namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
An ecosystem analogy should draw attention to the fact that most biomass in most ecosystems is not in the apex predators but in the lower trophic levels. Apex predators are a useful regulatory mechanism for the ecosystem, not the be all end
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by namaria 2y ago
> killing the "stochastic parrot" meme This was clearly the goal of the "Biology of LLMs" (and ancillary) paper but I am not convinced. They used a 'replacement model' that by their own admission could match
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by namaria 2y ago
There seems to be a lot of indirection here. The article focuses heavily on a drop in poverty levels from 52% to 38% over the past 6 months. But when the current government took office it was around 41%. So the main thing accomplished consi
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by namaria 2y ago
That is how Russia sells lots of its oil, how the US got titanium supplies for the SR-71 from Soviet Union and will most definitely happen. But it is also very inefficient and will drive up costs.
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by namaria 2y ago
Are you asking me what is the best way to organize information, trees or tags? Do you also want me to tell you what is the best way to foresee if a given program will halt? The point is, bringing facile statements like "just make the r
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by namaria 2y ago
Yup this is full on addiction mechanics. You use these generative tools, it feels great, the team and the organization feel great. But it's not warranted, the underlying thing is inherently flawed. When the good feeling fades and you n
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by namaria 2y ago
> I fully admit that I was looking at Spotify as a user and thus only as a music playing widget This is the key insight here. Software is not the interface you see. There a whole lot more you don't know about (and probably no one kn
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by namaria 2y ago
When someone asks "what is the best tool for this?", the answer "the best tool is the right tool for the job" is a non answer.
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by namaria 2y ago
"60% of the time it works every time!"
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by namaria 2y ago
I know how to swim yet a riptide can still pull me out to sea
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by namaria 2y ago
Wow I really just read a .gov website trying to obscure a formula by multiplying 0.25 by 4. I'm stunned. https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations "To calculate reciprocal tariffs, import an
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by namaria 2y ago
Abstracting away the software paraphernalia makes this more clear in my view: our job is to understand and specify abstract symbolic systems. Making them work with the current computer architectures is incidental. This is why I don't s
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by namaria 2y ago
Difference is machines break and that costs lots of money. People just quit, some businesses consider it a better outcome.
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by namaria 2y ago
> steals a new worker’s lunch on the first day, just to see if he asserts himself > to filter out the non-fighters This is bullying and hazing.
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by namaria 2y ago
Capitalism has become as much of a thought-terminating argument as 'the gods'. Most '-ism' words I think.
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by namaria 2y ago
I have a fairly obscure domain that gets absolutely bombarded by wordpress related scans. This tells me two things: wp seems pretty easy to misconfigure, and a lot of scripts are looking for these misconfigurations. Based solely on that I w
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by namaria 2y ago
I think there's a contradiction in claiming a term is meaningless and discussing its definition is pointless, and saying it can help explain things.
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by namaria 2y ago
This whole hype cycle man. It's all shiny demos and no real products.
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by namaria 2y ago
My own hands and cheap alarm clocks, or a piece of paper, have been working reliably for several decades. They also don't stop working when a corporation decides they want to hype something.
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by namaria 2y ago
Natural language has a high entropy floor. It's a very noisy channel. This isn't anything like bit flipping or component failure. This is a whole different league. And we've been pouring outrageous amounts of resources into d
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by namaria 2y ago
You're describing student housing and if you ever lived in one you'd know how bad of an idea you're musing with.
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by namaria 2y ago
80% of everything is crap. This isn't a very insightful position to take. One of the reasons I like Hacker News is it helps me find good stuff to read. Which this article isn't. So I will respectfully rebuff your rebuttal.
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by namaria 2y ago
Despite feeling like a "let me draw it for you" answer is a tad condescending, I want to address something here. This would be great if LLMs did not tend to output nonsense. Truly it would be grand. But they do. So it isn't.
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by namaria 2y ago
Right. I guess I did not understand your comment at all then. I am sorry I engaged.
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by namaria 2y ago
> ICE maintains that a confidential informant told the agency the man was a member of MS-13 Well this is horrifying.
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by namaria 2y ago
Two key things that make computers useful, specificity and exactitude, are thrown out of the window by interposing NLP between the person and the computer. I don't get it at all.
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by namaria 2y ago
I don't get it, why did you ask for clarifications about why this was not expected if you're just going to be adamant it should have been expected? Is it really your honest position that everyone has been doing cosmology wrong and
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by namaria 2y ago
They'll try to build that ladder to the moon with dollar bills it seems
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by namaria 2y ago
More than that, I think it's quite relevant, because it shows that the complexity in the tooling around writing code manually is not so inessential as it seems. Any system capable of automating a complex task will by need be more compl
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by namaria 2y ago
"You're programming wrong wrong" /s

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