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by potholereseller 1y ago
I wonder how a prompt could wind up in the final product; this may indicate that the author lacks more than just writing skills; "slopdash" seems a relevant neologism. > as book 1 of this series released 1/24/25, book
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> “Learn to code” is, after all, used as a pejorative against people in famously less stable fields, like journalism. FWIW, most of the people who repeated that cliche were not programmers. It's odd that some journalists are still
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> It has at least been interesting to me to reflect on how I can still appreciate media that humans make when I find AI media so repulsive. A relevant analog is the arguments about whether independent bands were more real than those who
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by potholereseller 1y ago
They claim that their new LLM, unfettered, is so good that they are concerned that it might be able to provide instructions to make things like nuclear weapons. A mediocre physicist could provide similar, or better, instructions, but nobo
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by potholereseller 1y ago
A friend is listening to every recording of Coast to Coast AM, which began in 1988. He notes that it was a remarkably interactive format; people would call in and try to trick Art Bell with preposterous conspiracy theories; Art Bell would p
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by potholereseller 1y ago
I've noticed a pattern: (1) People assert that some event will happen (e.g. someone getting elected, some technology changing the world); (2) They do zero analysis of the feasibility of that event happening; (3) They divide themselves
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by potholereseller 1y ago
>In my head, every piece of hardware, broken furniture, or random screw has a future use. For me, this mentality has lead to a sort of hoarding, in which everything I own has a potential future use, but little of it has been used, even a
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by potholereseller 1y ago
You can modify the styling of elements in Javascript with modern browsers, but I'm not sure it is exactly "standard", in the way that CSS is "standard". A modern form of JSSS might look like this: an HTML document w
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Sortition (the formal term for this) is very attractive, because it seems it would eliminate corruption and other political ills. The problem is that the bureaucracy (he part of the executive branch that has some legislative power) would gr
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by potholereseller 1y ago
I'm waiting for an article entitled: "Just Use X" Considered Harmful. The Web is complex (i.e. has many parts) because it is meant to satisfy a very wide range of needs. Most websites use WordPress, because that's an esp
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Getting two sources is the standard in journalism; that is what journalists are taught in university. The fact they are anonymous sources is also considered okay by most, if not all, journalists. I'm not saying this is good. Rather, I&
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> The proof that AI has already ruined life is that I sent that rainbow photo to a friend of some 40 years with lens data and it had full EXIF info attached, less location, which can be seen from only one place on earth. He asked me if i
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by potholereseller 1y ago
The title is misleading, because scanning emails is normal. The update adds AI to help with writing emails. To me, it's a superfluous addition, because so few people read emails (the meetings will continue until people start reading
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by potholereseller 1y ago
When you've trained your model on all available data, the only things left to improve are the training algorithm and the system prompt; the latter is far easier and faster to tweak. The system prompts may grow yet more, but they can&#x
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by potholereseller 1y ago
> Almost seems like there's room here for a grey hat to come in and ... ... call the scam numbers to tie up their staff and prevent them from talking to potential victims. Someone like Kitboga could do this at scale. Where there&#x2
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by potholereseller 1y ago
>and that its Palestinian population will “leave in great numbers to third countries” Where would the Palestinians be sent to? TFA says Egypt and Jordan won't accept them. And this isn't a few thousand people to be moved; it&#
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by potholereseller 1y ago
Marketing finds a way. I just wish the writer had picked something more interesting than "self-governing principles" and "good faith"; every democratic government on Earth claims to be built on those principles. There&
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by potholereseller 1y ago
If the hype is true, then AI-generated code will soon need no review at all. Programmers will be totally useless. Managers will be able to spend ten hours each quarter doing the work of a hundred programmers. You would be better off movin