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by cleandreams 1y ago
The judge IIRC found that training models using copyrighted materials was fair use. I disagree. Furthermore this will be a problem for anyone who generates text for a living. Eventually LLMs will undercut web, news, and book publishing beca
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by cleandreams 1y ago
I think the universities made a mistake in becoming too culturally left wing. The faculty (and students) in the humanities in particular are far to the left of the political mainstream. (I am on the left though more focused on labor rights
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by cleandreams 1y ago
Less than 10 years ago but not recent.
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by cleandreams 1y ago
My base salary was fine but the magic was in the stock. I got a payout on acquisition by a FAANG+ (as first employee). It was only 300K but I put 50K of that into Nvidia. Actually I invested all my payout from my startup stock into tech sto
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by cleandreams 1y ago
At first it seemed LLM's were perfect assists for coding because they are trained on text and generate text. But code isn't typical text. It's basically a machine that requires a very high degree of precision and accuracy. Se
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by cleandreams 1y ago
The weird thing about AI is that it doesn't learn over time but just in context. It doesn't get better the way a 12 year old learning to play the saxophone gets better. But using it heavily has a corollary effect: engineers learn
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by cleandreams 1y ago
A paper to make the teachers I know weep.
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by cleandreams 1y ago
This type of thing really incentivizes founding a startup. If you are a very senior developer, who needs the corporate stupid factory? You can do a lot of work with half the people and work for yourself.
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From intelligence to autopoiesis: rethinking AI through systems theory(frontiersin.org)
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by cleandreams 1y ago
A new study urges a move away from metaphysical debates over consciousness and instead toward a systems-theoretical perspective that redefines AI as a structurally unique communicative system.
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I am going through Math Academy and I like it very much. I have done advanced technical work in my field but my math background had weaknesses from my public schooling in a large urban area and some experimental math instruction in high sch
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by cleandreams 2y ago
Why the hate? This is good. And very funny too. It's not just professionalism. It's the challenge of removing irritation from one's communications because that generally doesn't get the best cooperation.
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by cleandreams 2y ago
Sounds about right. The startup I worked for (acquired by a FANG) turned over the whole code base, for example.
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by cleandreams 2y ago
My current solution is the freedom app. I have all social media blocked during work hours and after 10:30 at night. I am mostly susceptible to reddit, twitter, instagram reels. I track some issues on reddit & twitter that I am genuinely
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I think this pardon just reflects Trump's transactional politics. Ulbricht has sympathizers in high places now because crypto is all over this administration. In the long run letting political influence trump (no pun intended) the crim
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by cleandreams 2y ago
There are strong signals that continuing to scale up in data is not yielding the same reward (Moore's Law anyone?) and it's harder to get quality data to train on anyway. Business Insider had a good article recently on the custome
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I once worked for a manager who had 5 highly skilled AI engineers quit in two years. Somehow I thought I would not be impacted. I just wasn't used to working for dysfunctional personalities. He did stab me in the back when I brought in
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I'm a poet (published etc) and this was a treat to read. For me the parallels between coding and writing poetry are the iterative quality. As I work on my code I simplify, tighten, code share. I use expressive names, etc. I will think,
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by cleandreams 2y ago
They also get the most revenue and users.
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I describe it as "appetite calming." Not sure how else to put it. I used to have a low grade constant craving for food. I wasn't obese but the weight had crept up. Losing weight was impossible. I had high blood sugar, blood p
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I'm retired and on metformin. I feel great. The wage slave problem is a separate problem for which there is only a political, not medical, solution.
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by cleandreams 2y ago
Thanks. It's hard to connect to self-care when you are in a tech grind. You are expected to grind it out and I enjoyed that but at some point in my life that didn't work anymore. Taking even a month off can help. By the way I went
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I got burned out with the combination of a high intensity job, care taking a dying spouse, and managing the decline and dementia of a parent. Both deaths occurred near each other. I had always been highly productive and successful but at a
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by cleandreams 2y ago
The problem is that current generative AI is not actually intelligent. Yann LeCunn had a great tweet on this: Sometimes, the obvious must be studied so it can be asserted with full confidence: - LLMs can not answer questions whose answers a
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by cleandreams 2y ago
Sure. It's coming with GPT-5.
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I worked for an AI startup that got bought by a big tech company and I've seen the hype up close. In the inner tech circles it's not exactly a big lie. The tech is good enough to make incredible demos but not good enough to genera
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by cleandreams 2y ago
I use ebay a lot. I think it is fine. The difference between ebay and others are several: much better search. It's set up to allow customers to target what they want. Better filters. It includes the capability to have a complex user de
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I've been wanting to try steel cut oats again but with chia. Chia seeds seem to help everything. Great stuff. Oats is one of the things I miss. As for milk... I have issues with milk! I found out my morning latte by itself was raising
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by cleandreams 3y ago
I am prediabetic and I have one. It's partly covered by insurance. By the metrics my estimated average glucose has gone down from 129 to 98 or so (normal). I haven't had my HbA1c in awhile. I think they are amazing. It's been
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by cleandreams 3y ago
Why not try working for local government. Around here those jobs are secure and have pensions. I've also been broke and financially insecure and it will better once you can pay your bills even if it's not your fave. Go for whateve

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