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by namaria 2y ago
I think you gave a pretty good answer in fact.
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by namaria 2y ago
I think LLMs are intelligence augmenting. They are a tremendously powerful search tool but you need to know what you are looking for. The idea that they can replace workers is laughable. I am afraid though that the current state of LLMs is
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by namaria 2y ago
There's no need to be snarky. The values of things can most definitely be objectively measured, otherwise there would be no transactions. Objective is not absolute, the objective evaluation might change when the agents involved have ne
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by namaria 2y ago
Hm I see. You have a point that the causality is not necessarily how I described. But I am not convinced it is the opposite. What causes the workplace to make you have high adrenaline and cortisol for too long? Stress is perceived by the bo
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by namaria 2y ago
That's assuming we are actually tracking all the relevant indicators.
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by namaria 2y ago
> an analysis published in August by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison suggests the debunking messages posted by medical experts on TikTok are more effective if overlaid with high-tempo music. Everybody know the best
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by namaria 2y ago
You can read the indictment here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/file/1311391/dl?inline
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by namaria 2y ago
> I haven’t heard of any way for objectively measuring the value of anything Really?
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by namaria 2y ago
That's what I don't get about the current LLM coding/agent hype. The supposed gain is completely negated unless you can trust the output completely. If I have to inspect everything, generating a bunch of code/scripts or
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by namaria 2y ago
I remember working on an ETL pipeline in Airflow years ago and thinking: "we're defining and programming an abstract computer". I guess with general computers everything we do is basically defining nested specific computers.
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by namaria 2y ago
Turns out when your work is thinking, you end up thinking a lot about the alienation of your labor's fruits. Burnout isn't about pace of work or ability to take vacations. Burnout is about a disconnect between effort, meaning, and
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by namaria 2y ago
Not to mention the fact that the economy of the whole of Sicily amounts to about 90 billion euro, the neighboring Calabria amounts to 35 billion and the nearest major city to Sicily is Naples, 480 km away. There just isn't an economic
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by namaria 2y ago
"The use of civilians as human shields is not novel.8 Evidence of the practice dates back to the American Civil War9 and the Second World War.10 The practice has also been documented in the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. 11 Unite
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by namaria 2y ago
I think you mean exacerbated
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by namaria 2y ago
I think going full circle would be something like bitcoin being created on top of DoS prevention software and then eventually DoS prevention starting to use bitcoin. A tool being used for something than something else than the first somethi
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by namaria 2y ago
> -are you attempting to immigrate beyond your visa? Or work without permit?Have a job? Family ties -are you violent? - terrorist? -spy? "The French government said on Wednesday, March 19, that a French researcher had been denied en
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by namaria 2y ago
Interference patterns. Cool stuff. Made me think of the 3brown1blue video on holograms... that one blew my mind but that's par for the course for 3b1b...
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by namaria 2y ago
It didn't ignore it. There just wasn't any pattern in the training data about responding to such a line. Having the mental model that the text you feed to an LLM influences the output but is not 'parsed' as 'instruc
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by namaria 2y ago
Middleman doesn't sit right we me. We're not interposing ourselves and imposing the need to go through us. People have wished to do away with computer code specialists ever since they found out computers could do things for them.
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by namaria 2y ago
Yes, general computers are fundamentally unsafe. We should always think about threat models, vulnerabilities, blast radii, defense in depth. What we should never do is dismiss something as a non-concern because we don't know how it cou
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by namaria 2y ago
Alexander alone is thought to have founded 13 cities, but the Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile changed History.
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by namaria 2y ago
I have had a developer look me dead in the eye and say "this is not a security concern, because I can't see how this can be exploited". Security by obscurity from self. It was very hard to explain to that person what was wron
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by namaria 2y ago
That's misleading. The entropy of the solution is increased and that's because you're removing solute from it. It has nothing to do with the crystal or its entropy.
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by namaria 2y ago
I just want to say that, while I am about a decade your junior, I feel the same way. It is weird to live in a world of shallow pursuits, wanting to learn and teach and build and seeing everyone going crazy about 'line goes up'. It
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by namaria 2y ago
I like tremendous as an adjective for a frequency range because etymologically it can be traced to the Latin word for 'shaking'. Tremendous, horrendous, terrible all kinda mean "makes you shake". Horrendous being based o
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by namaria 2y ago
Ok then go look at the financials and timeframe of Apple investing on the iPhone and the returns and than compare to those of the current wave of investment in "AI".
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by namaria 2y ago
I am sorry but I have. You said consciousness is not such a hard problem because we can tell when an animal is awake or not. I tried to explain why I think that makes no sense. But you're just playing semantics games now and that'
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by namaria 2y ago
Ah fair enough. All words are invented and language is fluid and all that. I was just trying to be helpful because we all have our spelling blind spots.
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by namaria 2y ago
Despite your snarky irony, it is clear to me that there is a difference between media attention and hype. Your comparison is ludicrous.
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by namaria 2y ago
I don't understand what you mean. There is a Latin word 'supersedere' but there is no 'supercedere'.

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