emiliobumachar

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by emiliobumachar 19d ago
I really like the chessbot analogy. I cannot predict its next move - that's intrinsic in not being as good at chess as it. I can predict it will win.
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by emiliobumachar 1mo ago
What?? The predator is after a meal, not up for doing harm for harm's sake.
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by emiliobumachar 2mo ago
Piling on. Why? Are class sizes that different? US and China have many more professors too, is it not proportional?
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by emiliobumachar 4mo ago
I heard the old batteries, when giving high current would depress voltage long enought to trigger the shutdown, plausibly long enough to mess up the processor if it didn't shut down, but could genuinely give a lower current for a long
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by emiliobumachar 6mo ago
"size of a machine divided by the smallest critical engineered component of the machine" Computer processors probably take that cake.
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by emiliobumachar 7mo ago
"BotXPTO has been trained with the entire internet circa 2026" is arguably attribution enough.
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by emiliobumachar 7mo ago
As I understand it, the anti-AI stance of open source software people in particular has nothing to do with AI learning from code bases, and everything to do with AI slop clogging all unrestricted community feedback channels.
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by emiliobumachar 8mo ago
This is conflating two entirely different claims pretty hard: - The old point that AI speech isn't real or doesn't count because they're just pattern matching. Nothing new here. - That many or most cool posts are by humans im
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by emiliobumachar 8mo ago
Might be a tool against them. Note that Mt. Everest isn't on the list. If the Earth was flat, all the tallest peaks would be seeable from one another unless a specific peak taller than one of them was exactly in the way.
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by emiliobumachar 11mo ago
Semantically, it sounds like anyone who develops for a big company, normally an employee or contractor.
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by emiliobumachar 1y ago
Okay, I'm more then halfway through and still don't get what DSL is an acronym for. Any light?
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by emiliobumachar 1y ago
Hum, I remember it as "What about now, Mr M?" ("E agora, Mr. M?")
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
It wouldn't, but, if the vendor somehow made it require one, despite the very impressive technical feat, I'd feel cheated. Robbed, even.
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
My toilet doesn't officially support crapping without an internet connection either. I'd argue that in both cases it's implicit unless very explicitly disclaimed.
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
Turning it over seems unnecessary. Good point overall, though.
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
Might be a hardcoded date and time. Does the legit pager messaging network give the time? If not, continually powered digital clocks drift slowly.
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Why no dialog-only subtitles?
3 points by emiliobumachar 2y ago|2 comments
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
Very cool concept, congratulations! I do have two bugs to report. 1) I only see static until I fiddle with the mute button, which makes the image work besides working as expected. As soon as I change channel, all static again until I hit mu
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
Startup idea: online text editor that logs every keystroke and blockchains a hash of all logs every day. If you're accused of AI use, you can pull up the whole painstaking writing process and prove it's real.
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
I find it contentful enough, but yeah, it doesn't get into the "how" of science and engineering at all.
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by emiliobumachar 2y ago
Crap. Most of the substitutes have a bigger ecological footprint, even if you don't care at all about cost and comfort. Those reusable shopping bags need to be actually reused , several dozen if not hundreds of times, to be ecologic
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
Sounds unappetizing. Would you want to eat packaging if not for the - for now inevitable - digestion issues?
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
One can be surprised by the traffic increase. "When I moved here 25 years ago, there was one flight in the morning and one in the afternoon. Now it's every 5 minutes from 6 am to 10 pm and they're trying to extend it post 10
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
I'd classify that as "broken, but easily repairable". Maybe I'm a spoiled desk jockey, but if I'm "dismantling" anything that size and weight, I ain't just cleaning it.
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
Sex toy. Definitely sex toy.
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
How would you decide which hopeful customer gets it? A line? Draw sticks? Willingness to do chores for you? Ostensive praise? If I really want the widged but really can't stand in line for long enough, is it okay to hire someone to wai
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
Videocalls. Straight out of The Jetsons.
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
Insecure IOT has the huge externality of providing muscle to criminal botnets, though.
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
How does it breathe in there?
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by emiliobumachar 3y ago
It does count as properly attributing the idea, yes. It doesn't count as having it. Possibly the Fields Medal suggestion assumed it was his?

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