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by cleandreams 4y ago
Microsoft bought Bonsai about 4 years ago and now has laid off the entire team. I wonder if this is related to the move to LLMs (and the new Bing). The layoffs were concentrated in AI and industrial automation.
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I read recently that the fact the US military didn't want to stoke public interest with 'UFO's' meant that lots of things that were unidentified went unreported and ignored. This actually became a security risk that othe
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I have made a lot more than this probably 4x TOC of this and I would never share it with friends because to anyone not in tech my salary is shocking and troublesome. I have friends who are in fields that rarely top 100K and in the Bay Area
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by cleandreams 4y ago
I am old enough to remember the hippies and related counterculture(s). (I was very young.) This is something to keep in mind: the counterculture then was a place where people made a living. And the cost of living was cheap. You could raise
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by cleandreams 4y ago
I had a horrible manager once. He actively sabotaged me. I won't go into details. I knew about him -- 3 people left because of him and they all confided in me!! But I somehow thought I was immune. I went through a year of depression an
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by cleandreams 4y ago
A friend told me about Internet Technology Addicts Anonymous. https://internetaddictsanonymous.org/ It's quite a new fellowship and the meetings are almost all virtual / zoom. I went to a few meetings and I liked
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by cleandreams 4y ago
I feel happier reading a book. I also feel relieved when I open a book. I've been wondering why this is and I have a theory. The information on the internet is unbounded. You know this, you are aware even if subliminally, no matter how
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by cleandreams 4y ago
- The flaws in AI become more evident even as models become more powerful. Basically AI algorithms learn patterns, not abstraction, limiting reasoning in fundamental ways. - Understanding why AI makes mistakes continues to be a black box. -
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It turns out there is a world wide trend towards grey, white, black, and colors in products of all kinds are decreasing. Some say it is the averaging influence of AI data analysis of consumer prefs. An overview here: https://craf
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This is sad. I find probablistic programming languages very interesting. This probably means that many of the most useful ideas are disappeared. Does anyone know any relevant papers that describe what they did?
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I wrote an extremely hard and complex program in which I had to use c++ metaprogramming throughout. Not my decision. I do not understand why you could possibly need more metaprogramming than C++ provides. This is a problematic feature to be
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by cleandreams 4y ago
I don't have anything to add except this is an awesome thread. One of the best I've read.
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What is the low hanging fruit in terms of changing the product? Can there be different 'streams' of twitter users? Moderation ala reddit? How will light touch moderation actually work given the garbage that will rise to the surfac
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Yes, yes, yes. Great. Thanks. Bookmarked!
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There is an interesting thread about effects on the ground in China: New rules around "US persons" are driving an "industry-wide decapitation." https://twitter.com/jordanschnyc/status/1580889341
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Choking Off China’s Access to the Future of AI(csis.org)
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I have written translators and they are really hard. I think training on code bases is the way to go but I am skeptical overall that it is even worth the effort. The problem is that the translation doesn't get you all the way there. Th
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by cleandreams 4y ago
Admirable.
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I think Stable Diffusion is a both a threat and a tool for illustrators but will mostly be a tool for artists. The reason is that AI intelligence is probability generated mimicry. By extension it mimics art but is not art. Think of the char
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Wow, so much negativity. I think this is great advice. The key is being genuine and appreciative. Take care of your neediness in other ways. If you don't know how to listen, writing lots of notes can be just another way of monopolizing
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Just to note the human cost, my father died of Alzheimers. It's not impossible this fraud prevented lives from being restored and even saved.
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The claim that science should be easily reproducible is wrong. Take collider experiments, or huge data set analysis problems.
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I retired a bit early and I have found it immensely rewarding to take classes in various hard technical subjects. Some of these are directly applicable to jobs I could do, or have done. I think tech employers should be more supportive of li
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This article seemed overly attached to bio neural nets using backprop. But backprop requires external signals that don't exist in the brain. There are other issues. Learning in the brain is structured in way that allows it to learn wit
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I liked it also.
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I've done my own (failed) startup and was 1st employee at a successful one, among other startup experiences. I agree that this is wrongheaded: > Ultimately, the reason that the startup died was because I did not do the due diligence
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As a non-cheater I thought this was hilarious. It could be on tv. I thought the prof handled it very well. Recently I was invited to a discord for a calculus class. I didn't join. I wonder if cheating was going on.
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Firefox use, same.
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If you are with a really good company (I know people at microsoft who had this) you can get a very senior person to meet with you regularly as a mentor. YOU need a mentor. You are giving a lot. I think it's possible you need to work fo
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I have a my own way of working while lying down: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B082D74N22/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... This has a great feature that I can go from lying down to using the same desk standing up. This

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