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by esjeon 4y ago
The inability to fully define a thing doesn't invalidate all attempts to set its outline. At least, it's easy to conclude that an intelligent being has to be able to reliably perform basic reasoning (given all the necessary inform
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by esjeon 4y ago
I'm quite sure even OpenAI themselves aren't sure if they can reproduce the current models from the scratch. Unless the computing becomes much more powerful and much cheaper, LLM is more or less a rocket science (i.e. hella expens
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by esjeon 4y ago
"Potential" is just a belief, and wielding it proves nor does nothing.
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by esjeon 4y ago
Welp, it's still a statistical model, and nothing is wrong with it. The only thing that's changed is that we now have a large-scale statistical method for extracting patterns out of a large corpus of highly complex data in short-e
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by esjeon 4y ago
Yeah, "AI" has been a marketing term for almost a decade. People who know better these days tend to avoid the term "AI" in professional contexts and use "model" instead. It's like "autopilot" fro
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by esjeon 4y ago
This is a good example of “this is great, so I’m gonna settle here”-type of people. They just stick to what’s popular today, without understanding it will become a past anyway. GPT is limited by its own design. The network is crude on the a
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by esjeon 4y ago
This is not entirely ludite. Massive AI models has to be trained on the massive amount of data from the internet, which is built by the entirety of the humankind. However, the profit from those models is not being systemically redistributed
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by esjeon 4y ago
This is not even a correct summary of the content of the post. I'm genuinely entertained by the sheer amount of shamelessness demonstrated here. Seriously, though, technology at wrong hands endorses bad behaviors.
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by esjeon 4y ago
> My favorite C code is the one that has no macros, as few of typedefs as possible, no acrobatics with alloca() or any platform-dependent stuff. You've just outlined a perfectly good subset of C. I'm pretty sure people who writ
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by esjeon 4y ago
NN can certainly assimilate a simple algorithm, and will be even able to do so for bigger and more complex algorithms. But I think it's mostly impractical in the current level of technology, especially in terms of speed, size, and ener
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by esjeon 4y ago
I also have never been able to count the number of people who make obviously invalid optimistic prediction without understanding the tech nor the limitation of the current paradigm. They don’t see the tech itself, but only see the recent de
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by esjeon 4y ago
> the latest iterations of "AI" are really good at making people believe it'll be there in 2 years. This rings me a lot. It feels like the current generation AI companies/projects have been rewarded for making people
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by esjeon 4y ago
Even when it worked, QC itself is not massively deployable right now. Agencies will be sucking their thumbs while everyone migrates to something stronger or even quantum-proof algorithms. No drama.
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by esjeon 4y ago
Yes, but, compared to higher level languages, idiomatic C++ is significantly unsafe and the difference b/w C and C++ gets scaled down to the point where it rounds to zero.
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by esjeon 4y ago
Not really a relevant thing to talk about here, but I find there's this trend in Linux ecosystem that people are explicitly implementing more and more policies on the code level instead of making flexible abstractions and data-fying us
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by esjeon 4y ago
We simply can't mechanically derive the underlying model strictly from facts. No amount of computation that transforms facts into other facts can reach the deeper layer of the truth. There's simply no logical nor mathematical conn
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by esjeon 4y ago
The traditional desktop is dead, but we’re getting app-based desktops - something look similar, but with completely different ecosystem from developer to consumer.
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by esjeon 4y ago
HN is biased in its own ways, and Nix is one of such topics. It’s way more over-represented here, and I barely hear anything Nix outside. Also, Nix (the tool) has always been independent of NixOS, so running it on something else isn’t a stu
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by esjeon 4y ago
IKR? I've been receiving such emails for a long time (and still receiving one every month), and this is not a new idea to me. I really wonder what's inherently different here, because I couldn't find one yet it's being h
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by esjeon 4y ago
Hmm, am I missing something here? Because I have been getting HTML files exactly like this for billing from my credit card company, for years and years. It's encrypted, and, when opened, accepts a simple password for decryption. No plu
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by esjeon 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it'll be running on a Chrome variant actually.
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by esjeon 4y ago
I agree. Markdown is way too much overrated as a multi purpose document format. I find it very limiting even w/ Obsidian. It would probably work well for some text-people, but anything more complicated than 1D character stream won&#x27
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by esjeon 4y ago
> AI will create more engineer jobs then it will destroy. I second this, but humanity will soon (or already have) hit the wall, because there are simply not enough talented people to work on them.
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by esjeon 4y ago
The time of Emacs/Linux is nigh.
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by esjeon 4y ago
Welp, I'm not entirely surprised. GPT-3 already understands programming " language ". It does know what should come after an expression, and also can process a certain amount of logic and context, which has been intensively d
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by esjeon 4y ago
I don't get why this is getting downvoted. (1) The half of the response is just a rephrase of the original comment. ChatGPT does show this behavior when it can't process the input well. Not really sure if this behavior is intentio
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by esjeon 4y ago
Not really “on the verge” considering how long it took to migrate most projects from Python2 to Python3. I mean, people won’t just drop existing projects, and adoption will be awfully slow.
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by esjeon 4y ago
Spring works really nice when working on monolithic services, but Golang is on the complete opposite side of the spectrum - Go is really good for microservices. Spring is more like traditional application development, where you revisit your
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by esjeon 4y ago
SNS is the usual Social Network Service. DID is Decentralized IDentifier. It's a design for decentralized identity registries, independent of central ID providers and authorities. Anyone can verify identity without going through the is
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by esjeon 4y ago
Woopsie, totally forgot about that part. It seems like I got too used to webmails.

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