bilbo0s

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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
I'm a software dev in the US and I never call myself "engineer" in that capacity. Always "programmer" or "developer". I agree. Engineers have to clear a much higher bar. Even though my career was spent in
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
People don't like to admit that there are problems that the market is absolutely able to solve.
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Ironically, gait analysis is considered iron clad scientific evidence when used against impoverished black guys like in the Taylor trial. Just kind of displays the. corruption and duplicity of the US legal system.
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
> took an act of congress to get released. I guess? I mean you go ahead and call that a release. If it brings you comfort. The US government is just corrupt from tip to tail. Why everyone continuously acts surprised about these things i
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Apparently not. Maryland residents didn’t sign any of these agreements in other states. Nor did their elected representatives. They were just presented with the bill to support the infrastructure in the other states because, you know, they’
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
This. I’ve begun to suspect that most people are probably running different hardware. Sure, you run the latest deep flash on your brand new M5 128G maybe you get acceptable performance? But honestly, how many people have an extra $9000 layi
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Isn't the old adage that democracy was never good, it was always just better than all the other forms of government. It got more done. It advanced economies more. Etc etc etc. Then we torched it at just about the same time as the Chine
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
PSA. Do not listen to advice like this. > complex systems are a pretty good shield from accountability in practice today. Maybe complex legal systems are, but complex software systems offer you no such protection. My field for the p
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by bilbo0s 5mo ago
Well just to be clear from a legal perspective, in the case of AI, as long as AI is "property", the owners, developers, and/or users will be held liable for things like the hypothetical fatal car accident that Sussman posits.
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
The nature of expert systems is to become experts on a system. The reason you need a doctor, or more often, let's be honest, a good nurse, is because systems can fail in any one of 10000 as yet undiscovered ways. New nurses. New reside
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
I'm a bit confused. Were you aware there is actually a law in China requiring physical buttons? I think from next year it applies to everyone. Not only Chinese makers. What were the other physical controls you were thinking of?
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
I keep reading this but I don't understand how a company might want to push censorship on users. We're being astroturf-ed guy. The comment you're responding to. The comments responding to you. All shaped by influence campai
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
It's the inevitable culmination of their plan. Pretend to be anti-censorship. Get voted in. Fast track all of the censorship and surveillance through congress. When I saw certain billionaires talking up anti-censorship and anti-surveil
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
At the same time, there are not many cops making USD200K per annum in my municipality. And it's in flyover country, where everyone is clamoring for lower taxes. So I think it'd be a bit naive to think politicians wanting to score
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
Huh? Did you ever actually ask v4 this question?
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
Yep. Eventually, access to Chinese models may be illegal in the US. I tell every developer I work with, download them as fast as possible. You never know when this administration could cut off access.
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
This. I tried them all. Grok was worse than even some of the more mediocre open models at actually doing anything. (At least anything tech work related.) GPT and Claude just do what I ask most of the time. With grok, it’s like a chore just
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
Good point. But no one is saying "use grok". Grok sucks. Not only because it's seemingly made only to serve the goal of ethnically cleansing non-whites or whatever, but also because it's just not even close to being as u
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
Maybe someone here will start manufacturing these things? Of course initially, expecting the same quality and low price will likely be an issue. But over time it gets better is probably the idea. Will it actually happen, who can say? But I
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
China doesn't hold that much of a percentage of our debt any longer. Somewhere around USD700B. Of the USD39T, that's obviously not that large of a lever. Pretty sure the Chinese have been implementing a policy of diversification a
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
This. ICE is now larger and more expensive than the entire United States Marine Corps. Let that sink in. Not only that, we also seem to start a new war every 6 months. Demanding money for each one of them. SS/Pensions/Medicare see
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
This is kind of the point though. Cutting welfare spending will get us no where. The majority components of the federal budget are Defense, SS/Medicare/Medicaid, and debt payments. Not the forestry service or what we commonly know
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
In fairness to the UAE, of all the nations of the world, they're the ones who have lost the most economically speaking in the current unpleasantness. It's kind of unfair. If they can recoup some of those losses selling outside the
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
Does this mean they will host OpenAI products but not pay them? Or does it mean they are paying them in some other way?
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
Where do you think Jack Welch got the idea from?
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
What's that got to do with them not liking us? Serious question. Studying adversaries is, generally speaking, accepted military wisdom among the commissioned ranks of most of the planet's armies.
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
I bet Apple has access to Mythos now. Not saying they should use it to reverse engineer hacking tools. Just saying they have access to Mythos now.
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
And the absolute last group the government would ever approve access to would be "We the People". I know it's not realistic at this point, but I really hope the Chinese labs will release models that run local and are on par
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
The height thing is a bad example. Generally in genetics you like to focus on things without so many confounding factors. That's why the article focuses on attributes like baldness, MS, and lactose intolerance.
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by bilbo0s 6mo ago
Well Reduce is really more "Why do you need this (device/pair of shoes/car/shirt/whatever) in the first place?" But the Reuse part is definitely served, at least in part, through repair.

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