b800h

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by b800h 9d ago
Oh yes, "RISC is going to change everything". I remember that line. Clunky from the author, I think.
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by b800h 9d ago
That made me spit out my tea. The prose was insulting.
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by b800h 9d ago
> "1994" > "RISC was a distant dream" Ahem
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by b800h 11d ago
You can't deny it's a bit popular right now. "Aphantasia is the new AuDHD". Doesn't mean it's not real, but I'm sure we'll see it creep into "I have aphantasia because I'm unable to crisply
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by b800h 11d ago
Certain types of meditation training involve specifically this faculty - the ability to hold a particular image steady in the visual imagination. Having the ability to vividly imagine a visual scene or a simple geometric shape is very much
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by b800h 15d ago
Great article, but it's not telling the whole story. Since the Chorleywood Bread Process, British agriculture - selective breeding - has bred strains of wheat which reach high protein levels in the British environment. So the Chorleywo
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by b800h 16d ago
Same here, UK.
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by b800h 16d ago
If that's true, it's scandalous. The "improve the model for everyone" dialogue states: "Allow your content to be used to train our models, which makes ChatGPT better for you and everyone who uses it. We take steps t
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by b800h 16d ago
I'm genuinely surprised that more people - including this mathematician in particular - don't untick the "improve the model for everyone" box. Unless the suggestion is that OpenAI ignore this preference?
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by b800h 23d ago
@grok is this true?
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by b800h 24d ago
Same, got it last Christmas and it became the "family computer". At the moment I'm trying to beat Wizball on it. Great stuff!
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by b800h 1mo ago
Well I was dumped out of Github Copilot as this issue started, and haven't been able to get back in. Seems like a slightly strange thing to be connected, but feasible.
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by b800h 1mo ago
I think the counterargument to your critique would be that the R&D costs are dwarfed by running costs, but I'm not sure how true that is. The one interesting prospect is that of cheap GPUs flooding the market and making pervasive p
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Cory Doctorow on Why AI Won't Replace Workers, but Will Crash the Economy [video](youtube.com)
5 points by b800h 1mo ago|4 comments
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by b800h 1mo ago
Some decent commentary here on the unit economics of AI, in the sixth section "will AI get switched off after a crash?"
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by b800h 1mo ago
There's a venerable tradition of writing an essay with the intention of attempting to understand a topic. People can misinterpret it; when deciding whether to support 'remain' or 'leave' in the Brexit referendum, Bo
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by b800h 2mo ago
The soil is quite dry already.
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by b800h 2mo ago
There was an old truism of "acid fascism" that went like this: "LSD makes smart people smarter and stupid people jump out of windows". This is like that.
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by b800h 2mo ago
The symptoms of Tony Blair take a long while to fully manifest and are significantly worse than TB.
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by b800h 2mo ago
We eliminated TB too. Then it came back.
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by b800h 2mo ago
Same.
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by b800h 2mo ago
Even the tag-line, "one poisoned patriarch, one locked-in truth" sounds very AI, and makes me think that I'd struggle to enjoy this. But I'll give it a go, because the idea is excellent. I think this would work very ve
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by b800h 2mo ago
I loved my Eee PC - I'd use it to program on the bus, train, or on a plane, but for me they were killed off by a combination of smartphones, and getting a driving license. Some years back I bought a new battery for mine, and reinstalle
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by b800h 3mo ago
That isn't necessarily an easy fix at all. Depending on how this feature was written, separating comments from instructions may be quite difficult, especially if the original implementation was quite naive.
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by b800h 3mo ago
They effectively had tourist English. They're probably in through an agency so the financial incentive is to find an examiner who will give the right answer.
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by b800h 3mo ago
Her nurses frequently couldn't speak English. I had to spell out her medical conditions letter by letter so that the nurse could input it onto the medical system. She was entering gibberish / wrong info until I stepped in, as I wa
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by b800h 3mo ago
Well it was a nightmare for my mother's do-nothing GP surgery in the UK. She had several conditions which were being handled completely separately without central coordination, and her health was in serious decline. We went in with a l
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by b800h 3mo ago
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that medicine is inherently fallible and therefore AI is more likely to make a good diagnosis - particularly a cluster of specialist AIs?
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by b800h 3mo ago
I quite enjoyed using the memory segments - I thought they were quite intuitive and helped in reasoning about the machine.
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by b800h 3mo ago
It's very possible that this occurred during the IR35 shake-up - HMRC moved the liability for unpaid income tax (in a situation where a contractor was determined to be a de-facto employee) from limited company contractors themselves on

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