doe_eyes

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by doe_eyes 2y ago
People are obsessed with LLMs because they can be applied to unstructured data and produce human-like outputs, so they are applicable to vastly more processes with vastly less oversight. The kinds of "AI" you're describing ha
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
But that's not a given. We conduct ourselves differently at work and in private life. Further, workplace processes are often designed to minimize bias. And here, we have a system that is trained on content that's two rungs above 4
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> In all cases the bias originates from human behaviour. The one advantage of AI being used is that now that bias is surfaced. I think that's an odd way to look at it. The bias originates from the training data, which was what - idl
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
My city has extensive education and occupational licensing requirements if you want to work at a nail care salon. The assumption that bureaucracies left to their own devices always reach an optimum state and then stop expanding is pretty ha
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
There is a reasonable argument for a regulatory agency to make sure that the peddlers of medication are not selling you something that needlessly will harm you. There is a weaker but still defensible argument that they should stop others fr
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I read the report, and while the practices are inexcusably shoddy, I am struggling to see anything to substantiate the poster's core claim that Apple was handling "extremely dangerous" chemicals at the site and that they coul
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
A computer or a home that uses more energy has externalities for others that certainly aren't covered by your electricity bills alone. Taxpayers pay for new power plants, everybody pays for emissions, etc. Almost everything has externa
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> Disingenuous as heck. I've literally never seen a modern non-commercial regular cab, standard bed F-150. Far more likely the people in question are driving massive SuperCrew cabs. These start at about $44,000. I was responding to
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Huh? We tolerate it pretty much everywhere else. You can buy a 2,000 sq ft home, even though you could live in a 500 sq ft condo. You can buy a computer more powerful than needed for work. You can buy Apple instead of Dell, even though the
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
There are two models with full-size four-door crew cabs and 8' beds, and they can work in most US suburbs. I think it's less about whether it's manageable and more about the aesthetics. The front-rear proportions on 8' t
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Honda Civic is $24,000. Ford F-150 is $36,000. These are representative prices for popular budget choices. And that baseline F-150 isn't a behemoth. It's 209" long and 76" tall. That's just 10" longer and talle
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> We show that the appearance of LLM-based writing assistants has had an unprecedented impact in the scientific literature, surpassing the effect of major world events such as the Covid pandemic. I'm not quite sure this follows. At
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Hold up. To the best of our knowledge, ChatGPT isn't trained on the behavior of HR departments - or really, it isn't trained on a whole lot of real-world behavioral data at all. It's trained on books, Wikipedia, Reddit, and s
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> LLMs aren't trained for accuracy This assertion in the article doesn't seem right at all. When LLMs weren't trained for accuracy, we had "random story generators" like GPT-2 or GPT-3. The whole breakthrough wit
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
But isn't this goalpost shifting actually reasonable ? We discovered this nearly-magical technology. But now the novelty is wearing off, and the question is no longer "how awesome is this?". It's "what can I do wit
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The heads were very lightweight, and defragmentation algorithms were supposed to make sure that the heads seldom had to move far. Far more energy was wasted spinning the platters. And the benefit of the old system was that you only needed o
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Yes, this seemed pretty striking to me: the author clearly wanted the LLM to perform well. They started with a problem for which solutions are pretty much readily available on the internet, and then provided a pretty favorable take on the
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I played quite a bit with AI photo detection tools, and they definitely trigger on high-quality portraits with bokeh and specific color mood-setting combinations that are overused by generative models (e.g., orange-teal or orange-purple). A
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The second point of that article - that with creative accounting, 10%-recycled material turns into a small batch of "100%-recycled" material and a large pile of "0%-recycled" material - is kind of funny. Although it&#x27
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
North Korea seems like a flimsy example because it's an international pariah, and their reach in the West is essentially limited to hacking you. It's a fairly uncommon situation that's quite different from decisions made by t
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
This is the advantage of being small enough to fly under the radar, more than the advantage of federation. It's also why Signal can get away with approaches that would have gotten any Big Tech player testifying in front of the Congress
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I like the idea. If you're a startup that's losing money, you can get paid by the government to commit crime?
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
And we keep falling for it, too. Folks on HN and elsewhere are fawning over Fusion360, despite Autodesk having a long history of being worse than Adobe and pulling the rug on individual features more than once. People spend thousands of d
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The only graph in that article that shows a strong trend supporting the thesis is the first one - essentially, "movies that are remakes or sequels to previous movies". It goes from 25% in the 1980s to ~80% today. But doesn't
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Probably some Paypal or AdWords ToS with their vague prohibitions on "hacking tools".
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Eh. For the most part, the trainings can be taken at face value. Even if the management's dealings with governments and partners are questionable, no company wants random employees accepting personal kickbacks from vendors. There'
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Lenovo Thinkpads have traditionally been a pretty safe choice for Linux, probably because they're popular with Linux devs. Pretty sure what's what Google buys for their corporate Linux laptops too. If you buy something like a Dell
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I know this is going to be unpopular on HN, but I think there's this "environmentalist inertia effect" on display when it comes to stuff like that. A lot of the early industrial chemistry was pretty terrible for you and deser
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The rate of work-related moves is half of what it used to be in the 1960s. By all accounts, mobility is decreasing, not increasing. The reality is that we just don't talk to each other much. If you want to look for the decline of one i
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The evolution of firearms is quite interesting because it reflects centuries of progress in chemistry, metallurgy, mechanical design, warfare, and so on. You can definitely tell a compelling story and keep going for a good while. The proble

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