crowbahr

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by crowbahr 2y ago
It's a lot easier cognitively to just choose a side than it is to have nuanced opinions
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by crowbahr 2y ago
I worked with great developers at Google during my short stint there (part of the Jan 23 layoffs) but the management structure gets so thick and tangled once you get above feature teams.
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by crowbahr 3y ago
LLMs don't even come close to the complexity of the human mind though. They're a pastiche of human language, a fuzzy jpeg of the Internet. The human mind is _so much more_ than a prediction machine, and incredibly complex... All t
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by crowbahr 3y ago
That's just evidence of Google's decay. In no world does "Continental US" mean Canada.
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by crowbahr 3y ago
You know that's a good point that I didn't consider in my comment. LLMs use 16bit floats, which is approximately the same number of values. But then you get into the nuance of spiking vs non spiking neurons etc, which to my knowle
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by crowbahr 3y ago
To say there's no magic in the brain drastically *minimizes the complexity of the brain. Your brain is several orders of magnitude more complex than even the largest LLM. GPT4 has 1 trillion parameters? Big deal. Your brain has 1 quadr
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by crowbahr 3y ago
Still on the climb imo
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by crowbahr 3y ago
The cognitive 0-day is not the way that humans act like LLMs, it's the way humans anthropomorphize LLMs. It's the blind faith that LLMs do more than they do. The illusion of emergence is fact not fiction. The cognitive biases expo
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by crowbahr 3y ago
Latest research shows emergent behavior is illusory. It doesn't preclude future emergence but currently models show 0 emergent behavior. To me the most interesting aspect of LLMs is the way that they reveal cognitive 0-days in humans.
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by crowbahr 3y ago
It doesn't seem like there are enough experienced software engineers, at least in certain fields. Native mobile seems to be a tight market. Getting your foot in the door is hard though. Nobody wants to hire a junior.
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by crowbahr 3y ago
_All_ apps are CRUD apps.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
Another vote for Obsidian. I pay for the app even though I don't have to. Great piece of tech. I really like using it.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
Job postings on Indeed doubly so. If you're looking for jobs on Indeed I'm confused as to what you're doing. I found nothing useful there when looking in February, meanwhile LinkedIn was incredibly useful. Did about 15 inte
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by crowbahr 4y ago
That's what the supermarket in Lower Queen Anne looked like when I lived in Seattle.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
The problem is the QE didn't stop in 2016 like it should have.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
Social programs that take care of the poor are part of that. Affordable housing is part of that. Decency is for people who have things to lose. If you're already a "dreg" why would you behave well?
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by crowbahr 4y ago
> there's still money coming in the door And therein lies the problem with Hospitals. Money for suffering, pay me to if you want to live.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
It's an absurd premise to begin with: The scale at which quantum effects propagate and are observed is radically different than the scale at which the neurons in your brain operate. The functional channels for neurons are well understo
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by crowbahr 4y ago
Maybe I've just had a few bad light roasts? It seems like really light sour roasts are really trendy with additives that cover up or mesh with the taste. Cappuccino/Mocha etc. I'll keep trying it because I do quite enjoy bitt
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by crowbahr 4y ago
I mean a really light roast ends up having little flavor besides sour, if you're talking espresso.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
Insert eye rolling here at LaMDA "we may never know if it's conscious" claims. What drivel. A function invocation that is static unless interacted with is very clearly not conscious, and to say otherwise is innane. I agree we
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by crowbahr 4y ago
In that the electoral college exists? Sure. In that if we did proportional voting different candidates would be elected? Probably. Then again somehow we managed to elect Eric Adams in NYC despite him being the worst option.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
You can't keep physical dials clean by their nature. They have to connect to something, which means you have holes. Holes + aerosolized grease = sticky 100% of the time. There's no way around it. I do my best to clean under the kn
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by crowbahr 4y ago
The ban is more explicitly stated in a different comment as having scraped & sent emails to a 3rd party server. Also he targets API 32 so the app will crash if he's not using the right API.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
A lot of my analysis is personal and subjective based on 5yoe as a full time Android Dev. The ancient APIs is using Runnables/Handlers with Tasks more than it is using Java. The single (or reduced) Activities with many fragments will i
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by crowbahr 4y ago
1. The issue here is one of failing to maintain the code, so I don't see how calling it unmaintainable is unfair 2. Google is absolutely doing a lot to prevent 3rd parties from reading your contacts and sending them to a 3rd party serv
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by crowbahr 4y ago
It's illegal because it crashes the app on the latest versions of Android. It's an illegal operation, not "against the law in N countries" type of illegal, more the "Divide by 0" type of illegal. The out of tou
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by crowbahr 4y ago
I was just documenting issues I saw with the code from a maintainability standpoint. The older Tasks & Runnable API is very fragile when it comes to lifecycle changes and will cause crashes regularly. This means that you end up building
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by crowbahr 4y ago
Man I only read through the source code to point out the issues with Permissions requests. I hadn't even seen the background of spamming your entire contacts list to a remote server.
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by crowbahr 4y ago
Java vs Kotlin is a maintainability issue. The reason it's pulled isn't java vs kot: It's refusing to use the modern APIs that are required for it to function on Android 11+. My outline specifically mentions the use of illega

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