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by goalieca 1y ago
I’ve also seen heavy reliance on opioids and that didn’t turn out well.
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Companies all seem to turn against their users whenever they have revenue/earnings trouble.
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One criticism is that parties can be bought too cheaply in Canada.
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As a Canadian, I cannot stand the “as a Canadian… $something_smug” trend. We look down on the USA and pretend our poop doesn’t stink.
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Executives are telling their employees to use AI or else.. It feels like tokens are the new pieces of flair.
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What did you think about the bc government report on money laundering?
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Saint Pierre et Miquelon is a perfect example with it being a french territory inside canada.
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The leadership of the big AI companies have made some pretty extreme promises on timelines and capabilities. I wonder he’s changing his tune because he’s worried investors will sue him once the man behind the curtain is revealed.
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What happens when LLM companies stop funding their services at a loss? The downstream parts and services will stop seeing revenue. Those people are making a killing off AI since they are so expensive to build and run.
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> “This is exactly what happens when billion-dollar companies refuse to modernize,” one aviation analyst tweeted. “You wouldn’t trust a 30-year-old car to drive cross-country. Why are we trusting it to fly planes?” While i sympathize, th
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> Anyone who follows research already knows this. Individual papers appear all the time with remarkable findings which seem revolutionary, but then nobody can replicate or commercialize it. But there are many scientists that love hearing
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I’ve been around long enough to see that 10x developers aren’t writing 10x code.
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> Most teams have scheduled daily (!) meetings, .. And because we spend 30-50% of our day in meetings, some person is always saying "take this offline" or "we'll circle back later".
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For some, it is also coming from a place that their company leadership is mandating AI use.
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Around 10 years ago, I learned to root out people who read reddit based on this principle. My thought at the time was the site made you feel informed. But everyone knew same facts leading to the same incomplete picture and having the same a
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It ain’t a magic code genie. And developers don’t spend most of their day typing lines of code. Lots of it is designing, figuring out what to build, understanding the code, maintenance considerations, and adhering to the style of whatever f
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It’s a cultural problem. Poor people and poor countries are having more babies on average.
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These companies are burning cash. There’s no play but a long one.
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How do you even QA the non-determinism of these technologies?
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Gemini had an aborted launch recently. The controversy there was inserting too much leftist ideology to the point of spewing complete bs.
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History is full of examples of execs hedging on the wrong technology, arriving too early, etc.
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It only matters that all-countries (at least the bigger ones) get there. We share the atmosphere. It's also an inconvenient fact that if you import goods then you're externalizing your pollution.
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English is a particularly challenging language to spell with. How many languages have a national spelling competition?
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Because the world is made of independent countries acting in their own best interest or that of their leaders. There will never be a world government until all countries roughly align on a common set of values and political framework and th
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Were you on the internet in the 90s? Lots of banners like that on every site.
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This is actually extremely common across the tech industry. Backdoors are standard.
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You can not share his opinion but do not have to be hysterical like the talking heads in media.
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It’s bad when an expert doesn’t say “I don’t know”. It’s worse when they lie because “we don’t want the public thinking dangerous thoughts”.
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Probably the biggest sign of the times right now is a massive unfusion of capital into data centers and hardware and less so into programmers. It's hard to land a job right now if you're looking.
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And how often do your prompting skills change as the models evolve.

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