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by azinman2 2y ago
But if you’re distributed or offline incrementing by an arbitrary amount can still create collisions unless you’re willing to increment by very very large amounts at random, in which case you’ve effectively reinvented uuid
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by azinman2 2y ago
People also used to write novels on pen and paper, later typewriters, then word processors. What we have now is far, far better in every conceivable way. I think nostalgia gives rise colored glasses when if you were to put these things side
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by azinman2 2y ago
Not to mention there is not singular “cancer” - there are many types and they’re all sufficiently different to make the problem much more challenging.
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by azinman2 2y ago
What do you do with it daily?
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by azinman2 2y ago
Actually I love it. I think it's really cute and some of them like rotation can be made subtlety. I miss the whimsey that's largely absent from computing these days.
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by azinman2 2y ago
Although Hazen understands the wariness about China’s involvement, “I keep my eyes open all the time,” he says. “I sense no agenda whatsoever.” I’m sure they’re spending municipal money, cutting deals with Springer, and working with Alibaba
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by azinman2 2y ago
I think you’re underestimating how much ChatGPT is already creeping into people’s lives. We now have studies are showing it’s in 10% of new scientific papers, for example. It came up in Matteo Lane’s latest comedy special where someone used
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by azinman2 2y ago
Just fix the random seed :)
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by azinman2 2y ago
That doesn’t change the implications of it.
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by azinman2 2y ago
Maybe, but we have all kinds of laws on foreign ownership of media. And for good reason: you don’t want the primary source of input to come from a hostile government. TikTok IS the primary news source for the American youth and is used by h
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by azinman2 2y ago
I’m hoping for an alternative to a phone that I can avoid getting sucked in, can be left around to be used by multiple people, and can complete common basic tasks like ordering dinner or maybe something fancier. It was fairly clear to me th
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by azinman2 2y ago
I don’t know about the battery life as mine hasn’t been useful enough yet to last. The hardware look and feel is pretty cute and nice, and for $200 I’m not expecting edge compute. The vision though is more than connecting llms to tools, it’
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by azinman2 2y ago
The hardware is good and the vision is compelling. It’s also only $200. I think it’s far too early to call it a con.
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by azinman2 2y ago
Interesting. I still don’t see how it discounts future TE products. The presumption that Jesse being CDO is intertwined with over promises underdelivered AI to me is unlikely to be related; it’d be different in a CTO role. The actual design
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by azinman2 2y ago
But it wasn't a product sold by TE, it was a consultancy. And they delivered - the actual hardware is pretty great. What's the problem?
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by azinman2 2y ago
I’m not sure how this puts things now to shame. Yes it’s very playful and neat, but it’s wildly impractical. It doesn’t really “do” anything by itself. Instead you’ve to build up all interactions, most of which are physical, and know how to
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by azinman2 2y ago
This was before the web or even Flash existed. It was a relatively simple multimedia/interactive program authoring tool for non-programmers that had WSYWIG layout. You could build all kinds of things in HyperCard from ways of interacti
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by azinman2 2y ago
But it is unethical - who “owns” and manages these projects on this site? How do you even now know what code will be there, how it’s maintained, any CI, etc? How can we trust at all? It’s one thing to fork, but then you have a different nam
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by azinman2 2y ago
Many people are talking about how it's mirrored not stolen, and this is permitted since it's open source. Let's put legal perspective and semantics aside - cloning all of GitHub into something called GitCode (which btw straig
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by azinman2 2y ago
Aren’t there still plasticizers and other chemicals added?
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by azinman2 2y ago
I've seen non-redacted versions of what she's shared on Twitter versus her redacted versions which tell a completely different story, and she puts her own spin on it that is detached from reality. I've seen her lie directly o
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by azinman2 2y ago
If drugs are failing clinical trials, why should they be allowed to be made and consumed at all?
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by azinman2 2y ago
> Also, “less taxes are good for the economy,” is unarguably true This isn’t unarguably true. Right now we’re running a very large public debt because we spend more than we collect, so if you collected it in taxes you’d slow down inflati
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by azinman2 2y ago
Until you start looking at what those other places are. Tax money is spent in all kinds of ways that touch so many lives that it's literally too much for any one person to comprehend. You can make arguments, but it will affect people i
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by azinman2 2y ago
Norway choosing not to build a plant will not result in Guatemala getting that money instead.
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by azinman2 2y ago
Unused electricity in one location is not fungible to be available elsewhere.
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by azinman2 2y ago
Exactly. Or who gets the results of its outputs. How do we prioritize limited compute?
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by azinman2 2y ago
But if you’re using an external data source and putting it into the context then it’s the external data source that’s providing the reference — the LLM is just asked to regurgitate it. The large language model, pretrained on trillions of to
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by azinman2 2y ago
Dumb phones and watches provide the communication ability without the potential for being sucked in.
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by azinman2 2y ago
“LLMs can provide references. There’s no limitation on that.” That’s not really an LLM providing references, but a separate db as an extra step providing the references.

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