bonoboTP

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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I don't need an AI detector to see I dislike the AI-like style of the article, the bombastic extra-hype American-style self-brand LinkedIn-lingo.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Nowadays if I want to see videos on a certain topic (not searching for a specific video), I usually ask an AI assistant. It uses web search with multiple related phrases and then picks the relevant ones out. I find this to be very effective
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Yes and I would have even seen the video, if a newsletter popup hadn't obscured the entire screen.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
No, I often get nice recommendations from the long tail, like interesting academic talks or tinkerer channels, videos sometimes with only a few hundred views or even fewer.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
YT is huge, and there is plenty of good stuff. You just need to subscribe to good channels that are not so easy to find. And block the clickbait channels when they appear.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I heavily use the "Not interested" and the "Do not recommend this channel" options a lot and don't click on clickbait, and use the DeArrow extension, and this way my front page looks quite good.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I also remember a similar wave around 10-15 years ago regarding ML tooling and libraries becoming more accessible, more open source releases etc. People whose value add was knowing MATLAB toolboxes and keeping their code private got very af
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I agree with you and I'm generally an AI "defender" when people superficially dismiss AI capabilities, but this is a more subtle point. If you prompt with little raw material and little actual specification of what you want t
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
It's how people resisted CGI back in the day. What people dislike is low quality. There is a loud subset who are really against it on principle like we also have people who insist on analog music but regular people are much more practi
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
It's not hard to find them, they are in clear text in the binary, you can search for known ones with grep and find the rest nearby. You could even replace them inplace (but now its configurable).
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Yes, Germany has different educational tracks that are decided fairly early, at 10 or 12 years old (with some opportunity to change tracks). I don't think Americans like this idea. Still, 40% of young adults have a tertiary degree ( ht
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I read a couple of good analogies to predict how you and others will feel about your AI content: 1) telling people at the breakfast table about the dream you just had, 2) showing all your loose acquaintances the photos of your newborn baby.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Yes. Tools like Khan Academy help lots of talented kids to progress in the curriculum beyond what's available in physical classrooms available to them.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
There are simply not enough teachers who can provide such an ideal, imagined education, at least not for the current rate of teacher salaries (and it's very far off). The educational strategy has to scale to real people, real teachers
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Yeah it's just helpful tips and suggestions. It's a feature, you see!
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
If you think that "2 days" makes it sound a lot... You'd be surprised how long it takes to actually make learning materials. I don't want to be too harsh, in case you're a high school student etc. I see it's go
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
An AI agen won't need this, it has been trained on a lot of ML knowledge already. It's basic stuff.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I think chatting with an llm alongside a textbook can be helpful but producing learning material when you yourself are a novice is not really that valuable.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Just read a good textbook instead of this LLM-written stuff. For example those by Murphy or Prince or Bishop. Or one of many YouTube lecture series from MIT or Stanford. There are many primer 101 tutorials and Medium posts. But if you actua
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I agree that it's worrying that we're moving more and more towards implicit and opaque state. Hiding what exactly is getting edited, very limited tooling to check what the subagents are doing exactly, setting up scheduled and recu
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
For example the first frontpage post I read just now (I haven't checked others) is I'm fairly sure written with the use of AI (I would guess based on a human draft): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566442 I
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
It's rumors based on vibes. There are attempts to track and quantify this with repeated model evaluations multiple times per day, this but no sawtooth pattern has emerged as far as I know.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Valuable ideas have already been those that others find unintuitive and it's kinda hard to get people on board because they are skeptical and they need long form, tailored explanation for them to get convinced. If a short elevator pitc
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I don't think it's that simple. I'm not blanket opposed to it. I'm more along the lines of the author of the article. Use it for what it's good at, sift through unstructured info, convert information from one format
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Yes but most people find it icky and would complain, especially if it's visible behind the counter. Customer is king... I can also imagine it helps with legal liability, "but we were so careful, we even mandated gloves!"
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I think there's an important distinction of smug better-knowing instances. "I have unique insight as a non-expert that all experts miss and the entire field is blind to" -> usually nonsense "I think in this specific i
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
I found that many people don't have a radar for this. They may know about delve, emdashes, tapestry, multifaceted or "not just X but y" and if these are not there they don't see it.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
Yes, often, and often here on HN or Substack if I point it out, it doesn't lead to anything good. Many don't recognize it, many do, the author gets defensive etc. This article doesn't have the tells, it looks human written.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
That's Lojban. Turns out, ambiguity is an intentional communicative tool.
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by bonoboTP 7mo ago
It's a rehashing of Leibniz's "Calculemus!". It's not a fully stupid idea, many rules can be automated and indeed have already been. The things that courts still have to decide manually are the leftovers that requir

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