economistbob

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by economistbob 4mo ago
And therein is the problem most perfectly expressed. He prompted that all the data should be real and validated and then simply trusted that it was. That was for a data driven project. People will do that for countless things, even crit
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by economistbob 4mo ago
Any text forums these days has the grokenspiels played by sloppenheimers. It feels like a literature cross between Punk'd and Crank Yankers but stars clanker wankers rather than TV and movie celebrities.
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by economistbob 4mo ago
Runs on Apple's private cloud compute, but is not available to Apple... That seems like a contradiction.
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by economistbob 4mo ago
They see "thin is in" and I see remote servers now watching everything on your screen or within audio visual range. Eventually the only jobs will be at the intel agencies watching the data feeds from all the rabble so they can as
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by economistbob 4mo ago
No till farming is probably helping. I learned this year what that really means by seeing farms where they spray herbicide to kill the plants,then they plant new seed while the old dead is still standing around. They then use herbicide a
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by economistbob 5mo ago
Enron was 7th.
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by economistbob 5mo ago
The Neo success is heavily about Microsoft grabbing all the data and syncing everything to their servers and using dark patterns. The macbook neo is antiWindows not anti PC. The new Dell is nice, but it runs Windows so all that data grab
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by economistbob 5mo ago
Excess deaths occured in the vaccinated rather than the unvaccinated. N =20 million using single payer data: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12095670/
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by economistbob 5mo ago
Deliberately combining hallucinations with a smaller fund of localized knowledge with which to spot said hallucinations seems like a bad business decision.
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by economistbob 5mo ago
I ran Qwen 14b distillation of Deepseek locally once and created a console app and recoiled in horror at how powerful those things are. The problem is that humans are not designed for default deny mental processing, and so I am not optimis
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by economistbob 5mo ago
Economics analysis was wrong for years in multiple place thanks to an error in one of Piketty's spreadsheets. AI hallucinates. That is a fact. Trusting language models to fill spreadsheet cells ought to be an arrestable offense. htt
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by economistbob 5mo ago
I know I always dreamed of running my own business that someone could turn off with a simple switch flip at the drop of a hat whenever they decided. Serfdom and sharecropping is grand. /Sarcasm
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by economistbob 5mo ago
So, we have stainless, which means Linux code that never rusted. Now we need someone to make phosphorus so that we can turn rusty code into old iron. Then GPL fans can run Rust boxes, Stainless machines, or future proofed iron work hors
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by economistbob 6mo ago
What we need is completely walled garden during the ER sign in process where the patient tells what they think the problem is. The things proceed as normally. We need some data to know if the patients are leas than fifty percent accurat
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by economistbob 6mo ago
It already starts with subject verb object agreement errors in the article. The model is not from 1930. I could sense the psychosis forming so I had to bail out after seeing the deceit. Generating text based on old content is not an LLM
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by economistbob 6mo ago
That discussion has a quote about querying the LLM for version information. If the models hallucinate/make up court citations, work and facts, what makes them believe that the model provided a genuine version number as opposed to an
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by economistbob 7mo ago
The status legibility lesson is priceless, and even more so now that the portion of Sociopaths has grown dramatically, so that many "losers" are now dark triad types.
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by economistbob 7mo ago
The world very much is a Red Queen Race if your country has a program to import Indian tech workers. The only way to leave the Red Queen race in such countries is to abandon your career field and work in food service or retail instead.
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by economistbob 8mo ago
Yes. In my view, the negative payoff from getting locked out of a machine due to a key file mishap is more severe than the payoff of typing passwords all the time. I also use machines of various distributions and eras, and so the configur
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by economistbob 8mo ago
My consumer grade routers cannot handle all that fancy VLAN stuff. Thanks for mentioning that.
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by economistbob 8mo ago
I had organized neighbors who broke WPA3 using tools, i disabled downgrade to WPA2 and they still broke it. I had one that setup an evil twin to catch my Linux login They stole the IP of one of boxes so they could get my login, and joine
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by economistbob 8mo ago
I run a website, video game servers, and Nextcloud. I have the nextcloud set to only allow access from my IP. It has to be open to the world with a domain name so I can use LetsEncrypt certs so it cannot only use private ip addresses whic
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by economistbob 8mo ago
It requires disassociating and reassociating to the MAC so it requires two, which would cause a denial of service one would notice while watching it. Whether they can denial of service their way to the key, while someone is not actively w
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by economistbob 8mo ago
I just read the paper, and my take is that practically every home wifi user can now get pwned since most WiFi routers use the same SSID and 2.4 and 5Ghz. It can even beat people using Radius authentication, but they did not deep dive on th
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by economistbob 10mo ago
Are they trying to make AI outputs copywritreable? If so, the deal is dispicable.
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by economistbob 10mo ago
FTPs used to have anonymous logins unless one was on a LAN, so sniffing passwords was not very relevant.