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by pona-a 2y ago
The thing is, good documentation captures the difference between what you expect and what something is. LLMs, as they exist now, are mass-producers of cliché. You can sense it even in their prose or those inverted puzzle evaluations [0] , t
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Can we stop with these spiels on Abominable Intelligence making their way to the front page?
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Yes, my religion forbids me from interacting in any shape with any Abominable Intelligence. I am thankful to the Google corporation from protecting my eyes from this unholy threat.
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See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42014650 81 comments, 241 points.
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See previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39694045 163 points | 252 comments
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As long as there is liability, there must be a human to blame, no matter how irrational. Every system has a failure mode, and ML models, especially the larger ones, often have the most odd and unique ones. For example, we can mostly agree C
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by pona-a 2y ago
Lenses seem to be a functional pattern that groups getters and setters into composable functions. Consider pair(a, b) with first(pair) and rest(pair). I can define first-lens and rest-lens for [get-first, set-first] and [get-rest, set-rest]
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Solving the mystery behind Abstract Algorithm's magical optimizations (2018)(medium.com)
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Clojure has a really nice `juxt` function for that, which I have an implementation of in my `.guile` file. (define (juxt . fns) (lambda args (map (lambda (fn) (apply fn args)) fns)))
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But were said people well-informed to begin with? Voting can only work if everyone's on the same page regarding both the policy being implemented and its consequences, thus being able to defend their best interests. If the people have
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by pona-a 2y ago
What about negative externalities? If we were to force all actors to pay for their emissions and toxic by-products, factoring the entire lifecycle into the cost, what would it look like then? If, even with that in mind, solar looses to nucl
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> Your peak score: 8.01 BPS Well, I'd say permanent brain damage from scaring alone wouldn't quite be worth an extra 1 click per second... What it's showing really is a very different problem; the mouse is a fair show and
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> there's still a long ways to go Sure, in the way that technically this is a computable problem, but maybe not a simple one. Any exponential in the real world is a sigmoid and given all major AI labs, having spent years and incompr
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And what we do see is terrible; bland art, more spam and political astroturfing than ever in human history, bad code, and ignorant lessons, all to the tune of a PR campaign to shift the Overton window towards praising incompetence and denig
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by pona-a 2y ago
KDE? Cinnamon? MATE? LXQt? When I was in the GNOME bubble, I too thought GNOME was the be-all and end-all of Linux DE usability, with everyone else being savages slapping together UIs without so much as a style guide. Perhaps at some point
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by pona-a 2y ago
Racket and Clojure are, in my opinion, well-designed, pragmatic languages that get to the point quickly and elegantly. Clojure is a great opinionated functional language with a healthy ecosystem and a real job market. I now solve Advent of
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by pona-a 2y ago
Firefox has an old slightly broken feature that wipes all cookies, except from a set of origins you whitelist. It actually saved me about half a gigabyte of pure cookie nonsense and made website loading quite a bit faster. Soon after I set
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by pona-a 2y ago
Doesn't the rendered page run in a different thread to its JS? If the website does use some SPA framework to lazy-render the components, load the new view, or execute some logic, maybe then, but when I say run `(() => { const s = Da
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by pona-a 2y ago
Just saw his WebGL water running on HaikuOS Firefox this morning. It's quite a strange thing to see the same name like this.
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The comment was referring to models close to the recent releases from Meta and Mistral, reaching up to 405B with performance competitive with large commercial vendors. These models absolutely can't be trained without significant invest
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by pona-a 2y ago
What we're seeing is a new profitable industry, with a tendency towards natural monopoly, refusing to act in the public good because its incentives conflict with it. At stake is the entire corpus of 21st century media, at risk of being
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by pona-a 2y ago
SEO have farms existed previously, and as far as I can tell, their unwilling consumers weren't really asking for more at higher bandwidth but with even less accuracy.
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The best supported Ubuntu Touch phone is Pixel 3a. One of the core devs owns one and is actively invested in getting all the features to work, get decent battery, hardware acceleration, etc. Other phones may have various compatibility issue
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Still, let's not anthropomorphize computational processes. It is a function approximate, which we'd expect to pick up on simple patterns like intersections or base10 arithmetic. When we see its predictions diverge from truth, that
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by pona-a 2y ago
Well, it isn't a case of piracy, is it? The data exists on the website, for free, under the assumption/social contract that you are a human, not an agent of a shady enterprise wasting the bandwidth. An analogy would be the game it
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by pona-a 2y ago
That's been my experience too. Feeding it some of my X-rays, which a radiologist could interpret in a matter of minutes, had it throwing guesses at a wall, before deferring to a professional. And given the recent story about state-of-t
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Well, what if it just got better at covering up human-presentable cases? See this comment [0] on this very post, showing how it makes quite problematic mistakes on larger numbers still. It's still improvement, but only in the way of im
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Unrelated to Wiz, the cloud security company Google tried to merge with. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41042034
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It's not as wide as you'd been made to believe. Ubuntu Touch does around 50% of what you're listing. Web browsing works fine, though the older Chromium is showing its age and may not be running with full hardware acceleration
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Battery life can be one factor. Many older phones have enough RAM and reasonable CPU/GPU specs to reasonably run modern apps (at least without Google services in the background), but their degraded batteries are already showing their a

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