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by lioeters 8mo ago
Solution for a hallucinating calculator: get a second unreliable calculator to verify the work of the first one. This message brought to you by a trillion dollars in investment desperately trying to replace the labor force with pseudo-intel
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by lioeters 8mo ago
People also stopped ape-walking after the invention of the bicycle.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
"Everything has already been invented." - Some 19th-century scientist who had no imagination to see the wave of technological innovation that was coming.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Closest thing I found was: Single Bit Neural Nets Did Not Work - https://fpga.mit.edu/videos/2023/team04/report.pdf > We originally planned to make and train a neural network with single bit activations, w
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Literally laughed out loud at the very first sentence spoken with that voice. Haha.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Aubergine. I'm guessing no one could have predicted that word would be next. If the universe is a deterministic simulation (of what?) that could be run backward and forward predictably, then of course the next word was always going to
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Taking the metaphor further, the traditional way of programming was to manually encode the logic, and the new way is to program the environment and context to let the correct program emerge through the constraints. The stricter and more pre
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Being a centrist is a cowardly position, inevitably on the wrong side of history, serving the ruling class while backstabbing your fellow workers and citizens. You'd rather pretend to be asleep and let it all happen to us than open you
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by lioeters 8mo ago
The best political insight in this thread. This is the planet of the apes. If any future historians are reading, some of us primates were aware of the absurdity of the situation, horrified by the senseless violence that erupts again and aga
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by lioeters 8mo ago
> religion like behaviours That phrasing makes me imagine a cultural anthropologist studying the behavior of programmers in the wild, their tool use, rituals, magical worldviews like object-orientation. There's that classic paper ab
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by lioeters 8mo ago
I think it's that the few enthusiastic fans make such hyperbolic statements, they create drama and stand out among the majority of reasonable users of the language. They attract attention of the people who are curious about the languag
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by lioeters 8mo ago
I've been running local language models on an existing laptop with 8GB GPU, currently using ministral-3:8b. It's faster than other models of similar size I used previously, fast enough that I never wait for it, rather have to scro
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Looks great! Just started exploring the docs, the links under each example with heading "Learn More" are not clickable. Congrats on the launch, I'll enjoy learning more about it.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
"Starting today I will be asking prominent members of the tech community to sign their name onto this. A code of conduct, authored by me, that pledges them to a universal ethos, which I created, that I call tech ethics or Tethics f
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by lioeters 8mo ago
The company started with a lie, it's in the name.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
It's comforting to know that some of the brightest minds of our generation are going to work at OpenAI, then quitting a few months later horrified, only to post a short mysterious tweet warning everyone of the dangers ahead. So much fo
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Officer, yes, this clanker over here.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Department of War is a teenage boy's idea of "manly" and "cool". Same with X. These juvenile idiocrats will be laughed at by children in the future studying history. "Seriously? How dumb were these people in th
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by lioeters 8mo ago
I'm starting to think this guy is kind of a jerk.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
The rest of the world: First time?
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Then ratchet.
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Document.designMode Property(developer.mozilla.org)
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When you realize you were the missing "g" all along.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
I like it. Simple, well-designed, smooth. It's nice everything fits in a single HTML page with no external dependencies. The inline style and script is human readable, which is becoming rare these days.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
Recreate your competitor's product with an intern + AI over a weekend. Hilarious! I hope this becomes common practice. It might even work as an interview question for hiring new candidates.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
> gatekeeping of science as a human activity The other side of the coin is: automating science as a machine activity. Is that what we want? I agree with you that the use of language models in science is an inevitable paradigm shift, but
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by lioeters 8mo ago
I enjoyed that! Nice intro to JonesForth and how it maps to assembly instructions.
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by lioeters 8mo ago
> 35,000 emails. 1.5M API keys. And 17,000 humans behind the not-so-autonomous AI network Wow, this is sure a brave new world. I'd just recently heard about the project and they've already been pwned so massively. We're ac
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by lioeters 8mo ago
To save others a search, here's the podcast with Wolfram. Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental Physics - https://podbay.fm/p/sean-carrolls-mindscape-science-society-... (2hr 40min) I'm
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by lioeters 8mo ago
> LNG is an operationg system primarly for the good old Commodore64 home-computer. There also is a native version for the successor Commodore128. Ports to other 6502/6510 driven 8Bit Computers are possible but not yet started. LUnix

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