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by dvt 4mo ago
I saw, I'm just re-emphasizing/clarifying.
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by dvt 4mo ago
> Following the same logic, is there a fair difference between pure training and reoffering? This is the kind of hair-splitting that I was trying to avoid (because, at the end of the day, there is no functional difference, is md5 okay,
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by dvt 4mo ago
> Your argument boils down to: companies haven't respected copyright or user consent for a long time, so why should we now care? This is not a very charitable take. My argument is: that cat is out of the bag, so what do we do next
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by dvt 4mo ago
Google started indexing copyrighted data without consent in 1999, Yahoo in 1994. Absolute delusion to think that ChatGPT is the one that broke consent.
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by dvt 4mo ago
> At some point, the entire tech industry saw ChatGPT and fell into a collective psychosis and decided that this, this is the next big thing, and that we must pull out the stops to ensure the prophecy is fulfilled of generative AI/L
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by dvt 4mo ago
Super cool shader toy! Semi-related, but my favorite demo ever (a tiny 64k Heaven Seven[1]) was fully coded in extremely esoteric assembly and used all kinds of mind-blowing tricks. There's a blog post written about it somewhere by a
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by dvt 4mo ago
Obviously you're trying to be snarky, but I hope you realize that Congress does, in fact, have (fairly broad) statutory authority over executive agencies[1]. [1] https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45442
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by dvt 4mo ago
> the current political direction of the United States These kinds of comments reek echo-chamber parroting and zero substantive research. As someone that very much enjoys and carefully follows politics, the current political direction po
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by dvt 4mo ago
> I argue "cleverness" is a learned and honed skill by exposure and exercise. Even if I were to concede this point, it's certainly not honed by the kind of exercise that OP is advertising. We are deep in Max Howell's
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by dvt 4mo ago
Engineering has never been, nor will it ever be, about "repetition" or "memorization." This is a relatively new fable invented by those that have participated in ritualistic interview hazing. Imo, there are, broadly spea
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by dvt 4mo ago
In the last decade, the software engineering industry has turned into a grift that has pushed out hundreds of thousand of low-quality "engineers" through coding bootcamps or online courses. Many of these people have no passion for
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by dvt 4mo ago
Both the Leiden Declaration[1] as well as Commelin et al.'s announcement (Shaping the Future of Mathematics in the Age of AI)[2] are completely common-sense pieces, neither overstating the power of AI nor understating the capability of
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by dvt 4mo ago
We've been flooded with "AGI is 6 months away!" for a few years now, mostly by Anthropic/OAI/XAI, which is clearly nonsensical hype. Also, almost everyone has been walking back their previous claims that "AI wi
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by dvt 4mo ago
Calling my position stoic is kind of goofy imo (and fwiw, I personally find AI to be a pretty useful tool), but I'm not going to reply to some drive-by account literally made just to troll me.
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by dvt 4mo ago
> pushed for by the same fucking people who caused our societies smartphone addiction Not sure where you live, but I would guess the West (where we have the luxury to be worried about "smartphone addiction"). I assure you that
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by dvt 4mo ago
I think Terry Tao is a great litmus test for AI zealotry (both pro- and anti-). Just in this thread, we have people twisting themselves into knots about how he "sold out" or "not doing math the right way" or whatever. To
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by dvt 4mo ago
Even if it was just prompting, not sure how that takes away from the final, fairly polished, product. How do you define "actual engineering"?
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by dvt 4mo ago
For me, rendering was just a nice-to-have.
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by dvt 4mo ago
Using lopdf[1] for PDF parsing, rtf-parser[2] for RTF, calamine[3] for XLSX, and I'm sure you know that DOCX/PPTX/etc. is basically just a zip file of XML + text. The LLM cares about textual data (which just gets moderately c
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by dvt 4mo ago
Super cool. Working on a local AI tool specifically for document workflow automation (where context = screen/web/folders/files), and this could come in super useful. I do most of the PDF/DOCX/etc. parsing natively i
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by dvt 4mo ago
I do have a 3090 Ti on my gaming PC, but even my old M1 MBP (with a mere 32gb of RAM) is quite competent and can run a quantized `Gemma4-26B-A4B` in the background while I do other stuff.
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by dvt 4mo ago
> Even at non VC subsidized $/token prices, its still much cheaper to run cloud based models. On a price-per-wattage level, this is not true, people have done the math on /r/LocalLLaMA many times over[1]. Local models, whi
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by dvt 4mo ago
AI future is clearly local, and my recent pitch has been "infinite tokens." Because that's what my M1 MBP can do; and that's what my RTX3090 can do. I don't need to pay hundreds of dollars a month and no one else do
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by dvt 4mo ago
From the article: "I’ll probably never be a snowboarder at all [...] I’d love to take snowboarding lessons." It doesn't seem like he even snowboarded a day in his life.
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by dvt 4mo ago
Athletes, artists, entrepreneurs say "this has been my dream" all the time when achieving something superlative. But you qualified with "necessarily" so I guess technically you're correct, but it would be kinda&#x27
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by dvt 4mo ago
> And yet, somehow, the more years go by, the more rarely I watch snowboarding videos. I'd argue that snowboarding wasn't author's "dream" to begin with. I think it's reductive and unfair to compare your &qu
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by dvt 4mo ago
Calling liminalism the "defining" aesthetic of our time is a bit much (though I get the article is trying to hitch its wagon to the Backrooms, aka the "current popular thing"). It's an aesthetic microniche, about as
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by dvt 4mo ago
Literally working on a product that does this, hah :) I really do think that AI + automation + carefully-designed guardrails will unleash a deluge of productivity for normies, and we've barely scratched the surface. The state of AI app
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by dvt 4mo ago
It's always the most insufferable people that make the biggest hullabaloo about a project they have nothing to do with and have never contributed to. People with literally zero skin in the game using the AI boogeyman to push some agend
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by dvt 4mo ago
I'm not a psychologist or a mental health professional, but I think that this might serve a similar purpose as journaling. It's obvious that AI can't "fix your problems," but just writing stuff down can help us proc

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