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by giardini 11mo ago
You'll likely be OK until Claude gets a penis. Then you're toast.
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by giardini 11mo ago
Perhap he shouldn't have gone with her. Perhaps your gf shouldn't have let him go with her. Perhaps you face marriage into a family that has hereditary bad judgment! Changing your oil and washing your car may be the luckiest deci
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by giardini 11mo ago
I thought Krugman was right-leaning but the article speaks volumes. Finally checked: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/paul-krugman-media-bias
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by giardini 11mo ago
I think the bruises are from pounding his desk in frustration. And WTF is wrong with wearing a Band-Aid? You're criticizing someone for wearing a f**ing Band-Aid!?* Are you nuts?! [pounds desk] Whassamattayou? Can't you stick to
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by giardini 11mo ago
This isn't about Trump, it's about a lack of morality among students at one of the (formerly) most prestigious universities in the US.
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by giardini 11mo ago
Perhaps "big ball of mud"? "mess"? "cluster f*k"? Arguing relevant metaphors in HN?! A new low...
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by giardini 11mo ago
They must be protected from lawsuits. If not, they're headed for rude awakenings. This morning I was checking Medicare provider ratings. The browser initiated an AI module which later asserted that a particular medical provider was rat
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by giardini 11mo ago
No, the main thing is to have a good head! [Now we're trying to sell "soldering hoods" on HN?!] Use common sense: - Solder in an area with constant air flow, - Keep some space around your work so the fumes move away, - Don&#x
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by giardini 11mo ago
Bad idea. I want people working around me to notice, be uncomfortable and especially speak up if something is amiss. Unless you work in a malignant environment, this should be normal behavior.
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by giardini 11mo ago
And if better models than transformers are found? Or if someone finds models that do not rely on GPUs or specialized hardware? Neither the hyperscalers nor NVDA are safe from uncertainty.
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by giardini 11mo ago
Nobody knows what will be happening "in around 5 years time"! Economic and social predictions beyond 2 years are sketchy at best.
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by giardini 11mo ago
All this assumes that LLMs are the sole mechanism for AI and will remain so forever: no novel architectures (neither hardware nor software), no progress in AI theory, nothing better than LLMs, simply brute force LLM computation ad infinitu
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by giardini 11mo ago
For the same reason anyone would: if an AI can reason to a human level after having been educated in a manner similar to a human then it is likely that we [the educators] have captured something akin to human intelligence.
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by giardini 11mo ago
No reasonable person would do that! That is, if you had the key to AI, you wouldn't share it and you would do everything possible to prevent it's dissemination. Meanwhile you would use it to conquer the world! Bwahahahaaaah!
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by giardini 11mo ago
I'll be convinced LLMs are a reasonable approach to AI when an LLM can give reasonable answers after being trained with approximately the same books and classes in school that I was once I completed my college education.
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by giardini 11mo ago
"Here's a world class scientist here not because we had a hole in the schedule or he happened to be in town, but to discuss this subject that he " had invested himself so fully personally and financially that, should it fai
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by giardini 11mo ago
What kind of ideas would be intellectual property that was not shared? Isn't every part of LLMs, except the order of processes, publicly known ? Is there some magic algorithm previously unrevealed and held secret by a cabal of insi
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by giardini 11mo ago
Could a Brain Parasite Explain TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome )? - "Trump Derangement Syndrome", a term applied to people who express deep loathing and fear of President Donald Trump.
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by giardini 11mo ago
See earlier work, e.g., https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3835452/ FTFA (2008) ABSTRACT: "The Kuna Indians who reside in an archipelago on the Caribbean Coast of Panama have very low blood pressure lev
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by giardini 11mo ago
Save your ass: make yourself a cup of cocoa! FTFA: "Forty young healthy men, 20 who had higher levels of fitness and 20 who had a lower level of fitness, consumed either a high-flavanol (695 mg of total flavanols per beverage) or low-f
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Cocoa's Flavanols Protect Blood Vessels From Uninterrupted Sitting(birmingham.ac.uk)
8 points by giardini 11mo ago|4 comments
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780k Windows users downloaded this Linux distro in a month(xda-developers.com)
5 points by giardini 11mo ago|1 comments
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by giardini 11mo ago
Ans.: b/c people today are not as well educated as in the past. Meanwhile, paywall! Could we have a free link to the article, please?
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Sitting All the Time Is Bad for You. Cocoa Can Help(vice.com)
3 points by giardini 11mo ago|0 comments
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by giardini 11mo ago
A light skim of old arguments regarding any coming "super-intelligence": A curious quote: "...it [the super-intelligence] will be unemotional because emotions come not from our brains but from chemicals..." Rather abrupt
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by giardini 1y ago
https://archive.ph/8f9vd
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by giardini 1y ago
You're procrastinating! Get back to interviewing. Consider a job away from the Bay Area.
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by giardini 1y ago
The weather improved?
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by giardini 1y ago
nostrademons says >" In a battle between a million drones and 10 F-22s, I'd bet on the drones."< Timing! F-22s could destroy drone factories, drone manufacturers' supply chains, factories, etc. A million drones d
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by giardini 1y ago
Buy it! Rent it if you have to.

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