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by jmugan 4y ago
Interesting. That's pretty much the plot of Pinocchio.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Speaking of all this, on my windows 11 machine I get McAfee popups, and for the life of me, I can't track down where they come from or how to turn them off. My son has a windows 10 machine and has the same problem. Why does Microsoft p
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by jmugan 4y ago
One thing I like about Bank of America is their app and website are both really good. I have another account with a small bank and I continually have problems with the website being janky.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I don't think so, especially for StackOverflow. I want correct answers, not answers that just look correct.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I keep hearing about how in the US enrollment is going to drop in a few years when the kids (not) born during the great recession of 2008-2010 hit college age. Interesting to see how that will play out with this administrative bloat.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I love the "Show HN: $X created by ChatGPT" We need people seeing what useful things can be done with this new hammer, things that haven't occurred to us yet.
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by jmugan 4y ago
It can generate a bunch of stuff automatically. What we need is the ability to test that stuff automatically, so we can close the generate-and-test loop. If we can test automatically, we can then have this thing hillclimb to usefulness. I m
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by jmugan 4y ago
World state for AI. Although, the "VM" created by ChatGPT in another article seems like it does a surprisingly good job of maintaining state.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I usually love his writing, and maybe I haven't had enough coffee today, but this didn't make any sense to me at all. I don't see any relation between AI and crypto. He does a great job in a previous essay of talking about th
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by jmugan 4y ago
People say you should manage your own data. That's great until you have to demonstrate compliance with security regulations. If I'm a big cloud provider, the more regulations and requirements there are the better it is for my busi
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by jmugan 4y ago
Because saying something reasonable is relatively easy but saying something exactly right is hard.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Everyone agrees it is a terrible system. The high prices are because many people cannot pay, and the wait is because many people have no where else to go. We just can't seem to get from our system to a better one, but it's not bec
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by jmugan 4y ago
Yeah, but you wait and fill out paperwork even if you are paying. Clearly, we need to improve things.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I don't leave the house much, but on the Austin subreddit, people are talking about this all the time. Enforcement seems down and wild driving is up.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Let's try to have a more nuanced discussion. My sister is an ER doctor in the US; we don't turn people away. Clearly, we need a better healthcare system, but it's not because the US is narcissistic.
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by jmugan 4y ago
This seems worrisome. Sure, don't destroy a new PhD student giving their first talk in front of everyone for sport, but open and constructive criticism is the long conversation that moves science forward.
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by jmugan 4y ago
If you find this interesting check out Aurora by David Koepp. Fun read about if the power went out for an extended time due to a solar storm.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I had trouble with the beginning. When I worked in a restaurant, it never got to the point where there was nothing that needed to be cleaned.
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by jmugan 4y ago
It's the Chinese room but it is effective because the game space is relatively small (compared to the real world) and you can cover that space with RL guiding NLP language generation.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Yep, that's what I was thinking. Odd it wasn't mentioned or looked at.
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by jmugan 4y ago
I can imagine a whole genre of these, like Madonna and Child.
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by jmugan 4y ago
And it's free. Supported by advertising. A few times a day you receive "sponsored thoughts."
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by jmugan 4y ago
This is pretty close to the joke blog post I wrote last April Fool's Day. Your thoughts are stored automatically in the cloud so you can share them with loved ones. https://deumbra.com/2022/04/introducing-thou
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by jmugan 4y ago
I wonder, if it can be generated by an AI, maybe it shouldn't be written down. Current AI can only generate what most people already know, and the purpose of writing is to express something new.
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by jmugan 4y ago
Thinking about my own comment, maybe there is something special about parking lots being especially ugly. Maybe they are thinking about this more in terms of beatification zoning than electricity policy.
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by jmugan 4y ago
It makes sense, but why can't they provide economic incentives so people naturally do what's best? Maybe some plan to buy electricity from urban surfaces, which will include car parks? With the current plan, people will throw up c
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by jmugan 4y ago
My understanding is that the goal is to advance society (not really the sciences) by enabling someone to produce their invention so society can benefit from it. The patent protects someone from having that invention copied as soon as it is
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by jmugan 4y ago
The small inventor is supposed to monetize a patent by building something useful for society. That's the whole deal. The patent itself shouldn't have value beyond protecting that path.
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by jmugan 4y ago
This may sound weird, but if the public "experiences" something it seems like it should be partially owned by the public. For example, certain Far Side cartoons feel like they partially belong to me because they are ingrained in m
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by jmugan 4y ago
I started reading that book but was disappointed. I live in central Texas, and I didn't recognize the picture he painted. Yeah, it's hot and often terrible, but his terrible didn't ring true and took me out of the novel. E.g,

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