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by cdrini 4y ago
I don't think Copilot is at any risk of causing unemployment yet, but Dalle could very likely replace a number of graphic design jobs in marketing right now. I think it's an important question, but at the same time, replacing jobs
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by cdrini 4y ago
In my experience using copilot, I believe it's more similar to the former than to copying and adapting. Copilot generates code snippets that are transformative and derived from multiple code sources--like Dalle does with images. I th
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by cdrini 4y ago
AI is not similar to a human mind in the general case (ie general AI), but in the context of reading and learning and generating code there are similarities. And I would argue that humans are also very susceptible to "output the exact
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by cdrini 4y ago
Some examples of Dallee generating characters of Homer Simpson: https://twitter.com/Dalle2Pics/status/1534718838377529344
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by cdrini 4y ago
Thanks for listening! The comment thread for anything copilot related is generally super polarised, and I really appreciated your calm comment and your calm response :) If I understand your question correctly, it does respond to comments. O
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by cdrini 4y ago
I believe the resulting models would be the same. I don't know all the internals on how something like Dalle generates its images, but let's assume that if you then gave both models the same text prompt and random seed, they would
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by cdrini 4y ago
Most AI networks aren't deterministic. That's why eg Dalle will generate new images for the same prompt indefinitely. And note that neurons at the neuronal level are pretty deterministic aren't they? Certain chemicals cause
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by cdrini 4y ago
In my experience it's more generative. It responds to variable names in my code, formatting, patterns in how I'm writing (am I using ES6 features? async/await or raw promises? Etc). Granted it could still be copying, but when
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by cdrini 4y ago
I think you can pretty safely know. People store sensitive information, passwords, keys, etc in private repos aaaall the time. It would be an entirely unnecessary complexity for copilot to try to filter out that sensitive information. It&#x
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by cdrini 4y ago
Assuming your confidential code is in private repos, you're fine. From their FAQ: > [GitHub Copilot] has been trained on natural language text and source code from publicly available sources, including code in public repositories on
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by cdrini 4y ago
You can actually disable the open in app prompt; it's kind of hidden, but if you open the menu > settings > uncheck "Request to open in app". This makes it usable for me.
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by cdrini 4y ago
Most of your points also apply to open source software, and aren't strict requirements for proprietary software. - discontinued: Atom just got discontinued. It's open source. Photoshop on the other hand has withstood the test of t
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by cdrini 4y ago
One unique Firefox feature I love that I don't see talked about often is how awesome Firefox's address bar suggestions are. I can type just a snippet of a URL or a web page title and it'll instantly show me all matching URLs
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by cdrini 5y ago
Oh that sucks, I'm sorry to hear that :( I did some sleuthing and the undeletion rules/procedure really is quite convoluted. But from what I found: - The image was nominated for speedy deletion[1] by Pkbwcgs[2] for F9: Unambiguous
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by cdrini 5y ago
> it is evidently easier to put something on a personal blog than get it into Wikipedia. I mean, that seems reasonable right? You have complete control and authority over a personal blog. Personally I haven't had trouble making edit
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by cdrini 5y ago
One benefit of deno on this front is that it _only_ pulls down the js files you actually need. With npm, even if you only import one file from a package, every single other file will also be downloaded to your computer. And probably some te
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by cdrini 5y ago
I put an example of what `divs` could be in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30357788#30361633
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by cdrini 5y ago
Oh cool, that's very clever! Probably a little too clever for me, though :P I think the code is misleading, and you can't handle classes with hyphens in it (and if you do, that's even more misleading!). But it's a neat
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by cdrini 5y ago
All human languages have some commonalities. I remember this headline from 2016, when Google had an AI model that trained on some languages was able to somewhat successfully translate between language pairs it had never seen before: https:
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by cdrini 5y ago
You can also borrow/read it for free from internet archive: https://archive.org/details/deciphermentofli00chad
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by cdrini 5y ago
Cunningham's Law! "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."
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by cdrini 5y ago
I'm holding off for now mainly cause I keep my taskbar on the left side of the screen instead of the bottom, and that's no longer possible in Windows 11. Not in the mood to change, and not in the mood to find a workaround. But I p
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by cdrini 5y ago
I would highly recommend this Johnny Harris video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0V_zkng4go . It does a great job of summarizing all the (too many!) points in the debate from a neutral standpoint--including enthusiasm. I
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by cdrini 5y ago
Note: not super versed in this space. My main info is from a Johnny Harris video where he debates himself on the subject of crypto. And I've looked into the tech a bit. I don't think I follow how crypto would help in your situatio
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by cdrini 5y ago
I love playing with it like this! One cool thing I've seen it do is translation! E.g > en: Hello, my name is Sam. > fr: And it writes the next sentence in French! And you can keep going to get other languages.
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by cdrini 5y ago
If you're looking for more CS fundamental things--which I take to mean slightly more theoretical--you might be more interested in programming language design. A lot of the features that make an IDE powerful, things like tracking variab
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by cdrini 5y ago
Gonna take a leap and say I'm getting down-voted due to lack of references? So here are some references: (1) "A growing body of evidence indicates that the Omicron Covid variant is more likely to infect the throat than the lungs,
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by cdrini 5y ago
There are a few important facts missing from your analysis. 1) Omicron, although less deadly than Delta, is significantly more spreadable. 2) Omicron can infect and be transmitted through vaccinated people--although they do suffer even mild
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Someone else in my family had a similar symptom after the vaccine ; legs were swollen, and then the night after, her legs became black/bruised! But it went back to normal shortly.
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The link between microclots and long COVID is new to me and fascinating. Anecdotally, this gels with some of the symptoms I've seen in friends/family. My father had reduced motility in his arm-- where he'd broken it many year

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