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by jmfldn 3y ago
An excellent point around data retention and training data. It's not like you can scrub out bits of the neural network weights. I guess such a product would have to factor this in.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Indeed it would. But then the source training data would be bad to lose too. That already exists. I understand it would be a higher level of damage to lose the model of course, but the benefits outweigh the risks, and these could be managed
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Perhaps such products are in the works, but I would love a private company LLM that slurps all messages, docs, meetings, and becomes an oracle that can be relied upon. Perhaps it could even infer tacit knowledge even when it's not expl
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Chatgpt soon probably!
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Written in Scala I believe which makes me love it even more (Scala fan here!).
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by jmfldn 3y ago
+1 for Processing. Amazing tool to iterate quickly on these sorts of ideas.
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Tesla whistleblower casts doubt on car safety(bbc.co.uk)
45 points by jmfldn 3y ago|17 comments
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by jmfldn 3y ago
If you're interested in this piece, and interesting music writing generally, check out this book by Paul Morley... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_and_Music:_A_History_of_... "Words and Music: A History o
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Sure it will yep. I'm pretty confident it won't be though. I am half-Argentine and a student of history. Both things tell me it will be a disaster. For what it's worth, I'm utterly opposed to the corrupt useless Peronist
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Out of the frying pan and into the fire. I understand Argentinians are utterly fed up and willing to roll the dice. This will be even worse... Sad times.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Interesting point. Perhaps you're right. I hope so, as someone who otherwise believes in the FOSS ideal.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
True but there is a really difficult trade off here between a big tech monopoly and decentralised open source anarchy. I say this as a Linux-using FOSS lover, but we need to open this up as much as possible without allowing superpowers to e
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Yes! Going to order my copy soon. Great to see these classic tools evolving and hopefully winning new fans from up to date resources like this.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
I think you have a point. The thing is, I'm weirdly OK with labouring away at the coalface. It's hard work, it's more toil and drudgery than people admit, but I'd rather that than finding the white collar 'cheat cod
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Julia Evans is amazing. So likeable, such a great teacher, so much enthusiasm and love for her subject and so much wisdom. An example to us all.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Zen IS Buddhism, it's not influenced by it. It's one of the most important schools within Mahayana Buddhism. It has Daoist influences via Chan from which it originated. It absolutely is categorically not Daoism though. It is Budd
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Zen evolved from Chinese Chan Buddhism which was influenced by Daoism. Zen is not Daoism though, it is Buddhism. Therefore, to study Daoist texts as a beginner I don't think Zen Buddhism is going to help. It's just going to muddy
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by jmfldn 3y ago
It's written in a set of Tao Te Ching-style aphorisms for humorous effect. That's the connection I guess!
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Fine, well let's leave it there. I can see it's pointless trying to convince you.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Depressingly for me, I once admired him, so I'm familiar with his output. I went off him a good few years ago as I felt he was becoming incoherent even then. I then watched a few of his recent videos in horror. The shift was quite extr
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by jmfldn 3y ago
As I said, if you need to ask why his recent videos are unsound and you've watched them all, then I'm not sure what more I can say. It's going to be hard to have a fruitful discussion and your tone underlines that for me. If
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by jmfldn 3y ago
If you have to ask I don't know what to say. Look at anything from literally the last few years. It's basically Info Wars / Alex Jones.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Sure, it just a theory. I had thought several times in recent months how odd his transformation had been though, and this is one possible cause of it.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
His decent into outrage-bait, alt-right friendly nonsense struck me as abrupt. One minute his channel was reasonable enough, the next it was totally nuts. Part of me wonders whether this was calculated once he knew that a major expose was c
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29768539
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Honestly, what you're describing would be common to almost any software engineer I know at least. The entire world of computer science, programming and software is VAST. You're only going to know about a tiny bit of it. A physicis
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by jmfldn 3y ago
That's a bit over the top. It's just people having a conversation and sharing their experiences. Quite interesting to see that it's not that uncommon. Is there selection bias here, with those reporting ill effects having a pa
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by jmfldn 3y ago
It's quite common I've gradually come to realise. Even within my friendship group, two people had these experiences.
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by jmfldn 3y ago
I found this quote in "Notes On A Nervous planet" by the wonderful Matt Haig a few years ago. It was the first time I felt "seen" and like someone else could articulate this weird feeling I sometimes had... "People
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by jmfldn 3y ago
Yes absolutely. The insight for me is that the perception itself is totally unreal. One minute I felt one way, now I feel another. Well, which is real? Since I can perceive reality in two ways then they can't both be real. Maybe neithe

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