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by le-mark 3mo ago
What percentage of humans are urban dwelling and don’t even see the stars at night? Related there aren’t many places on earth where you can still see the Milky Way. In that way a similar trade off has been made with no forethought whatsoeve
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by le-mark 3mo ago
> but in the past it was work. I suggest that reading previously took the roll devices take today. When my parents weren’t at work they were reading as often as not; newspapers and novels.
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by le-mark 3mo ago
Not at all. Anthropomorphizing them is not productive or desirable imo.
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by le-mark 3mo ago
I have heard but don’t have first hand knowledge that at least one company (financial services BPO) has moved most of their previously manual processing to llms. The person I talked to wasn’t forthcoming with any detail. This is what we’d e
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by le-mark 3mo ago
My first job was at a financial services software company. They put everyone through multiple weeks of training on sql. That experience has been paying dividends for 25 years.
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by le-mark 3mo ago
Were they actually available to purchase? Seems like supply of these and others was usually a bit spotty.
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by le-mark 3mo ago
Caveman was a thing why not royal courtier? If it be within the model's power to affect the coarse tongue of the caveman, then surely, by the same grace and ingenuity, it might be prevailed upon to adopt the eloquent and ceremonious be
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by le-mark 3mo ago
We had a vp of engineering at a retail place who came from windows shop and wanted to restart the servers every night of the holiday season. It took some doing but we finally convinced him “this is Linux we don’t have to that!”
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by le-mark 3mo ago
I live two miles (as the crow flies) from the site of a new construction of a data center. It’s being built by a European company. They will be installing gas turbines for power generation. Are we far enough away so that low frequency sound
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by le-mark 3mo ago
Somewhat related is the hydration shell around molecules especially proteins. It’s been shown that semi structured water around proteins help guide molecules to reaction sites. Water is an amazing thing!
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by le-mark 3mo ago
> At the end of the pandemic academics were thanked with two years of 0 and 1% salary increase, due to a tough economic situation. During the same time the president received a 8% raise. Let us know when they institute stack ranking and
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by le-mark 3mo ago
> Genetically, the nearest populations to Ancient Romans are Cypriots I’ve often wondered what the ethnicity of ancient Romans actually was. Looking at pictures of Greek Cypriots on google was enlightening. The “Roman nose” is quite prom
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by le-mark 3mo ago
> maybe even senescence To me the really disturbing thing is; if the rich stop dying we’re fucked forever. At least now when they die their wealth gets distributed to their heirs and sometimes squandered. Elon and Bezos and their kind wi
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by le-mark 3mo ago
I use Lyft because my phone is too old to run the Uber app. This says nothing about market share obviously.
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by le-mark 3mo ago
There’s no logic to it, blocking fable was retaliation and market manipulation by the current admin, nothing more. Poorly conceived as well.
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by le-mark 3mo ago
I’m confused I thought Mike Pall left luajit and Laurence Tratt took over as maintainer?
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by le-mark 4mo ago
Given this and the quality of open models, it makes no sense to me that there’s a future for Anthropic et all?
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by le-mark 4mo ago
How do you know it’s a valid solution? Are you able to verify it yourself?
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by le-mark 4mo ago
Does anyone know the inside story of some of these AI adoptions that have been downsized? The company I’m at has only only recently gotten an enterprise license.
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by le-mark 4mo ago
Not allowed by the rules.
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by le-mark 4mo ago
Not pdp-11 but once I was tasked with fixing a c program the offshore team had failed to fix for over a year. I basically took a month off (at my desk) after I fixed it the first day. They were happy, I was a legend at that company!
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by le-mark 4mo ago
> Computers used to have unlimited promise and potential. Imo 90s sci-fi had a lot of this techno optimism, even if the settings were often dystopian. Cyberpunk was pretty wild and who knows a lot of that could still come to pass.
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by le-mark 4mo ago
I really wish people gave a damn about the “gui over the network” problem x11 solves. Wayland drops this use case entirely so we’re pretty much universally stuck with vnc. Microsoft rdp is a great solution for this in windows land.
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by le-mark 4mo ago
Your AGI seems to have the capability of super AI; can a human do any of that? No, is there any reason to believe super intelligence is a possible outcome? No, so how is this not fear mongering?
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by le-mark 4mo ago
> The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently placed unemployment for recent CS graduates in the United States at 6.1 percent, with computer engineering graduates at 7.5 percent. Compared to philosophy majors at 3.2 percent and art his
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by le-mark 4mo ago
> I was able to ask it questions about what a particular tube or group of components did, Was it correct or hallucinating? Do you have the knowledge to tell the difference? I’ve been burned too many times to take what they say as the tru
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by le-mark 4mo ago
> If you have the hacker spirit, you don't enshitify because you simply can't. Not me, if they want shit I give them shit. I used to care 30 years ago, but they beat it out of me. Now its all for the money, HODLing to retiremen
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by le-mark 4mo ago
Hackathons turned into “nice ui with mock data”-athons. Whoever got the best ui person on their team won. I benefitted from this a few times!
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by le-mark 4mo ago
Llms don’t learn after they’re trained. At the most it could maintain a profile or some such. Which may be the equivalent of what you mean, but not as provocative.
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by le-mark 4mo ago
They have thier very own ai to help; isn’t that supposed to disrupt everything?

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