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by octopoc 1y ago
And so it begins. Both the US president and the president of China have demonstrated they see AI as a competition between their respective countries. This will be an interesting ride, if nothing else.
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by octopoc 1y ago
You know what would be cool? A built in way for your browser to automatically download and run local-first software as a docker container, in the background without user confirmation. The problem with that idea is docker isn’t as secure as
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by octopoc 1y ago
I have in the past often advocated for more training for police, so I have to say this is an eye opener for sure. Thanks for posting this. The question I have is, why?? I assume some Israelis or people with ties to Israel who wanted Israel
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by octopoc 1y ago
Wouldn’t your head have started to get pulled towards it as you approached, so maybe you could stop approaching once you felt something weird going on in your head?
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by octopoc 1y ago
Has the situation in Alabama gotten better over time? Have the Alabama workers been able to negotiate for more protections/better pay? Because that’s the explanation for why offshoring to countries with fewer regulations is a good thin
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by octopoc 1y ago
Sounds like an improvement TBH. The quality of life improves for people in Alabama, and the company can pay people less. Sort of like the economic argument for offshoring people. The only people losing are the people in Detroit.
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by octopoc 1y ago
The difference is, is it pro-social or not? Not whether it's good for the individual. Charging enemy machine gun nests is pro-social behavior, arguably. Killing yourself because you're in constant pain is anti-social. I'm jus
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by octopoc 1y ago
If you ask someone if they killed your dog and they respond with a wall of text, then you’re immediately suspicious. You don’t even have to read it all. The same is true of privacy policies. I’ve seen some companies have very short policies
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by octopoc 1y ago
I was going to say the opposite—even my side projects almost immediately hit the point where I’m spending more time fixing bugs that the compiler would have found than I spend time wrestling with static types. I’m building something in Pyth
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by octopoc 1y ago
IMO there should be one build system for each language and it should be good at the basics, and if you need more then you should write your own (minimal-dependency) build script in the same language as the code you're building , and i
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by octopoc 1y ago
I think one dynamic going on here is there is more animosity between generations now than there used to be. Many people get hyped up about their beliefs on social media, and when they go out into the real world they take some of that divisi
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by octopoc 1y ago
I’m monitoring this area as well. You’ve probably run across these already but extism, a polyglot plugin framework, can be hosted in Python[1] and has evolving support for writing plugins in Python [2]. Another option is container2wasm[3].
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by octopoc 1y ago
Agency is the ability to act. If someone dies against their own will, they don’t have agency, which is why we don’t use language like “they committed their own death” to refer to such instances.
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by octopoc 1y ago
Many vegans think everyone else is evil/demonic for eating meat. “Meat is murder” etc etc. So the natural conclusion to that is, according to several vegans I know, that everyone who eats meat should be forced to either stop being a ma
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by octopoc 1y ago
It assigns agency to the person who died. Think about it this way: I have relative who is vegan, so she has been trying to convince me to kill myself for many years now. I can still choose whether I do it though, and obviously I chose not
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by octopoc 1y ago
The burden of proof rests on the people having a moral panic, trying to convince everyone not to use what may be the new SOTA. I don’t think Twitter has more hate, than other websites in AI training data. But if you disagree, and you think
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by octopoc 1y ago
It was just the system prompt IIUC.
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by octopoc 1y ago
It only matters if that behavior is necessary for your use case
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by octopoc 1y ago
Yeah it reminds me of the Bobiverse’s take on how AI needs to be built: it needs to grow up, rather than waking up fully formed. To me, AGI is achieved when the machine can improve itself and reproduce in a way that allows survival of the f
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by octopoc 1y ago
Essentially this is manual context management, and it’s still better for straightforward tasks that don’t require the AI to run commands (e.g. running unit tests). I had Gemini cli running trying to do a straightforward refactor today, but
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by octopoc 1y ago
Polytheistic religions have more room for multiple worldviews than monotheistic religions. Polytheists have internalized the fact that there can be different paths that are right for different people. That’s why you get so much division in
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by octopoc 1y ago
The Fall of Civilizations podcast has an interesting episode about Assyria. The cities in Mesopotamia were polytheistic and each city has its own deity. Apparently the way they viewed their deities was similar to how we view sports teams. T
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by octopoc 1y ago
Yeah there are a lot of things in programming that I don’t enjoy, that I can now avoid doing, like learning how to do the same technical thing in a different language/framework. But the stuff I enjoy doing is something I don’t delegate
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by octopoc 1y ago
C# is an absolutely fantastic programming language. It runs pretty much everywhere, is garbage collected but has a lot of low level primitives for performance optimization when necessary, the people building the language are making excellen
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by octopoc 1y ago
That isn’t the same at all. Ontologies in Foundry are not defined with triplets like they are in the semantic web. Ontologies in Palantir are just a set of object types with properties, and objects of each type.
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by octopoc 1y ago
I agree with the overall point but I do think there's a better approach than langchain. Langchain is a framework, not a library. I think a library approach is better at this point because libraries can be composed, which supports funda
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by octopoc 1y ago
It's a military profiteer drinking the cool-aid thing. Although...TBH he's never going to get shot at seeing the rank he's getting from the start.
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by octopoc 1y ago
Yeah and it actually kinda makes sense--in Mexico, there are white Hispanics who descended from Spanish Jews and have not interbred much with the natives. They are tall and white. Then there are people with little or no European blood in th
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by octopoc 1y ago
As a user of audible, I do follow some authors but I've found better luck following certain voice actors. It's almost like the voice actor is the critic, and by narrating a story they are recommending it to me. Anybody can take a
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by octopoc 1y ago
I have started several small businesses and never had problems with mail delivery except when the business moved. The only thing labor intensive about it is the amount of junk mail, and if you have a P. O. Box then checking that can be labo

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