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by kgwgk 1y ago
What people use are products and interfaces, not "AI".
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by kgwgk 1y ago
There is also a reason why you don’t have general purpose applications. Most users understand that Excel is for data tables and Paint is for images even though some people have fun playing with the boundary and creating Excel paintings.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> but it also can make the LLM worse at other tasks The problem is easily avoided by not using it for other tasks.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> TFA actually refers to "other spherical cows" What does that mean in the context of the comment you reply to - which includes the literal quote about "twisting hardware to make the FP spherical cow work faster”? The arti
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by kgwgk 1y ago
“I really want that large truck that I don’t need. Maybe I should start a landscaping business!”
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Wait what!?!? You may have a MacBook Pro M1 Max for crying out loud.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> actual name "machine learning" Yesterday’s hype is today’s humility.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
A very quick search suggests that the word entered English before French. (I could be wrong, I just found it interesting).
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Responding to the Opioid Crisis in North America and Beyond: Recommendations of the Stanford-Lancet Commission https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9261968/ The first wave of the opioid crisis began in the 199
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> I know of approximately 0 people who have had the thought “I’d try heroin if it were legal”. How many people do you approximately know of that have had the thought “I’d try heroin”? > I truly believe that there would be fewer addict
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Ok, if Tesla is literally a walking cash cow so are Ford or GM to name just a couple of companies in the same sector. (Both together are valued at less than one tenth of Tesla and print five times as much cash.) I agree that it's bette
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> The difference here and between the .com bubble is these companies have high earnings. They are literally walking cash cows and are printing money... The difference between you and me is that I know that Sun Microsystems was not burnin
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> Analysts forecast that Analyst did also forecast that. (And the company did better than forecast for a while and the stock continued to rise - until it didn’t.) https://www.forbes.com/1999/03/26/mu4.html
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> You are conflating revenues and earnings. Enlighten me, what’s Nvidia’s price to sales ratio?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
“At 10 times revenues, to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends. That assumes I can get that by my shareholders. That assumes I have zero cost of goods sold, which is very hard for
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Maybe they didn’t want to make the same mistake: Nobel secretary regrets Obama peace prize https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34277960
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by kgwgk 1y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-07/oracle-si... Oracle Sinks on Report Its Cloud Margins Are Lower Than Expected Jeran Wittenstein October 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM GMT+2 Oracle Corp. shares tumbled
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by kgwgk 1y ago
I found that the message I replied to was an oddly personal remark and I couldn’t help it. Anyway, this year was better seems a positive note (to end a negative melody if you will).
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Tinker as a verb is recorded in the sixteenth century. And what does "directly from that meaning" mean when it's obviously about the action of mending and not anything else related to the group of people associated with the o
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by kgwgk 1y ago
>> The "mender of kettles, pots, pans, etc.," refers to Travelers. > Right, so as per your quote, the term referred to Travellers exclusively for centuries The quote supports what I wrote before: 1) The "mender of ke
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by kgwgk 1y ago
I think it's used less than 37 years ago in that sense - and it was not much of an issue back then (at least in the US, that article doesn't mention that tinker could be considered offensive while it talks about 'wetbacks&#x2
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by kgwgk 1y ago
[…] is to be considered that genuine Gypsies have often been spoken of as "tinkers" (chaudronniers) on account of the occupation with which they have long been associated ; and that, although there is no known mention of "Gyp
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by kgwgk 1y ago
> the order of senses is clear: the Traveller sense comes first, the modern “casual repair” sense comes later and was derived from it. The order of the senses is clear but different: The "mender of kettles, pots, pans, etc.," s
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by kgwgk 1y ago
It is offensive to anyone who knows that Great Britain is one island. Maybe he meant the British Isles.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
On the contrary, it seems more acceptable now than 37 years ago - the “unacceptable” meaning that was already residual then (and not mentioned in the article at all!) is even more irrelevant today.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
Interesting that you link to an article that has no issues with the word “tinker”.
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Tests suggest clues of whose content was used to train OpenAI’s Sora(washingtonpost.com)
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You’re right. My comment is irrelevant (I didn’t read yours carefully enough) and the phrasing of the original one was somewhat amusing.
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by kgwgk 1y ago
>> The platypus is a special animal because it lays eggs but nurses its young with milk. > I hear chickens lay eggs, too?
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by kgwgk 1y ago
You can sell that labor “you cannot afford” to donate to someone else - and donate the money you receive for it. So you get a tax write off instead of getting shat on or whatever.

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