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by cdrini 2y ago
I love to see language evolve like this! Dictionaries and grammar rules are not prescriptive, they follow what/how people speak, not the other way around. They do influence in the opposite direction as well, as a bit of a normalizing&#
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by cdrini 2y ago
Oh shoot I flipped it!! Darnit, thanks for pointing that out. I also meant the following tab on my post!
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by cdrini 2y ago
Well on my "for you" page, I also follow a pretty niche audience of tech people, which helps :P They're a little easier to verify since they generally also have blogs, or websites, or github accounts, or youtube videos, etc t
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by cdrini 2y ago
That's fascinating to me, I've never blocked a single account on Twitter and see very few bots. The most annoying thing about twitter for me are the folks monetising the platform, that keep posting rage-bait to game the algorithm!
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by cdrini 2y ago
This seems like a pretty disingenuous reading of the comments and misunderstanding of the feature. All your points are valid, but I just don't thing they apply here, because the generated podcast is based on a human-written article. It
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by cdrini 2y ago
I will note this is slightly less an example of "AI generated" and more an example of "AI transformed". This takes existing, written by human documents or articles and transforms them into a podcast. Based on what you&#x
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by cdrini 2y ago
> And if AI will let us live, but continue to pursue its own goals, humanity will from then on only be a small footnote in the history of intelligence. That relatively unintelligent species from the planet "Earth" that gave ris
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by cdrini 2y ago
I agree with you they're not the same, but to build on that, I would add that they're not entirely orthogonal either, they influence each other a lot. Generally morallity that a society agrees on gets enforced as laws.
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by cdrini 2y ago
Now that's an argument! Agreed, it won't use them of its own accord, but the fact that you can ask it about words, or ask it even to break down important words in a new field, or give it a paragraph from a paper not in your field
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by cdrini 2y ago
Ah ok so anthropomorphizing and the phrase "infinite vocabulary" sounds impossible. I agree infinite vocabulary is a bit murky, and mathematically incorrect. If I wanted to be more mathematically correct I could say complete vocab
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by cdrini 2y ago
Haha I'm pleasantly surprised to see my comment at the top, I genuinely thought it would drown to the bottom! Not due to disagreement, just due to sheer volume and being posted rather late in this posts lifespan. Anyways my meta commen
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by cdrini 2y ago
I did read it :) not sure how that line applies here, can you expand?
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by cdrini 2y ago
Do you have a citation on that last claim?
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by cdrini 2y ago
This has to be the most annoying hacker news comment section I've ever seen. It's just the same ~4 viewpoints rehashed again, and again, and again. Why don't folks just upvote other comments that say the same thing instead of
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by cdrini 2y ago
Exactly, like how "mindful" and "demure" recently became more popular for seemingly no reason. Humans do this all the time. And language in general stagnates and shrinks in vocabulary over time ( https://evoan
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by cdrini 2y ago
If only we had a data set that measured word frequency across the internet as we're getting more and more into AI being used... Maybe with a baseline from before 2021 for comparison... But no let's just stop measuring word frequen
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by cdrini 2y ago
I did read it :) I disagree that not being feudal is enough to disqualify something as medieval. Loads of DND components are medieval, the timeframe, the architecture, the technology (excluding magic), the vague element of religion like cle
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by cdrini 2y ago
I mean, this is like saying "because DND has magic, and the real medieval age didn't have magic, that means DND is anti-medieval". It can be accurately described as "medieval" without replicating every element of ac
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by cdrini 2y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with efficiency, but with effectivity. You could argue producing addictive videos for teens is Mr beasts goal. And he is very effective at doing that. And actually yes, successful at that goal. Suc
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by cdrini 2y ago
It's been my daily driver for years and I've never had any issues. There are some bits of the UI I would change, but they're minor, and every application is like that
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by cdrini 2y ago
Man, Firefox users are something else. So many of these complaints are kind of annoying or have internal contradictions. "That’s rather disconcerting if you’d like Mozilla to focus on making a good browser instead of chasing the new an
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by cdrini 2y ago
I think that's it, although I don't think I'd describe it as a grid, but as a 1d list. The core concept of CLIs is linear. That's in part why streaming works so effectively in CLIs, because the linear medium clicks reall
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by cdrini 2y ago
Donation fatigue? The only time I'm prompted for donations online is Wikipedia and internet archive in December. That's about it. I can't think of any other service that asks for donations.
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by cdrini 2y ago
Yes, but they're not trying to make 1000x more, they just want enough to maintain their existing staff and servers. They're not looking for unreigned financial growth, it's a nonprofit who wants their service to be free and a
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by cdrini 2y ago
Very much this. This is the gold standard for non profits. Wikipedia does it, the Internet Archive does it. And the banners are very large and intrusive during donation month. This suggests that they must be having an effect, or they wouldn
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by cdrini 2y ago
The big win for me has been that this feature let's you animate css variables. A place I used it a while back was a little experiment where I tweaked youtube's design to look "neon" -- eg all the lines and stuff were bri
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by cdrini 2y ago
I think of them as effectively CSS variables with types and that can be animated. By default CSS variables can't be animated since it has no idea what unit it's animating between
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by cdrini 2y ago
Yeah this was a phenomenal decision on their part. I wish some of the other cloud tools like azure would offer the same thing, it just makes so much sense!
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by cdrini 2y ago
What an interesting example of symbiosis! I wish there were more ways that humans could work together with the animals in our environment in ways like these -- it's a win win for both species! Now if only they could be trained to go th
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by cdrini 2y ago
Yeah I wish they'd included it when they named that library! But they do mention it at the very end: "Joanine Library at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal"

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