chairhairair

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by chairhairair 2y ago
It's just a dream then. It's completely at-odds with the strengths of LLMs (fuzzy associations, rough summaries, naive co-thinking).
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by chairhairair 2y ago
This fundamental issue seems to be totally lost on the LLM-heads. I do not want additional uncertainty deep in the development cycle. I can tolerate the uncertainty while I'm writing. That's where there is a good fit for these fuz
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by chairhairair 2y ago
Simple questions like this are not welcomed by LLM hype sellers. The word "reasoning" is being used heavily in this announcement, but with an intentional corruption of the normal meaning. The models are amazing but they are fundam
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by chairhairair 2y ago
Completely false equivalence. The entire foundations of modern Psychology are wobbling. In order for the same to be true for the hard sciences we would need to be failing to replicate experiments which hinge on germ theory, atomic theory, t
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by chairhairair 2y ago
I suspect (or hope) that many professional psychologists are beginning to doubt that data acquired in these contrived laboratory settings can provide a window into actual human behavior at all.
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by chairhairair 2y ago
Within large tech companies AI projects (often just features within existing products) are seen as the safe place to be while non-AI projects have higher layoff rates. I wonder how much of the AI spend is driven by the above situation.
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by chairhairair 2y ago
The app is genuinely great: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-arts-culture/id10509705...
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by chairhairair 2y ago
These puzzles are fun and challenging in the same way that puzzles from video games like The Witness and Baba Is You are. I bet you could use those puzzles as benchmarks as well.
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by chairhairair 2y ago
Awful summary video, in my opinion. Takes 5 minutes to get to the new discovery, then spends 3 minutes repeatedly claiming that we don’t have any explanations for the wide range of genome sizes, then 2 mins of Patreon credits to get over th
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Apple Privacy Manifests – privacy theatre?(jessesquires.com)
2 points by chairhairair 2y ago|0 comments
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Apprenticeship is simply 1:1 training over some extended period. Of course, it can go well or very badly. Focusing on the structure of that relationship and hoping that more bureaucracy will protect the most vulnerable PhD students from mis
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by chairhairair 3y ago
The power dynamic isn’t the inherent problem. Apprenticeship has been a successful training model for many hundreds of years. The more central problem is the incentive structure of the academy. Genuine training outcomes cannot be measured b
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by chairhairair 3y ago
That first paragraph is hilarious and consistent with my experience. It’s pretty baffling how bad Xcode is. Although at this point I’m not sure to what extent Swift is to blame. Everything seems to work much better when Swift is abandoned a
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Is there any animosity towards the later efforts to “professionalize” some of the early simpler Android APIs? I’m thinking specifically of some of the drama surrounding the banning of SharedPreferences.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
The spiders are reacting the the infrared light used to focus the phone camera.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
“Wait wouldn’t that feature allow you to do X horrific unsafe thing?” Jai: “Yes, don’t do that terrible thing.” Refreshing philosophy. Sharp tools have their place, even if they are dangerous.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
I absolutely love your writing BTW! I wasn't aware of it before today. It's really derailed my whole workday. It's fun to discover a new author like this, thank you for responding to my comment :) I don't mean to argue t
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by chairhairair 3y ago
What I described is not at odds with dualism. Software in some sense does exist in a spiritual realm in the same way Aquinas talked about "incorporeal beings". You can't hold or point to software or souls or gods. You can hol
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Another extension is that Gods are distributed software installed in the hardware of believers. Aquinas seemed to believe essentially this. Gods exist and act via humans in the same way that human minds exist and act via human.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Your read is incorrect.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
The only people who think this are people who have never been associated with a top research org. You NEVER hear about anyone, let alone the top people, going to work for government. They all get scooped up with big tech salaries or stay in
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by chairhairair 3y ago
This is immensely dumb. What secret cabal of researchers would they be hiring that would be capable of being ahead of Deepmind/OpenAI? Where exactly would they find these people? Shadow MIT? CalTech2?
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Imagine thinking surveillance is inherently evil. Not everything is a slippery slope, it turns out. It’s ok to go outside with your eyes open still.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
I absolutely hate the reliance on XCode for Apple stuff. I don’t want to blindly search for some checkbox widget, please just give me a config file.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
My personality trait: I need to feed my family.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
If we only ever wanted to reconnect nerves of fetuses that might be relevant.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
https://docs.flutter.dev/resources/faq#why-did-flutter-choos... Lots of other links you can find that explain the choice.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Those are some true measures of success right there.
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Many people are in desperate situations. Most of them are not convinced to do much about it. Words can aim discontent. Were the economic conditions in Weimar Germany that much worse than many places today?
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by chairhairair 3y ago
Disingenuous? The game is trying to demonstrate that content moderation, even using simple explicit rules, is hard and will lead to disagreements. The game has absolutely nothing to do with whether vehicles should actually be allowed in the

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