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by bitwize 6mo ago
The fact that these "bullshit machines" have already proven themselves relatively competent at programming, with upcoming frontier models coming close to eliminating it as a human activity, probably says a lot about the actual val
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by bitwize 6mo ago
I thought this was going to be a comparison between the archetypal features of the Tolkien Legendarium and that of Nintendo games' lore, but no.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
This is coming. In particular, without a Secure-Boot-enforced allowlist of operating systems, it will be near impossible to verify that an OS connecting to the internet complies with your locality's age verification laws, so it will so
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by bitwize 6mo ago
OpenAI did not make the strong specific claims about GPT2's abilities that Anthropic is making about Claude Mythos.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
We're gonna find that Claude Mythos can do something like this in 255 bytes
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by bitwize 6mo ago
The new Power Mac® G4 with Velocity Engine®. So powerful, the government classifies it as a supercomputer and a potential weapon.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
This leads to a well-documented phenomenon known as model collapse. You know how if you blur and sharpen an image repeatedly you eventually end up with just a rectangle of creepy, wormy spaghetti lines? You lose information on each blur, an
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by bitwize 6mo ago
My brain keeps wanting to pronounce it Tomb Raider style, like /ˈskiː ɒn/.
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Population decline? Less emissions? Haven't we reached consensus that those would be welcome today? Is it time for a pro-dark-age movement?
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by bitwize 6mo ago
Was just gonna say this is a great accessory to put your computer on while playing QBJ3!
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Value to customer. Literally the only thing that matters.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Bob+agents is going to be able to solve much more complex problems than Bob without agents. That's the true AI revolution: not the things it can accelerate, the things it can put in reach that you wouldn't countenance doing before
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by bitwize 7mo ago
grug have to use big brains' thinking machine these days, or no shiny rock. complexity demon love thinking machine. grug appreciate attempt to make thinking machine talk on grug level, maybe it help keep complexity demon away.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Stop thinking like a programmer and start thinking like a business person. Invest time and energy in thinking about WHAT you want; let the LLM worry about the HOW.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
If programmers like being able to pay their rent/mortgage, they'll quickly learn not to feel sad about literally the best thing to happen to software development in decades. Because otherwise they'll be replaced by someone wh
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by bitwize 7mo ago
AI doesn't need to outrun the bear; it only needs to outrun you. Once the tools outperform humans at the tasks to which they were applied (and they will), you don't need to be involved at all, except to give direction and final ac
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by bitwize 7mo ago
"Expressive languages" like Lisp are for weak human minds. Now is the time to switch to a popular language and let the machines wrangle it for you. With more training data available, you'll be far more productive in JavaScrip
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Don't care. It's no longer up for debate: this is the future. Shape up or ship out.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Start paying by the token if you want to use these tools. Simple as.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
What if... each agent had its own virtual file system, and anything the agent needed to access was accessible as files in the filesystem? Congratulations, you just reinvented Plan 9. I think we're going to end up reinventing a lot of t
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I'm actually nearsighted enough that I don't need readers, at least not yet. But my ability to accommodate has diminished, and as far away as I sit from the screen the myopia starts to kick in and even with corrective lenses it be
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Oooooh, 30. Getting up there, old man! Wait till you hit your 40s and your vision starts going... you're gonna want a big-ass monitor then!
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by bitwize 7mo ago
(And the behavior of any given C implementation is completely defined.)
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by bitwize 7mo ago
And they control the spacecraft using a Logitech Bluetooth game controller
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Protip: The meow button works during cut scenes.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
Apollo's computer: Ran in 2 KiB memory! Miniaturized design before microprocessors became widely available! Rope memory for the ROM hand-woven by weaver ladies! Multitasking operating system kernel! Margaret Hamilton coined the term, a
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by bitwize 7mo ago
With all these shenanigans surrounding Delve it's a good thing I switched to YoureAbsolutelyRight.io.
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by bitwize 7mo ago
> It's good to read that Clojure is getting more and more exposure. I nominate this sentence for "best inadvertent freestyle rap on Hackernews".
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by bitwize 7mo ago
For me it's cities—large, empty cities with little, if any, foot or vehicular traffic. Typically in the US or Australia and laid out accordingly, so not like Kowloon Walled City. But it's almost as if they're that way because
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by bitwize 7mo ago
I work in banking. We provide modern solutions for small local banks in the US. That's how our core runs. It's just Java apps (Spring Boot, Jakarta EE) running in the cloud.

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