mcpar-land

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by mcpar-land 1y ago
Just a few days ago Grok started inserting paragraphs about the contested nature of white genocide in South Africa and the 'kill the boer' chant into almost every response it gave, with the vast majority of prompts having nothing
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by mcpar-land 1y ago
The extra time required to scroll through the giant thumbnails turned into "we saw a XX% increase in engagement time when we A/B tested larger thumbnails!"
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by mcpar-land 1y ago
I only have good things to say about Kagi. The search results are better, I can block or downrank SEO slop while increasing the rank of sites I like. There's no advertising anywhere, no sponsored results, no AI hallucination taking up
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by mcpar-land 1y ago
One of my favorite tweets: > Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impai
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
This is absolutely true. Spotify employs "ghost artists" that create the most inoffensive, royalty-free background music possible, and then they prioritize them in their auto-generated playlists. https://harpers.org&#x2
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
the part of their claim that does the heavy lifting is "code written by other people" - LLM-produced code does not fall into that category. LLM code is not written by anyone. There was no model in a brain I can empathize with an
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
If you can't translate your email into a foreign language, how is the AI going to rewrite your incorrect prose into correct prose? it's working on something incorrect. And then after the ai rewrites it, how can you tell if it&#x27
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
he's not preventing Jack Dorsey from doing anything. Jack Dorsey has enough money to buy FOSDEM, the building FOSDEM takes place in, and give every person who would have attended FOSDEM enough money to retire, and still be a billionair
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
for me there are two kinds of pain in software troubleshooting: 1) I Don't Know The State: there's some weird little bit of state hanging around somewhere I don't know about that's messing with my end result. Once I lear
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
> Meanwhile, everything I uttered on Facebook in college still exists. by the good grace of Meta Inc. and nothing else. Your account can get purged because: - they decide to start purging old content - they comply with a censorship order
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
A lot of these responses are so funny. "Um, when _I_ asked this question to ChatGPT it gave the right answer!" Yeah, because it's flaky! It doesn't give the same answer every time! That's the worst possible outcome!
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
good
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
>They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist state of “Israel”. Ah yes, known arm of the U
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
> Although it will happen incrementally, astounding triumphs – fixing the climate This is so rich coming from a tech field that's on track to match the energy consumption of a small country. (And no, AI is not going to offset this b
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
Every single thing I've heard about Arc browser has been a massive red flag. Turns out it was even worse than I thought!
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
What is the benefit of parameterizing a jupyter notebook over just writing python that's not in a jupyter notebook? I like jupyter notebooks for rapid prototyping but once I want to dial some logic in, I switch to just writing a .py fi
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
As long as games like this put an EXTREMELY strict rule against exchanging currency and items in-game for real money, they can really thrive without being turned into minmaxxed dystopias full of bots and people in third world countries grin
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
On the flip side of this, when libraries in rust do reach 1.0, they often are just done. The serialization/deserialization library serde which has become the de-facto standard has been on 1.0.xxx for the past seven years. https:&#
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
I hope that in a few years we look back at this era of "prompt an LLM for a shell command and instantly run whatever it spits out by pressing enter" with collective embarrassment.
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
Breaking up their individual businesses can cause each business to have incentives that line up better with their customers / users. Example: if Chrome was separated from Google, they won't have as much of an incentive to push bac
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
Seriously? I can't imagine a service that just returns HTTP 301 is costing Google enough to warrant shutting it down. Just making a whole slew of links across the whole internet dead. Another cancelled google service on the pile, I gue
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
I can believe a speech generator too good to release, but not even a perfect algorithm can get every one of your inflections and verbal tics with just a few seconds of sample material. Makes me think the whole thing is bs. I instantly see a
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
Google spent billions muscling their way into their majority market share of web browsers, now they're going to keep on cashing out with unfair practices like these.
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
attempting to make an LLM follow certain behavior 100% of the time by just putting an english-language command to follow that behavior into the LLM's prompt seems like a sisyphean task.
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
"FTC charges Adobe their annual Business Practices fee" Not to be a pessimist, but what's the chance this is just another suit that's a rounding error compared to the revenue Adobe gains from these unethical business pra
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
Because dark kitchens / ghost kitchens aren't just outsourcing their seating area, they're outsourcing everything but the logo. Ghost kitchens will frequently "cook for" more than one "restaurant," but the
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
I kept waiting for the Dark Kitchen section of the article to end with "...and this is a miserable, alienating model that makes nobody happy," but it never came.
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
https://mrgan.com/ai-email-from-a-friend/
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by mcpar-land 2y ago
this being a news thread about Apple integrating AI into all their operating systems and apps aside... Chrome has started prompting me to use generative AI in text boxes. Twitter (X) has an entire tab for Grok that it keeps giving me popu

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