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by cowl 4y ago
Arduino's difference was never their hardware manufacture. And cheaper clones did not contribute so much on their relevance collapse. It was their lack of advancement. Their competitors improved with things like 32bit Controllers, Wifi
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by cowl 4y ago
There are no Licenses in hardware. There are patents but not licenses. For example you can license the Diagram of a circuit but you can not get a license for the circuit. you can get a patent if it's inovative.
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by cowl 4y ago
What you are describing is what Prusa did to for example Lulzbot. Prusa replaced Lulzbot based on price. Cheaper materials, cheaper labour in East Europe vs US, less logistic costs, less Regulation etc. Why it's acceptable for this t
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by cowl 4y ago
Who? See: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3442188.3445922 A 2021 research paper warning (among other things) precisly about this confusion. > The ersatz fluency and coherence of LMs raises several ri
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by cowl 4y ago
> now quickly taking on the role of a general reasoning engine And this right here is why it's important to emphasize the "stochastic parrot" fact. Because people think this is true and are making decisions based on this m
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by cowl 4y ago
Being useful and a stochastic parrot are not mutually exclusive. And I in fact think the opposite. it's Necessary to remind people what it really is, especially in this phase of "Enthusiasm" because I see to many people attri
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by cowl 4y ago
> It's not an understatement to say that he has been not-quite-single-handedly carrying the hardware side of the enthusiast/cottage-industry FDM market for well over a decade In fact it's not un understatement, it's
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by cowl 4y ago
Most of the cheap "copies" are not copies at all though. They are Iterations on the idea like Prusa was an Iteration itself. Most people when talk about copies talk about products like Creality Ender whihc in fact has so little or
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by cowl 4y ago
The community was there before they had good printers. The whole ecosystem without which Prusa would not be here today, From the original Reprap hardware, firmware, slicer software, to the often disregarded open 3D models. Prusa designs fo
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by cowl 4y ago
There is a conflation of ideas here. Arduino was not created to stand for Italian manufactoring or fair wages. > The Arduino project began in 2005 as a tool for students at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy, aiming to provid
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by cowl 4y ago
Seo has had it's influence but has really ruined search is the guessing. Google nor respecting the search terms but "trying to be helpful" with symantics that it gets completly wrong. Even when using quotes on full phrases i
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Bing Chat Behaving Badly(youtube.com)
1 points by cowl 4y ago|0 comments
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by cowl 4y ago
With other forms of software you can se under the hood and (at least attempt to) control it. Ofcourse noone is perfect and every software has bugs but you still have a certain degree of checks and controls. AI (the current form of it) is a
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by cowl 4y ago
ofcourse but then you still must have some principles and be as loud about how naive you were as you were when you were protesting the thing in the first place.
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by cowl 4y ago
Ofcourse the AI "came to that conclussion" (better said as parroted because there is no thought process behind it) because that is the general atmosphere of the discourse right now and that is what it was trained on BUT there is
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by cowl 4y ago
But it was newsworthy and everyone was in Arms yesterday that Italy blocked ChatGPT becasue it lacked controls to not be used by minors because it would expose them to unsafe content. Here we have a fully grown and adult man that took his l
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by cowl 4y ago
But that's my point. If their opposition was not on principle but based on the naive Idea that "we will live in peace and harmony", I really am afraid what other naive principles are in the bases of their work and what safegu
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by cowl 4y ago
If I'm not mistaken their opposition was on principle not whether it was needed or not. So the fact that we are in a new cold war era does not change that Equation. The principle is still the same. The only way for this "change o
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by cowl 4y ago
Not an April fool joke. The story is from 3 days ago. The OG link posted is from 31 March but See https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/societe/2023/03/28/sans-ces-... for a post on 28 March.
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by cowl 4y ago
But he arrived at that point after Eliza "convinced" him that there was no Hope and no solution for the Enviornment problem. Ofcourse Eliza is trained on the general material that you find today online, and it tells you at what s
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AI chatbot 'encouraged' man to sacrifice himself to stop climate change(euronews.com)
59 points by cowl 4y ago|93 comments
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by cowl 4y ago
Really? Kids can get Porn Magazines and Novels where you are? Controling if material is suitable is dystopian for you?
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by cowl 4y ago
Books are under control, children can not enter a library and get Adult books. The internet in general can have filters and many Parents activate personal firewalls for this purpose. Even Google has safeSearch that filters results for expl
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by cowl 4y ago
There is relevance. You see now in Europe State Institutions and Coorporates are banning use of Tiktok on Official phones precisly because they can not guarantee the Respect of the privacy laws. Offcourse they are not banning private use of
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by cowl 4y ago
And my point was that "profit" is not the culprit here, and that is why I took communism as example. People will do questionable or illegal things for variuos selfish reasons. Profit being just one of them, but the people that wou
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by cowl 4y ago
Why would they have liquidity Crisis? Are you picturing Paypal customers holding in Paypal considerable Balances? 99% of the customers use it only as an Intermediary. Money goes in : Money-Fee goes out. Unless they are doing scetchy thing
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by cowl 4y ago
The comparison is useless because it is not considering Motivation. MTurk economy values volume at the expense of accuracy. The economic claim is nothing new and nothing unexpected. The computers, AI or not are faster/cheaper than hu
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by cowl 4y ago
How do I tell it to generate a regex for emails? Try selecting the emails. all four generated Regexes are wrong. Even if one of them was right? how do I choose between 4 choices if I Don't know the meaning? I have to verify the gener
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by cowl 4y ago
That is the natural Conservation of Energy into play. Noone is saying that you get more calories than you put in. But the form of those calories is more useful for our consuption. I'll take your example: While it takes 25KG of grass&#
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by cowl 4y ago
The Netherland Case is specifically what I am referring to with the need for huge automatization. It's a very high tech solution, a very good one but can it be effectivly replicated world-wide without a concentrated effort? I would be

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