captainbland

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by captainbland 3mo ago
The data centre build out is one thing but I'd be surprised if they weren't having a few generate training data for robots as well at this point.
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by captainbland 3mo ago
We are pleased to announce that we have two billion users of our platform The Torment Nexus as inspired by the hit scifi book "please do not create the torment nexus" The other fiction people have derived a problem from is Game of
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by captainbland 3mo ago
> A person can type 3,000 words by hand and have no thought pass through their head beyond the need to finish before lunch. I get this is tongue in cheek, but it's so wrong that it needs pointing out. Even if that is a thought in th
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by captainbland 3mo ago
To be honest I always got the sense that it had a sort of pro-Apple bias that doesn't seem to be reflected in real world applications.
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by captainbland 3mo ago
I think you can use them critically. Probe the code, see how it behaves when tweaked, can you break it etc.? without slowing you down too much. And in doing so you probably learn 80% of what you would have if you'd written it yourself
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by captainbland 3mo ago
I'm less familiar with Swift but from a design point of view Go and Kotlin have really different ergonomics. Kotlin leans in really hard to creating DSLs etc. whereas Go avoids all that stuff like the plague. To me this makes the tag l
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by captainbland 3mo ago
And the error will inexplicably be for a different line
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by captainbland 3mo ago
Although they are doing pretty much the precise opposite of that. As it tends to be, I suppose.
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by captainbland 3mo ago
I think the thing is that 3.5 flash is actually similarly capable on a lot of tasks that matter and is faster. Pro is more specialised in the direction of mathematical reasoning and stuff.
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by captainbland 3mo ago
Yeah this idea that the unique value proposition of humans is now our motor capabilities rather than our cognition is unnerving as someone with dyspraxia. Like, oh good, they've figured out how to convert it into a much more limiting d
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by captainbland 3mo ago
Generally it's more "overlooked" than allowed. In the UK for instance cycling on pavements (sidewalks) is unlawful but the guidance is to only enforce this if the cyclist is not giving consideration to pedestrians. Realistica
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by captainbland 3mo ago
I think the fundamental aspect of flow is that it requires a high amount of cognitive engagement. Most of the time you're just not getting that from interacting with an LLM because the process is relatively passive. There are also forc
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by captainbland 3mo ago
There's no good guys, just entities you might be able to get marginal value from, who in turn want to get marginal value from you
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by captainbland 3mo ago
> It's like a denial-of-service attack on the human mind. I think this may be an example of deliberate hostile design, attempting to force users to adopt LLM based solutions to then summarise the vast output. Pushing back against AI
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by captainbland 4mo ago
It's like an open conspiracy but people go along with it because they perceive it will make parenting easier.
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by captainbland 4mo ago
I think the implication here is that you can almost certainly bias the models to always accept you by including "nudge" phrases like "I demonstrated real world deployments" and "helped develop an application in the
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by captainbland 4mo ago
I guess the question becomes about if we are meaningfully capable of doing this kind of verification any better than just adding another layer of automation
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by captainbland 4mo ago
The short term profit maximisation thing comes from leadership culture rather than employees per se
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by captainbland 4mo ago
I think the main issue with transformer image generation in this respect is that not only can the image be explicit but also using it for this has an incredibly low effort cost and could photo-realistically depict a real living person and m
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by captainbland 4mo ago
It's probably hard to make it hygienic enough to be standard hospital equipment to be honest
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by captainbland 4mo ago
More just interested in medical imaging in general but: unobstructed soft tissue imaging is possible with this, e.g. abdomen. You can get reasonably good differentiation between types of tissues using ultrasound in this context although the
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by captainbland 4mo ago
I think it's a bit odd to compare this to an MRI. The physics are totally different and there are things it fundamentally won't image in the same way because it's basically just ultrasound. The approach sounds like something
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by captainbland 4mo ago
Tried the first one and it doesn't seem to work (dots don't respond to motion), and is absolutely riddled with intrusive ads. The one that another commenter left which is on F-droid is much better
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by captainbland 4mo ago
From the playbook of COVID, it's not a problem if you just stop measuring.
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by captainbland 4mo ago
That's not true actually. US healthcare is both expensive at the point of taxpayer spending per capita and at the private expenditure level. It's really lose/lose.
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by captainbland 4mo ago
> The masses work because they want to consume For many millennials and younger working people a huge bulk of income is taken up by housing. There's also a cliff edge of jobs when you transition from full time to part time, it'
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by captainbland 4mo ago
I think it's fine to ask and fine not to do it. I don't really see the point of shitting on the little guy in these kinds of endeavours. If you want to experience a world where money isn't an object for others, advocate for t
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by captainbland 4mo ago
Trump is one thing but the overall dynamic of similar politicians gaining footholds across the world is what worries me. If everyone is X nation first in the same way, you lose the ability to negotiate with compromises, people want to start
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by captainbland 4mo ago
More than that it takes things like the right social connections, strong marketing, insight into customer demand, infrastructure spend, etc. You can't normally just convert engineering effort into profit in the way implied.
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by captainbland 4mo ago
Probably the cost model for LLM providers for consumers will be somewhat subsidised by providers basically linking up extremely specific profiles about users and using these to sell products directly in an agentic pipeline which includes ag

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