lonelyasacloud

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by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google et. al. have EULAs and the best lawyers money can buy ready to argue that any damage done by publicly releasing bad or malicious code produced or reviewed with their systems is the developers responsibility for not
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by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago
> ... and yet project velocity does not go much faster 1) The models like us have finite context windows and intelligence, even with good engineering practices system complexity will eventually slow them down. 2) At the moment at least,
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by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago
The study was on those over 65, so in terms of London smog and India; life expectancies lower so maybe if data available similar signals might be very difficult/impossible to detect. > Or into the future with high EV cities and a dr
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Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimers(theconversation.com)
6 points by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago|3 comments
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by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago
Fine particles long linked to heart and lung disease … large US study suggests also raises risk of Alzheimer’s …
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by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago
And what happens when the model vendors take the obvious next step and Waymo's things up and starts delivering development systems that they are willing to guarantee don't need a local agent herder for?
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by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago
> the footpaths are supposed to be done by residents. For public footpaths, unlike in places like Germany [0], there are no such enforceable rules in the UK. [0] https://www.ergo.com/en/newsroom/advisory/20
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by lonelyasacloud 8mo ago
And for those wondering how different the inhabitants north of the wall were to the rest of the inhabitants of isles at the time. "Our findings support a prevailing view that the Picts descended from Iron Age groups in Britain and Irel
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by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago
Go all in and invest in a Spurtle.
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by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago
> A porridge made of rice in the UK is not a thing. No, for that we've adopted the name "rice pudding"
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by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago
> Unless review itself becomes cheaper or better, this just shifts work further downstream and disguising the change as "efficiency" Or the providers of the models are capable of providing accepted/certified guarantees as
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by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago
> There's something with the management from these massive German conglomerates that just lacks any sort of vision. It's a universally hard tendency to resist as enterprises grow into big organisations. Company starts small and
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Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary intervention(nature.com)
38 points by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago|4 comments
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by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago
... developed a ranking of species most favourably and unfavourably associated with human health markers, called the ‘ZOE Microbiome Health Ranking 2025’. This system showed strong and reproducible associations between the ranking of microb
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by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago
The core point - that it's politically convenient to ban things for "other people", especially if they cannot vote you out - is well taken. And I share the scepticism about whether "do something" politics leads to g
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by lonelyasacloud 9mo ago
> This is a good way to regulate this. Criminalize people who abuse AI tools to cause harm. In same way as is done so successfully with guns, speeding automobiles, etc? These things are capable of inferring photorealistic av deepfakes; w
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
That will be part of it. The main driver though that they've been working on for years is trying to figure out how to add just enough desktop to UIKit to allow them to kill off AppKit as a separate thing.
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
Coding agents like Claude are just one line of AI making inroads. There are lot of nearly tasks that can be almost, but not quite, implemented effectivly with existing tools like Excel and Word. As they seek a return on their investments, a
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
>> I mean, it's there any genuine case you can cover with SO that you cannot with your favorite LLM? Perhaps better than current models at detecting and pushing back when it sounds like the individual asking the question is think
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
Not sure it matters. It's a relatively uncontroversial ban, with public support in Aus because of mental health concerns, and key social media sites complying. VPN's come with their own minimum age 18 T&C's. As do the cre
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
Afraid the intuition is somewhat incorrect. Similar to with tire wear what's important to emissions is the amount of force that has to be applied to decelerate and how often it occurs. At highway speeds it's far less of an issue,
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
How does the fuel get to it? Building roads and running tankers is expensive. Ditto pipelines unless very close to suitable sources. Especially when the moment these go online at any scale the price of natural gas starts getting jacked even
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
TL;DR; Until we are sure we have the moderation systems to assist surfacing the good stuff I would be in favour of temporary guidelines to maintain quality. Longer ... I am here for the interesting conversations and polite debate. In princi
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by lonelyasacloud 10mo ago
Even if a throw away and replace strategy is used, eventually a system's complexity will overrun any intelligence's ability to work effectively with it. Poor engineering will cause that development velocity drop off to happen earl
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by lonelyasacloud 11mo ago
Yes. It wasn't an unintended consequence. The goal of the legislation was to "stop children from accessing age inappropriate content" on the internet. Ahead of the legislation it was known that there would be a significant pr
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by lonelyasacloud 11mo ago
What killed it was that a lot of its development talent effectively went off and worked on a completely different programming language that eventually got released a Raku. When the team departed, Perl lost its development velocity and Pytho
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by lonelyasacloud 11mo ago
Empirically on UK roads it's as much about the car industry getting away with selling vehicles that are too large for our roads i.e. oversized SUV's and trucks, as anything else. The combination of driver's side closer to cro
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by lonelyasacloud 11mo ago
No: SoftBank bought Arm in 2016, then refloated in 2023. They have good lawyers and a lot money.
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by lonelyasacloud 11mo ago
> Such as alternative chips or that the Chinese will go in-house sooner than we think. Nvidia’s moat is not as permanent as people think. SoftBank have holdings in Arm and likely to know what is coming down the pipeline.
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
> My bet is that it is non-0. For the Russians it would be a mistake to rely on the unreliability or inferiority of their weapons - they historically are very adept at addressing those with sheer numbers.

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