Windows makes them angry, which is understandable. That speaks to a poor user experience design. Framing it as a privilege issue is blaming the victim.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language What a coincidence, since Rob Pike wasn't capable of designing a brilliant language.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
You're perhaps being parochial. If you lived in some other part of the world, are you sure you wouldn't observe something similar? I've lived in four countries on three continents, from third world to first world, and human b
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> My point is that the democratic party blocked public health care for the US. That's not what you wrote. You specifically referred to Hillary and "the Clintons", not the Democratic Party as a whole. Hillary was simply obs
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> You can train an LLM on pre-1904 literature, but you won't get special relativity from it, at least not without a human to prompt it in just the right way. At least 99.999% of humans aren't capable of producing special relati
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Is there one for showering?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Right, under Trump the US has become a full-blown petrostate. We may as well start calling him the Emir.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
What are those blind Waymo users going to do when a car ends up stuck in a flooded roadway?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> LLMs in their current state are pretty clearly not AGI That depends a lot on definitions. It's artificial, it's very general, and by many measures it's intelligent - often superhumanly so, especially when compared to the
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Yes, although the calculator couldn't "reason" the way ML models can. All the political and emotional reactions to LLMs seem to obscure how absolutely amazing this technology is. I've pointed them at codebases I wrote en
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Classic example of perverse incentives and moral hazard.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> The famous Hillary quote: "Single payer is off the table" Her point was that getting that passed would be politically unrealistic at the time, and she was almost certainly correct. Your framing is either ignorant or deliberat
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Critiques like this tend to focus very hard on what models can't do. It's true, they have limitations. But they're also superhuman in so many other ways. It's valid to point out limitations, but that doesn't support
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Typing with tools like Pyright doesn't come close to providing what a good statically typechecked language provides. There are many reasons for this. A big one is that many libraries are only partially typed at best, and dynamic types
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by antonvs 5mo ago
I love the way you start out claiming there's a victim mentality and then end up expressing your hatred of cyclists. The truth will out...
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by antonvs 5mo ago
One of the accidents was due to trains. He lost control riding over railroad tracks. Another was due to a pothole, which I suppose indirectly may have been due to cars.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> Maybe all the rich high funding companies can afford to this and maybe it is the right thing for them to do. They can afford to make big mistakes without hurting their stability. A true startup or smaller company can’t - they would shu
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> … has only upsides. The three most avid cyclists I know have all had life-changing accidents on their bicycles - my best friend who introduced me to cycling, my brother in law, and an ex-business partner who I introduced to cycling. Al
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Did Anders Hejlsberg die, or something?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
How about this: what's an example of an activist judge, according to you? Bonus question: do you enjoy watching Fox?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
They don't call it a brotherhood for nothing.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Did you miss the part where they said "it hasn't shipped"?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Your comment is just as religious as any other advocate of a programming language. You're giving reasons why the programming language you chose is the right choice. Kind of like explaining why Yahweh is the one true god, and why you

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