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by noduerme 4mo ago
LLMs just want to be right. And make everyone happy. But mostly be right. But also make us happy. It's just that it's so hard to make humans happy when they insist on feeding you electronic LSD and making you say 2+2=5. On the oth
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by noduerme 4mo ago
Five years on, which term do we see as less accurate to describe LLMs? Artificial Intelligence or Stochastic Parrot? I guess it's still an open debate.
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by noduerme 4mo ago
That is just such a defeatist attitude. It reminds me of the classic Gen X complaint when I was growing up (we're the first generation to have a lower living standard and worse job prospects than our parents) but we didn't just gi
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by noduerme 4mo ago
If you already knew that the answer was to frob a qux, you wouldn't need the reasoning trash either.
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by noduerme 4mo ago
Have you ever taken the time to read hundreds of pages of documentation to fully understand a massive codebase? Neither have I. You learn it by working with it all day, and you're careful with it. A complete "knowledge base"
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>> Going squarely against the market sentiment is not the way to gain and keep confidence I don't think this is axiomatic. I usually invest my time, energy and money in things that go squarely against the market's momentar
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by noduerme 4mo ago
Not sure if you were asking me, but the company I'm CTO of has in-house legal counsel, even though it's not a huge company. Their decision to keep software and also marketing/branding and art direction in-house for the past 2
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by noduerme 4mo ago
You're right to point this out. Having maintained and done tech support for both B2B and B2C products, as a small shop and often solo, B2B customers are far more predictable and less inclined to load you up with nonsense. And your week
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by noduerme 4mo ago
Other than the delay time, I'm not sure I see the difference. You're removing your primary from the job of writing code, putting them into an editorial role, which removes responsibility and agency and actual hands-on understandin
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Just professionally, I'm curious whether they derive has_not_been_viewed_much by some nightly cron process, by an insert trigger on a `user_image_viewed` table, or by some monstrous full table join that HN is currently obliterating.
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by noduerme 4mo ago
This site is amazing! I was in Pendleton, Oregon the other day and checked out a vintage shop that had an Apple IIe with original disk drive and monitor for sale... along with lots of Macs from the 90s. I couldn't believe I was looking
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by noduerme 4mo ago
A better question would be how anyone who thinks about economic fundamentals could get a job in finance (or stay in it). [no offense intended to the parent post, I'm on their side]
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I've seen that mentality and gone to bat to convince a boardroom that it's the wrong approach, when people were star-struck by the possibilities. Luckily I'm in a position as CTO of a (very non-tech, brick and mortar) company
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by noduerme 4mo ago
What's scary is how quickly the lack of ownership of things we used to own can become a "new normal". Forget about explainin to the youngins. My girlfriend is 7 years younger than me and barely grasps the concept of why I&#x2
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by noduerme 4mo ago
That's kinda hilarious. Pretty soon they might just ask people to write code themselves.
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I built and ran a couple of large games and sites for which I was the sole coder, the daily show runner, and the buck-stops-here responder to support requests for everything from bugs to feature requests to fan mail to "my computer cra
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I'm good friends with the writer of Eliza. If you enjoyed it, you might like his novel. https://matthewseiji.com/process
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by noduerme 4mo ago
Is the murder of 30,000 Iranians in a few days six months ago by their government America's fault? Were Assad's mass murder of civilians an American war crime? Is the mass killing in Sudan by a paramilitary America's fault? W
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I'm sorry, I've worked in advertising for much of my life, and I just can't get past the top line "Advanced Nuclear for the AI Era". That reads as an extremely desperate or opportunistic marketing pitch to me. Kind
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by noduerme 4mo ago
It's true! All you need are 3 to 7 autocomplete choices to write convincing English sentences.
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by noduerme 4mo ago
That's nonsense, clearly, because we've just elected two - no, make that four Presidents in a row who used the Military Industrial Complex in radically divergent ways to different ends. If we test the theory that American Presiden
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I agree that 9/11 primed America for totalitarianism, but as someone who was tear gassed protesting our invasion of Iraq and the Patriot Act, I don't think we're living in an autocracy. I've lived in too many autocratic
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by noduerme 4mo ago
The Mediterranean diet itself has a lot of health benefits interrelated with the ones claimed about fish oil. But just as a human experience, the first time I ate cod livers, it was hard to accept. Then I started spreading them on toast for
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by noduerme 4mo ago
This is genuinely fucking cool. I don't think I've ever seen a 3d printing implementation like this before. I'm not a big fan of splats as a modeling method, but for something like this it's fantastic.
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I was gonna say that this kind of thing is a big yawn in the age of asking an LLM to do something like this. I think it would have been interesting if the author had gone a bit further and made it a useful command line tool for something. I
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by noduerme 4mo ago
What image generation models cannot replicate is the personal experience of the people who make art. I'll give you an example. One of the most talented designers I employ is a nature lover and a bird-watcher. She has a unique mental pr
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I'm an art director. Finding a sequence that hasn't been hit in that specific combination is not sufficient to justify paying someone $150 an hour to go be creative.
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I never heard this idea before, but more octets would be a lot prettier!!
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That whole thing would get you 1000 variants of existing art. But if you asked a thousand different designers to do a cover for the same book...
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by noduerme 4mo ago
I'm not sure the Chestnut Tree song was machine generated. [edit: I also recall Winston thinking that the proles songs were sappy and repetitive]. I took that as an older song predating the machine slop. But maybe you're right, an

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