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by dsign 1y ago
My mom has complained her entire life about the Sahara sands, which, according to her, cross the Atlantic and find our home in the Caribbean. But the first time I visited the Canary Islands, there was a Calima blowing, and sand was in the a
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by dsign 1y ago
I have toyed with the idea of climate change causing the African monsoon to go all the way up to the Mediterranean coast in the next few decades. The Qattara depression would start filling and maybe have a very interesting years of swamp-li
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by dsign 1y ago
When AGI is achieved, it will be able to make the predictions. And everything else. And off we the humans go to the reserve.
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by dsign 1y ago
Without any hard data about anything, this is just a speculative rant. Go and read my books if you want one of those. But I do agree on one thing: we are lacking a new frontier, a meaningful one. My hope for the years I have left is to see
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by dsign 1y ago
:-) That's a very American way of thinking, believing that you have the monopoly on bad logic. My data shows that you only got the razor-thin trade surplus there in the last few years.
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by dsign 1y ago
Slightly meta, when looking from outside, reading here feels like having your friends in the much-bigger-than-the-Titanic ship comment on it while the ship that was the emblem of the world sinks. The worst part of it is that every person ou
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by dsign 1y ago
This piece of the puzzle, and its finding, if confirmed, is very neat. But I think we are barking at the wrong tree, because senescence is inherently chaotic. Sometimes we identify a disease with a set of common symptoms because there are m
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by dsign 1y ago
Maybe Moore's law is dead, but its sister about the doubling of the computing hunger every year seems to be well and fine. And wait until we get bored of using GPUs to make artists starve and finally leverage AI for something fundament
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by dsign 1y ago
I have this idea that a lot of issues we are having today are not with concrete thing X, but with concrete thing X running amok in this big, big world of ours. Take AI for example: give a self-aware, slightly evil AI to physically and news-
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by dsign 1y ago
It's about false advertising: they say "our product gets images like this and that", which is Okay and something the buyer uses to base their decision. And there is an expectation that their product will do as advertised. But
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by dsign 1y ago
I have a washing machine that won't let me use it fully without installing an app that asks for permission to track my GPS coordinates at all time, in my phone. HomeWhiz.There should be a law against selling new hardware that demands
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by dsign 1y ago
You are correct, Haskell has quite a few mutex-like types. MVar is one of them. However, if memory serves me right, TVar is a building block for the transactional memory subsystem. The guard on TVar with, say, modifyTVar is not really stopp
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by dsign 1y ago
There is a bias there in action: we are assuming that the entire world is like this thing we just happen to be thinking about. It is not. Even if it were just a minority, there are plenty of people outside "this thing" that will p
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by dsign 1y ago
Indeed. Even a bad VFX artist has so much more control over what they do. I think that the day "text-to-video" reaches the level of control that said bad VFX artist has from week one, it will be because we have sentient AIs which
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by dsign 1y ago
> So far the only products spawning from these tools are tiktok/general internet spam companies. Help me here. If tiktok becomes filled with these, will it mean that watching tiktok "curated" algorithmic results will be a
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by dsign 1y ago
> Nordic countries are made of homogeneous populations Once upon a time, it was so. Today, not so much. If that's a good or a bad thing, it's an entirely different can of worms. I think diversity in the Nordics is beautiful, bu
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by dsign 2y ago
Coat the carrots in chocolate? One can always do as in "The good place" show: put a bunch of hotties to talk about and play with moral philosophy. I think the show was somewhat evil in that approach, but at the same time, it was a
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by dsign 2y ago
> Ai will destroy critical thinking in our youths I don't think that's the argument the article was making. It was, to my understanding, a more nuanced question about if we want to destroy or severely disturb systems at equilib
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by dsign 2y ago
I haven't been familiar with trade wars before Trump. What I don't understand is what there is to win for the EU by suddenly imposing its own tariffs... that will slow down its own economy, even possibly cause social unrest. If US
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by dsign 2y ago
"Retaliatory tariffs" is one of those things I don't understand but I'm afraid to ask.
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by dsign 2y ago
"Impartial news"? Here is a fringe position of mine which I'll be happy for you to turn to shreds, or at least illuminate: rational consensus is being stabbed to death. If we are to live in democracy, we need consensus to be
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by dsign 2y ago
That's actually a valid point. I stand corrected.
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by dsign 2y ago
You want to block subjectivity? Write some formulas. There are three questions to consider: a) Have we, without any reasonable doubt, hit a wall for AI development? Emphasis on "reasonable doubt". There is no reasonable doubt tha
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by dsign 2y ago
I certainly don't understand enough of economics, but: - If everything overnight costs 20% more for the American consumer, it equals 20% less disposable income and less purchasing power. - US companies, even the few ones not directly a
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by dsign 2y ago
I guess depends on the task? I have very low expectations for Gemini, but I gave it a run with a signal processing easy problem and it did well. It took 30 seconds to reason through a problem that would have taken me between 5 to 10 minutes
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by dsign 2y ago
Hm? I had a great college education. The professors were good, and we were all piss-poor and wanted to move up in life. Our college was (still is) in a corner of the world you never think anything good about, not in general, less so academi
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by dsign 2y ago
The part about no good definitions of micro-services is a bit far-fetched. I have one that is perfectly functional, though it requires an architect who is enthusiastic about micro-services, hasn't written any code in at least ten years
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by dsign 2y ago
I really want to learn Houdini. Their pricing model is not even that bad (just 200 USD/year if you are indie), but even that is a hurdle when the alternative (Blender) is free and so good (or just plain better) for the 98% of what I wa
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by dsign 2y ago
No, across history and geography people are caught doing "unexplainable" things--and I use this word because I don't want to sound offensive--time and again. Here are a few examples: - The expulsion of the English from Havan
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by dsign 2y ago
Some editors want to simplify everything a lot. I can heard the hypothetical editor in this case: "aerobic life" -> "what's aerobic? Too complicated Joe. I'm gonna red-pen it. Write just 'life'. See? Be

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