dinvlad

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by dinvlad 3y ago
Garbage in, garbage out, as they say. Though I still trust SO waaay more than GPT, and so deleted my GPT account for good.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Ikr? Even with GPTPlus it would still hallucinate things in 90% of cases I’ve thrown at it, so by the time I fully debug its output, I’ve spent about the same if not more time than just figuring it out on my own using good ole Google (or an
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Exactly. Not only that, but according to a recently filed lawsuit they’re providing preferential access to YC batch companies first and then everyone else.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
This really does seem like an AI-generated response. WTF
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by dinvlad 3y ago
I think I fall into the 2nd category, like your co-worker. What would be your tips to actually get anything useful out of it?
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by dinvlad 3y ago
I’m curious what it saves you. I’ve done the same for a couple months, but found its results too unreliable to be of any use to me, in terms of time savings.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
You hit the nail on its head right there. It’s all based on a doomed technology that is not going to give us the benefits it promises. I do think future models will improve on this, but there’s likely very little room (read: data) left to m
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by dinvlad 3y ago
I’m still trying to wrap my head around what exactly it means, and how it relates to Lanzaboote
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by dinvlad 3y ago
The question is why egress costs this much in the first place though. All cloud providers pay for the aggregate bandwidth, but its cost seems substantially lower than what they charge for the traffic volume: https://blog.cloudfla
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by dinvlad 3y ago
It seems they're already using compression at least for some assets, though a bit unclear which algo it is: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundations-financial-su...
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by dinvlad 3y ago
There’s a Snowball device for this kind of migration, which would be much cheaper.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
This is also important if one wants to grow in their career. It’s hard to grow in a position that is only asked to do what they’re told. As a result, they won’t progress to a higher-level position and will lose money in the long-term. In ot
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by dinvlad 3y ago
As a matter of fact I do, if you read my comments in other threads, before jumping to conclusions without knowing me. Regardless, I flagged your comment since it really doesn’t follow HN etiquette on respectful arguments.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
I won't engage any further. I see that I won't be able to convince you in the opposite, so there's no reason for me to try to "defend" my argument :-) And your "command" is kinda rude, regardless.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
As said, I won't argue with pessimism here, but I think there're equally as many (if not more) causes for optimism ;)
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Exactly! And this applies not just to the writers, but any (and I mean Any) job out there - 10x-ing human output would just mean 10x more work could be done with the same amount if resources (including time and cynically, people), so a comp
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by dinvlad 3y ago
There’s only so much information content that exists on the Internet. There’s a limit to it, and one cannot simply produce more info once that limit is reached, it goes against the entropy so to speak. And then, “garbage in - garbage out”.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Temporarily, maybe, until misguided decision makers realize they could not feasibly replace people with a half-baked ‘AI’. And I do think we (the community lurking on HN) are living in a huge bubble - there’re so many more jobs out there th
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by dinvlad 3y ago
I think you're severely overestimating the abilities of this "AI" and underestimating the abilities of the human mind here :-) However, if you'd like to be pessimistic on it I won't argue, I have that tendency too ;
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Well, we have to work with what we have :-) It would be highly unlikely that something new violates the established trends over thousands of years. It's not surprising that the human race has survived for this long - we always find way
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Fortunately or not, history has shown time and time again that Parkinson's law still holds - work will always fill the allotted time. Pretty much the only way to decrease it is to mandate fewer working hours, like is starting to be don
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Very good insights! Just watched an interview with another writer last night (Simon Winchester), sharing your thoughts on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfOy6puBm6U
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Pretty much :-) Text generation (and rudimental comprehension) is perceived to be a sign of higher intelligence, simply because it's our natural human UI. Ironically, we tend to limit our imagination on what _we_ could do that computer
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by dinvlad 3y ago
This is discounting our innate ability to come up with new levels of abstraction, which happened so many technological revolutions before.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
The funny part comes when it won't be able to be improved anymore because of regurgitating its own content all over.
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by dinvlad 3y ago
Nah, it’ll be just a new, higher level of abstraction (and provided we even solve the hallucination problem, which is not a given). Engelbart’s and Parkinson’s laws at it once again. In other words, the new work fill the same time, and we’l
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by dinvlad 3y ago
That, and also NixOS - I’m discovering it for myself now, and it’s been a revelation! Configuring absolutely everything declaratively from scratch, even the disk partitions - a dream for reproducibility. It even has configurable “micro-VMs”
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by dinvlad 3y ago
I think you might both be right about this. But then, all the more power to the open-source models and UIs, which are unrestricted, free to use, have better UX, and are constantly improving [1]. Ergo the suspicion there might be something e
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by dinvlad 3y ago
There’s traceable.ai, for one (not affiliated, but testing it). I’d say none of traditional ML products are very good, at all (at least among the ones available publicly). Most of them are just snake oil. But I’d err on the side of plausibi
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by dinvlad 3y ago
I like to preserve skepticism here as well, though probably blaming them won’t help the issue. But absolutely agreed, just listened to Gary Marcus’s podcast episode on how LLMs are already capable of making dad jokes, but they can’t do neit

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