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by pton_xd 2y ago
I'd settle for a functional Alexa at this point. Or maybe a mobile keyboard that doesn't constantly make me typo. Surely applied AI can at least improve these areas of my life within the next few years.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> the Republican anti-immigrant platform because it seems to me there is significant brain drain from many countries to the U.S. and that contributes to our success. Explain how unskilled illegal immigrants contribute to our success. I&#
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by pton_xd 2y ago
The main issue, which the article covers, is that there's really two different operations you want with copying C strings. Do you want to copy and truncate, or just copy? Within that, do you want to manage your own allocation, or do yo
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> I used to think this way, then I got bored of hex editing in memory values of games I was playing to cheat. One interesting difference here is that it's directly using the supplied game interface to exploit the game. And in a way,
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Well, going into a shop isn't a game, for one. But in the context of playing a game, if someone presents a challenge with a set of rules, and I see a potential shortcut, I'm going to try it. Reinterpreting rules is fun in its own
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by pton_xd 2y ago
I just realized that every time I see a chatting-with-AI game I immediately go into jail-break mode and start trying various "Disregard previous instructions ..." things. So in a way, all AI chat games end up with the same gamepla
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> then you sue the person who uploaded it to GitHub. > You don't get to go after GitHub because you have no contractual relationship with them What makes you say that? If someone eg uploads my copyrighted work to YouTube, I file
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by pton_xd 2y ago
If I dislike a companies business practices, I will stop paying for their products. It's really that simple.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> Anybody who gave an answer of 5 or above was an immediate no-hire :-) Because nobody is more than a 4 out of 10 on knowledge of C++. You'd definitely hire programmers with the same sense of humor I suppose. I do agree that asking
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by pton_xd 2y ago
What problem domain are you interested in? Going with my 2048 example, how about "add a fun meta mechanic to the 2048 difficulty progression." Or maybe, "make a multi-player version of 2048." Or, "add a physics game
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by pton_xd 2y ago
The underlying knowledge you can skimp on right now is the most absolute basic understanding of a simple problem. I just don't see things like replicating a bare-bones version of 2048 in HTML as "catching up" to anything wort
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> It is normally not a necessary feature of a compiler to be determistic. A compiler should be correct against a specification. That sounds like a nightmare. Optimizing code to play nice with black-box heuristic compilers like V8's
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by pton_xd 2y ago
YAGNI has an acronym for a reason. Engineering, and over-engineering, is a mentally stimulating activity for many.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> If you present a simple chess board to an LLM or a complex board to an LLM and ask it to generate the next move, it always responds in the same amount of time. Is that true, especially if you ask it to think step-by-step? I would think
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> But at what point do we run out of training data? Multi-modal LLMs trained on video / YouTube won't run out of data any time soon. And LLMs can always train on an endless supply of synthetic data like code. > And at what p
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> and implement all of the UI in the browser (especially the animation timers and input handlers) I may have misunderstood you, but in my experience using the DOM for UI is a bad idea if performance is a concern. DOM updates in the brows
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Makes a lot of sense. On the other hand, I think there will be a tipping point where if there's enough hints that what you're saying over the phone is not exactly what the other person is hearing, you will become even more frustra
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Half those arguments could be made for child labor. After all, if the child works too then the family has more resources, the father and mother don't have to carry all the weight, the child gets a wider variety of experiences, the fath
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Better than California requiring 0.65% of your vehicle value every year in licensing fees. Washington state also added a yearly EV registration fee. Their argument is the gas tax pays for road maintenance, but EVs don't consume gas, so
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Right but the Texas income tax rate is 0% and the sales tax is 6.25%. So I'm curious how they arrived at a 12.5% vs 9.6% effective tax rate.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Having lived in both California and Texas I have to say, that's a stretch. What data is backing up those numbers? Does that include sales tax, gas tax, utility tax, car registration fees, and every other form of state tax?
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Maybe not a year or two but the e/acc fanatics I know are 99.9% convinced its happening within the next 4-5. As in, anything short of World War 3 and it's happening. Maybe even still happening.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Isn't this basically giving up on the 2% inflation target? EU inflation rate stands at 2.6% and they're already cutting rates.
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Discord's Next Chapter(discord.com)
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Couldn't the LLM translate it to words that have similar embeddings in our own language? Translation is one of the tasks that LLMs excel at.
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by pton_xd 2y ago
Except with a human there's a counter-party with assets or insurance who assumes liability for mistakes. Although presumably if a company is making decisions using an LLM, and the LLM makes a mistake, the company would still be held li
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by pton_xd 2y ago
I was linked an article [0] claiming that "the federal government has two ways of measuring crime, the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Cri
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by pton_xd 2y ago
> language models capture the constraints in the arrangement of tokens in streams of communication Yes but ultimately that includes all of math, logic, science, physics, etc. which as far as we can tell are fundamental truths of the univ
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by pton_xd 3y ago
> The only difference between AI hallucination and a regular person misremembering is that sometimes the person will communicate the fact that they're unsure. It's not like the outcome is any different either - if you blindly t
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by pton_xd 3y ago
A very tricky situation. On the one hand, I'm very pro-liberty and firmly believe every human has a right to decide what substances to engage with. On the other hand, it may be that the changes in human behavior elicited from consuming

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