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eventualcomp
3mo ago
Why jump on the opportunity to prune reading by rejecting the lot as soon an unrelated premise you disagree with is presented? Perhaps at that point if you stop reading after the first sentence, you could churn the entire article through AI
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3mo ago
Heh. I do something like this when I'm at work in meetings, basically dynamically trying to map out what people are saying so that I can build mental models. Funny that soon the AI can define my own mental model on the fly soon.
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4mo ago
Where is $50k coming from again?
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4mo ago
> In reality, you put your fingers in the position for a C on that specific instrument and you get a C. OK, my fault for poor communication. Let me try strongly typing this. Clarinet: you play a finger-C, out comes a soundwave-Bb. Flute:
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4mo ago
I've heard of musicians with very strong senses of perfect pitch flocking to flute or oboe, because anything not keyed in C (perfect pitch equiv) results in too much cognitive dissonance. Clarinets are keyed in Bb (you play a C, out co
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4mo ago
Reminds me of this youtube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jkdWzvMOPuo I liked the comments explaining why this worked.
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4mo ago
(Self-reply due to inability to edit) so just checked your user history - why do you keep posting provocative takes?
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4mo ago
There is also buffer for clean water required - Y gallons on-hand at the datacenter. You can see the other replies in this parent comment demonstrating the tight ongoing humidity requirements, and how clean water is sprayed onto the actual
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4mo ago
> Nothing will be able to stop you from pulling the plug. Who is "you"? And what do you envision is the "plug" to pull? And when does an intelligence become a superintelligence - do "we" know when to pull th
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4mo ago
The fact that a datacenter is evaporating X gallons of water in a period implies that a datacenter is ingesting X gallons of water (if less, the datacenter dries out, if more the datacenter floods) - meaning X gallons are now locked out of
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4mo ago
> Perhaps most importantly, it does so using a tiny fraction of the CPU time, saving energy and keeping our datacenters (and planet) a little cooler. But then: > A decoder backend on AWS (SQS + Lambda + DynamoDB + S3) reassembles obje
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4mo ago
Praise be the accountability sink. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891694
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6mo ago
To use an analogy, to add to everybody else: it's like rings on a tree stump. The innermost part of the stump is the oldest; the outer the youngest. Earth is on one of those in-between rings, neither the oldest nor the newest - doesn&#
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6mo ago
> Would love feedback from people working on long-running agents, training loops, eval harnesses, or similar workflows. I have not required a service for this kind of optimization at work. Though work gives me unbounded access to Claude
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6mo ago
When I saw the title, I actually didn't have much emotion beyond curiosity. But then after checking thus comment, it piqued my interest, made me step back and really consider the ramifications of how we got here. And then yes I became
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Ask HN: Folks with disabilities, what is it like in this LLM/scraper age?
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6mo ago
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7mo ago
A few points/qs: - Could you explain what you mean by "security through obscurity"? The mechanism is well explained in the blog.yossarian.net posts linked within. It is simply adding a time filter on a client. - Also, I'
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9mo ago
The commenter is making a joke about the style of delivery of the sentence you quoted, because the style is [1]characteristic of AI generated writing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
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2y ago
This conversation thread reminds me of the very interesting and insightful talk here: Klaus Iglberger “Free Your Functions!” [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDT1lDOsb4 .