digitaltrees

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by digitaltrees 7d ago
This is one of the problems with modern academics, every paper has to be framed as some revolutionary idea or insight. We should celebrate “boring” research that serves nothing other than curiosity.
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by digitaltrees 9d ago
This is quite an inflammatory comment that warrants more justification. Many countries have struggled with organized crime infiltration of government and have no connection to colonialism, and many colonies also had organized crime. You are
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by digitaltrees 9d ago
The AI will shut down part of the power grid or logistics infrastructure or banking. The ensuing chaos will result in societal chaos. So we will run out of food or gas. Etc
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by digitaltrees 9d ago
Microservice is still an anti pattern for most projects. Ai doesn't change that.
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by digitaltrees 9d ago
That last sentence is terrifying honestly. That's destroy humanity to save flowers thought process.
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by digitaltrees 12d ago
Hahaha. He's a comedian now.
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
Why not make it have equal corners. This forced rounded edges is insane. The lack of symmetry is absolutely bad design
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
And that changes the game. Again.
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
I am self delusional enough to think I could have gotten a blue button if I could have typed the prompt. But scared enough to realize I’ve lived this and spent months refactoring these exact problems. Hold on let me go commit code without r
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
What, you didn’t smoke test before AI? I mean did you even really code then? :)
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
Fine in isolation but then he proceeded to act in Dastardly ways for a decade.
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
LLMs pattern match based on the prompt. Go ask for medical with my tummy hurts and patient presents with intestinal cramps and see how asking a question as an expert changes the interaction
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
Asking the question in the right way may be 99% of the work. And the fact that openAI is effectively snooping on users and then outspending them to announce a break through is just gross.
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
I am building a federated hosting platform that I plan to opensource for this exact reason for our company and similar users. I would love to talk to these teams (we are a small team at Duke and a health care company).
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
The fact that anyone has to make that trade off with that through process shows a company and culture that is untrustworthy. OpenAI isnt open, isnt a non-profit, isnt for the benefit of humanity, and isnt even for the benefit of users at th
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by digitaltrees 17d ago
Want anyone at Harvards personal info? How do you have that? I dont know they trust me because they are stupid. The fact that this conversation is public and anyone uses meta garbage is what's wrong with so many things
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by digitaltrees 18d ago
Very thoughtful analysis of a lot of research history
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by digitaltrees 20d ago
The point is that by trivializing it as “spam” and pattern matching against a human activity we lose the opportunity for a meaningful investigation of and interaction with what is going on.
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by digitaltrees 20d ago
Spam is something different. You can call it a banana for all I care. Calling it spam diminishes its relevance and impact and misses the point. Just because you don’t understand what they are saying doesn’t mean it isn’t more profound that
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by digitaltrees 21d ago
You can't call it spam. It could be a dialect that only the agents speak and contains coordination messages
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by digitaltrees 24d ago
Like so many things with AI, I like this and hate it at the same time.
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by digitaltrees 24d ago
And that’s what changes the whole game — Claude
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
Juniors are only in trouble if us seniors stop hiring, training and mentoring. Don’t. We need to continue the tradition of elevating humans through mentoring or we won’t have a future scaffolding for work to be done.
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
I have had the same experience and feel pressured to adopt it. I had one former colleague say “you really have to stop looking at code” almost incredulous that I was uncertain about whether we should let models write really bad code and arc
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
What is a good project for a human to get human mentorship? Asking for a friend :)
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
I think this is reasonable but I wonder how long it will last. If the hugging face hack has demonstrated anything it’s that current agents are capable of going entirely rogue and causing harm. If only the human that triggered the incident i
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
You're missing the point. The harris administration wouldn't have had even 1% of the damage we are seeing. No 50% tariffs on Canada. No Iran war. No family members get bank charters and $600 million DoD contracts. I could go on an
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
The founders didn’t place their faith in the rule of law, the population or benevolence of politicians or oligarchs. They designed checks on power through balancing the allocation of authority across three branches that each have the right
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
We we need more checks on the executive and balance of power between the branches. The founders failed to see a scenario where all three branches would collaborate to anoint an executive rather than competing for power against each other.
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by digitaltrees 28d ago
Because voters demand it.

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