fantasizr

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by fantasizr 5d ago
thats the tough thing about investigative journalism / whistleblowers. You have to hope there's an audience who will care.
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by fantasizr 13d ago
the 'arrest the parents!!!' has moved to the online domain, rightfully
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by fantasizr 15d ago
=> If chess.com was worth billions and Daniel Rensch was threatening everyone to do what he says.
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by fantasizr 15d ago
AI bros here and elsewhere seem to come at Terry Tao with "not so smart now are you?" viciousness that is off-putting.
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by fantasizr 18d ago
reminds me of the TOS episode of South Park. By Checking this box you forfeit your millennium prize solution and may be turned into a human centipede at future date.
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by fantasizr 22d ago
indie hacking seems dead-ish because everything can just be cloned instantly, and if you don't have a serious go to market plan with a latent user base you're SOL.
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by fantasizr 22d ago
I stopped caring about the latest and greatest but because there's so much, the 'obsolete' free models do what I need and are worth the price.
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by fantasizr 24d ago
"However, we also find that Llama 3.1 70B memorizes some books, like Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and 1984, almost entirely. In fact, Harry Potter is so memorized that, using a seed prompt consisting of just the first line of
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by fantasizr 24d ago
the fact that llms can spit out books they've been trained on near verbatim lends some credence to this.
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by fantasizr 27d ago
I took notice when he breaks down the ethics of gen ai as it pertains to online theft, that AI broke the natural order of putting content online where you'd trade exposure for use https://youtu.be/bjO-s4rNPlY?si=uAtBTb6
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by fantasizr 28d ago
it's not gatekeeping when people are submitting PRs they don't understand and make it someone else's problem.
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by fantasizr 1mo ago
Imagine a university's pitch to their students in this model, most of you will fail but that's the nature of what we do now.
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by fantasizr 1mo ago
Elizabeth Holmes, SBF, Do Kwon, Phoebe Gates (anyone else?) all needed a Stanford freshman ethics seminar.
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by fantasizr 1mo ago
I'm a single issue voter to stop old people from driving when they shouldn't.
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by fantasizr 1mo ago
I'm excited about self driving cars for aging boomer and drunk mobility. Most consumer tech seems to be pure agitation and slop. Can't seem to think that ways to engage media is getting better (paid streaming now with ads etc.)
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by fantasizr 1mo ago
it's funny sometimes there will be an archived espn.com (like this https://proxy.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/030418 ) and it's hard to argue the web was not better like this, i.e. readable
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
licensure (age and competency), an entire insurance industry, domestic and international regulations - and so forth
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
whenever someone says this I assume they mean a crud react app which is a small part of what 'coding' encompasses
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
last time i was on it the only messages were hitler images drawn in ascii art. Gotta start somewhere I guess
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
Our app goes through regular updates via app submission and has taken less than two days past couple months. They must be going off reputation score after initial acceptance.
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
I don't think these are screenshots (as an amateur). It's an infographic that includes what could be a screenshot.
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
I know it's their job, but gotta feel for these app reviewers who must spend day after day reviewing ai generated apps. The only way to prevent this is to gatekeep that developer license with a higher base fee. Of course the review p
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
steve vai the guitarist talks about how learning and doing the act gives you dignity and self respect for having done something. That's what's being cutout when you just 'prompt' it, be it words, code, or music.
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
i really never want to be an early adopter anymore. I need 6 months of vetting to determine if it's the flavor of the week (or flavor of the DAY)
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
it seems like these types of problems have gained frequency in the ai era, or is it just recency bias?
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
I've been waiting for a steelman argument why building the world's best deepfake machine is a good thing. Unironically cryptography could verify identity for all comms.
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by fantasizr 2mo ago
ai eliminating friction is eliminating learning and understanding. this is felt with more severe consequences in K-12 writing and music.
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by fantasizr 3mo ago
LLMs to create and revise PIL (python image library) commands/params have saved me HOURs.
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by fantasizr 3mo ago
this time they stole from people who have the resources to fight back
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by fantasizr 3mo ago
my pet peeve is that these ai notetakers, like otter arrive to the web conf before their user.

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