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by gowld 4mo ago
> If everything is locked up in ebooks with DRM (Amazon recently nuked old Kindles to close a DRM loophole), culture is locked behind corporate paywalls. Yes, that's what funds the creation of culture. If intellectual property is u
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by gowld 4mo ago
No one is stopping you from building your own library.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Someone can ask for a copy in the mail, cheaper than pre-emptively printing and storing thousands of copies of every version of every book. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?ref_=search_f...
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by gowld 4mo ago
You need to be more specific in order to make that statement falsifiable.
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by gowld 4mo ago
The longest consecutive sequence of decimals digits found in pi is a sequence of 13 8s. All other digits have a sequence of length 12. https://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/pidigits.html
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by gowld 4mo ago
Block deduplication. This is how Enterprise storage arrays (such as NetApp Deduplication) and local file systems (like ZFS and Microsoft ReFS via Windows Server Data Deduplication) (and normalized databased in general) work.
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by gowld 4mo ago
For a given length of data, considering all possible data of that length, it's impossible for the median length to be shorter than the data length. There aren't enough strings of that length that early in the data.
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by gowld 4mo ago
This is just WOM with extra steps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_memory_(joke)
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by gowld 4mo ago
Takeout? https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16920332?hl=en
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by gowld 4mo ago
Peter Pan came out in 1953 https://www.reddit.com/r/BSG/comments/12e31w3/so_i_was_today...
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by gowld 4mo ago
> If Claude gives me poor or incorrect advice while I’m working on an AI component, I have no way of knowing whether the model was confused, whether my problem is unsolvable, or if some invisible policy restriction quietly kicked in. Ant
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by gowld 4mo ago
Aircraft autopilot is over 100 years old, and Testla autopilot is an automotive version that fits the definition by analogy to what aircaft autopilot does and what the human metaphor means (doing simple tasks aithout higher-level cognition
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by gowld 4mo ago
I often use AI chatbot to generate step-by-step instruction for setting or repairing up some bit of tech. It's incredibly empowering, and saved me a a lot of money that would have been spent on buying replacement tech. You know who ca
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by gowld 4mo ago
The Go "kids" are famous for, among other things, being industry leaders 30 years ago.
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by gowld 4mo ago
"Stocks, bonds, etc" are nearly the entirely of the real economy. 95% of the value of gold is "you own a monkey image". The value of gold for catalytics is tiny. If gold wasn't used as a reserve currency for the wor
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by gowld 4mo ago
And also, longs? The war in Iran has actually killed thousands of people, for market-manipulation purposes.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Can you give a specific example (that doesn't violate any privacy you want to protect)?
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by gowld 4mo ago
I am also an "AI lab", but I look more like a corporate cog, because that's where most of my revenue comes from and how I spend the most my time.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Answering that question requires determining how much of the valuation is predicated on growth in AI spending from Google->xAI, but not counted as a forecasted expense for Google, and similar for other deals. Circular deals aren't b
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by gowld 4mo ago
They were already available to do something of higher value. Automation frees them up to do something of lower value.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Brooks is weirdly sexist, but it's unsurprising that (higher) "intelligence" should mean things that are hard, not things that are easy.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Executive orders don't regulate AI. They only apply to the Federal Government operations.
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by gowld 4mo ago
This is also how trillion-dollar megacorps get contracts signed.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Maybe it's much more targeted small-scale message sends, not millions of messages. Do you want Google to block all mail to you relatively new domains?
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by gowld 4mo ago
Flux.ai is abusing Adafruit's trademark while harassing Adafruit with a lawsuit. Wow!
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by gowld 4mo ago
An AI told them they could have someone else's account? My AI told me that you all can have Zuck's yacht. Enjoy!
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by gowld 4mo ago
>> enforce social agreements about what kinds of behavior and people are considered “normal” > What a normal person sees here The post is talking about you.
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by gowld 4mo ago
The benevolent God gave athiests something to entertain themselves with until they find faith.
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by gowld 4mo ago
AIs already make typos, not directly intentionally. Since they are token-based, and tokens are lexemes, they can misconjugate works or make grammatical errors.
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by gowld 4mo ago
Right. You can also perform RSA encryption on pencil and paper with a scientific calculator. It works, but it's not useful throughput for serious work

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