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by grumbel 2y ago
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Dunning_(author)#Wire_fr...
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by grumbel 2y ago
Ignoring AI would be foolish, since AI is the best programming tutor you can wish for and will speed up your learning noticeably, since you can always ask for clarification or examples when something isn't clear. It's also a great
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by grumbel 2y ago
In Linux/Xorg with a compose/multi-key one can do: <Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <period> : "–" U2013 # EN DASH <Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <minus> : "—" U201
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by grumbel 2y ago
> They are, indeed, calculators. And that's relevant exactly how? Do you think "thought and expression" are somehow uncomputable? Please throw science at that and collect your Nobel prize.
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by grumbel 2y ago
That's only a "problem" if you assume human exceptionalism and begging the question. It's completely irrelevant to the actual problem. The human is just a cog in the machine, there is no reason to assume they would ever
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by grumbel 2y ago
Define "intentions" and "understand" in a way that is testable. All you are doing here is employing intuition pumps without actually saying anything. > LLMs are language calculators. And humans are just chemical react
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by grumbel 2y ago
See System Reply, the Chinese Room is a pseudo problem begging the question rooted in nothing more than human exceptionalism. If you start with the assumption that humans are the only thing in the universe able to "understand" (wh
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by grumbel 2y ago
> LLMs are token predictors. That's all they do. That's a disingenuous statement, since it implies there is a limit to what LLMs can do, when in reality an LLM is just a form of Universal Turing Machine[1] that can compute ever
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by grumbel 2y ago
As other have mentioned, this models just puts emphasis on pixels and compression artifacts, so it's of not much use for improving old or low quality images. I tried doing some pixelart->HD conversion with Gemini2.0Flash instead and
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by grumbel 2y ago
While I don't disagree with that observation, it falls into the "well, duh!"-category for me. The models are build with no mechanism for long term memory and thus suck at tasks that require long term memory. There is nothing
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by grumbel 2y ago
The problem with FOSS isn't a lack of politics (they have plenty of that), but tunnel vision focus on software, when everything that is going wrong with the modern Internet is based around data (who stores it, who controls it, who can
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by grumbel 2y ago
It's not even a "one-time disable", it's off by default until you enable it and the icon in the URL takes two clicks to hide. And more generally, lack of easy payment is at the root of so many problems with the modern In
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by grumbel 2y ago
I don't think the probabilistic prediction is a problem. The problem with current LLM is that they are limited to doing "System 1" thinking, only giving you a fast instinctive response to a question. While that works great fo
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by grumbel 2y ago
Plenty of software has been developed on the command line, chat is just a more powerful and flexible version of that. The missing part with current AI systems is a persistent workspace/filesystem that allows you to store things you wan
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by grumbel 2y ago
> whether old games were intended to be seen on CRTs, or intended to be seen on LCD screens created years later. A lot of older games were designed on grid paper or workstations, not on the consoles or homecomputer that were running them
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by grumbel 2y ago
The directly support you get with HTTP is rather terrible. It works ok for a human browsing a directory manually, but if you want to actually download one it becomes a mess, since you can't tell if "index.html" is a file or j
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by grumbel 2y ago
The issue with composition is only a problem when you rely on a pure text prompt, but has been solved for quite a while by ControlNets or img2img. What was lacking was the integration with existing art tools, but even that is getting solved
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by grumbel 2y ago
The part that is especially annoying there is that it's not just about speed, but about AI tools being closely tied to a specific architecture. Lots of them only work on Nvidia cards, but not on AMD. A fallback to CPU is often not prov
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by grumbel 2y ago
Mozilla had half a billion dollars each year to work with, I am sure they could have figured something out if they cared. But hey, instead of fixing some HTML tags lets reinvent a completely new format and require every singe website on the
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by grumbel 2y ago
I am not talking about RSS, I am talking about plain old bookmarks. Browser never would give you notification when something you bookmarked changed. The RSS feature was always kind of useless, since it required that the website provided a R
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by grumbel 2y ago
If RSS could solve the problem it would have done so a decade ago. The core issue is that browsers have completely failed at offering anything to keep track of websites. Why aren't notifications simply build into the bookmark system? I
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by grumbel 2y ago
At 1:02 it shows the optical mouse sensor pretty clearly.
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by grumbel 2y ago
Crossing is easier because you can simply hold your finger in front of your eyes and look at that for practice. Diverging requires you to look past the image, meaning you have nothing to really look at, which makes it difficult to figure ou
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by grumbel 2y ago
It's not a hard concept, but it is a stupid one. Phone numbers for example you can take with you when you switch providers. Email has the provider hardcoded into your email address, thus every new provider means you have a new email. T
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by grumbel 2y ago
Mastodon isn't true decentralization to begin with, it's just federation like email, where every user is attached to a server and the server operator holds all the power, while the user holds none. I find that approach a waste of
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by grumbel 2y ago
Desktop UIs only started adding that around 2000 or so (Gtk2?), it generally hadn't been possible before in the Windows/Linux world. Even today it still doesn't work as well as the Web, as the select ability is limited to a s
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by grumbel 2y ago
Same reason why datasheets are still PDFs. It's a reliable, long lasting and portable format. And while it's kind of ridiculous that we are basically emulating paper, no other format fills that niche. It's the niche HTML shou
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by grumbel 2y ago
I am surprised that the top/right one still shows a cut and switch to a difference scene. I would assume that that's something that could be trivially filtered out of the training data, as those discontinuities don't seem to
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by grumbel 2y ago
The Fusion360 free-tier has been getting ever more restrictive over time. At the moment it is at: > users who generate less than $1,000 USD in annual revenue and use for home-based, non-commercial projects only. Which already makes it un
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by grumbel 2y ago
Google Daydream is dead, no longer supported by modern phones, the store no longer works and they removed all Daydream specific features from their own apps. Getting a Lenovo Mirage Solo to work is possible, but requires a lot of workaround

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