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by drdaeman 2y ago
> "The stated goal of Aadhaar is noble, of giving every individual an identity, ..." [Semi-offtopic] Just my favorite pet peeve: Identity cannot be given - it's an inherent, innate property of the individual. Or a group.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Speaking of the devil - I've just had hallucinations with Ollama and reader-lm model (converting HTML to Markdown) the other day. In 40% of cases it spew out things that weren't in the input (not exactly surprising, knowing that i
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by drdaeman 2y ago
In a sane world, it should be as easy as sending them a counter-notice and if they decide to escalate, sending a cardboard cutout of yourself to the court with a printed "no copyrighted materials (except for some screenshots, which is
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It's not exactly about the privacy in public, though. YMMV, but I'm 101% fine if a camera looks at me and a machine processes the image. What matters is what happens afterwards. Heck, I want an aid like that - my built-in wetware
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Unfortunately, there aren't any concrete examples (unless I skipped something accidentally), so it's hard to tell what exactly is meant as "does more" or that it doesn't "stand out of the way" etc. Yes, sy
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Doing anything with "apple-level" polish and reliability on current-gen LLMs is a challenge. Never stopped them from presenting and shipping previous Siri "updates" that haven't made Siri even remotely usable o
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> can’t value humanity as it should be It's hard to see a value in humanity when most of the globe is a giant dumpster fire. We currently have: 1. United States, a corporate-owned two-party clusterfuck, potentially on a brink of fai
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by drdaeman 2y ago
What do you think is much more common, people swimming deep with (or drowning, or otherwise submerging - deep enough so higher ratings start to matter aka not just phone falling in a sink) their phones, or people looking to replace a batter
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Can't we record the original download timings and replicate them artificially, with some noise added for privacy? Of course, with reasonable upper latency threshold (derived from overall network performance metrics) to prevent DoS on c
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Exactly! I wouldn't mind a good novel application of machine learning that does something that can benefit me. But a dedicated chatbot button to open a website in a sidebar, or, worse, spending resources on proxying requests to OpenAI&
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Ah, that's cool if it's better than other browsers' reader modes. I'm currently on GNU/Linux so I don't have this option, and none of the browsers that I know about have anything actually usable as a daily driv
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by drdaeman 2y ago
At this point it should be possible to just read the page and extract only actually meaningful and relevant information (+ navigation bits) from it, effectively presenting a "reader mode"-like view instead of the original page con
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Given that this whole "AI" integration shtick is minimal effort thing with negligibly small value (if any), I suspect it was either an attempt to just ride on "AI" hype (certainly didn't work, feedback comments are
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Well, they surely aren't committing seppuku. No such thing as a corporate honor or shame, only business interests. At least, not with any large corporations. And this status quo needs to change. Too much power and information disparity
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately. Not just popups. We need browsers to die and be reborn as User Agents again. Currently the best browsers do is some translation and summarization, but there's currentl
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by drdaeman 2y ago
I strongly disagree, but I feel that the conversation would be pointless fight of beliefs, unless I actually design and showcase a solution that would be simple yet secure (and I don't want anything that takes effort) - but that will t
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Most people do not want to do this Yes, and I think that's not because they don't want to do it but because: 1) they don't know that they should do this; 2) they don't know why should they do this; 2) they don'
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Uh, well, in context of crypto - your (self-owned) crypto wallet totally would work. As for email... Sure, I guess it depends on the service and their policies. But here's an anecdote. A few years ago, I've managed to log in in to
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> [...] the "lose your key, lose your wallet" thing is fundamentally incompatible with real users. Humans need to be able to recover from their mistakes. Maybe it's my memory playing tricks, or I've only seen the good
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> Anything more complex For sure, LLMs aren't good at designing things, so accepting large pieces of code is not just risky of having subtle bugs but more likely that it's not going to work at all. But anything complex is made
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by drdaeman 2y ago
How so? I treat LLMs just as a fancier keyboard for near-boilerplate. When I give a prompt I know what I want them to output, cycle completions until I get a snippet that looks close enough to my liking, then edit it to fit. Super helpful.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
LLMs don't replace developers. The difference is that a junior can reason, while a LLM fundamentally can't (although they can mimic reason by parroting, and sometimes do it really well). LLMs are good aide for developers of all sk
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by drdaeman 2y ago
Almost nobody hires junior developers, and those who do have the minimum requirement is 5+ full-stack YoE with 3+ YoE with RDBMS and 2+ YoE of instrumentation, monitoring and DevOps. I kid you not, it's a real junior-level position des
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> The matrices you describe are the sense doors. I rather meant the logic gates ;) Or, more seriously, I was talking about the parts of the brain that handle language and reasoning, plus the memory bits. I’m surprised that you have added
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> If you just have a thing explained to you, you miss out on most of the learning benefit, and the understanding you end up with is shallow. Sorry, but I don't get this. Isn't this exactly what the teachers/lecturers and b
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It does its job: provides web results relevant to the query. At the moment it has acceptable signal-to-noise ratio (quality varies per-query, but it has higher chances of useful links than web spam), which is why people tend to say it'
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by drdaeman 2y ago
It becomes questionable if you’re halfway across the world from your safe.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> The world is not as the scientific rational model would have one believe. It's not the world that is not rational, it's humans' mind. Doesn't require higher powers, just a glitch in our own matrices.
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> but I could negotiate Negotiation means bidirectional communication, right? So... have you tried running any tests on that voice? I mean... I suspect everyone poked LLMs with a stick to some extent, probing their capabilities. I could
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by drdaeman 2y ago
> SQL has views. This, and it doesn't have to be SQL, a number of other databases have similar concepts. If you have a separate schema with views (in SQL terms), and the rest is either entirely walled off or available on a "you

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