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by patapong 1y ago
In my (admittedly lay) understanding of the issue, it boils down to software maintenance being taxed as research and development. In general, costs for running a business (buying inventory) are immediately deductible, while establishing new
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by patapong 1y ago
Fair enough! That was not precise of me. I guess my concern is that the term is broad enough to shift this way, from a very precise (and important!) issue to a more broad concept. I feel like picking a more specific term (such as indeed, pl
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by patapong 1y ago
Neat! I am jealous of people who make physical stuff with their hands, seems so satisfying. I grow some plants, which brings a feeling of joy compared to buying from the store, even though the latter is much easier. If anyone is interested
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by patapong 1y ago
I agree with this - beyond the sound of the term, it is also not very obious in what it refers to. In the beginning, it was used with a very specific meaning, of platforms squeezing market participants on both sides. Now, it seems to have c
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by patapong 1y ago
Interesting. I also think a lot of complexity stems from developers preferring building systems over building products. It is much more satisfying to build somehting that can address many use-cases, even if we are only working on a single u
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by patapong 1y ago
The picture says 95% are unable to solve this - I wonder what the correct percentage is. Closer to 99.999% I would guess, based on your explanation.
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by patapong 1y ago
This assumes that LLMs are only useful if they are AGI. I don't think we do - what we have today is already sufficient to unlock an enormous amount of value, we just haven't done so yet. Thus, I think we can compare them to electr
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by patapong 1y ago
Very cool! How do you know when a project is done?
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by patapong 1y ago
I used it all throughout my legal studies, for remembering legal terms, concepts, tests and any other thing I had to learn. It served me very nicely.
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by patapong 1y ago
Fascinating! Will check this out. Likewise, I thought it would be very cool to create a show written in a hypothetical future, that is set in our time period. The nature of the future society would only be revealed by how they choose to por
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by patapong 1y ago
Maybe time? OpenAI has access to basically infinite capital right now, if they believe this will be an importnat market and they could save a few months on launching this acquisition may be worth it for them.
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by patapong 1y ago
And we haven't even touched on the issue of 24-hour format digital clocks, which can at most be right once per day if stopped!
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by patapong 1y ago
I agree! People will become more productive, meaning fewer people can do more work. That said, I hope this does not result in the production of evermore things at the cost of nature! I think we are at a crossroads as to what this will resul
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by patapong 1y ago
Hmmm I hope not. What does it show for you? For me when I open the link the prompt is the first of OPs examples.
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by patapong 1y ago
Interesting! I tried the first one though, and to me it looks like ChatGPT has no problem grasping the situation: https://chatgpt.com/share/680b822c-f9c8-800a-a78a-f8ed6e8148... Or am I missing something?
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by patapong 1y ago
It's focused specifically on improvements, so I am not sure it's fair to call it one-sided. I agree that it would be interesting to see the opposite list however.
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by patapong 1y ago
International communication! I lived across the atlantic for many years, and was able to call with people important to me every day, for free, even with video. Further, I can have a cultural exchange and shared cultural reference points wit
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by patapong 1y ago
I agree! Ten years ago, we had netbooks with adequate performance for many tasks, and battery life of 10+ hours. Given the advances in CPUs since then, we should be able to pack similar performance onto much smaller CPUs, using much less po
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by patapong 1y ago
So the time to test data leakage from posting a question and answer to the internet, to LLMs having access to the answer is less than 2h... Does not bode well for the benchmarks of the future!
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by patapong 1y ago
I've always been intrigued by where those 2% come from, since condoms are a physical barrier... Teleporting sperm?
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by patapong 1y ago
I want AIs that clean my apartment while I watch rugby, not AIs that watch rugby while I clean the apartment. ;) In seriousness, this is a cool project and show how sophisticated analysis LLMs can do in a plug and play manner. They may not
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by patapong 2y ago
I agree with these. Here are some third party tools that can help with some of the gripes though: > - No instant search (macOS has had it for how many years now?) Everything search somehow does instant search across the entire file syste
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by patapong 2y ago
I am astonished by how much less delightful software has become. Computers used to feel like a magical tool, that would respond instantly and allow me to perform complicated transformations at the press of a button. Now, I feel like I am fi
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by patapong 2y ago
I think Netflix faces the problem that measuring the causality between a user watching specific content and choosing to stay subscribed is super hard. Therefore, they focus on a metric that is easy to measure, namely time spent in the app.
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by patapong 2y ago
This is a great question. For me, the steelman argument is the following: Without trade barriers, the local production economy is disadvantaged. Local companies have to comply with things like environmental and labor law regulations, making
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by patapong 2y ago
In that case, VW being fined 17bn for dieselgate should also count as a trade barrier?
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by patapong 2y ago
Or, the equivalent of around 3 flights between the UK and Japan (297,926kg [0]). [0] https://skift.com/2024/11/06/co2-setback-as-emissions-on-uk-...
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by patapong 2y ago
Yes I agree! The more I use LLMs, the more use-cases for them I find. Even if the models stop advancing tomorrow (which is unlikely), I think we could spend many years just exploring what the current models are capable of.
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by patapong 2y ago
I wonder what it would take to do this for in-flight aircraft? I.e. simultaneously surveying the entire sky and tracking all aircraft in flight? This could allow finding downed aircraft much more quickly. Would a megaconstellation like star
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by patapong 2y ago
Ah the cycle of telling people to learn to code... First tech journalists telling the public, then programmers telling tech journalists, now AI telling programmers... What comes next?

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