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by bccdee 2y ago
Yeah because if they explained that synthetic data causes model collapse, their stock valuation would shrink.
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by bccdee 2y ago
False equivalence. "Nothing is perfectly unreliable, therefore everything is (broadly) unreliable, therefore everything is equally unreliable." No, some sources are substantially more reliable than others.
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by bccdee 2y ago
Oh, true, debugging affordances as well. You can also use a debugger from the command line, though—the IDE is wrapping terminal commands, or at least wrapping a library and providing functionality equivalent to that library's termina
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by bccdee 2y ago
> Maybe it will lack a bit of creativity but typically only a professional would be able to know that. Judging by the examples on suno.com, no. All of these are noticeably sub-par. They're "professional" in the way that sl
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by bccdee 2y ago
An IDE is largely just a wrapper over terminal commands plus a set of language-specific editing affordances. If your language has a good LSP, vim (with a few plugins) can be all you need in a professional setting.
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by bccdee 2y ago
I assume they mean they build their projects by typing in the terminal commands directly, not that they have vim rigged up to build stuff via keyboard shortcut. I don't think most people use their IDEs like a text editor with a built-i
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by bccdee 2y ago
Exactly. The formalism of computer code will always create some amount of boilerplate—there's no perfect language—but in my (admittedly limited) experience, an LLM is a middleman which distances you unacceptably from your own code. W
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by bccdee 2y ago
That's a justification for making a product with fewer features, not for making a product that's packed with bugs.
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by bccdee 2y ago
A better quarterback wins games. What does a better painting do—win art contests? Judged by what objective criteria? Art doesn't have rules the way football does. A painting can't "win at being art"; each individual audi
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by bccdee 2y ago
Even then, that's just an opinion that everyone shares. Objectivity isn't when everyone's subjective experiences align—it's when something exists independent of any subjective experience. If there were no humans at all,
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by bccdee 2y ago
What would you say to an idiosyncratic person who prefers Detroit to Prague? "Actually most people disagree because of their brains?" That hardly makes the Detroit-liker's opinion "incorrect."
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by bccdee 2y ago
And when the metaverse bubble bursts because Zuckerberg is tired of burning money, those people will get laid off. On top of wasting resources, it creates instability.
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by bccdee 2y ago
No, the examples in the article are bad. The bike ramp is designed correctly. It should not be possible for a cyclist to maintain 20mph speed while mounting up onto the sidewalk. That's dangerous. The ramp (correctly) forces them to sl
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by bccdee 2y ago
Yeah, they shouldn't. Cars are a terrible mode of urban transit. They should all get bikes and bus passes, and then everyone would get everywhere quickly and cheaply and without deadly collisions. Everyone complains about traffic, but
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by bccdee 2y ago
No, there are very specific regulations around infrastructure design, including what sorts of curves are safe in bike lanes at which speeds. The reason that angle is that "sharp" (I don't think it's very sharp tbh) is be
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by bccdee 2y ago
Yeah but most people aren't farmers. How much economic value gets tied up in investment schemes? How many people worked for years on crypto or the metaverse or what-have-you—projects that only existed to boost stock price, rather than
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by bccdee 2y ago
> Then government hired more people to keep doing the same job. Do they? The example given in the article is the DMV, and the only problem I've ever had at a DMV was long wait times caused by too FEW employees. Yes, government can b
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by bccdee 2y ago
I assume the doctor was just wrong. It happens. I imagine doctors get patients coming in saying "look, I have this extremely specific syndrome. I diagnosed myself based on the Wikipedia page" all the time. Usually those patients a
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by bccdee 2y ago
…we do put stop lights at pedestrian crossings on high-speed streets. They look like this: http://www.pedbikesafe.org/PEDSAFE/cm_images/PedHyb1.png
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by bccdee 2y ago
> The Mona Lisa is objectively better than anything I have ever painted. No it isn't. If I saw one of your paintings and liked it better, there would be no way for you to prove me wrong. My opinion might be highly unpopular, but tha
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by bccdee 2y ago
The bike ramp example was insane to me. OF COURSE it's not built so cyclists can zoom up onto the sidewalk at 20 miles per hour without slowing down. That's how you turn a pedestrian into paste. Really, you should be dismounting a
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by bccdee 2y ago
Several things: For one, who said anything about "first principles thinking"? Elon Musk has a pronounced ideological bias. Anyway, first principles thinking is practically useless when it comes to highly complex systems, because s
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by bccdee 2y ago
Odd that you think "late stage capitalism" describes resource constraints. It's really more a term to describe the bizarre economic consequences of increasing degrees of financialization turning every sector of the economy in
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by bccdee 2y ago
> They just have to give up all their riches. Well, then they aren't rich anymore, and the camel doesn't need to pass through the eye of the needle. Problem solved.
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by bccdee 2y ago
A common myth! No, no gate or passage was ever referred to as "the eye of the needle" in antiquity. [1] That verse is intended to be taken literally. Jesus Christ was quite outspoken on his feelings about the wealthy, but of cours
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by bccdee 2y ago
Elon Musk has done plenty worth judging already. Am I supposed to give every single venture of his the benefit of the doubt?
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by bccdee 2y ago
…do you actually think there are no economists working on the US government's federal budget? Is that a serious belief of yours?
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by bccdee 2y ago
Yeah I find that anecdote incredibly revealing as to the way wealthy people move through political spaces. No offence to the author of the blog post, but he was the CTO of a company that sold video conferencing software—what on Earth woul
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by bccdee 2y ago
> If you manage to help make a powerful machine and then convert some piece of it into liquid value, you are probably good at stuff Not at all. Nobody is "good at stuff" in general. People have particular areas of competence at
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by bccdee 2y ago
Depending on the bit size of a watermark, device-based watermarking should be easy to defeat using a quorum of devices to agree on bit values. It should only take around log2(n) attackers to remove an n-bit watermark.

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