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by kombookcha 4mo ago
I used to have a coworker who could get by using her Office programs fine, but would freeze completely the moment something unexpected happened or there was an error message. She didn't really know how to find stuff independently or na
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
I recently started reading Anna Karenina, and even for me as an adult, there's a lot of people with a lot of interconnected relationships to keep track of. But I am surprised by how moving I find it - I guess I expected it to be more d
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
I believe this is common to attempt when dealing with very cold water drownings. Obviously this is a very extreme case, but I believe you'd generally be instructed on the phone to start CPR but not try to heat them up until the ambulan
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
That's really interesting, thank you - do you know how this was done, like in a practical sense?
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
Weird! I wonder if there is some exponential complexity going on. More neural pathways leaving more stuff that can potentially break from an uneven freeze/thaw? Or is it literally that the freezing and thawing can't happen evenly
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
I always have a strong hunch that it would be vastly more efficient if they just sent me whatever the prompt was, rather than the output. If you blow 2-3 sentences of intentional information up into a verbose e-mail, you're needlessly
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
Frankly it's unfair that I should bear the hangover of Past Me's drinking. I feel terrible now, and it's all that other guy's fault! Maybe I should get some takeout, Future Me can burn it off at the gym.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
> JertLinc3522: the mistake was from AI agent not from Human, since it was the agent I should have refund Expensive way to learn this lesson.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
God, I had that entire Dress To Kill show loaded up on my old timey mp3-player along with Definite Article, Glorious and Sexie. Barely any room for music, but I was giggling my way through every day trying not to look too insane in public.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
You bastards, you never told me 200 miles. 200 miles in this day and age! I don't even know where I live now!
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
That's my approach as well. When I try to mentally compare the cost of the subscription to the performance, I think it's extremely dubious at best.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
I am convinced the people who swear by them either have very different work tasks from me, or they have very different ideas about what a job well done looks like. I feel like everything I apply these things to sends me up a much messier an
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
MyHouse.WAD is a genuine work of art. Anybody who is even tangentially interested in video games as an artistic medium should look into it, because it really is astounding.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
The system measures other currents too, as detailed in the article. The coast of Oregon was just one of the places mentioned.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
I'm guessing you need permission to go deploy a bunch of buoys off the coast of Oregon, and that permission may be difficult to obtain for foreign research projects in the current US political climate.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
There is a similar app called ScreenZen that can be set up with a timer like this, or small math problems. It's exceedingly effective at breaking the loop by forcing you to do a tiny task first - you're not impeded from doing anyt
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
Hey, you're right, I don't think mentats get the conditioning as part of their training. I must have misremembered Thufir having the diamond tattoo.
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
Young Amish typically venture out into wider society for a while to try it out for a while before returning to their community and settling into adulthood. Presumably the Amish returning now will have encountered LLMs or their output in one
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by kombookcha 4mo ago
This is a flattening of Herbert's angle - it is explicitly stated in the quoted section in the article that part of the reason for the ban is that the people who control thinking machines would exert outsized control on those who depen
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
The person I am referring to is the CEO of Uber. He called this realization that higher token usage did not proportionally increase useful consumer features a "head-exploding moment". That's in his own words. If you're t
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
I should have perhaps said "galling" instead. After ejecting anyone who spoke out or were even publicly hesistant against the hard swerve into "just do maximal amounts of AI stuff above all else", they're now surpri
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
The other day I had to read a C-suite guy share how he had an epiphany that spending more tokens did not linearly align with more useful features being output by the teams. He was describing it as this breakthrough moment for him, as if it
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
I don't disagree. Local politics and unionizing are much more impactful than people realize.
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
The AI companies and their investors. Full stop.
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
It's never been a good way to get things done, but when you block off every other venue for change people will be much more willing to take a chance on a high risk option. Violent revolutions aren't usually the first thing peopl
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
I legitimately would rather hear about my coworkers dream than their AI chatlog. At least the dream might be an interesting bit of their subconscious. The unwanted log is just a more annoying way to convey what would otherwise be a single s
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
If the only way you could hear about Napoleon's battles was having a guy recount them to you in verse, I bet it would sound pretty impressive when he started listing off all the regiments present for a battle, their commanders and depl
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
Actually, now that I think about it, I guess there is a certain type of Tolkien nerd who would choose the long listing of elf lineages as the section to have in their pocket for their funeral. I see your supernerd cred flex, mummified guy!
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Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages(businessinsider.com)
6 points by kombookcha 5mo ago|5 comments
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by kombookcha 5mo ago
Full headline is: Pizza Hut's AI system caused 'cascading' problems and $100M in damages, franchisee alleges in new suit

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