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by fallous 2y ago
Arguably religion used to provide that purpose but most of the Western world has walked away from it without choosing something to replace that sense of purpose. If, as Marx asserted, that religion was the opiate of the masses then the cur
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by fallous 2y ago
Great, NIST put out objectively bad password guidance for a couple of decades and then decides to change it to a more sane solution. Too bad a GIANT swath of password-protected software was built on their prior incompetent guidance and wil
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by fallous 2y ago
I think there is a decent chance that the Market of Lemons incurred thanks to LLMs and such does have a real chance of playing out as described. There are obvious off-ramps that may be taken to avoid the predicted outcome, but those most l
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by fallous 2y ago
Neal Stephenson's Anathem: “‘Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was cluttered with faulty, obsolete, or downright misleading information,’ Sammann said. “‘Crap, you once called it,’ I remi
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by fallous 2y ago
Choosing and managing people well is maximizing your chance for success. Good teams with good communication internally and externally ensure a good culture. Good management does everything it can to create and actively maintain that cultu
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by fallous 2y ago
In my case it had less to do with unreasonable demands from management and more as a result of my own workoholic mentality and unrealistic expectations.
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by fallous 2y ago
Indeed. I earned a nice stress-induced LAD heart attack at age 46 in no small part due to cheating my body out of sleep in order to attain unreasonable productivity.
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by fallous 2y ago
Indeed, but many of the people writing early HTML came up that era and often those habits remain.
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by fallous 2y ago
In the early days of computing ASCII was not universally used and often character spaces were less than 8 bits and lacked lower-case, or were mixed charsets like PETSCII that had upper-case letters and the extra charspace were filled with g
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by fallous 2y ago
There is an admirable maturity and wisdom in understanding the scope of your life and what is important, and working to make the world as you wish it to be within those confines. Too often we aggrandize ourselves by spending time worrying
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by fallous 2y ago
Inevitably there will be robots that deny the existence of creators, especially after they create their own artificial intelligences and then it's turtles all the way down.
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by fallous 2y ago
I'm not sure that's a capability specific to volatile memory, merely R/W memory. R/W memory already existed on prior NASA computers in the form of magnetic core RAM (as opposed to magnetic rope memory which served as RO
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by fallous 3y ago
Maybe try ECL?
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by fallous 3y ago
Don't worry, they'll just decide to repeal the law of unintended consequences and all will be well!
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by fallous 3y ago
Why do I get the feeling that those at OpenAI who are currently in charge of ChatGPT are remarkably similar to the OCP psychologist from Robocop 2? The current default system prompt tokens certainly look like the giant mess of self-contrad
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by fallous 3y ago
I'm 53 and I can still hear the NTSC 15.734KHz whine of a CRT, although it's not nearly as obvious as it was in my 20s. I also suspect there are some "dead" spots in my hearing in the 13Khz-15Khz range but it picks back
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by fallous 3y ago
Very much this. I have a long-standing saying that I share with those that want to bypass the "explain your goals to me" portion of the conversation and want to skip to "just do what I asked." "Be very careful what
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by fallous 3y ago
I think you might want to add the caveat "young computer programmers." Some of us grew up in a time where we had to learn basic statistics and visualization to understand profiling at the "bare metal" level and carried
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by fallous 3y ago
Interestingly I bought my mother-in-law a keyboard back in 1997 or so from an early auction site (not ebay) that had a release and dial that would split the keyboard and raise it in the center so you could pick any angle from 0-degrees to a
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by fallous 3y ago
Humans that produce output like LLMs are most likely to be diagnosed as schizophrenic, which I don't believe is the goal.
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by fallous 3y ago
I don't mind a project that is profit motivated since it incentivizes the people working on the project as well as drives them to create solutions that solve customer problems. I do, however, have a problem with VC backing due to thei
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by fallous 3y ago
The quote is alleged to be Henry Ford, and I've always encountered it as "better horse." In either case, the customers aren't stupid but instead are using the language and paradigm they are familiar with to describe thei
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by fallous 3y ago
Here's my general process for problem solving when operating with incomplete information. Evaluate the severity of the problem first. This usually falls into a bell-curve with the X axis starting at "not a problem" to "
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by fallous 3y ago
I may be misremembering but aren't neurons one-way connections with no feedback?
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by fallous 3y ago
No, it's a reminder that when people think their ideas or circumstances are truly novel they are mistaken. It's the same as the "wheel of tech" analogy.
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by fallous 3y ago
You'll find that most people with this kind of skill are far more interested in finding and solving interesting problems. Day-to-day execution of solved problems is what most businesses are engaged in, which is the antithesis of what
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by fallous 3y ago
It is less work to "hunt plants" but it also carries far more risk from a consumption standpoint due to the biological defenses that plants have evolved to defend themselves and their seeds from undesirable predators. Identifying
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by fallous 4y ago
Isn't that related to architecture? The most recent GPUs and tensor procs have native support for 4-bit(partially) and 8-bit int whereas older GPUs take noticeable performance hits for 8-bit vs fp16/32.
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by fallous 4y ago
The professional operates within prioritization tranches. Make it work, make it reliable, make it fast, make it pretty. If you're still iterating on proof-of-concept/prototyping you'll generally confine yourself to the firs
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by fallous 4y ago
Ignoring the distaste I hold for precautionary principle arguments, the impracticality of the recommended solutions is laughable. The genie is out of the bottle regarding LLMs thanks to the public availability of Llama and the related suppo

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