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by pksebben 11mo ago
Probably a bit of a 'baby with the bathwater' situation here. At almost no point has that institution been a net positive - at times snooping on 'political dissidents' (like MLK Jr.), and at others bungling cases so bad
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by pksebben 11mo ago
There are some things that we can define as "definitely true as close as makes no difference" in the context of an LLM: - dictionary definitions - stable apis for specific versions of software - mathematical proofs - anything
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by pksebben 11mo ago
> The model has no concept of truth—only of plausibility. This is such an important problem to solve, and it feels soluble. Perhaps a layer with heavily biased weights, trained on carefully curated definitional data. If we could train
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by pksebben 11mo ago
That's not a word. I think the phrase you were thinking of was "dumberer"
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by pksebben 11mo ago
kinky.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
I saw that movie, and I don't recall seneca ever talking about infirm ferrets. I know for a fact that eminem wasn't in it.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
true, true. Turtles all the way down and such.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Forming a judgement does not require that the internal process look like anything in particular, though. Nor does logic. What makes logic powerful is precisely that it is abstracted from the process that creates it - it is a formula that
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Dissatisfying take: It's both true and untrue. Your mindset absolutely has an influence on outcomes - how you come off to other people influences how they react to you and treat you. How you look at a problem influences whether you
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Whenever I hear arguments about LLM hallucination, this is my first thought. Like, I already can't trust the lion's share of information in news, social media, (insert human-created content here). Sometimes because of abject dis
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by pksebben 11mo ago
My assumption is that it's a network bottleneck, and apple clutches their pearls when anyone suggests lowering resolution or allowing for some latency. My take is like, make me tether with usb-c, reduce resolution and increase latenc
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by pksebben 11mo ago
it is. There's a third-party app that can add 1 virtual monitor, for a total of 2, but FWIG it's not terribly stable (and 2 is still like 5 fewer than I want). wtf apple, indeed.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
When the next petya-class worm hits, IOT is going to be so very painful. Personally, I'd like to skip over all of the buildup and go straight to hoverboard mafia pizza delivery.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Fresno here. If this had happened at FAT (FYI now? We have dumb names) the casualties would've easily hit three digits from initial impact, and then whatever else burned afterwards because CA==tinderbox.
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by pksebben 11mo ago
Came this close to buying an AVP, before learning that they only mirror a single screen with no virtual monitors. Like, guize, c'mon. Virtual desktop can do three. For 3.5k you gotta do better. I don't particularly need a vir
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by pksebben 1y ago
I feel like despite the close analysis you grant to the meanings of formalization and syntactic, you've glossed over some more fundamental definitions that are sort of pivotal to the argument at hand. > LLMs do not reason. They do n
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by pksebben 1y ago
It matters at least a little. Ceteris parabus, I'd prefer unmaintained rust code over unmaintained java. That said, I'd also prefer maintained java over unmaintained rust, so I do see your point.
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by pksebben 1y ago
if you're remotely serious about 'trying' this stuff out, do it in paper trades first. The options world is full of the corpses of dead portfolios.
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by pksebben 1y ago
This seems to back that up: https://www.sec.gov/files/form13f.pdf FWIG you can't actually see what premium was paid on an option unless the buyer chooses to disclose that themselves.
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by pksebben 1y ago
Flash animation isn't dead, it's just called source filmmaker now. Whether 'skibidi toilet' is an upgrade from stick death is an argument that i'm sure lives on either side of the generation gap, but amateur intern
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by pksebben 1y ago
The advantage it might have won't be in the form of "more power", it would be in the form of "not burdened by sponsored content / training or censorship of any kind, and focused on the use-cases most relevant to the
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by pksebben 1y ago
This is just the typing debate all over again. If you define the behavior of the system in an immutable fashion, it ought to serve as a guardrail to prevent anyone (yourself included) from fucking it up. I want claude to tell me to fly a
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by pksebben 1y ago
That 'average' is doing a lot of work to obfuscate the landscape. Open source continues to grow (indicating a robust ecosystem of individuals who use their computers for local work) and more importantly, the 'average' l
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by pksebben 1y ago
It's about time I started using a dotfile manager that I didn't make entirely myself - thanks for the recommendation. For more and more of the cross-platform headaches, I've actually found myself treating the OS as more of a
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by pksebben 1y ago
text of the treaty: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/cybercrime/convention/text/co... I wouldn't get excited about the US "not signing". With the government shutdown, they might just
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by pksebben 1y ago
Almost entirely with you on that, actually. But OS and other environment differences frequently demand some sort of tweaking, which I absolutely do not want to do by hand if I've done it before.
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by pksebben 1y ago
This seems like gross, and I wonder what the net is. It seems impossible that there's no deforestation in the places mentioned int the article, and unlikely that the net is positive.
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by pksebben 1y ago
I've also gone wez from iterm2, and you hit upon why. Don't ever make me click on things. I can't script => modify => export clicking on things. When you make me click on things, you've defined my interface for
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by pksebben 1y ago
As far as I'm concerned, it did. Linux is far and away the best OS for my needs so I'll keep using it. Did it "win" more of some metric of perfusion / capital versus the other big two? Perhaps some, mostly not.
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by pksebben 1y ago
solution: lithium ion batteries. Pack in an electric toothbrush, kindle, tablet, etc. "Sorry, that can't go checked. Too bad!"

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