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by flir 4mo ago
I've been wondering lately if old-school cybernetics might help there. But my off-the-cuff, uninformed opinion is that the precise structure doesn't matter too much, and the impact these structures really have is that they allow M
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by flir 4mo ago
90 day life cycle. Rare for them to live over a year in the wild.
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by flir 4mo ago
Bingo. I figure they had a switch they could toggle and they thought no further about the tradeoffs. Because their primary concern is their own liability, not what's best for the org their contract is with.
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by flir 4mo ago
Nope :)
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by flir 4mo ago
My org (or rather, the org they pay to run their IT) blocked browser plugins with a security justification. I find this incredibly amusing, and at a different point in my life I'd already be gone. When you outsource IT, there are many,
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by flir 4mo ago
> attention concentration rather than interestingness With sufficiently rich data, I think they're equivalent. I think collaborative filtering works much better once you have a critical mass of users/data - enough that taste cl
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by flir 4mo ago
Dunno about that near-blackmail scenario, but 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 last year and the database was sold for $305m.
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by flir 4mo ago
> The input to the NN is just the 3x3 neighborhood around a cell. Well that sounds like black magic. Nice. Thanks for the reply.
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by flir 4mo ago
From memory, there was a long tail of blogs like that way back when, but a core of solid, interesting content. I have an expectation that an aggregator would bubble the interesting stuff up, and the self-referential stuff down. But maybe th
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by flir 4mo ago
What are the inputs to the NN? The whole grid, or just nearby cells? What happens if two NNs overlap on the same grid? (Gonna go read the paper).
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by flir 4mo ago
Just glanced at the front page - it seems to be very "blog posts about blogging" (4 out of the top 5 posts right now). Is it always like that? The "My" tab looks like it covers the same ground as a feed reader would. I w
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by flir 4mo ago
I reckon the context is all the fiction they've read where the AI blows up the world. They're just behaving like fictional AIs are supposed to behave. In so many of these scenarios, they're basically being asked to play an RP
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by flir 4mo ago
A model that opens the slightest gap for a leak would be unacceptable to the org I work for. We are very paranoid about losing vulnerable customers' data.
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by flir 4mo ago
Completely agree on the importance of the harness. The problem I see is the same problem Evolutionary Algorithms had: you can generate potential solutions until you run out of cash, but you still need to evalulate those solutions. You need
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by flir 4mo ago
On DVD: DVD would still look fine (I think) if you were still playing it through the same screen you did back then.
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by flir 4mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVevvbFNKiY At about 1:30, just after the "I was very nervous" line, Haley pushes her voice until it breaks. I found it a lovely little grace note, emphasizing the lyric.
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by flir 4mo ago
Maybe I'm cynical, but it's already here. Is this the Illinois law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric_Information_Privacy_... Because the second sentence in that article is "Notably, the Act does n
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by flir 4mo ago
> Bodycams that feature face recognition: Not OK, whether it's law enforcement or some weirdo at a night club. Ok, but... you know it's inevitable, right? Shops are already doing it, the first weirdo doing it at a nightclub is
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by flir 4mo ago
What about bodycams on public servants? (I think the precise form factor is something of a distraction. I'm talking about cheap, tiny, always-on cameras hooked up to giant hard discs in the sky, however they're packaged).
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by flir 4mo ago
I had a pleasant experience one-shotting a dashboard on top of a library designed for building dashboards. Because everything was abstracted away, the chatbot had relatively few places it could get into the weeds. If I'd asked for the
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by flir 4mo ago
The tech's there. The genie can't be put back in the bottle, and it will only get cheaper and more invasive. Only question we have any control over is... do we want everyone to have it, or only govs and corps? There's a secon
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by flir 4mo ago
We've already got models that can handle it - eg web of trust. We don't want to use them. Plus "AI" is a spectrum, with "the AI fixed a typo for me" at one end, and "the AI writes my posts for me" at
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by flir 4mo ago
I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's got something to do with laboratory mice.
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by flir 4mo ago
Apple does positive scripting ("I understand that must feel frustrating, I had a similar issue once, I'm going to solve your problem"), but at least I can reach a human, even if that human talks like they've been brainwa
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by flir 5mo ago
Antibiotics. Some countries limit access via doctor's prescription (this has eroded somewhat with the rise of the internet), not using them as cattle feed additives, etc. Regulated because of the common good, even though there is money
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by flir 5mo ago
Then you have to stop using search engines.
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by flir 5mo ago
If my school's library had had Machine Code for Beginners, my career might have been very different. (I'm actually a bit annoyed; I didn't know that existed). I definitely remember Creepy, Battle and Space.
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by flir 5mo ago
Heh. Which if y'all borrowed the Tufte book? It's ok, I can wait...
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by flir 5mo ago
There was a great story about a helicopter a couple of years ago and the author was basically hounded out of the SFF community. These days, for anything that's written it seems like there's a specially tailored mob waiting to poun
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by flir 5mo ago
Jesus, dude. There are managers reading this.

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