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by gwervc 2y ago
Yes it could generate a good quality novel. That was already done numerous times in various media for our entertainment.
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by gwervc 2y ago
How do glorified Markov chains think?
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by gwervc 2y ago
I read a large part of this article. While it appears to be really serious notably by the vocabulary used, like other articles trying to "debunk" genetic intelligence it pushes too hard its narrative. In particular, two semantic t
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by gwervc 2y ago
Despite claiming 24/7 it's a democratic country ruled by the rule of law, there's a lot ideological abuse of the laws used against ideological opponents going on in France. Somehow non-ideologically threatening criminals get
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by gwervc 2y ago
Even just for personal life, having a little knowledge of law and tax is really helpful and helps not getting screwed by various actors (companies, landlords). Then yes, once the requirements are bigger and more money is involved, delegatin
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by gwervc 2y ago
> Despite my PhD being in NLP, they still seemed incredulous at my assertion. I've the feeling the term "AI" erased in a lot people mind the fact text generation is a classical NLP text; they actually had no clue what NLP
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by gwervc 2y ago
> Once something is spread, it is there, forever. Really depends on the content. Tons of websites are going down everyday, link rot is a real thing. Internet archive or people don't save nearly everything. Something I should do more
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by gwervc 2y ago
> Donald Trump represents chaos. Very strange perspective when talking about the only US president of our times that didn't start a war, made historical diplomatic advances with North Korea, made a deal with talibans to end war in
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by gwervc 2y ago
> Which pales in comparison to the English education immigrants need but never receive. ??? So people can travel half the world and fill all the paperwork to immigrate to the US but somehow then can't register to a language class? A
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by gwervc 2y ago
If the ads are indeed just a way to push for subscriptions and you are upset or annoyed by a particular add, the algorithm is perfectly doing its job.
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by gwervc 2y ago
> They're used as spam generators because they're cheap. No, the current fade of IA (LLM) are text generators. Very good, but nothing more than that. > there is no upper bounds to how much harm can be done by putting an id
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by gwervc 2y ago
> This may kill literally everyone It's indeed hard to take seriously such gross exaggeration. Even the deadliest plagues didn't kill everyone, so advocating this is a likely outcome of creating spam generators is laughable. Th
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by gwervc 2y ago
My company and the client decided to remove me from the client's project in three weeks, and I have to work on the project until there, most of that time on support (which is a kind of punishment in itself). Somehow they expected that
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by gwervc 2y ago
They can't even seems to think a day ahead. Last Friday I got removed from the project I was consulting for, effective in three weeks. On today's daily, the PO who got my head asked me progress about my current ticket and told m
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by gwervc 2y ago
Yes. My current girlfriend told me that her father forbade her to marry before a given age, because this was a recommandation of the astrologer who chose her current name. I met her at that current age. Another prediction was done 6 years b
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by gwervc 2y ago
My favorites are Cheese curry, and Tomato chili. Somehow last time I see in Japan there was alternative versions a little more expensive but it don't know the real difference besides price.
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by gwervc 2y ago
The dailies actually aren't bad in my experience (especially as a full remote), but the "pokerization" using "points" is one of dumbest shit I've seen. I hate working at a company too.
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by gwervc 2y ago
Peak laziness I guess. Probably appeals to the crowd spending hundreds of euros a month on uber eats then complain life is unaffordable.
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by gwervc 2y ago
Are you arguing against inheritance? Each person should start the rat race from zero?
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by gwervc 2y ago
Same here. My hobbies include learning languages, which thanks to the internet can be done for free. Same for reading research papers, programming stuff, etc. I walk instead of taking public transportation because I like it, it's free
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by gwervc 2y ago
Google nowadays is more about hiding and manipulating results to push an agenda than letting users finding was they're searching for.
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by gwervc 2y ago
> I want to learn a language Then why are you using Duolingo in the first place? That app has to be the worst method, because people think they are progressing while they in fact don't. From personal experience it's the worst m
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by gwervc 2y ago
> - Since airplanes were invented, humans have never been unable to achieve flight. "Humans" don't mean much in that context. How many countries could build a plane? France, US (albeit they start having reliability issues)
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by gwervc 2y ago
It helped that the written language was modeled on an earlier variation and stayed relatively stable over millennia. I was amazed yesterday that I could understand a bit of a poem written about thousand years ago, and that the poem referenc
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by gwervc 2y ago
The good thing is that going by Google track record, the feature will live only a few years.
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by gwervc 2y ago
> It’s the difference between drilling vocabulary flashcards and actually reading, listening, or talking to someone. Those are not opposite activities. Drilling vocabulary flashcard is the most efficient way to start being able to read&#
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by gwervc 2y ago
Interesting conspiracy theory, I'll now blame highly upvoted Rust stories as a Russian plot to make us lose time rewriting all our software.
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by gwervc 2y ago
That's a pet peeve of mine for a long time. It pollutes the global namespace, it's hard to search for, gives no information on what the product or company does (e.g. Alphabet) and lacks originality. Edit: as someone noted in a sib
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by gwervc 2y ago
What's confusing for me is that the German government seems to change its mind radically around the question every few years. If I counted properly, there was already two orthographic changes since I was schooled (German as a second la
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by gwervc 2y ago
> The whole point of an interface is to allow for multiple concrete implementations. The issue is that in this case the second method may not be an implementation of the interface at all in the first place, simply a method that happens t

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