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by coliveira 2mo ago
When you're a foreigner learning a language your experience is mostly from reading. There are words, however, that are much more common at home and in spoken language. So you'll probably never learn the words that a 10 year old ki
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by coliveira 2mo ago
Yes, it is relatively easy to find any solution to a bug. It is hard to find the root cause and change only what is necessary to fix the bug. AI makes it very efficient to "fix" bugs with code that needs to be fixed again later. T
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by coliveira 2mo ago
Bingo. The issue is not lack of knowledge but prioritization at these companies. Microsoft has the ability to fix Windows bugs, they just think it's secondary compared to adding their own new bug ridden features.
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by coliveira 3mo ago
Panic may only exist in a company that is already lying about its true situation. If managers were telling the truth about what is going on in a company, everyone would be Ok with new updates about its financial position.
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by coliveira 3mo ago
A society that doesn't value honesty deserves to be deceived.
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by coliveira 3mo ago
Business schools teach advertising, not business management. In modern business it is a crime to tell the truth about the dire situation a business is in, unless a CEO is starting anew to fix a situation left by another, and even then it ra
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by coliveira 3mo ago
That's nonsense, people pretend that a "frontier model" is the most important technology ever, but we know for sure it cannot be because several companies are doing copycats of one another. It is not China that is doing much
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by coliveira 3mo ago
Chinese companies are cut out of the market by the US gov restrictions, so making the models open is a survival tactic.
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by coliveira 3mo ago
The issue is also social, the average software engineer will treat Lisp code as a liability because most people really don't know what to do with it. In the mind of a professional SE, code is "maintainable" only if it's
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by coliveira 3mo ago
That's an incredibly short sighted way of looking at countries. The US was never the country with highest population growth, and right now is also heading into a demographic collapse.
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by coliveira 3mo ago
A group having more power has little to do with numbers. If that was the case the rich would be more numerous than the poor, and India would be the most powerful country in the world.
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by coliveira 3mo ago
I did read it and I'm sure a whole generation of people also did, it is a very clear and readable book. Don't underestimate or minimize the impact of Hawking's book when it was released.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Cursive was and still is a fast way to write by hand. If you want to be illiterate without a computer, then you don't want to learn handwriting. But if you don't want to be illiterate without a computer, learning cursive is a fast
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by coliveira 4mo ago
AGI is religion invented for the stupid. There's no world in which a silly LLM can make intelligent decisions. It's all smoke and mirrors to make insane amounts of money and to maintain the sheep agreeing with the powerful.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
That's one of the reasons why he spent several years to write a single symphony.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Composers were also handwriting masters. Bach also had incredible handwriting, there's a youtube channel about it.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
What they're trying to do under the umbrella of "national security" is to legislate how we can use the results we pay for when accessing these models. This way they will control the "intellectual property" that was
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by coliveira 4mo ago
It's easy to control a country when all cybersecurity software used in that country reports to you.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Because that's ultimately their goal! It's just smoke, mirrors, and complaining so they can get the cheap labor.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
> That being said. I thought it was a funny comment. This is very passive aggressive. You should think about how you communicate to people.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Yes, I read "Getting Things Done": he teaches you to make todo lists! That's it, nothing profound or from another planet. Basically you could get that information in 1 paragraph: "if you're overwhelmed, make a todo
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by coliveira 4mo ago
What I find funny is people saying in social media that they read dozens of books, and when you see what they're reading is mostly self-help volumes! If you read one or two of these books you already know what they'll say in 100s
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by coliveira 4mo ago
I'm aways surprised that there's no open source language that provides everything you get with Wolfram language. For example, the level of pattern matching you can use when defining functions, as well as the high level of function
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Mathematica has a lot of clients in math and engineering. Traditionally these clients are not so concerned about software engineering issues you mention. What Mathematica offers also makes sense for small firms with a few engineers, because
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Where's the people who complain about the government picking winners? Strange that they suddenly travel somewhere without internet or lose their vocal cords.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
These companies have a giant budget for promotion. So, in an open forum, I would be suspicious that they're not paying to get the attention they want.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Solution: get as far away as you can from these models. It is curiosity that kills the cat. If you stay away and use only open models they cannot control your work.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
That's what we get for having psychopaths walking around as if they're technology leaders.
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by coliveira 4mo ago
The whole "AI race" is a construct of American startup founders trying to get more money. The government picked up that line because it seems fun and useful to be "wining a race" against China. It's all nonsense. Ch
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by coliveira 4mo ago
Today it's worse, the platforms will censor directly what you can say. Didn't you notice that certain words cannot even be pronounced anymore in youtube to avoid censorship? And with AI software reading everything we write, total

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