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by oytis 3mo ago
One should differentiate between "working in academia" and "doing science" here. Science is fundamentally about the curiosity, the desire to know, not the process of getting there. If we can now know anything we want, we
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by oytis 3mo ago
Wouldn't it be great if we had a cure for cancer, working fusion energy or at least a proof for P vs NP even if no human had a joy of discovering it?
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by oytis 3mo ago
I think the author means if it happens regularly, and asking people to stop doesn't work or marks you as a dangerous dissident. Obviously, it is wrong to quit in response to one person doing something stupid
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by oytis 3mo ago
I don't know about you, but occasionally going outside to breathe some fresh air makes a lot of difference for me
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by oytis 3mo ago
I feel like the real takeaway should be "don't make a competition out of a technical discussion". A culture that doesn't allow openly debating technical decisions sounds like one I wouldn't want to be part of.
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by oytis 3mo ago
Good UX makes you achieve your goals on a website faster. It implies that the website has a purpose apart from spending your time on it. If it has no such purpose, and yet people are spending a lot of time there, it's probably addictiv
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by oytis 3mo ago
Yeah, we are not talking about ecological impact of France enough
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by oytis 3mo ago
Uh-oh
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by oytis 3mo ago
Small songbirds apparently
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by oytis 4mo ago
So far it's only US doing this. I don't think it's in anyone else's interest to limit development of open source models or chips. Nvidia has secured a leading position in GPU market by being the best overall, but if US c
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by oytis 4mo ago
With every interview process you say "yes" only once and "no" many times. Where there are a lot of candidates, then many more times, while spending less time on each candidate. There is no way to design a process that wi
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by oytis 4mo ago
Yeah, but I've also appreciated the symbolism much more as an angsty teen than as an adult. The best part about Tolstoy is how he depicts the intricacies of human relationships, and that's a thing most people cannot appreciate unt
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by oytis 4mo ago
I dunno, I feel like Dostoevsky hits perfectly around high school. I enjoyed Crime and Punishment around 9th grade, but tried read some Dostoevsky as an adult, and it really reads like young adult luterature. I only learned to appreciate To
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by oytis 4mo ago
Absolutely. Either you use LLMs and tolerate unreliability or you are writing proper reliable software yourself
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by oytis 4mo ago
That's a huge stretch. Age verification is a worrying, but a wordwide trend, several US states introduced it as well. The first country to introduce it was Australia, which is only related to Europe by participating in Eurovision
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by oytis 4mo ago
China doesn't allow foreign social media on their territory at all. US had one for a short time, then panicked and forced them to sell. EU can neither buy American platforms, nor does it want to build a great firewall of Europe, so it&
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by oytis 4mo ago
EU doesn't have enough money to just buy the competition
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by oytis 4mo ago
That's not lobbyism, that's straight corruption. Lobbyism is, at least in theory, about convincing politicians
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by oytis 4mo ago
Obama making an account on Twitter is a marketers' success. Twitter became popular first, politicians wanted to appear there second. WSocial just went to politicians directly,it's not known by general public. Good news is, it rare
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by oytis 4mo ago
Not marketers, lobbyists
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by oytis 4mo ago
Practically, if you choose a big enough server, it's rarely a problem. mastodon.social is the most popular one, maintained by Mastodon the non-profit itself. Biggest turn off and a killer feature depending on who you ask is a lack of A
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by oytis 4mo ago
Terry Tao, Bert Hubert, Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf), Bunny Huang are just a few in my feed. But Mastodon is more about peer-to-peer communication than celebrities farming engagement indeed. No signs of enshittification either so far, barely a
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by oytis 4mo ago
There is no reliable data on how many of these jobs shouldn't exist at all, even without AI
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by oytis 4mo ago
Does it ever end though?
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by oytis 4mo ago
Try translating some prose from English to another language, then, in a different model, back to English
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by oytis 4mo ago
Yeah, they created a team that accomplished something (or a team that created a team), so it's well-deserved.
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by oytis 4mo ago
Are there other companies? Where you are submitting PRs that solve no known problem?
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by oytis 4mo ago
Who gets a sense of accoplishment from prompting an LLM? Do you get a sense of accomplishment when AI draws a picture or writes a poem for you? I guess there are some minds I'll never be able to comprehend
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by oytis 4mo ago
I would use strategic nukes in 100% simulations, just because I can
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by oytis 4mo ago
Still I can't think of an event where Swiss cops would be able to collect similar footage.

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