namaria

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by namaria 1y ago
I suspect that was the plan all along. I do not buy that these people believed in their own spiel for one second.
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by namaria 1y ago
Sure. Let's create a statistical model of our mediocrity and consume that instead. Why is the fact that average stuff is average an argument for automatically generating some degraded version of our average stuff?
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by namaria 1y ago
I kinda appreciate the fact that vibe as a word is usually a good signal I have no interest in the adjacent content.
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by namaria 1y ago
I really don't see the value of records that may be inaccurate as long as I can rely on my memory. Human memory is quite unreliable, the point of the record is the accuracy.
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by namaria 1y ago
Has it been your experience? That's unacceptable to me. From people or language models.
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by namaria 1y ago
I don't know if this is the case but be careful about shielding management from the consequences of their bad choices at your expense. It all but guarantees it will get worse.
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by namaria 1y ago
You make some very strong claims and presented material. I hope I am not out of line if I give you my sincere opinion. I am not doing this to be mean, to put you down or to be snarky. But the argument you're making warrants this respon
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by namaria 1y ago
On the side, under, wherever. The point is, this is just re-inventing past failed attempts at AI.
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by namaria 1y ago
Accurate notes are valuable for several reasons. Show me an LLM that can reliably produce 100% accurate notes. Alternatively, accept working in a company where some nonsense becomes future reference and subpoenable documentation.
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by namaria 1y ago
In a world where written electronic communication can be considered legally biding by courts of law, I would be very, very hesitant to let any automatic system speak on my behalf. Let alone a probabilistic one known to generate nonsense.
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by namaria 1y ago
Cold winds are blowing when people look at LLMs and think "maybe an expert system on top of that?".
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by namaria 1y ago
I have fed LLMs PDF files, asked about the content and gotten nonsense. I would be very hesitant to trust them to give me an accurate summary of my emails.
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by namaria 1y ago
I think a lot of people pattern match on text throughout education because that's least action. Mathematics has been my way to avoid that. And I'm quite inept at mathematics. But if I can develop an abstract intuition of a problem
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by namaria 1y ago
AirBnB externality is not the safety risk for guests (although I personally ended up in some sketchy situations years ago, I don't use it anymore, mainly because:) the real externality is imposed on the inhabitants of popular tourist d
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by namaria 1y ago
I think this is just another correction. The software market is worth several trillion dollars now. Enterprise is pushing against the rise in labor costs. It will backfire as it did every single time and in a few years competent developers
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by namaria 1y ago
LLMs are better search. Google burned down the house to keep itself warm and held off on LLMs until it was inevitable and are now pulling up ahead. This is the logical conclusion. LLMs will be monetized and enshitified by ads.
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by namaria 1y ago
If the effort to produce websites goes tends to zero, the value of websites will surely tend to zero. Either issues with security and maintainability will be a break on this tendency or we will get to a point where generating a custom websi
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by namaria 1y ago
Every day I learn something that makes me wanna start building and repairing Z80 based computers running FORTH and patiently wait for the the modern computer ecosystem to collapse under its own weight.
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by namaria 1y ago
As usual with these bombastic blog posts, you have to follow the paper trail to find the caveats that deflate the whole thing. From the papers about the tasks used in this estimation, we can easily find out that: LLMs never exceed 20% succe
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by namaria 1y ago
Theoretical limitations of multi-layer Transformer https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02975 On Limitations of the Transformer Architecture https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08164 Limits of Deep Learning: Sequenc
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by namaria 1y ago
Yup. Also I am excited for the bump in my rates when the cycle inverts and there's a dearth of people who can code without the then defunct LLMs.
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by namaria 1y ago
> LLMs _can_ do consistency They won't even consistently provide the same answer to the same input. Occasional consistency is inconsistency.
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by namaria 1y ago
Thank you! There is strong correlation between suppression of labor organization and strict enforcement of the draconian legislation of the time (labor organizers could be sentenced to death) and 'Luddite' activity. It was a last
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by namaria 1y ago
No he did not. In the dialogue you're thinking of Socrates talks to Phaedrus, and neither of them "decried the use of writing". Writing had existed for 3 millennia by the time Socrates was alive. In fact Socrates says in that
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by namaria 1y ago
"The brains of modern humans are around 13% smaller than those of Homo sapiens who lived 100,000 years ago.Exactly why is still puzzling researchers." https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240517-the-human
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by namaria 1y ago
Socrates never argued that society would be better off without writing! Writing had existed for three thousand years by the point Socrates was alive, and the Epic cycle of Homeric poetry had existed for about three centuries. In the very sa
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by namaria 1y ago
> the attribution graphs it suggests might mis‐lead at a fine‐grained level "In principle, our attribution graphs make predictions that are much more fine-grained than these kinds of interventions can test." > high‑level cau
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by namaria 1y ago
What I personally like is solving a problem in my mind and then building a solution. Watching a solution being built after describing the problem robs me of that joy. And of the growth opportunity in flexing my reasoning.
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by namaria 1y ago
"In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients
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by namaria 1y ago
Yeah this paper is great fodder for the LLM pixel dust argument. They use a replacement model. It isn't even observing the LLM itself but a different architecture model. And it is very liberal with interpreting the patterns of activati

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