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by metanonsense 3y ago
A few weeks ago, we had a major problem with our Apple developer account (which is registered to my name). For days, I tried everything to avoid calling customer support (for the above reasons) and only agreed when our release team started
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I find it curious that the wifi interface and the USB/ethernet interface are using the same MAC address. Nothing keeps a computer from being attached with both at the same time, in which case this would definitely break things.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Even if this was the right thing, they could / should have changed this behavior in a pre-release because that's exactly the kind of API change in the OS that will catch people off-guard. As another commenter wrote, I'd consi
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Great attitude :) I'll try to get in contact but don't be mad if I forget 8-|
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I say this without hate: it's absolutely fascinating how bad this UX is. Having said this, I am sure that I have committed worse UX crimes in my career, but when curse of knowledge hits you, only your users can see the problems. But lu
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Beer is to Bavarians, what guns are to Texans. Don‘t dare to even think of taking it from them.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I use IntelliJ for ~10 years now, and when I read that they have a new UI, I expected the worst. But, to be honest, I fell in love on first sight (at least with the compact mode).
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I think with organizations of this size it‘s usually just stupidity, lack of focus, or bad product management. Apple UX is sometimes really bad and buggy and the question „cui bono“ often has the simple answer: no one. It‘s just a bug that
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I think the post would be less controversial if the author had chosen a title like „I hate dark mode lobbying“ (instead of „lobby“, which has not so simple semantics in my opinion) and omitted that last paragraph with arguments for light mo
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Wasn't that explained with that "we have this huge infrared exhaust" thing?
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Thanks. This is pure comedy gold. In particular, that part about the acquisition by Oracle (from minute 33)
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by metanonsense 3y ago
You should read „A thousand brains“ by Jeff Hawkins (if you haven’t already done so). A large part of their theory is that the brain has evolved to orient and move in a 3D world and that this is the basis of our abstract thinking.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
In my opinion, current SOTA machine learning / deep learning is actually quite simple on a conceptual level. January last year, I decided to give it one year to understand transformers on a "I could totally code that" level.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
When I started reading this post, I definitely did not expect to learn this!
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I love the Set game mentioned in the article so much. Whenever I make the mistake to install a digital version of it on my phone, I have to uninstall it a few weeks later because it completely wrecks my productivity.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Saw the headline and thought "This sounds like Raymond Chen". Saw "microsoft.com", I knew this was Raymond Chen.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Well said. I think this happens very naturally with every growing / successful company. Comparing my company of 30 or so with Google is like comparing a bacterium with a race horse, but even at our size being disruptive / staying
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I would add Meta to this list, in particular because Yann LeCun is the most vocal critic of LLM one-ponyism.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
To answer that question, ask yourself what a „physical threat“ means to you. I would bet that (in an industrialized country) for any example there is a chain of events that could possibly be controlled by an AI. Dying of a virus? Could be d
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by metanonsense 3y ago
When you look at some standard AI textbook, such as Russel/Norvig, you see that there is not much about being called „AI“. The simplest „intelligent agents“ are functions with an „if“ statement. The smallest Node.js application has mor
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by metanonsense 3y ago
Imo the thinking is that whenever humans have tried to pre-process or feature-engineer a solution or tried to find clever priors in the past, massive self-supervised-learning enabled, coarsely architected, data-crunching NNs got better resu
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I mean the reasoning is more something like: to become a member of the board at OpenAI you must be extra-ordinary at something. At first sight, the only candidates for this something are: "start-up founder" and "spouse of fam
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by metanonsense 3y ago
In addition to that, the "system 2" abilities might already be there with "epi" strategies like chain-of-thought prompting. Talking / writing to yourself might not be the most efficient way to think but at least I d
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by metanonsense 3y ago
If that's true, I'd consider it almost criminal. The article mentions that Outlook sends the credentials of all email accounts on the system (e.g. gmail, all IMAP accounts) to Microsoft.
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by metanonsense 3y ago
It definitely feels worse to me. In the way that GPT3.5 felt worse than GPT4 in the past. Somewhere between 3.5 and 4. Similar to with the Bing plugin activated. Somehow "shallower" and does not seem to grasp my intent as good as
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I don‘t understand why HOCON ( https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/main/HOCON.md ) isn‘t used more often (at least for configuration use cases). It‘s a superset of JSON, has comments, multiline string
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by metanonsense 3y ago
They could even persist the inference parameterization, e.g. "use top-8 for 'compute the sum of 42 and 17'", for every prompt ever seen and reuse it later to prevent people doing "poor man's regression testing&
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by metanonsense 3y ago
With those GPT4 architecture infos leaked a few weeks ago, my personal theory is that they use mixture-of-experts routing for scaling the system. For instance, they could say: from 0 to 50% system load use a mixture of top-6 models for infe
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I think it depends very much on your use case and what you expect. My girlfriend is a judge, and sometimes we ask ChatGPT about some judicial problem for pure entertainment. To me as a law noob the answers sound absolutely convincing, but s
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by metanonsense 3y ago
I had the same impression as you until I listened to a podcast with Steve Huffmann about the early days of Reddit. For some time, he and Aaron worked quite intensively on the site. From the podcast, it rather appeared that they had differen

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