jimbo808

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by jimbo808 1y ago
I think you're looking at it too abstractly. An LLM isn't representing anything, it has a bag of numbers that some other algorithm produced for it. When you give it some numbers, it takes them and does matrix operations with them
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by jimbo808 1y ago
> It seems at least plausible (imo likely) that there are meaningful differences in how intelligence is implemented in LLMs and humans Intelligence isn’t "implemented" in an LLM at all. The model doesn’t carry a reasoning engin
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by jimbo808 1y ago
This is wrong on so many levels. I feel like this is what I would have said if I never took a neuroscience class, or actually used an LLM for any real work beyond just poking around ChatGPT from time to time between TED talks.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
Humans don't make mistakes nearly as much, the mistakes they do make are way more predictable (they're easier to spot in code review), and they don't tend to make the kinds of catastrophic mistakes that could sink a business.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
As I get older and gain first-hand experience in the orbit of some extremely successful people, I'm starting to realize that what I believed about how to succeed appears to be quite the opposite of what I've believed for most of m
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by jimbo808 1y ago
I didn't say KDE is the only option for power users, or that there aren't multiple types of power users with different use cases and individual preferences. I'm not sure what I'm gatekeeping. Is it really gatekeeping to
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by jimbo808 1y ago
There isn't only one kind of power user, and not every kind of power user will like KDE. I use GNOME almost daily, with KDE being my primary daily driver. I just really don't see how GNOME could ever said to be great for power use
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by jimbo808 1y ago
Customer service is for customers, not for products. You are the product.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
A Linux user is, and has always been, an edge case
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by jimbo808 1y ago
This is an opinion stated as fact. Not every user is the same. That's why there are loads of apps with UIs that have different user modes, for power users, etc. KDE is most suitable for power users of Linux desktops, probably who use i
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by jimbo808 1y ago
Not everyone wants or needs the customizability of KDE. But if you're a heavy desktop user, being able to tailor every aspect of your system to your specific preferences, is absolutely wonderful. Using my Mac for work has become excruc
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by jimbo808 1y ago
It's startling how few are willing to. I'm rooting for them.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
This has been suspected for decades. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS147330... Hopefully it leads somewhere that brings us new preventative care.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
But you can't patent phages, so we'll just continue ignoring them
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by jimbo808 1y ago
Kidnapped or detained? These words mean the same thing to you?
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by jimbo808 1y ago
That is a very different issue than what the article implies. The implication of the article was that something very illegal happened. What you're implying is not necessarily illegal, but I agree it is harmful.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
No. They didn't code very well back then, they just pattern matched and regurgitated whatever code snippet was in some GitHub repo that matched your prompt best. And that's what they're doing now, too. They're useful too
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by jimbo808 1y ago
But if harm was caused, The Guardian would probably be more explicit about it. They wouldn't beat around the bush in how they word it.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
> From statements made and queries in law enforcement databases, [redacted] has not violated his visa; however, the Atlanta Field Office Director has mandated [redacted] be presented as a Voluntary Departure. [Redacted] has accepted volu
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by jimbo808 1y ago
I'd like to give these a try - what's your way of using them? I mostly use Claude because of Claude Code. Not sure what agentic coding tools people are using these days with OSS models. I'm not a big fan of manually uploading
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by jimbo808 1y ago
And it's probably the lowest risk way to profit from this attack
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by jimbo808 1y ago
While true, social policies do not need to provide an equal benefit to everyone. People who can afford to stay home with the kids are not the ones who need this sort of policy.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
I think it would be absurd to believe we're the only place life is has happened. But I also think it's absurd to believe that life has come here.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
This reminds me of the guy who implanted magnets in his fingertips to pick up metal stuff. Apparently a side effect of this was that they would vibrate when near some electromagnetic fields, giving him the ability to sense them. I don'
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by jimbo808 1y ago
> suspicion that they have been written by AI "By AI" or "with AI?" If I write the book and have AI proof read things as I go, or critique my ideas, or point out which points do I need to add more support for, is that
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by jimbo808 1y ago
Hey at least there's one adult in the room in the big tech sphere.
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by jimbo808 1y ago
I've been pondering this for a while. I think there's an element of dopamine that LLMs bring to the table. They probably don't make a competent senior engineer much more productive if at all, but there's that element of
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by jimbo808 1y ago
What? Do you mean like this??? https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1mkrrbx/chatgpt_5_h... Calculators have been better than humans at arithmetic for well over half a century. Calculators can reason?
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by jimbo808 1y ago
It's an absurd take to actually believe they can reason. The cutting edge "reasoning model," by the way: https://bsky.app/profile/kjhealy.co/post/3lvtxbtexg226
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by jimbo808 1y ago
It makes sense. People said software engineers would be easy to replace with AI, because our work can be run on a computer and easily tested, but the disconnect is that the primary strength of LLMs is that they can draw on huge bodies of in

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