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by dgfitz 1y ago
What’s the saying, software projects are never finished, only abandoned. Cabinets are finished.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> The more complicated and/or complex things become, the less likely it is that a human can act as a reliable judge. At some point no human can. Give me an example, please. I can't come up with something that started simple and
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> Consider this thought exercise: if we were to ever do an upload of a human mind, and it was executing on silicon, would they not be experiencing feelings because their thoughts are provably a deterministic calculation? You just said “c
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> I don’t know (yet) where this change happens. This rules out this option for the time being. This is the actual problem. I have used yocto for close to a decade. This conclusion is wrong, the fix is right there. The rest of the article
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I hate to say it, but doesn’t every VC do exactly this? “ orient toward the unfolding of possibility in others” is in no way a unique thought. Hell, my spouse said something extremely similar to this to me the other day. “I didn’t just see
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Sure thing. I read this site a lot, I don’t see this said often, at all. Got links? 50 or so would prove your point.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
As do I. Because I’m a cynical person, I view LLMs like I’ve viewed rust for years: a neat tool that makes a small subset of people happy and a touch more productive. The evangelical defense of either topic is very off-putting, to say the l
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> And for the record: fuck cryptocurrencies. All of them. So much wasted hardware, all for nothing in the end. I must be the only dummy that sees the parallels between crypto, NFTs, and LLMs…
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by dgfitz 1y ago
The space I work in, which I don’t plan to leave, is hardware/software/embedded. I am hybrid, and sometimes I go in twice a month. When trying to integrate hardware into a system over a software interface (CAN, various serial, i2c
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by dgfitz 1y ago
If the Democratic Party can get their shit together, he will be a lame duck president in ~18 months. Please note I am not planting a flag here, just making an observation.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I’ll never forget going on a business trip where the restrictions were in place on the way there and had dropped by the time of my return flight. I was so mad. I flew probably 30 times during covid restrictions, and as you say, it was absol
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by dgfitz 1y ago
No.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Generally, intelligence officers/employees (such as people who work at NSA) deploy to bases, or FOBs. I'm sure there are a handful of "NSA outposts" but this isn't generally how it works.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
So no, no sources.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I never said it was impossible. Re-read it, and kindly stop putting words in my mouth. :)
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Sure. However, the status quo is that "AI" doesn't exist, computers only ever do exactly what they are programmed to do, and "thinking/reasoning" wasn't on the table. I am not the one that needs to disprov
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by dgfitz 1y ago
>> LLMs don't think. At all. >How can you so confidently proclaim that? Do you know why they're called 'models' by chance? They're statistical, weighted models. They use statistical weights to predict the n
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by dgfitz 1y ago
There is an enormous difference between claiming an LLM can think or use statistics to generate a token. All of the difference.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> The point is that LLMs don't speak / think in English. They don't think or speak anything at all. They use a statistical model to predict the next most likely token to display in response to a prompt.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
If everything is a wrapper around something else, how can the description be a pejorative?
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by dgfitz 1y ago
How so? They are wrappers, and it is niche.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Uh, who cares? That is literally useless knowledge.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Statistical next-token predictors that aren’t even correct some of the time, and are currently crafted to pass tests, isn’t what I would consider revolutionary. They’re neat tools. They help some people (a much, much smaller group of people
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by dgfitz 1y ago
It seems like you would say: You should try to recalibrate your photon detector To someone who asks for advice. “I can’t understand these results! You should try to…”
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by dgfitz 1y ago
The accent. The “stories”. The shallowness. Should I keep going?
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I can say with certainty I’ve never paid a penny. Have you?
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Peppa pig is crap. Full stop.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
As a male breast cancer survivor, when I dug into the actuals of the Susan g komen foundation, I realized how much of a fraud the whole thing was. It’s awful. Non-profits in the US are generally just awful. It’s embarrassing.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Meta: why does c++ feel almost political on this forum?
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Are you asking about supply and demand?

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