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by gfodor 3y ago
The EU thinks in the same way GPT-4 does. In a way we really don't have a good way to describe, but it does do something close.
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by gfodor 3y ago
This is a prediction that there will be zero surprises. An obvious prediction to make, but probably wrong.
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by gfodor 3y ago
> The whole point of ChatGPT was go to one single place for all your knowledge needs. That's just your own perception. OpenAI is trying to build AGI. You entered into the storyline at a specific junction and jumped to conclusions ba
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by gfodor 3y ago
Calling it a debacle is an admission you yourself could benefit from your own advice.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Right so what I'm suggesting is the current situation is not a stable state. If I'm right, what you should expect is that those people will, slowly, return to posting their content on X. If I'm wrong, you should expect more a
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by gfodor 3y ago
"Comeback" vs "decline" is just a rhetorical frame. Ultimately what I see is that Twitter has a unsurpassed level of social graph in terms of metcalfe connectivity, and that the value of the network itself seems to provi
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by gfodor 3y ago
Mastodon can't scale and centralizes too much power into the largest home nodes, Bluesky is a much better, more 'correct' approach as you put it. But ultimately it doesn't matter, I don't think your first point is c
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by gfodor 3y ago
It seems like fan out social media will just be in a cycle of consolidation and then a shock event eventually breaks it up a bit. Given that Twitter/X seems to have survived this shock, most likely to me in 5 years or so the next recon
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by gfodor 3y ago
Doesn't seem to answer my main question about Rust vs everything else which is what is the more joyful to work in?
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by gfodor 3y ago
I think you meant Fireworks and yeah.
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by gfodor 3y ago
The main value prop of CRDTs is they can be used without a central server (for example, in p2p networking, or when offline.) If you're choosing between a CRDT or something else like this for your centralized server, you're probabl
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by gfodor 3y ago
“basically” I swear, whenever Musk comes up, brains go dark
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by gfodor 3y ago
It’s anyone who gets meaningful verified account impressions. There are probably tens of thousands of such accounts.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Well yeah, the point is there is no other textual online discussion board I’m aware of (fan out or otherwise) that pays people for the engagement from posting words to social media.
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by gfodor 3y ago
I like Bluesky better generally speaking as a platform but I think Twitter basically is unstoppable now that they're paying creators.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Musk recently made a change where the best posters on twitter are earning money now in a ad rev share. They're almost definitely not going anywhere until another social network makes the same offer.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Twitter left the phase where niche hobbyist networks matter to the growth of the platform. The site is basically where the mainstream convos happen in the “normie” zeitgeist, and the surrounding din of people yelling at each other about tho
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by gfodor 3y ago
This isn't surprising, what would be surprising is if NPR blocked inbound referers for Twitter and it had no effect on their traffic. All of NPRs articles presumably get posted into Twitter by someone noteworthy, and that tweet is wh
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by gfodor 3y ago
It's @iquilezles's work who is a ray marching wizard, in the most literal sense of the word that still comports with reality.
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by gfodor 3y ago
https://webspaces.space Multiplayer HTML 3D worlds.
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by gfodor 3y ago
"Clickbait" has been apparently watered down to the point of meaninglessness then. You title things to get people to want to read them if you're sharing information you think is important. The term "clickbait" is ty
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by gfodor 3y ago
No worries!
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by gfodor 3y ago
The talk doesn’t say to always choose boring technology. But you might think it does if you read three words and wrote a comment in response to them.
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by gfodor 3y ago
It turns out that it’s impossible to reasonably title any talk or article without it being considered a blanket statement. This is why you attach the talk or article to the hyperlink so people can continue understanding more of what you are
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by gfodor 3y ago
Machine learning models force us to reconsider the definitions or introduce new ones. A published model has characteristics of open source and closed source software, given the extent to which it can be fundamentally modified, inspected, an
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by gfodor 3y ago
If a company makes a product that involves a code generator, and publishes the generated code, but not the code generator itself, it’s still open source.
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by gfodor 3y ago
The reason is because "open source" is a vague enough concept anyone can project what they want onto it. Being able to fully replicate the construction of the model is one lens on it, but being able to modify it to suit your own n
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by gfodor 3y ago
They didn't, people just haven't been paying attention. They've been working on these avatars for almost a decade in parallel waiting for the hardware to catch up. The cartoon avatars are a function of hardware limitations.
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by gfodor 3y ago
Sounds false, this is only an analogy wrapped up in what sounds like an argument. If you think about what you’re actually getting it’s open source.
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by gfodor 3y ago
The point is that there is a swath of failure modes that only become apparent when you actually have instrumentation point at them first. QA can’t fish these out.

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