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by habitue 3y ago
Maybe less zeitgeist, but it would be really interesting to see what extrapolating future writing styles are like.
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by habitue 3y ago
So you're saying this page is not notable?
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by habitue 3y ago
This is a little misleading. You don't need to have a gcc frontend for this, just a gcc backend
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by habitue 3y ago
I think they're saying net income because they're assuming there wasn't any cost for it. But they do have to pay taxes on it, and the lawyers and executives time spent on trying to make the deal work did cost something. Proba
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by habitue 3y ago
The problem is that we don't know how to use AIs the same way we know how to use stockfish. They're inexplicable to even experts
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by habitue 3y ago
Right, so the algorithm that trains the neural net can be explained (autodifferentiation, backprop etc) but the neural net's functioning itself is billions of parameters which we absolutely cannot fully explain how it makes decisions
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by habitue 3y ago
What they should do is give an exception for algorithms whose outputs can be completely explained. (e.g. a dumb summarizer that takes the first sentence of every paragraph and concatenates them would not be considered "AI" for the
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by habitue 3y ago
Great advice but... really should have picked another picture. A night shot on a phone camera is going to be heavily postprocessed, it's grainy... just not the best demonstration of the tech
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by habitue 3y ago
I think the author is right that if writing small pieces of straightforward functionality is easier with coding assistants, then on the margin, people will use less dependencies. I definitely think C is the wrong language to do it in. A str
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by habitue 3y ago
Sure, there is a difference, but I'm talking vs. "no car". Driving any car increases chance of killing pedestrians above bike or walking. If you kill 5 pedestrians per million miles in a sedan and an SUV kills 6 pedestrians p
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by habitue 3y ago
not going to disagree
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by habitue 3y ago
Personally, I think the "electric SUVs are bad for pedestrians" is just there to replace "SUVs are bad for the environment". Basically, this isn't a real argument, just a vibes thing, where big trucks are conservati
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by habitue 3y ago
As an outsider, getting your code merged into a popular open source project involves a political process of convincing the maintainers that your fix should be addressed, and then convincing them they should merge your code. Writing a fork i
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by habitue 3y ago
It's very hard to separate the model's tendency to flatter and appease from a sincere attempt to reason. It very much picks up on what you want it to say if it's at all reasonable and will praise you for suggesting it. (There
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by habitue 3y ago
Are there any plans to do the same for CDK?
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by habitue 3y ago
Skipping profanity seems like a liability in this design. It means in order to preserve the encoding you need to make the banned word list immutable, otherwise old sqids will decode to the wrong thing when you get them back.
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by habitue 3y ago
> So there can't be any learning, by definition. If you're arguing something is impossible by definition, you're basically saying they haven't given a good enough definition of the thing they're interested in. Yo
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by habitue 3y ago
I think this is what courts have found so far, AI generated outputs from just a prompt aren't copyrightable. I think it's still an open (legal) question about whether they can train on copyrighted inputs.
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by habitue 3y ago
Ah, my mistake
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by habitue 3y ago
It sounds like your initial impression was an overestimate and your current impression is a correction back down from that. You could say that it's "fundamentally flawed" coming from a very high initial expectation, but you c
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by habitue 3y ago
Not to defend hedge funds, but what does it have to do with them? DeBeers is a privately owned corporation
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by habitue 3y ago
Home ownership rate is a lagging indicator, affordability is a leading indicator. Many people in California own their homes because they bought them a long time ago and held on.
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by habitue 3y ago
Maybe that comment was referring to like cruise or waymo?
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by habitue 3y ago
The bigness itself causes dysfunction, apart from just having more employees and more chances to have a disaster. It's the whole Dunbar's number thing, we really haven't figured out a great way to work effectively in huge gro
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by habitue 3y ago
Also LLMs have kind of made this prank moot, lol
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by habitue 3y ago
There are two dominant narratives I see when AI X-Risk stuff is brought up: - it's actually to get regulatory capture - it's hubris, they're trying to seem more important and powerful than they are Both of these explanations
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by habitue 3y ago
Wait, doesn't TCP have automatic throttling too?
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by habitue 3y ago
These seem consistent with each other: During the pandemic and boom consumer spending was at X ("what it used to be") Then it dropped a ton, though in recent months it's been increasing month over month. In fact, it's al
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by habitue 3y ago
https://archive.ph/mfZeZ
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by habitue 3y ago
I think what a lot of people are missing is to do the backwards induction from where companies predict how things will go back to the present where they develop open source software and release it. Previously, the belief was that you'd

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