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by notpachet 3y ago
I don't think I'm particularly in denial about the prospects of AI. I think it's going to be hugely disruptive and could possibly put me out of a job. But I'd like to posit a hypothetical counterpoint, just to get you th
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by notpachet 3y ago
> it will probably mostly help big picture architecture devs compete with people who are really good at Leetcode type algorithm stuff. The competition should be happening in the other direction.
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Jesus Christ, that's horrible. It's something a clever fourth-grader would write. > my first stint with a hard-on over a clever metaphor That's all it is.
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Perhaps the pointless fluff you're describing is actually chaff: countermeasures strategically deployed ahead of time by IQ 180 writers in order to preemptively water down any future LLM's trained on their work. Then the humans ca
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by notpachet 3y ago
Depends entirely on how close your desires are relative to the center of the bell curve.
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Can you imagine a lawyer using ChatGPT to draft legal briefs and find relevant case histories? Well...
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by notpachet 3y ago
Isn't this an implicit argument in favor of simpler tools with less thorny undersides than React Hooks?
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by notpachet 3y ago
I think one related area we'll start seeing more of in the future is "resurrected" companions. You have a terminally ill family member, so you train a model on a bunch of video recordings of them, then you can talk to "t
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by notpachet 3y ago
> Where "I don't have facebook" was feeling like an insult on the community Now LinkedIn is like that.
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by notpachet 3y ago
I didn't say anything about financial analysis. But static typing is a good defense mechanism against type errors at runtime (I don't think anyone would argue against that). When you're running a financial services product, t
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Themselves.
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Better static analysis, for one.
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> At $5/month for 300 searches Wow, that's a lower search count than I would have thought. I am pretty sure I'd blow through that in a day or two...
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There's a nucleus for a standup bit in there somewhere.
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> does anyone recommend going for PhD in EECS fields for someone who doesn't like at all to be in academia Feels like you're answering your own question. No.
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by notpachet 3y ago
> thanks for immediately disregarding my personal experience and inserting your own uninformed prejudged assessment Isn't that exactly what your toplevel post is doing? Physician, heal thyself!
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by notpachet 3y ago
If you ascribe to the unidirectional data flow philosophy a la Redux, then actions are just transformations between immutable state representations.
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> can't it be expected to excel at lower-level stuffs trivially which are more deterministic than a human language Our current LLM's excel at nondeterministic problems (style transfer, summarization, etc), not at deterministic
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by notpachet 3y ago
You just described the plot of The Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
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I also used to be in this line of work, and I just wanted to say how much I appreciated this comment. 100% accurate.
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Lucid Dreaming as a Service. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Sky
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by notpachet 3y ago
OpenAI: Prompt: The camera follows behind a white vintage SUV with a black roof rack as it speeds up a steep dirt road surrounded by pine trees on a steep mountain slope... Sora: plays GTA V
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Hugo Awards – A Report on Censorship and Exclusion(file770.com)
6 points by notpachet 3y ago|1 comments
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The OpenAI web scraper.
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From the article: > Crucially, the biggest problems with SRM are probably not yet known. The side effects of putting sulfur into the stratosphere could be some of the most consequential unknowns in human history.
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by notpachet 3y ago
"We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we know that it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power and it was believed that they would be unable to survive without an energy source as ab
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by notpachet 3y ago
Perhaps we can debate whether this is really a Rails-specific problem per se, but we definitely had lots of problems scaling to prevent long-running IO from saturating web/job worker pools for things like taxes, shipping rates, syncing
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by notpachet 3y ago
Well, I don't think you're necessarily going to find anyone who says they "love" the idea of limiting contraception access, so I may have been guilty of inadvertently signaling that I agree with the choice of phrase ther
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by notpachet 3y ago
As an initial datapoint for you, here are the 195 members of the House that voted against H.R. 8373 (aka the Right to Contraception Act) in 2022. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/117-2022/h385 I'm
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by notpachet 3y ago
Take my upvote, damn you. Made me spit out my drink.

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