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by matteoraso 2y ago
Why is it even important to stay informed? In virtually all cases, there's very little that I can do about anything, so I'm just wasting energy by looking at the news.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>Whether LLM's help you at your work is extremely domain-dependent. I really doubt that, actually. The only thing that LLMs are truly good for is to create plausible-sounding text. Everything else, like generating facts, is outside
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History of rat control in Alberta(alberta.ca)
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by matteoraso 2y ago
You still need to get the vaccine after getting bitten, pre-exposure prophylaxis just reduces the amount that you need afterwards. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>A rather large slice of the global populace was still farming in 1988. Okay? Last I checked, it's not 1988 anymore.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
> It doesn’t work for people farming corn/rice etc Well duh, that's an edge case. Obviously I don't expect literally every single person to give up driving, but most people who use this website are white collar workers, or
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>Oh, I agree on this. People were never going to accept, nor IMO should they have, a massive reduction in their living standards. I don't even think a massive reduction is necessary, though. Just stop driving, and your carbon footpr
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by matteoraso 2y ago
By design, a watermark would make it easy to create a discriminator that distinguishes between LLM content and human content. In that case, just make a discriminator yourself and use regex to find and remove any of the watermarks.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
Of course they don't work. The whole point of LLMs is that they're indistinguishable from human-written text. People need to understand that AI isn't magic, it can't tell that something wasn't written by a human wit
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by matteoraso 2y ago
No, you can finetune locally hosted LLMs to be nasty.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
Given how HN always freaks out about microplastics, I'm surprised that people feel like this is a bad law. Personally, I want a Rwanda-style ban on plastic.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>When these molecules come naturally, they come with other ingredients that often complement or offset the positive or negative effects. They can also come with ingredients that amplify their negative effects. That's why you usually
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by matteoraso 2y ago
I replace 20% of my salt with MSG when I use it, and I normally salt meat with 1% of its weight. A pinch or two for a 1kg of meat + rice isn't enough for me unless you're not using a lot of meat, but obviously YMMV.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
I use MSG constantly, and I'm one of the people that get headaches if they eat too much of it. Really, you have to so much that the dish starts to taste bad before you get headaches, and I'm pretty sure you build up a tolerance an
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by matteoraso 2y ago
This is an expected consequence of American hegemony. When so much of our culture is imported from America, we end up feeling American. To a degree, what happens in America really does affect our lives, even more than what happens in Canada
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by matteoraso 2y ago
In the olden days, these towns wouldn't pay you money, they would pay you scrip issued by the mining company[0]. This could only be used at company-operated stores, so miners were imprisoned in the towns. Moving back literally wasn&#x2
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by matteoraso 2y ago
I don't know anything about neuroscience, but is there anything in the brain even remotely like the transformer architecture? It can do a lot of things, but I don't think that it's capable of emulating human intelligence.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
The only real technological edge that OpenAI has right now (at least that I know of) is Sora. There are already some very good open source LLMs and the SoTA for image generation has always been Stable Diffusion. I don't think that Sora
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>What gets me is that much of the OSS/Linux ecosystem consists of thousandas of lashed together piles of code written by independent and only very loosely coordinated groups, much of it code and lashed together by amateurs for free,
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>Most of it runs on 6 to 10 year old unpatched versions of Windows… Well, that's a pretty big problem. I don't know how we ended up in a situation where everybody is okay with the most important software being the most insecure
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>It is not a seamless experience for your average Mac or Windows user. Maybe not in 2012, but Windows 11 is such a disaster that I firmly believe that Linux is now the user-friendly option between the two. The only problem is that on rar
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by matteoraso 2y ago
The dataset about long COVID cases posted by the American government seems to suggest the opposite: the percentage of people suffering from long COVID at any given moment is mostly stable. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset&#x
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by matteoraso 2y ago
This is a serious mischaracterization of what Chomsky said. He didn't argue that Osama bin Laden didn't do 9/11, he argued that the American government denied him the right to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law
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by matteoraso 2y ago
r/worldnews has been astroturfed by questionable entities for a long time now. I'll never forget when they censored all information about blood drives after the Pulse Nightclub shooting.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
I don't get why GameStop didn't try to revitalize their business after the 2021 short squeeze. They had (and still have) access to a large amount of capital, but they didn't try to launch an online storefront to rival Steam o
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by matteoraso 2y ago
I never got why 4 digit PINs were so common. Not only does requiring more digits make it harder to guess by brute-force, it also prevents people from making frankly stupid PINs like the date of their birth year.
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by matteoraso 2y ago
>America was prosperous as the Bible said it would be. The book of Job was written specifically to denounce the idea that morality means that you'll prosper.
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by matteoraso 3y ago
>In conclusion, I might have been an unlikable and unlovable brat Sounds like self-blame to me. No matter how you act, getting your bones broken isn't something that you deserve, ever.
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by matteoraso 3y ago
It won't, and that's a good thing. Workplace deaths will plummet, people will have more free time, and the environment will improve from less people commuting. I don't see any reason why replacing certain jobs with AI is bad,
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by matteoraso 3y ago
For some reason, the Reddit onion mirror keeps working. Makes me wonder if the VPNs not working is a bug rather than an intentional choice. Mirror: reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion

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