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by dingnuts 1y ago
an NFT is a record of ownership. if you have no enforcement mechanism it's meaningless, but nobody makes jokes about fungible data files when we're talking about copyright. if you tied an NFT hash to a legal contract then you coul
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by dingnuts 1y ago
system prompts aren't actually part of the model at all; obvious you don't know what you're talking about.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
This is a funny example since, for a long time anyway, dishwashers have been much better at actually sanitizing dishes due to the much higher temperatures that can be used vs hand washing. I don't feel like hand washed dishes are truly
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by dingnuts 1y ago
That's not why. It's because Moore's Law died. Same reason we need 10x compute for each 2x performance increase from LLMs. Where's GPT5 anyway? Isn't that supposed to be out by now? Sorry, that's not super rele
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by dingnuts 1y ago
if you give an LLM a spec with a new language and no examples, it can't write the new language. until someone does that, I think we've demonstrated that they do not have understanding or abstract thought. they NEED examples in a w
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Can you imagine if Excel worked like this? the formula put out the wrong result, so try again! It's like that scene from The Office where Michael has an accountant "run it again." It's farcical. They have created compute
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> Just the ability to speed up exploration and validation based on what a human tells it to do is already enormously useful, depending on how much you can speed up those things, and how accurate it can be. The big question is: is it usef
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I was taught Python in class twenty years ago. I use/used it for systems roles. I don't use it as much anymore but your comment is complete nonsense.
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Being able to understand computer science and apply it is called software ENGINEERING for a reason, and it's a lot more complicated than 'just programming'. You sound like a physicist who thinks mechanical engineers are unnec
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by dingnuts 1y ago
based solely on anecdotes and rumors and feelings, I wonder if it's a nonprofit problem. Reminds me of the kind of grift you read about in various NGO charity type organizations
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Ad supported search has been awful for a few years now, just buy a Kagi subscription and you'll be like me: horrified but mildly amused with a dash of "oh that explains a lot" when people complain about Google
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> The fear is when it's perfect and someone puts you in the middle of a very illegal situation; prove it wasn't you. At least in the US, while the law is followed, this is not legal, the State will have to prove it wasn't
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by dingnuts 1y ago
especially when the world population is billions and at the beginning we were worried about double digit IFR. Yeah. Imagine if COVID had actually killed 10% of the world population. Killing millions sucks, but mosquitos regularly do that to
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Friend, this website is EXACTLY the same
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candid discussion of relations with the opposite sex without fear of offense
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I've seen very long prompts that are as long as a school essay and those didn't take ten seconds either
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I actually think the response makes the point. LLMs are useful, and will provide certain innovations, but they aren't a panacea. At the top of its height, proponents talked like 3D printing was going to make parcel delivery obsolete, a
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by dingnuts 1y ago
I like calling it bullshit[0] because it's the most accurate, most understandable, and the most fun to use with a footnote 0 (featured previously on HN) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-097
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by dingnuts 1y ago
In a free country there are a lot of "theys" with different views who might give you money, and you are also free to start a business and create your own wealth since private property is part of what makes a free country free. In
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by dingnuts 1y ago
in free countries you're free to point out the corrupting influences of those you feel are corrupting research, and to do your own, and then disprove incorrect things in Iran you don't say anything the Ayatollah disagrees with, or
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by dingnuts 1y ago
it stops being affordable when you take the Cleveland salary
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by dingnuts 1y ago
There are a million places she could have overheard it. Our society is having a long conflict over sexual identities and the word may have come from any number of sources. > What is this marketing, why is it happening, and is it widely a
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> Please, could have just slapped nothing but text on there & let your content, whatever it is, do the talking. Maybe this explains some of the success of brat by Charli xcx last summer
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by dingnuts 1y ago
Oh that's a great idea, just do that for every question the LLM doesn't know the answer to! That's.. how many questions? Maybe if one model generates all possible questions then
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by dingnuts 1y ago
being able to do more things with fewer resources (which lowers costs) always increases demand enough to make up for the reduction of labor caused by the automation Analogy: when the chainsaw was invented, we didn't stop having lumberj
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by dingnuts 1y ago
oh I agree but the last three years has felt like an endless chorus of people telling me SWE was going to be obsolete very soon so I had to push back against the idea that "nobody" thinks that. I wouldn't have to listen to pe
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by dingnuts 1y ago
> I don’t think anyone expects software engineers will disappear holy gaslighting Christ have some links, lots of people think that https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/126v3pm/... htt
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by dingnuts 1y ago
not if I'm literally damned if I do, and damned if I don't! might as well enjoy what I can while it lasts, in that case. if I thought going to church would keep me out of Hell I'd have the opposite reaction, but the GP was ta
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by dingnuts 1y ago
This was true years ago but Gnome slowly removed every feature I liked and put me on an update treadmill for each and every plug-in, and I needed a bunch of them for basic functionality normal desktops provide. A trivial example: keeping a
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by dingnuts 1y ago
is it? if I'm going to Hell anyway I might as well sleep in on Sundays

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