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by gortok 3mo ago
Upvoted you, of course; but it’s worse than that. It’s vibes being marketed as correctness. To the lay person (and unfortunately, to more than a few folks who should know better), computers don’t “make up” information. Maybe some good (in
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by gortok 3mo ago
> nowadays AI chatbots and coding agents routinely assume they need to get up-to-date information in other ways, via web searches and other tool calling. So I don’t see accuracy declining at least for programming. How do those chat bots
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by gortok 3mo ago
> The only thing that matters is if LLMs with sufficient scaling can become frontier AI researchers kicking off the exponential. Everything else is transient As long as the term “AI” means by-and-large LLMs with additional features sprin
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by gortok 3mo ago
Having gone through the court system for a civil matter, I can tell you that “get a judgment” is a lot of time and money in even the easiest of cases, and let’s go at it from the person’s end who has to fight this, and let’s just focus on c
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by gortok 4mo ago
I recommended an elastic demo for a client that would be well served by Elasticsearch. The Elastic sales folks completely torpedoed the presentation by trying to focus on their AI “capabilities” and not on the recommended talking points. T
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by gortok 4mo ago
They got duped into it partly because of the enthusiasm and demoware shown by folks like the ones that topped HN with their exhortations about the wonders of AI for coding. We’re not innocent bystanders here, and it’s important to recognize
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by gortok 4mo ago
> Like businesses don't care about the tool/tech itself, how do I find and approach them, and for which niche. You probably don't realize this, but you're asking one of the hardest questions when starting a business,
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by gortok 4mo ago
> You're optimising for quality, where as companies optimise for some balance of quality and cost. To be clear; in our current stage of capitalism, companies are largely optimizing for how much quality they can sacrifice before they
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by gortok 4mo ago
When I use a computer to do work I want the computer to be right. I want to be able to trust the computer. With the inherit non-determinism and probabilistic nature of generative-AI, that fundamental reason why I engage a computer is lost.
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by gortok 4mo ago
We are not at a point as a country to have a serious discussion about governance. The administration in charge (as recently as yesterday) still blames Biden for issues happening on their watch, even though he hasn’t been in officer for 16 m
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by gortok 4mo ago
The issue is that folks are substituting judgment and critical thinking for “vibe coding”, and having it spit out 10x more code than you could in the same amount of time is addictive and feels easy. The long term impacts and the issues of t
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by gortok 5mo ago
In this case, not only is it a theory that fits the facts, it’s likely. A content farm having a disparate range of websites, for the sole purpose of SEO needs to be able to create engaging content quickly. AI generation allows for that; an
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by gortok 5mo ago
Funny enough I came here to say this. I had expected it to be a call to crowd-fund their initiative, but instead it had no clear CTA at all. Heck, if nothing else, the lack of a clear CTA would be on brand with OSS Marketing.
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by gortok 5mo ago
The comments on this HN post nicely color the problem Tim points out, from the comments that assume the exceptionalism of the USA, to comments that say “stay in Canada”, to comments that call the post “moral preening”. I grew up in a very c
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by gortok 5mo ago
If this wasn’t so last-stage capitalist dystopian, it would be funny. “Let’s slap AI on it and see if we can make money” is…. Depressing as a world view. Besides the sheer amount of computational power it uses to produce a worse result tha
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by gortok 5mo ago
Two columns vertically, but four columns deep in 3D space.
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by gortok 5mo ago
No. I have only a vertical ordering available in Apple wallet. A card can be above another card or below another card. I have 3d physicality in a wallet that Apple wallet does not replicate.
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by gortok 5mo ago
But it’s not true of a physical wallet. I have 8 locations in my bi-fold wallet I can place any given card, orientation-wise. Lower left, lower right, upper left, upper right, inside left, inside right, dollar bills left, dollar bills right
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by gortok 5mo ago
Isn’t the whole point of a ‘scientific approach’ to reduce biases and to study the problem independently of how the problem affects us? Why do we call things sciences but we’re unwilling/unable to divorce our biases from the process o
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by gortok 5mo ago
If it’s impossible to discuss GDP without politics, then it’s impossible in our current political climate to discuss whether or not debt as a function of GDP is a valid measure of an issue, and the practical effects of that issue. It would
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by gortok 5mo ago
Here’s the issue. We don’t have any serious leaders on this issue. We don’t have scholarship divorced from politics about this issue. Maybe we never will. The Austrian school basically thinks this is the end of the world. The MMT folks t
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by gortok 6mo ago
It’s been less than 3 years since AI agents were able to take action on their own. Heck, it feels like it’s been less than a year but that’s another story for another time. In less than three years, we’ve gone from strict checks and entire
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by gortok 6mo ago
8% of the male population has some form of colorblindness (for women it’s around 0.5%). I have deuteranomaly colorblindness. If you search for images on the internet related to that type of colorblindness you’ll find representations of how
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by gortok 6mo ago
Having listened to the book on Audible, I'm both shocked at the behavior of the executive team, and not surprised all at the same time. What bothers me about all of this is what it says about us. It says we're willing to give ric
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by gortok 7mo ago
This is a distinction without a difference, according to the text of that enable/disable dialog, > Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training: Allow GitHub to collect and use my Inputs, Outputs, and associated context to trai
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by gortok 7mo ago
> It certainly doesn't seem to hurt their bottom line, which is the only thing they care about. I want to draw out this comment because it's so antithetical to what Apple marketed that it stood for (if you remember, the wonderf
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by gortok 7mo ago
I was literally just coming in here to comment "in before someone says this is fine and there's no issue." and the first(!) comment is effectively "this is fine and there's no issue." The sentiment feels like s
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by gortok 7mo ago
In this case there were two arrivals within 4 minutes of each other and two departures, in addition to the emergency plane that had just aborted takeoff.
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by gortok 7mo ago
Reports are there were fog and rain at La Guardia at the time of the incident. They were on a short final, and it’s entirely possible they were not visible to the fire truck’s crew.

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