bluegatty

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by bluegatty 1mo ago
Yes - this is a mind boggling design conceit of Apple that goes back almost 50 years. They made certain design decisions a long time ago around a lot of things and that's one of them. They 'conscientiously' designed the UX -
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
They think it's 'some issues' :) :) :) It's a fundamental, cultural and systemic lack of concern for those issues. An 'afterthought' that should be 'integral'. That Gates did not realize that means it
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
Yes, for things we can construct, and where we can train on the pieces, there's hope - software is a bit like that. Its not like 'raw' image generation, it's not a perfect example but the notion remains.
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
Yes, you're attacking my imperfect analogy mostly though - yes, there are techniques like masking but they're still not very good or precise. Particularly for images, the AI is generally not capturing the physics of the situation.
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
Right answer wrong thesis. The example of 'labs are optimizing for this' is the wrong thesis. AI arbitrarily generating something of 'apparent sophistication' is not that hard - being able to produce it to spec that has
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
You're failing to convey what an NGO is, and fail to provide any evidence that either NGOs, Charities or Public / Private companies are structurally more inclined to fraud. NGOs are not charities, they exist for a different reason
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
You should take some time to learn what NGO's are. America Medial Association, AARP (retired people) are NGOs, they advocate for their causes, that's perfectly reasonable and normal. They are not 'for profit' obviously,
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
" And the entire point of an NGO is to get around restrictions on what governments can do" - no, they can serve many purposes, and there are tons of things governments should not be doing. They are entities that have a civic purpo
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
fair point, agreed
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
Levels of waste in NGOs are a fully fair subject for debate but without context an arbitrary number is only misleading and therefore sadly cynical. Also - you have no evidence for '95% of NGO's and their ilk'. This is not Twi
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
'next token predictor' is a limited mental model but it's actually much better than any others. 'pattern matching' is a better intuition that 'reasoning' even though I think nominally, using the term &#x27
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by bluegatty 1mo ago
I was there in the late 1990's and it was all vibrant. Sketchy in obvious places but vibrant. People didn't like tech workers then. Now it's mostly tech.
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
It's a fair point but it means they are not part of the Euro financial system and would not have the oversight, lending rates, financial integration etc. etc.. And they have the option to leave at any time. Case and point: nobody is st
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
If he has not been there since 1996 then I don't think he has a right to be talking about it like this, honestly, it's kind of sad trash talk. Maybe he's right but he'd have to articulate it. It's a relatively authe
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
What are you talking 'corporate' - there are no corporate sponsors, and people having been coming in with their big camp A/C rvs for 25 years at least. There's an airport there for 30 years - people have been flying airp
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Yes, this is it. And add to that the ugly pull of naive pro-EU populists (who are deceiving because they're generally a nice lot) and the other populists, borderline nazis who will burn a lot of things down. And monetary union etc. is
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
It's Hotel California - nary impossible to leave. The 'good countries' that are effectively managed and where the citizens trust their own gov. more than European gov. - maybe. But Europe will threaten to existentially punish
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
'roaming fees' :) That's my point: that's the most marginal thing imaginable, it's borderline tabloid populism - even though yes, admittedly over a lot of issues, it' beneficial obviously. The 'common mark
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
The most likely outcome is that the EU is more or less what it is now for the decades to come, and the lack of reform costs significantly in terms of progress, and that Europe misses out on leading key industrial elements and becomes less r
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
These debates are hard to watch. 'Loss of sovereignty' for some reason is perfectly fine for Iceland, Switzerland and Norway, but not UK or others wanting to leave. 'Fisheries' was a small but founding and perennial conc
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Software is not the bits in the machine, it's the language of expression. "let z = 1" is software. It has a lot of implications at the bit level, yes, but that's well handled by compilers. But just at the level of expres
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Totally agree jet engines are hard for that reason, but that's an argument as to why 'software is more complex' ... because it can be . Anyone can knock out unbelievably complicated nonsense. Much of it is. I think the compl
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
An abstraction could be a design requirement, expressed in some way. That's definitely an abstraction. IDLs are a form of abstraction, they're a requirement somewhat more formally described. Remember UML? That was an attempt to go
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Typing it was never the work. The research, the understanding, the planning, the design, all of it's iterations, the testing, all of it's iterations, debugging etc. 'I see the code and need to get it down' is a key thing
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
The LLM will never produce the same output each time, it doesn't have to do that to have very strong level of abstraction. But yes, it has to fulfill some kind of contract defined by the absraction. It's less a problem of the LL
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Yes, but even HFT traders use Java and don't look at the compiler output. Looking at the compiler output is a totally valid concept, but it's definitely a niche case.
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
No - perfect determinism is absolutely not required. It's entirely the nature of the abstraction. You want it to work as expected, it does not have to produce the same thing each time.
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Fair, but Software is very different from mech or chem eng though - enough so that it's worthy characterizing.
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Have you looked at the machine instructions your compiler produces? No? Why? Because software languages are a pretty good abstraction. To the extent that good abstractions are in place, you can avoid looking at code specifically. Those don&
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by bluegatty 2mo ago
Yours was the casual dismissal; and based on a misunderstanding of what can be achieved. Based your arbitrary dismissal and unwillingness to even try to consider new patterns with which you may be unfamiliar - it may be difficult to communi

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