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by djeastm 5mo ago
Ehhh, their incentive in their marketing is to get normal people to not be intimidated by the big bad AI. Power users are always going to have to take the messaging companies send out to the masses with a grain of salt.
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They provide an explanation for using the term "sleep": > In animals, the transfer from short-term memory to long-term memory is thought to be supported by hippocampal replay [33], especially during sleep [41]; in this phase, s
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In a mathematical model of collective intelligence I think we need to also include a "productive use" factor. The total brain power of our species might be higher than in the past based on a summation, but how much per-capita inte
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From the article: >This principle is fundamentally different from the effect of dimples on golf balls. Dimples reduce pressure resistance by intentionally turbulizing the airflow and suppressing backward separation. DMR, on the other han
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Relevant article posted on HN about this a few days ago: https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone
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>it was already downvote bombed in less than 10 minutes with no counter argument Your submissions to HN evince a pattern that suggests engagement with you would likely fall on deaf ears.
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IIRC, he spends a few pages talking about how Steve Jobs is going to be the ruin of Apple
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SpaceX probably spends a lot of money on marketing/public relations creating great media. I'm guessing NASA's on a shoestring budget for that kind of thing.
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>I think the only real case to be made is that AI's sense of immediate pleasure can neuter people away from running into friction. AI natives likely won't understand friction and question it. This is key, I think, and gets over
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I'd be interested in hearing your experiences. Are we talking mob association? Arm-breaking thugs?
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As long as they're behind a wall that AI bots can't reach and suck all of the authoritative information out and then starve of visitors.
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Isn't that a Woody Allen joke?
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Looking at token usage at places like OpenRouter as a proxy for overall production we're looking at exponential growth in AI-created content. Weekly token usage there has tripled just in the past 3 months.
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Maybe the pelican has something heavy in its mouth.
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I think there will always be a free tier that they'll be willing to use. Even if it sounds hackneyed, those folks will still use it because many people are not discerning readers anyway.
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Help the younger generations find the same fun you did. That's where satisfaction is often found as we age.
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As long as it's under the budget for X number of senior software devs, it seems competitive.
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Maybe the professional devs, but not the vibecoders
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>as far as we can see If only there were a way to see more of Scott's thoughts on the subject of AI..
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What does their being Jewish have anything to do with anything?
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>2M lines of C++ Even with a git history, wouldn't that only be maybe a few hundred MB?
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That might be the reason for the investment in education in Africa. Start opening up the gates for more immigration to replace their aging workforce
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And yet a Top 10 school like University of Chicago has apparently not been able to fix that problem. That's telling in and of itself.
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> by weighing grading more towards in-class quizzes and tests The piece discusses blue book tests where students were still cheating with their phones providing AI responses
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It sounds to me like how I'd imagine a Philosophy student at the University of Chicago would write.
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> In 1915 an analysis of Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment by the US Bureau of Chemistry showed it to ‘consist principally of a light mineral oil mixed with about 1 per cent of fatty oil (probably beef fat), capsicum, and possibly a trace of
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This happened before AI when a guy wrote a key tool in some random language a decade ago and the rest of us were left to maintain it. We somehow managed.
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In the article (AP one, at least) Google explicitly said it does not believe it was Gemini or Mythos.
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At least in the US, the only major non-AI growth field seems to be healthcare to deal with the swell of baby boomers living longer than people have before. But if we're waiting to be paid to retrain there, I wouldn't hold our coll
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When it was Copilot tab-completing lines, people would say, "yea, but you still have to make sure you're the one writing the whole functions". Then when it was completing functions, people would say, "yeah, but you still

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