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by bigyikes 3y ago
Rule #3: rules must be zero-indexed
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Haha this scenario is perfect and tells you everything you need to know about the state of AI. We’re sitting here wondering if the language model also models reality, when we can just ask the thing itself! We are living in an Asimov novel
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by bigyikes 3y ago
The alternative is that MAD ceases to exist, with one country having a stockpile of interceptors. That makes the other country fools anyway. Since they’re fools (read: potentially getting nuked) either way it could appear rational to invoke
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I’ve never seen a more positive response to a logo change. I honestly can’t think of any positive response to a logo change lately. The flattening of Google’s word mark a decade ago is the most recent that comes to mind. I’m sure there are
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by bigyikes 3y ago
How about comfortable?
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Oh, this is a jet engine! Not a car engine. I was wondering if they’d be changing the electric vehicle game :) Apparently this new engine is 10% more efficient, and also runs on “Sustainable Aviation Fuel” (SAF). I did some quick searching,
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by bigyikes 3y ago
> "the hippopotamus is the world's deadliest large land mammal, killing an estimated 500 people per year” ah yes, the humble hippopotamus, my favorite LLM (sorry llamas!) :)
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by bigyikes 3y ago
On the other hand, in comparison to a hypothetical alien species, humans might seem highly aligned after all. Despite all our differences, there are at least some core values that I believe a majority of humans share. Even articulating thes
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I'm shocked to learn that Chegg has stock at all. I'm amazed the public was willing to invest in a site that, as far as I can tell, solely exists to help students c̶h̶e̶a̶t̶ get access to homework answers. At least ChatGPT does th
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Not sure why Trello was picked as an example. Trello respects the privacy of its customers. It does not profit from collecting user information. Private company data remains private in Trello, even if the company doesn’t pay. Data is not sh
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Well, part of what props up the “oligarchy” is copyright law. I think if you want to change the outcomes of the system, we should adjust the laws and incentives underlying the system.
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by bigyikes 3y ago
People laugh at me for my $40 dollar smart lightbulbs, but I laugh at those with $20 smart lightbulbs that have all sorts of annoyances
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by bigyikes 3y ago
The same thing happened to me and my buddy in February. Turns out that an “Amsterdam region” ticket does not get you back from The Hague. We too got stuck behind the turnstiles, bewildered. We called for help through one of those intercom
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Just wait until we have a model that automatically translates vague, awkward prompts into something more useful. Put differently: if Google’s search models already have the ability to return great results for poor queries, why couldn’t a la
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by bigyikes 4y ago
I was in South Padre for the first launch that got scrubbed. wasn’t able to catch the actual launch and explosion :( The answer to the clickbait headline is obviously no :) It was a tremendous success, and getting the rocket off the ground
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by bigyikes 4y ago
Surely the people working at Google understand how all these shutdowns look to outsiders, right? I have to imagine so… they’re smart people, and a ton of them lurk here on HN. It’s interesting to me that they continue to spawn and nix produ
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by bigyikes 4y ago
These models have a very long lead time before they’re released to the public. Maybe GPT-5 is being trained on ChatGPT logs. I’m not sure we’d be able to detect if this was happening.
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by bigyikes 4y ago
I tried Japanese curry for the first time in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Absolutely delicious. I definitely noticed the English vibes. Actually, it reminded me a lot of Southern US homestyle food. Swap the rice for some potatoes an
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by bigyikes 4y ago
Spain really ought to be paying reparations to those Aztecs…
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by bigyikes 4y ago
Here’s how I think about it, in much looser terms: unknown = I don’t know any = I don’t care Often the implications are the same, but as you can intuit, any is a lot more relaxed. Any will work anywhere because you just don’t care what the
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by bigyikes 4y ago
It’s better that the code isn’t perfect. Reading the code review comments in this thread has been really valuable for me personally. Like, I’m not sure I would’ve learned about the do-while trick had so many people not pointed it out.
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by bigyikes 4y ago
How do you put a seatbelt on a dog?
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You check in the transformed code and it’s gone, except for the Ghost of Syntactic Sugar which will haunt your codebase forever and make the juniors wonder why all the code is so awful.
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by bigyikes 4y ago
I’m a pro-car, pro-liberty kind of American, and I just arrived back from a few minutes ago from a trip to Amsterdam. God. Damn. They’re doing something right there. Didn’t use a car a single time, and was better off for it. I love my car a
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by bigyikes 4y ago
I was trying to read this charitably, but here’s a quote from Adams’ Twitter: > 1. Treat everyone as an individual (no discrimination). > 2. Avoid any group that doesn't respect you. The irony is that the second point is literall
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by bigyikes 4y ago
Do Google and Microsoft include copyright comments at the top of the source files? I always thought those header comments were annoying. Do they really provide some kind of additional legal protection?
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by bigyikes 4y ago
The gross disrespect of auto-generating this kind of email isn’t lost on me, but… this strikes me as exactly the type of thing that suffers very little by being auto-generated. Every story surrounding gun violence already sounds like it cou
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by bigyikes 4y ago
If they omitted the word “forever”, it might seem like they are overturning an existing law or voting against an imminent threat to remove cash.
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by bigyikes 4y ago
>and taken to it's logical conclusion I should also not absorb anything in the article Well, yeah, if that’s what you choose to do. That’s the whole point: you can choose to absorb the information, or not. You can choose to ta
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by bigyikes 4y ago
> The only thing that we can say for sure is that the more you drink, the more harmful it is – or, in other words, the less you drink, the safer it is. I wish the article would tell us more about this curve. How much does my risk increas

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