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by dsign 3y ago
It's not ChatGPT what we should be putting in our forecasts, but its successors. And, from what I have been reading, our AI folk are coming with better performers all the time by chaining multiple neural networks, "making modular
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by dsign 3y ago
I work with readers and editors sometimes. They get swollen and puffy when they see numbers, though they will swallow their pain if it’s a scientific article. Otherwise they will complain loudly and the editors will use their red pens a lot
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by dsign 3y ago
You do. I used it like that for many years, until I could afford the PC version. The raspberry pi version is version-capped though, to whatever they have released up to that point for that platform.
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by dsign 3y ago
I think the parent is referring to the fact that LLMs and generative models are, for the time being, “creating new markets” and “creating new problems”, but not really solving any of the hard problems we already have. I see it this way: you
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by dsign 3y ago
I agree with this. Even their GPU drivers for gaming are bad, they get stuck at “basic” things like MPEG encoding. But I don’t understand why software is a problem for them with their deep pockets. It can’t possibly be dearth of talent, or
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by dsign 3y ago
I cherish the days I go to the office, the two hours commute each way. But that's because I do it about once or twice a month. And the rest of the week I need it to recover from all the strong emotions. Going to the office everyday wou
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by dsign 3y ago
> This phenomenon goes far beyond drugs. Contemporary society has explicit or implicit taboos on anything related to expanding or altering human consciousness, to the extent that such topics have essentially vanished from both the mainst
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by dsign 3y ago
I've been working on that for my hobby writing project. I'm using Elevenlabs' API and homegrown scripts to automate audio-generation and synchronization between text and audio. I have separate voices for the characters (and t
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by dsign 3y ago
Ha! Another one :-) ! We created a company that does something similar[^1]. The tech was great and the company is profitable, but the market is really, really tough, with incumbents (read: existent CDNs) playing all sort of "standard b
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by dsign 3y ago
>> They don't give you healthcare, do you think they will give you CASH like that??? Here is a tip: take no platitudes, and change your life in a way that works around your worst fears. The healthcare bit you can solve by emigrat
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by dsign 3y ago
I think the fault lays with the journalist, if they are the ones creating the faulty product. But, without the journalist, the public would have to learn to read scientific papers on their own, which they probably wouldn't do even if t
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by dsign 3y ago
When all is said and done, there is still an important metric to "gamify": the number of happy years lived. For me, all the others have to subordinate to that one.
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by dsign 3y ago
Here is how I try to get people enthusiastic about heat pumps: we need some really big heat pumps for some really big space habitats.
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by dsign 3y ago
This! There is a kafka-esq nature to all Microsoft products.
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by dsign 3y ago
Hmm, I was there right yesterday. I needed a track to go with a very particular side-project, and I was looking for somebody to arrange/design/sing the vocals. I’m 100% sure that a musician will always do a more musical job than m
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by dsign 3y ago
As a PhD and a hobby writer myself, I tend to put a lot of attention on first sentences. And it is something that all academics do, specially when submitting to the highest divinities, i.e. Science and Nature. The first sentence in the stru
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by dsign 3y ago
I've been wondering about a similar approach for biomolecular simulations, where exact computations are still a hard bottleneck. I wonder if something like this could give us a few orders of magnitude more speed.
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by dsign 3y ago
I imagine a world where the AIs will make it so that only very sociopathic humans remain in the Internet, and where finding any piece of truth will increasingly become difficult. And it won't stop there. Imagine you are a writer. How w
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by dsign 3y ago
For those who know, what is that interrogator thing?
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by dsign 3y ago
I don't get why we put up with political parties at all... is it to have somebody to blame, somebody who is not ourselves? Because, if it wasn't so, we would enact direct democracy, and the next time that a lobby group wants to po
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by dsign 3y ago
The question that interests me is how far are we from modelling a human cell, neuron or not? Because that's how we cure cancer.
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by dsign 3y ago
Well, I find that Doug Rushkoff is a great example of a man who spouses a philosophy for which I have no name, but that boils down to making people angry about those who abandon orthodox values. People like Dawkins. Dawkins is not wrong. If
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‘They’re afraid their AIs will come for them’: Rushkoff on tech billionaires(theguardian.com)
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by dsign 3y ago
I can't bother with ideas to productize this generation of AIs. But holly molly, imagine what anybody could do with an army of tireless, cheap, highly competent intellectual workers. It will be the end of the world as we know it.
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by dsign 3y ago
I love your comment. 71 years is less than the age of my mother. I for one expect the world to change a lot more in the coming 30 years than in the last 30 years. In fact, I expect that the speed of change will be so high that it will lead
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by dsign 3y ago
Why, I just read a book[^1] whose author gave personhood to lifted animals, and made everybody vegetarian. She also made everybody monogamous...even the moose. IMO, she could have written a better story if she hadn't been afraid of ove
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by dsign 3y ago
This is funny. It's "my son if it has my DNA" is the copyright equivalent of "it's my song if it has my chords." I can't resist: - "You got a copy of my DNA files. Then you had a child, and they look
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by dsign 3y ago
Things I learned from my startup: * Just don't. Life is too short. I would do it again, but only if it's to fix the second sentence above.
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by dsign 3y ago
From what I’m reading in the comments here, there is a ton of progress to be made by having more and cheaper computing to replace as much physical experimentation as possible. Ideally, we would have a gold, tabula-rasa SOTA benchmark that
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by dsign 3y ago
> In order to assess whether the thing I’m writing is good or not, it’s important for me to see what it would look like as a real book (or letter, or article, or whatever). This resonates. There is a part of the brain that engages bette

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