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by bgwalter 1y ago
Since neural networks can approximate any function, surely RSA-4096 will soon be factored with exponential progress!
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"By 2030, the most advanced LLMs should be able to complete, with 50 percent reliability, a software-based task that takes humans a full month of 40-hour workweeks." That is nothing. "git clone" can, with 100% reliabilit
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by bgwalter 1y ago
People who go on holier-than-thou rants like that are usually extremely unpleasant to work with and will cancel you (as directly admitted in that post) if you contradict them on anything.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This one is funny though. I'd bet on Bing CoPilot, which now always agrees with "AI" concerns because MSFT has probably realized that no one wants "AI" and takes a more cautious approach.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
That is a valid objection, but I still think that for some huge and difficult features the month long pauses imposed by release cycles are absolutely detrimental. Ideally they'd be developed outside the kernel until they are perfect, b
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by bgwalter 1y ago
bcachefs is experimental and Kent writes in the LWN comments that nothing would get done if he didn't develop it this way. Filesystems are a massive undertaking and you can have all the rules you want. It doesn't help if nothing g
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If the Bitcoin Sovereign Wealth Fund scam that was announced after Trump's election is launched, there will be a price bottom that is financed by public funds. I'm not sure what has come of it. Trump is doing well with his own coi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
What a great article, I hope it becomes Internet lore. We have been in the Whatever Economy for quite a while and the LLM hype is the logical conclusion. Like the author, I'm mystified by those who accept the appearance of output as a
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by bgwalter 1y ago
To be fair here, the recent PEPs encourage external build back ends (which this submission is about). That said, the people left in the CPython team generally have a low regard for bloat-free, correct and fast solutions, so external solutio
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by bgwalter 1y ago
People have been asking how Astral is going to monetize. Given the "AI" posts from Astral adjacent people, I'm now considering that they might release "AI" tools for an integrated "developing" workflow.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Even if AI-whizzes have contributed to open source for a long time, which I question, it does not give them the right to take everyone else's code. Neither does using "AI" on open source. Moreover, many "AI" open so
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by bgwalter 1y ago
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by bgwalter 1y ago
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This is still an ad that tries to lure heretics in by agreeing with them. This is the new agile religion. Here are suit-optimized diagrams: https://zed.dev/agentic-engineering "Interwoven relationship between the predi
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The destruction of the Web and IP theft needs to be addressed legally. The opinion of a single judge notwithstanding, "AI" scraping already violates copyright. This needs to be made explicit in law and scrapers must get the same t
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The rest of us non-AI-whizzes combined literally wrote 100% of the functioning open source code that the AI-whizzes steal and transform to an inferior product using Rube Goldberg agent setups.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Turnstile still a click, and that click is already exploited for phishing (note that Turnstile is also called CAPTCHA on the following site, though you are technically correct): https://www.techradar.com/pro/security&#x
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by bgwalter 1y ago
“Human and AI creativity may not be so different” I guess they need more funding and grants. A human does not need to ingest the entire Internet in order to plagiarize what was read. A human does not need a prompt in order to take action. T
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by bgwalter 1y ago
If you don't want payment, there is: https://anubis.techaro.lol/ Used by https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ for example. It is less annoying than CAPTCHA/Turnstile/whatever because the proof
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by bgwalter 1y ago
"AI" is certainly creating problems that can be monetized. So humans get the Cloudflare captchas in order to access their own content at Stackoverflow and Mathoverflow, and "AI" crawlers get the data highway for a fee. A
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by bgwalter 1y ago
We have to do this, otherwise China wins the "AI" race!
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by bgwalter 1y ago
All that work just for stripping a license. If one uses code directly from GitHub, copy and paste is sufficient. One can even keep the license.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
These discussions increasingly remind me of gamers discussing various strategies in WoW or similar. Purportedly working strategies found by trial and error and discussed in a language that is only intelligible to the in-group (because no on
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I haven't seen the aggressiveness, but I have seen Indian CTOs move into functioning companies without having any provable accomplishments or ideas. So I assume their real role is to replace the native hires with overseas contractors.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
This must be the "America first!" policy we keep hearing about. It is also strange that no one mentions losing the CS race to India (compare with the fake "losing the AI race to China" argument). So, the Indian CEOs of G
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by bgwalter 1y ago
I don't buy that. You can block Chinese companies. Human influencers are more effective than "AI" slop, etc. And again (you didn't make that argument, just for completeness' sake): Military applications aren't
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by bgwalter 1y ago
The "AI" czar has been funding telehealth companies and is now probably complicit in the largest takeaway of states' rights ever: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/executives-from-adhd-startup... htt
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Yes, there will be many new jobs as cannon fodder for the upper classes in various overseas wars.
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by bgwalter 1y ago
Trump fired the head of the copyright office: https://www.heise.de/en/news/After-criticism-of-AI-training-... The "Big Beautiful Bill" contains a clause that prohibits state "AI" legislation. T
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by bgwalter 1y ago
> User’s account is 237 weeks old. ChatGPT was released to the public on November 30, 2022. Otherwise, this reads like an FBI file: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/usjusticematls/10/

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