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by hnfong 1y ago
Just curious, what's special about us-east-1?
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by hnfong 1y ago
> instead it's some weird anti-Turing Test where humans successfully act like a [bad] computer This is ex-post-facto denial and cope. The Turing Test isn't a test between computers and the idealized human, it's a test betw
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by hnfong 1y ago
Maybe it's because it's not trendy to believe in woowoo such as spirits and non-physical things, it's very common for dualists to accuse others of the same... It's quite sad that people don't take the idea of consci
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by hnfong 1y ago
You’re right in a politically sensitive context, but practically speaking Kanji and Chinese characters mostly share the same unicode code points, and you might want to ask yourself whether it’s worth nitpicking over for example whether Engl
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by hnfong 1y ago
> Crunchyroll is a de-facto monopoly Here's the answer right here...
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by hnfong 1y ago
This is more justification for banning people who got rich by doing illegal things from holding positions of power ever. Not to punish per se, but to prevent them from doing more harm to the public.
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by hnfong 1y ago
It's never about the rules, it's always about the perceived authority of the moderator or the decision maker. This is very much so for small communities who don't have the infrastructure to litigate issues in a legalistic man
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by hnfong 1y ago
It looks like you're in Iraq. The first thing that comes to mind is, if I wanted to hire you remotely, how would I pay you? I don't know whether it's a common question you have from prospective employers, but if I'm ru
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by hnfong 1y ago
Cynically, it's also a way for the US system to gatekeep "poor" people from entering professions like medicine and law because of the extra tuition fees (and opportunity time-cost) needed to complete their studies.
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by hnfong 1y ago
Look at history, things improve and then things get worse, in cycles. During the "things get worse" phase, why not make it shorter?
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by hnfong 1y ago
The scale of a typical European "nation" (in population) is roughly the size of a Chinese province.
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by hnfong 1y ago
> > In your case, "everyone knows he can't code", so he doesn't have stellar reputation > Yes that’s what we figured out after he got hired. He obviously didn’t have a reputation within our org before he got hir
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by hnfong 1y ago
I think you're projecting your negative past experiences and trying very hard not to understand the GP's point. It doesn't matter what the person hired thinks. The important part is whether those making hiring decisions are h
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by hnfong 1y ago
Medals in both contests depend on your relative ranking (and of course depends on the difficulty of qualifying for them). Doesn't say anything about the difficulty of the questions themselves though.
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by hnfong 1y ago
All the while with skeptics snarkily commenting "Cars can move fast, but they can't really run like a human!"
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by hnfong 1y ago
Since the common law is not codified by definition, there's been a tradition of elites in the UK simply proclaiming what the common law is without presenting evidence (precedent) to support their viewpoints. Lots of vibe-lawyering if y
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by hnfong 1y ago
You can 100% identify the AI slop that you identify.
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by hnfong 1y ago
The original comment advised people to enroll in CS to capture the potential shortage of CS grads in the workforce. You’re saying no people shouldn’t be doing CS to make themselves ready for a job. The comment you replied to also takes a si
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by hnfong 1y ago
The GFW being more lenient for tourists (esp. their foreign mobile plan) checks out with the stories I hear too. I'm guessing the less touristy places don't have "support" for these "exceptions" so they get a d
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by hnfong 1y ago
Almost all companies developing state of the art LLMs are either based in San Francisco (and the surrounding Bay Area), or French or Chinese... (and as a sibling commenter says, XAI is in the SF Bay Area as well.)
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by hnfong 1y ago
When you mention that you're used to rendering HTML on the server side and don't use React on the frontend to do things, modern web people just look at you like you committed a crime or something (VanillaJS! the horror! Those thir
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by hnfong 1y ago
Obviously I'm not a stochastic parrot :P
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by hnfong 1y ago
Is this a trick question? The Ministry of Truth obviously. Seriously, I'm glad we narrowly averted that one.
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by hnfong 1y ago
I think many humans are stochastic parrots, so in a sense those parrots are damn right.
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by hnfong 1y ago
They’re rich enough in both money and reputation to take the risk. Even if AGI (whatever that means) turns out to be utterly impossible, they’re not really going to suffer for it. On the other hand if you think there’s a say 10% chance you
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by hnfong 1y ago
I'm going to interpret the two stories as "50% businesses find LLMs useful" (sample size 2).
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by hnfong 1y ago
I have a feeling that you believe "translation, grammar, and tone-shifting" works but "code generation sucks" for LLMs because you're good at coding and hence you see its flaws, and you're not in the business o
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by hnfong 1y ago
I totally agree, but I thought we were basically talking about Jobs and other famous people? I mean, there's no reason for somebody who hasn't had personal interaction with Jobs fixate on whether he was an asshole (which did not a
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by hnfong 1y ago
You're ignored not because you're right or wrong, but because your unsolicited advice is not useful. For example, I can spin up any LLM and get it to translate some English text into Japanese with maybe 99% accuracy. I don't
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by hnfong 1y ago
It's actually very weird to "believe" LLMs are "intelligent". Pragmatic people see news like "LLMs achieve gold in Math Olympiad" and think "oh wow, it can do maths at that level, cool!" This ge

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