catoc

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by catoc 3y ago
Yep, paying rcmd user now. Glad to support 'one of the good ones' (and benefit personally from using it, no altruism here)
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by catoc 3y ago
Verbosity is in-place documentation. I personally like it. I have personal projects where, as the original creator and maintainer of the codebase, I should easily be able to understand what happens. But time and time again I find my curren
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by catoc 3y ago
I love your website's privacy page. Also lightweight. ["rcmd does not collect any personal information."] That's the complete page. Great policy!
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by catoc 3y ago
They probably think they're addressing Toddlermorey :-)
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by catoc 3y ago
Sadly you may have a point
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Complete editorial board resigns from top Elsevier journal over APC pricing [pdf](imaging-neuroscience.org)
3 points by catoc 3y ago|0 comments
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by catoc 3y ago
I guess we're making the same point.
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by catoc 3y ago
I never understand the thought process here. If you ban or cripple encryption by demanding backdoors, criminals will just use "illegal" real encryption and the rest of us will be stuck with unsafe "encryption" susceptibl
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by catoc 3y ago
The stack exchange article seems to ascribe the risk to using MD5. While adding a (global or appended data) hash as you suggest cannot hurt, I wonder if the suggested weakness exist for sha-512.
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by catoc 4y ago
That was my first reaction ("91% ? are you sure it's not 91.2%?") but it's actually a really good blog post.
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by catoc 4y ago
100% of ML Models Degrade over More Time
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by catoc 4y ago
Plants care more about a stable photosynthetic energy flow than about higher conversion rates.
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by catoc 4y ago
That is quite a claim. Would be cool if true. Do you have any references to back this up? Why would scaling up turn a model that strings tokens together into something that can reason by itself, unprompted, with intent?
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by catoc 4y ago
I would say that the strings that are output by LLMs may fluently describe intent and purpose, but that actual intent requires a self awareness that utterly absent. Just like the constant annoying 'apologies' do not in any way sig
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by catoc 4y ago
Disruptive, absolutely possible. Releasing a killer drone army... absolutely not... the required intent is absent. Being abused as a tool by sentient humans to demoralize others (or maybe even to release a drone army - if sufficiently inter
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by catoc 4y ago
Not trying to be a naysayer or downplay how cool GPT4 is, but the term 'AGI' has existed for decades and is suffering from general confusion and inflation (again like 'crypto' now being read as 'coins' or even
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by catoc 4y ago
It's not semantics, but building cool shit I like :-)
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by catoc 4y ago
AGI clearly has a connotation of sentience and intent, of general intelligence - as opposed to a tool, however intricate. Read Nick Bostrom (yes I know, as a person he's cancelled, probably even rightly so, still scientifically relevan
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by catoc 4y ago
Indeed. 'Crypto' used to mean 'cryptography'. Now it apparently equates to 'NFT'... and zuck will likely soon re-rename his company to metai over all this hype.
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by catoc 4y ago
GPT 1/2/3/4 is not AGI. I don't understand the fixation on this concept that is so far removed from what is happening here. Yes it's cool. Useful. Transformative likely. But AGI...!? "Any sufficiently advanced
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by catoc 4y ago
Didn't know that about Edge, thanks! For other browsers (incl Edge) Fluid does the same for me ( http://fluidapp.com (not affiliated)) After opening a few emails: Outlook MacOs app: 922 MB Outlook PWA via Fluid: 42 MB
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by catoc 4y ago
I was going to mention 'magneto-reluctance' but you covered that as well! Wish I could upvote tenfold to further increase your customer focus on operator excellence.
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by catoc 4y ago
So it's a public- private keypair. And Apple syncs your private keys between your devices via iCloud? Or for each account creates a new key pair for each device... based on your iCloud ID?
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by catoc 4y ago
$400* for a family of 4 with teenage kids (converted from Euro, in NL) That covers everything from biannual dental checkups, physiotherapy and any & all GP visits to chronic medication, oncologic immunotherapeutics or months long stays
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by catoc 4y ago
Also when you move or resize the window? Or can you just set the fixed frame for screen recording to a selected window's initial frame?
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by catoc 4y ago
Clicked the link expecting an article on cryptography. What am I thinking... it's 2022... crapto
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by catoc 5y ago
Sounds like we agree an explicit license is necessary. That begs the question which. From what I read, home-made licenses can be almost as problematic for legal folk as no license at all.
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by catoc 5y ago
Yes, I have a Terms of Use, that stipulates the "as is" and "no guarantees".
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Ask HN: Difference between licensing software binaries vs. source?
2 points by catoc 5y ago|5 comments
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by catoc 5y ago
"I suspect they'll remember me forever" Laughed out loud at that. Funny because it's so true. For me personally it didn't stop me from wanting to achieve something in my life. Which I realize only partly overlaps wi

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