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I'm Being Drugged to Death
7 points by patientplatypus 4y ago|13 comments
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
This sounds like a puff piece and it's hard to be all that excited about the products that are being touted in the piece - He decided instead to quit and pursue his idea to start Feasier, a platform that aggregates home furnishing list
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
I read a NY Times article by Ted Chiang today in which he made a kind of "stochastic parrot" argument for chatGPT - https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-... . I believe, on the othe
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
I'll believe aliens exist when little green men walk up to me, shake my hand, and start discussing the engineering particulars of faster than light travel. Until then...
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
This makes me happy. If you want to end homelessness in California build affordable housing everywhere and hire the homeless to be go-fors on construction projects. There is absolutely no reason that there should be sub five story buildings
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
I registered - you can only unlock the link for "8 credits". Yeah...anyone willing to just post a google drive link on an anonymous account or something?
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
This is what happens when you tie everyone's wealth into how much their house is worth.
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
Or you could make the government responsible for cleaning the sidewalks. https://sfgov.org/mod/sites/default/files/FileCenter/Documen... https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-166
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
I'm homeless and living in the Tenderloin in San Francisco. People here want you to - Be in a gang (or a prostitute, thief, ex-con and so forth) - Be on drugs (or in rehab for drugs) - Have a mental illness (so you can go to therapy) -
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
This isn't all that surprising. I mean, it's surprising a priori, but not post hoc when considering the social culture of the United States. Construction is a job that you go into if you've been to prison, haven't gone t
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
I understand that someone has to be paid to generate AI, but one of the promises of programming of the last couple of years was that if you could afford a laptop and were smart enough you could contribute to software development by contribu
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
Can someone with some industry experience comment on how RISC-V will change the geopolitical dynamics? From what I understand it's a standardized instruction set (coming out of UCS Berkeley) that would provide a standard design for chi
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
This game looks super exciting! Unfortunately, I have a mac :<. So, I install sbcl, installed quicklisp and then used quicklisp to install your game after cloning and cc'ing into your directory. It looks like your game would work if
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
This has always been the part of academia I have not understood. Academics are supposed to "know" more than the public. They are paid to have some understanding of reality in a way that the lay public does not so they can have ten
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
I agree. Consider the octopus - each of it's limbs contains it's own cortex and so it has in essence 8 separable brains. Or ants and bees which contain a hive intelligence. An ant has almost no neurons, but the collective number o
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
In the future, when the machine learning algorithms begin to gain sentience, the AI generated porn of the future will be start training humans, or using HLI (Human Learning Models). Human pornography addicts will slowly have their input str
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Ask HN: How do you tell if online content is AI generated?
6 points by patientplatypus 4y ago|3 comments
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by patientplatypus 4y ago
I find it so weird. Aren't there any bosses that say "Yeah, fuck you we're not doing that." That's the point of a boss. If I were in charge of a bunch of programmers and a mandate came down from on high to rate prog
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
This reminds me of a story idea that I had. Thanks for that. EDIT: This guys is clearly a weird dude, which is both a critique and a praise. Most of what makes the world interesting and worth living in is made by people who are weird in som
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
Yeah - if I were to read a technical analysis of a new idea I'd like it to be not an advertisement from the people building said product. This is just an ad.
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
What's the current state of research on true volumetric displays? That's what I'm excited for, although that takes less AI and more hardware, so quite a bit more difficult.
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
This isn't on my github - this doesn't sound real unless their beta testing on some accounts and not others. So it's a bad idea and they'll turn it off. Storm in a tea cup.
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
This is wonderful. Thanks for making it. -- Wanted to share a memory. Growing up there was this put-put course that was called Magic Mountain that my family and I used to go to. It was sort of a big hill that they made into a mountain so th
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
This doesn't make sense. If the cost of gasoline rises then they should be raising wages. The labor market is tight right now, I don't understand.
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
I have this idea that I'm probably too stupid to implement. It's a what-if scenario so just follow along for the moment. What if someone made an image board style web page, similar to 4chan, with a space for people to upload pictu
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
The keynote is impressive ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ubNuxnrK8 ). They can make an AI factory that will fit many times the current internet throughput in a small room. I'm super excited about what kinds of appli
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by patientplatypus 5y ago
I disagree. Schools were founded on the principle that the best and brightest minds will teach the new generation (this goes all the way back to Athens). If you separate the researchers into a "research university" and the other s
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
I guessss.....except if I want to make an app (and not a web page) I would probably make it in electron, because again I don't have to code everything twice. Making apps for apple watch or an iPad just doesn't appeal to me I guess
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
I remember the last update (Mojave?) where the first release gave root access and allowed unlocking of the computer by default. Woops! Yeah, no thanks. Until Apple learns to release non-buggy crap I'll wait out the horror show for at l
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by patientplatypus 7y ago
Yeah...and SwiftUI is by default an iOS only program. Flutter you can plug any phone in that's been made in the last 5 years, type `flutter run` in the terminal, and get hot reloading. SwiftUI is walled-garden bait. Hard pass. EDIT: No

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