niemandhier

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by niemandhier 15d ago
Good to know, now I need to find my flipper zero and build a small app to use the information gained.
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by niemandhier 15d ago
Solving the problems is like doing a kata in martial arts: It’s not the result, it’s the steps you take that change your mind. That’s what I told students, when I taught physics for several years during my PhD. Even back then you could look
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by niemandhier 18d ago
I remember reading that, in middlelow German the meanings were swapped “See” meaning the ocean and “Meer” meaning large body of standing water. That’s probably why the lake is called “Steinhuder Meer”. In low German the word for ocean still
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by niemandhier 18d ago
In science and math, too often only the final result gets credited or published. Maybe we should start crediting and publishing our intermediate results and attempts. Humans would gain credit for providing a part of the solution to tough pr
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by niemandhier 19d ago
Libraries are one of the few places where one is allowed to exists for free, that also have a limited amount of infrastructure.
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by niemandhier 20d ago
Cool I did not know that. Your comment is a bit salty, but I learned something from it, so I don’t think you deserve the downvotes
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by niemandhier 20d ago
Good. There is no security by obscurity anymore. The only way to fight those who can just spend more tokens is to have more humans look at it, who also spend tokens.
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by niemandhier 22d ago
This went much further: The GDR imported workers from Vietnam and even now there are sizeable Vietnamese communities e.g. in Leipzig. I interviewed a few old men who fought in the Vietnam war as child soldier, for a school project I did as
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by niemandhier 23d ago
He was having fun with a device that exposes needless endpoints, than he sat down and wrote about it, without ai in his own words. As far as I can judge, there is nothing in his writing, that indicates it is driven by the desire to get “an
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by niemandhier 23d ago
If you ever ask yourself what German hackers do with their life, while our peer in the US build startups: That’s what we do.
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by niemandhier 23d ago
The proof OpenAi presented allegedly reads like written by someone in acid. It will take probably a while before we will get a translation into something that than will actually have a positive impact. That could be either a second proof or
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by niemandhier 24d ago
If you eat enough kiwis with skin, tarantula abdomens start to look like something tasty. I read that online, I trained myself to eat whole Kiwis and lo and behold: It is true! Our brains are so wonderfully strange!
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by niemandhier 25d ago
I think the emotional investment of people into your work is the actual bulwark. Star Trek turned 60, and most of the newer stuff was mediocre at best, still it persists, because people made it a part of their identity. Star Wars, Doctor Wh
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by niemandhier 26d ago
That is much more relevant than one would think: The biggest problem for adoption of digital payment in everyday lives is, that for token payments the transaction fees are to high. In case of 0.5€ for using a toilet the fixed transaction co
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by niemandhier 1mo ago
My understanding is, that we do not know if the chain-of-thought actually matters in the way we assume for the result. I think there were experiments where seemingly relevant parts of the CoT were ablated and it did not change the result. F
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by niemandhier 1mo ago
That is why less capable clones of US services get so much attention at the moment. Every time these end up on HN, someone says something along the lines of: ”I would not host in a country without 1st amendment rights.”
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by niemandhier 1mo ago
Germany still has about 1200 t in the US. I wonder if they are going to move it too.
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by niemandhier 1mo ago
The first amendment only protects non US citizens if they are inside the US, even when entering the US the protection is less strong. When in the US it does not protect you from getting deported based on what you said. Non American protesto
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by niemandhier 1mo ago
I always thought dwarf fortress would be a great simulation backbone for some kind of LLM driven story telling system. Something that keeps the world consistent while the user experiences a generated adventure
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
The bigger threat to our society is, that large corporations start to assume they are above the law. We privatized much of the information backbone that keeps our countries running.
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
Ai is a perversion of writing. A useful one, but still. I don’t see how this makes it worse.
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
Not in my language.
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
Funnily enough in some legal systems it does. Where I live the legal definition of “theft” is: Taking away a movable thing.
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
You cannot steal what is not owned. At least in the EU there is no copyright for LLM outputs, so I guess all they might do is violate the terms of service.
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
That was ment as an observation, not an encouragement to apply this. Some of the discrimination against trans people might have a similar reason, after all they drastically break with standards. I was a badly groomed, overweight nerd. I sta
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
I knew it! I have vivid memories of eating a mars bar as a kid and marveling at the weight written on the packaging. Same for KitKat Chunky.
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
I think people often tend to treat drastic deviations from standard appearance as an indicator for undesirable character traits. If you are badly groomed as a man, you tend to be perceived as careless. In my experience if you are obese, peo
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
Their “brain trust” has impressive experience, but mostly at things that are not natural science. Alpha fold and friends are an exception, but these mostly harnessed existing scientific data. I would love to see someone with a strong natura
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
For a well earning man with a white collar job, keeping a six pack requires a large amount of time away from work. So it probably is a good proxy measure for quite a few desirable character traits, such as diligence and discipline.
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by niemandhier 2mo ago
Whenever I do things like that, I match total area covered by a polygon in a radar chart spanned by the feature axis. That way a single dominant feature cannot compensate for the collapse of all others

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