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by lovelearning 7mo ago
> automatically generated data graphs Are you saying there are data graphs that don't have humans in the chain? If so, what came up with the data and the tools to generate those graphs? And how do you decide which data and graph to
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
> When do you stop the fact checking? Exactly the same calculus as fact checking anything else from any other source. What are the social/economic/ethical consequences to me if the answer is wrong or inaccurate or incomplete? H
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
I gave suggestions that OP can pass on to the people they have to deal with. I didn't realize it has to be pointed out explicitly SO-style to some people. OP implies human sources are the "good sources" or "reputable sou
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
> LLMs are a very bad way to come close to this ideal...the output directly is a strict degeneration I didn't understand the second part but regarding the first... For me, LLMs are just another source of information with a different
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
I felt the question is based on some shaky assumptions that may lead to a poor answer. Since the OP trusts humans more by default, is it a problem if I point out those assumptions? Ask HN need not become another SO. I did explain the weakne
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
I agree about how these biases happen. However, omission and downplaying can also be harmful just like hallucinations. One redeeming quality of LLMs is that we can ask the same LLM to fact check its previous answer and they do tend to corre
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
I know what you mean, and I realize some of the things I've written sound similar to what various rightwing commentators tend to say (e.g.: "concept of objective truth must be analyzed critically.") But my motive is very diff
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
You're right that LLMs do spit out false information or wrong knowledge. I've experienced them too. But a redeeming quality is that we can ask the same LLM to fact check its own answer step by step in real time with little effort.
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
> actively censoring OpenAI is ethically the type of company that will censor. But this single example doesn't outright support a hypothesis of malice. There may be non-malicious reasons as well. If the interface you're using
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
Not most. But I have the impression that Rust has a cultish fan club in general (with typical problems of cults, like downvoting critics of the language or the cultishness), and some of its thought leaders (cult leaders?) seem to be active
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
> a reputable source News reporters and editors have their biases. Book authors have their biases. Scientists and research papers have their biases. Search engines have their biases. Google too. All human-created systems have biases shap
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
I wonder why they didn't use readthedocs.com. Their community plan promises free hosting for docs of open-source projects. I thought most Python packages prefer it. Surprised to see pandas outside of it.
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
I suggest trying to find out how the things you're taking for granted - time, literacy, books - remain barriers for many people in many parts of the world.
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
The argument for lawyers, doctors and "real" engineers seems like a strawman here. This discussion is specifically about lowering the barriers of programming and creating using software. I haven't said anything at all about o
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
Yes, both are forms of elitism.
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
It does technically democratize the exhilarating experiences of that level of performance. Likely also democratizes negative aspects like injuries, extreme dieting, jealousy, neglecting relationships. That said, if we zoom out and review su
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
It's _relatively_ democratic when compared to these counterfactual gatekeeping scenarios: - What if these centralized providers had restricted their LLMs to a small set of corporations / nations / qualified individuals? - Wha
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
The change is indeed painful to many of us, including me. I, too, am a software engineer. LLMs and vibe coding create some insecurity in my mind as well. However, our personal emotions need not turn into disparaging others' use of the
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
> Any idiot can now prompt their way to the same software. I must say I find this idea, and this wording, elitist in a negative way. I don't see any fundamental problem with democratization of abilities and removal of gatekeeping. C
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
Welcome, but your point hasn't been proved at all actually. Your point was that this sort of stuff is imposed upon you by a "dictatorship of extroverts." But I'm not an extrovert and not supportive of a dictatorship of e
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
I'm not an extrovert. Introversion itself was probably more of a euphemism that I used to rationalize something closer to social anxiety. But I feel I'm better off now for doing what the article suggested, over the last 5-6 years.
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by lovelearning 7mo ago
As an experiment, it's interesting. If anyone actually needs such a dataset, look into CommonCrawl first. I feel using something that already exists will be more cooperative and considerate than everyone overloading every website with
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by lovelearning 10mo ago
If there's nothing fundamental about marriage and it's just some weird coliving arrangement, then why ban it for only some groups in the first place? Nothing productive or even rational about it. Why is the reaction seen as irrat
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by lovelearning 11mo ago
Thank you for explaining!
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by lovelearning 11mo ago
A cited paper's title is "There is more consensus in Egalitarian parliaments." Are terms like "democracy" and "parliament" common terms in distributed computing theory? Or are these intentionally clickbait
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by lovelearning 11mo ago
The 2017 commit has these code changes: private int getNumLevels() { if (mConfig.inflateSignalStrengths) { return SignalStrength.NUM_SIGNAL_STRENGTH_BINS + 1; } return SignalStrength.NUM_SIGNAL_ST
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by lovelearning 11mo ago
> Drawing on national reports prepared for FAO, ... > Since 2005, the FRA has relied on data provided by a network of officially nominated national correspondents... My understanding is that these reports are heavily based on data rep
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by lovelearning 11mo ago
I have coded some apps that are customized for my mother's usage and accessibility. I plan on coding some more. I need to install them on just 2 phones - my own for testing and my mother's. As of now, I can create APKs of my apps
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by lovelearning 11mo ago
The radio access network (RAN) is all the RF part of a mobile network: towers, base stations, the signals between our phones and the towers, phone-to-satellite comms (non-terrestrial network or NTN). AI-RAN uses AI/ML for adaptive beh
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by lovelearning 11mo ago
For now. But not hard to imagine United Health "investing" in OpenAI and Anthropic to "curate" the information they generate.

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