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by musicale 5mo ago
Drum machines had no soul until Roger Linn added a swing/shuffle setting.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> all productivity gains will be pocketed by my employer This is the story of automation in general, and AI seems to be following the same path. See also: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/21/1067563
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by musicale 5mo ago
I like how NaCl cleverly used x86 segmentation. ;-/
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by musicale 5mo ago
"make && cp vmlinux ailinux" BTW does the GPL apply to code generated by models trained on GPL code?
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by musicale 5mo ago
I like FPGA projects, but there is really nothing preventing you from implementing decimal arithmetic in software on a cheap microcontroller.
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by musicale 5mo ago
"Users tell us they love advertisements, which is why we're adding more of them to the iPhone."
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by musicale 5mo ago
"Well done, SWAT team. You never know how dangerous these Minecraft-streaming grandmas might be."
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by musicale 5mo ago
"Deleting" data they already ingested is meaningless.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Apple's best video wallpaper is "Macintosh". I am interested in how it works.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Good point - the Mac User Guide is also accessible from the Finder's Help menu. Though I think there should be an option to download the whole thing locally so that it could work offline.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Pokémon is a pretty good game though.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> Minister of Public Safety to demand companies create a backdoor to their services to provide law enforcement access to data, as long as these mandates don’t introduce a “systemic vulnerability.” How is a backdoor not a systemic vulnera
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by musicale 5mo ago
FPGAs are fun. It's fun to write code that turns into usable hardware.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> Good documentation is a tell-tale sign of a great product and a company that puts users first (Relevant because DF is an Apple-focused blog): I wish Apple would go back to writing good documentation. Developer documentation in particul
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by musicale 5mo ago
> Many people know of Simpson’s through simple examples. One was UC Berkeley admissions showing that individual departments admitted more women than men but the university as a whole had admitted more men than women (Bickel et al., 1975)
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by musicale 5mo ago
Nothing, apparently.
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by musicale 5mo ago
The "average" is "median", correct? I suppose the message is that although housing (and health care and higher education) costs in the US (and elsewhere) have outpaced wage growth for the last half century or so, it coul
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by musicale 5mo ago
> It’s not because these companies are so fantastic or that their products are so amazing that countries would face local uprisings if they tried to keep them in check Local uprising seems like a bit of hyperbole (countries have successf
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by musicale 5mo ago
"We would like to thank our employees for working so hard to generate record profits, and value for our executive team and shareholders. We wish you all the best at your next job."
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by musicale 5mo ago
Doesn't congress still have the power of the purse?
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by musicale 5mo ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by musicale 5mo ago
Oh, are you saying that incentivizing engagement (usually to increase ad views and revenue) also implicitly increases bad behaviors and outcomes, and that is why it won't be fixed? That sounds plausible. Even before LLMs the engagement
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by musicale 5mo ago
I can think of worse combinations of beginner instruments and tunes to play. The AI thing is more like someone telling you how great it will be for them to automate your job out of existence. Cheering a new industrial revolution is probably
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by musicale 5mo ago
> It's going to be a painful process for instructors accustomed to the old way of teaching. Going back to the old(er) way of teaching may be a very good idea.
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> Typically the business school, because they're not big on ethics anyway this is funny except that it also isn't
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> A lot of systems don’t have multiple strikes The case of Katie Meyer at Stanford (not an academic integrity issue but a carelessly punitive disciplinary process nonetheless) shows that universities need to temper discipline with humani
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by musicale 5mo ago
So they're going back to the approach they used for their first 147 years? Fair enough.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Intelligence, good judgment, and ethics are not the same thing. Brilliant, charismatic people without any sense of ethics tend to do very well in school, in politics, and in most organizations.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Many of the problems with LLMs may be structural and intrinsic due to the way they work (probabilistic text generation) and their training data (often human-generated text that incorporates many features of human discourse that are undesira
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by musicale 5mo ago
> This is effectively pollution of our information economy and environment, and the costs are offloaded to society Tech firms are remarkably successful at offloading costs as externalities and avoiding any sort of liability. ' What

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