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by nomel 4mo ago
I think there's going to be the exact and precise range of people there has always been: some people are curious, and want/need to understand what they're doing, some people are not and just want to do. That want/need
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by nomel 5mo ago
Neat. Write that up, match parity, and give all the function calls with the same name as redis, and you're both happy! You get to hand roll something, he gets to use a library that others have perfected over the years!
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by nomel 5mo ago
I've always noticed, within any subject involving tools, there are people who like the tools, and some people who like to use the tools to do something else. With programming, I've always been in the later: it's a tool that
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by nomel 5mo ago
Yeah, the application system is probably the tricky bit, rather than the paint. > Any dissolved gasses or moisture can usually passively sort themselves out due to their differing masses, but again, not in microgravity. This is a solved
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by nomel 5mo ago
> well in vacuum and microgravity probably Wouldn't all paint works well in microgravity? If it didn't, I would think you wouldn't be able to apply it to your floor, walls, and ceiling, with the same paint.
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by nomel 5mo ago
> For the human brain, there is no "loop centre" in the brain. There are definitely cognitive feedback loops: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11903256/ Is your argument that, because they&#x2
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by nomel 5mo ago
I would claim that, if you think without introspection (that loop), then there is virtually no self check. I'm not sure what "self check" you see that the brain has. Could you describe this "self check in a line of tho
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by nomel 5mo ago
Sorry, I definitely wasn't clear. I was agreeing with you, but saying why I think that conversation isn't going to happen.
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by nomel 5mo ago
> Check themselves does not mean: do a loop. I'm not sure I understand. How do you do it? In my thought process, I quite literally stop myself, and say "ok, think about what you just said" to check myself. I literally
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by nomel 5mo ago
> The LLM itself has no memory, it’s the augmented system of several orchestrated LLM calls that does Your own long term memory is the orchestration of systems that make it long term.
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by nomel 5mo ago
Wait until you hear about the hippocampus!!! [1] I don't think physical integration within one contained is relevant to system level behavior. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroanatomy_of_memory
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by nomel 5mo ago
Maybe, every night, you send the AI off to "sleep" where it uses those in cache "memories" to influence the long term weights [1]. [1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2220275120
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by nomel 5mo ago
> LLM _cannot_ check themselves. They _never_ can. It is not that some don't, they just cannot, they are not a system complex enough to do so. All modern agentic harnesses can do this. Nobody uses raw LLM for anything remotely com
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by nomel 5mo ago
"I think the representation in a brain, the fact that it is merely stored activation potentials in neurons firing based on ionic accumulations at their synapses, destroys everything but domains of simulation and emulation." ;)
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by nomel 5mo ago
IBM has made a few analog chips like this [1]. If I remember correctly, one was even pulse time based, like neurons. https://research.ibm.com/blog/analog-ai-chip-inference
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by nomel 5mo ago
> the conversation has to to be expanded beyond AI. Unlikely. I think the same mental machinery that runs tribalism is why humans like to categorize rather than consider things as continuous. And, worse, I think the actual purpose of
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by nomel 5mo ago
Oops, auto correct: subsides = synapses It's was a genuine question though. I'm not saying LLM use neurons, are like neurons, or are meant to be like neurons. I'm saying if you can do the math, for a substrate, that doesn&#
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by nomel 5mo ago
If you manually fired the neurons in a brain by measuring the ion concentrations at its subsides, would it be consciousness?
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by nomel 5mo ago
I think many people believe neurons have metaphysical properties.
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by nomel 5mo ago
That list is shrinking though.
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by nomel 5mo ago
Or, maybe consciousness is a spectrum, rather than a binary.
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by nomel 5mo ago
And, you don't have to vibe code. A competent developer can make great use of AI. I think a developer that can develop the system themselves is the most accelerated user.
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by nomel 5mo ago
I think you're overestimated the baseline capabilities of an average person, but even more so with the average criminal that's dumb enough to use these tools to commit crime, who should benefit greatly from AI's help.
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by nomel 5mo ago
I misunderstood the context. I have all the AI features turned off in DDG. I don't use search engine AI because none of them can afford a model that's worth using, due to scale. I only use paid AI services (including my on-and-off
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by nomel 5mo ago
2*8 = 256. You can represent 256 distinct values, bins, with an 8 bit number. If you stick a 0 in that first one, it takes a bin. If you fill the rest with by-one increasing integers, then the max value will be 255, thus the 2*bits - 1, w
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by nomel 5mo ago
Biggest problem is that google has a near exclusive deal with reddit, so all other search engines have old reddit results [1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41057033
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by nomel 5mo ago
Our group is slowly replacing tableau with self built tools, with HUGE performance gains. I think these BI companies are in deep trouble, especially ones like tableau that make drawing something simple, like a histogram, near impossible.
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by nomel 5mo ago
Tech debt is what most orgs/managers ask for. If nobody is complaining, there's no problem. Nobody but you knows what's behind the scenes until they ask for something new that the tech debt makes take longer than you thin
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by nomel 5mo ago
Delta force 2 for me [1]! The only real problem with it was you could see characters as moving single pixels across the map...and hit them without too much trouble. [1] https://youtu.be/SyBh91UYVS8
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by nomel 5mo ago
> The die area argument here makes no sense. Any logic you add to the GPU is physical silicon and metal that take up physical space . > duplicating the multipliers with and without the support or you have a single general purpose

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