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by krupan 5mo ago
What even is the problem? I keep my kids computers in the living room where it's easy to see what they are doing. Their lan shuts down at night when I'm asleep. They don't get full control of their own cell phone until the
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by krupan 5mo ago
Totally with you until you brought in AI, a completely centralized and proprietary tool.
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by krupan 5mo ago
Here I was hoping that this was some plea for us to get away from proprietary solutions that we have no control over and go back to open source, but no, not that at all.
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by krupan 5mo ago
If you don't need a lot of smarts, do you even need an LLM? Aren't older machine learning techniques just as good, or like, you know, old-school algorithms?
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by krupan 5mo ago
It took us only, what 70-ish years of computer and AI research to get to this point, so yeah, probably just one little thing and then we'll have it </sarcasm> Seriously. I have never ever seen so many people so willingly dr
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by krupan 5mo ago
And how were those models developed and trained?
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by krupan 5mo ago
And this is important because even though you are running a model locally, it's still a proprietary model. You have no say in what it was trained on, how that training data is labeled, what the guardrails are, what biases it might hav
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by krupan 5mo ago
What does this even have to do with the parent? Your capabilities have nothing to do with LLM capabilities. The two work in completely different ways. The reason LLMs work is because they are huge and have been trained on vast amounts of
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by krupan 6mo ago
Free/Open Source software is very mainstream now I'm not sure what you mean, but maybe we are taking too much of it for granted?
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by krupan 6mo ago
Nobody had to legislate Free software into existence in order to protect us. Wise people saw the need and did something of their own accord. We are still free to do this!
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by krupan 6mo ago
Very well said. Free software was a revolt against technology that you have no control over and I feel like the people that are whole heartedly embracing "AI" have completely forgotten this. They now use an incredibly expensive
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by krupan 6mo ago
Why did you assume I didn't know that?
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by krupan 6mo ago
Is there a more straightforward explanation for this somewhere?
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by krupan 6mo ago
If you are switching to a BSD for security reasons, why FreeBSD? Isn't OpenBSD the super secure one? Sorry, it's been a while since I've looked at those projects
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by krupan 6mo ago
If you are right that it's all a scam then that makes it even more upsetting that government leaders are falling for it
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by krupan 6mo ago
Some of the people are upset that it's AI. Most in Utah are upset about drought conditions and reports of heavy metals in the air thanks to parts of The Great Salt Lake's lakebed being exposed to the air, and now this being ramme
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by krupan 6mo ago
People in Utah are super upset about this data center project (and no, they aren't bussed-in paid protestors like "Mr. Wonderful" claims). Check Instagram and ksl.com for all the drama, it's very entertaining. Utahns are
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by krupan 6mo ago
People in Utah are super upset about this (and no, they aren't bussed in paid protestors like "Mr. Wonderful" claims). Check Instagram and ksl.com for all the drama, it's very entertaining. Utahns are being asked to sa
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by krupan 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054386
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by krupan 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054386
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by krupan 6mo ago
A college student I know just sent me a screenshot, he can't access canvas for his school at all
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by krupan 6mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "permanent destitution" but certainly life is full of struggles. It's not just a feature of our society, but of the universe itself. Without struggle and pain there is no life. Fighting e
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by krupan 6mo ago
It's honestly been a long time since I've encountered this attitude around cryptography, where not even Schneier can be trusted and you have no hope of actually understanding cryptography so don't even try (yes, I'm refe
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by krupan 6mo ago
The math isn't that difficult once you grok mod math. It's like time, like doing addition and subtraction on a clock. What's 10 + 4 on a clock? 4 hours past 10 is 2.
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by krupan 6mo ago
I'm sorry that you are feeling existential dread about your career. It could help to stop listening to the hype that the people selling AI are spewing and take a hard look at the tools themselves. Like most products, they aren't
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by krupan 6mo ago
Did the actual fabrication of silicon ever happen in Silicon Valley? If it did it left a loooong time ago
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by krupan 6mo ago
The time I'm talking about was a long time before V8 and Chrome even
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by krupan 6mo ago
Do you know anything about engineering?
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by krupan 6mo ago
I have bad news for you about what current AI was trained on...
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by krupan 6mo ago
This comment and a few others here make me feel old and sad for the people too young to remember that time. Yes, Google was an enormous breath of fresh air when it came out. 1000% better UI and features than the competition. Search was i

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