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raducu
1y ago
Stupid question, not a doctor, just for my anecdotal knowledge: did you also take something like a yeast (enterol which would not be affected by doxy) or probiotics?
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> if the “fixed point” you are measuring doesn’t sit still relative to any spatial reference system you care to use. But do those points actually move or the air medium changes the measurements? I ask because I saw a very interesting do
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1y ago
It would make sense for a highly succesful but stable java project to be replaced like that, but since I'm in the java world, it's usually replaced with another java project. I could provide examples myself, but I'm not convi
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1y ago
> Step 1, stop using Java. I've seen these comments for over 15 years yet for some "unknown", "silly" reason java keeps being used for really,really useful software like kafka.
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1y ago
> You're nice to AI for your own well being. I'm nice to AI so they spare me when they eventually become our overlords. Ahh, the full spectrum of human motivation -- niceness for the sake of it, fear and let me add my machiavel
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> Saying thank you to a LLM. Saying thank you to a LLM is indeed useless, but asking politely could appeal to the training data and produce better results because people who asked politely on the internet got better answers and that beha
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> Anthropomorphising them or their software programming is harmful¹. LLMs are trained on internet data produced by humans. Humans tend to appreciate politeness and go to greater lengths answering polite questions, hence the LLMs will als
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1y ago
> With Claude, that time cost has plummeted to nearly zero Only for short code you want to throw away. If you care about the quality of the code -- how it is organized, naming things, meaningful tests it's not. LLMs have gotten so m
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1y ago
> Just because we rely on vision to interface with computer software doesn't mean it's optimal for AI models. It's optimal for beings that have general purpose inteligence. > would severely limit your capabilities as we
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> Have you actually tried agentic LLM based frameworks that use tool calling for long term memory storage and retrieval, or have you decided that because these tools do not behave perfectly in a fluid environment where humans do not beha
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> maintaining the illusion that "he's fighting for people like me" There is no illusion - if Trump was a profesional working in any trade, the plebs wouldn't hire him, yet they elected him president. It's just th
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1y ago
That's what you get for electing a president with the intelectual and emotional maturity of a 5 year old. Oh, oh, also, electing a felon, you get a lot of grifring, including, but not limited to the trump crypto scam, the insider tradi
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2y ago
> Why should singles and childless people subsidise people with children? My point was mainly that that kind of first tier city would attract those kind of people, not specifically that they should be targeted. If you lived in a 2nd tier
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> Universal Basic Buying Power. I should be able to get a roof over my head, get food and an education. It sucks that it's this complicated but in terms of government policy sometimes UBI is cash handouts, other times it should be s
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> people who outsource their thinking to LLMs. OSINT I immagine would be kind of useless to analize with LLMs because the kind of information you're interested in is very new so not enough sources for the LLMs to regurgitate. As an
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> They all seems to racing to the plateau. To me it feels there is no plateau and the models are already very useful and impactful. I believe there is no plateau because there is nothing objectively special or magical about the human min
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> Iv seen a compilation of russian fiber drone fails vid recently. One anxiety of mine is being teased by an FPV drone -- with fiber optics it's much easier to defend against as a foot soldier -- if you can loop once around a tree a
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> He said they were like spider silk in the dawn. Russian FPV operators have already lost their life due to this precise effect and the fact they operated from the same building multiple times.
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There have already been russian operators killed this way -- they re-used the same launch spot and in the morning sun the fiber optics are clearly visible from air -- their position was identified and then shelled.
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> The difference between our comments is that your comment was littered with first person pronouns. It was all about what you witnessed in limited contexts and what affects you. My comment was about the industry at large absent any parti
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> china can innovate just fine on their own now. If China could turn democratic and open, the World would have such a bright future. Alas, I think we're headed into some distopian future because China is not going that way but indee
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> Country B realizes they can manage themselves. That's a thing we were taught in "Civic Culture" in grade 5 -- that slaves can become masters through hard work and making the master dependent on them. But now I see it mor
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> * I never described anyone as lazy. I never said you did, I just added another bogus reason CEOs use to justify why layoffs are necessary, when really, the only reason is the market is bad and we want to have more profits and we though
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> here are many people employed to write software that aren’t very good and cannot independently qualify a return on investment without considerable help. That is a problem of poor candidate selection and improper/insufficient train
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>. What's next, arbitrarily arresting Salvadoran travelers to protest their government's arbitrary arrest of gang members? Genuine curiosity, are you a Trump fan?
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If I were you, I'd read again what I just wrote and ask myself, why on God's green Earth would I want to travel to the USA at this point in time? It's obviously a bad idea at the moment.
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There's plenty of videos on youtube of what a little fog does to tesla vs any other radar auto-brake system. My favorite is where they painted a cardboard wall to match the road, Coyote and Roadrunner style and Tesla was the only car t
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> LLMs are token predictors. And neural nets are "just" matrix multiplications, human brains are "just" chemical reactions
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Can't they prove or disprove by just getting some ocean water in a tank, adding those metal balls to it and observing if any oxygen is produced or not?
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The whole point is "escape Earth" -- i.e. Elon doesn't care about the long term effects on Earth, not that space tech is bad.
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