rockskon

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by rockskon 2y ago
To clarify - I hope your "more cool stuff" doesn't mean more fog machines and LED strips. And some of the companies that seemed to ride DARPA's coattails there made my skin crawl. No slight on DARPA themselves.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Simple answer to the question posed by the headline: No. As much as Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and every other company that's poured billions into this technology want to think otherwise - more training data will not turn your AI model
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by rockskon 2y ago
I hope that booth is gone for good. Def Con doesn't need marketers with a blank check putting a booth there. Leave that garbage at Black Hat.
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by rockskon 2y ago
The AIxcc booth felt like it was meant for a tradeshow as opposed to being a place where someone could learn something.
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by rockskon 2y ago
I cannot emphasize strongly enough how little public transit makes sense as a replacement for cars in most suburban and rural areas. As in - you are asking people to sacrifice a 15 minute drive home for a 1.5 hour public transit commute wit
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by rockskon 2y ago
???? There is no reasonable alternative. Public transport is unreasinable for most people when you look at suburban and rural areas for the bulk of places people live and work given how spread out everything is.
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by rockskon 2y ago
What about every single person that doesn't live in the city and needs to commute 30+ miles to get to work?
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by rockskon 2y ago
I'm concerned that this practice will continue minimally abated with a mandatory inclusion in the ToS forcing you to agree to continually provide your driving data or else you don't get the car. Seems to be standard practice in te
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by rockskon 2y ago
If further expansion is seen as unlikely to recoup costs then what's to say an entire neighborhood has service when fiber has only been run to a single apartment? I've seen complaints amounting to this exact scenario for years.
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by rockskon 2y ago
> psychological warfare Really does sound like you're dressing up a pig treating social media recommendations as akin to warfare.
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by rockskon 2y ago
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. You have no crystal ball. You have no high ground nor do you have privileged knowledge to back what you're saying. You are personally invested in those technologies being ga
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by rockskon 2y ago
> Metaverse No quicker way to signal how little you know about technology than to promote something niche that doesn't function well on most cheap electronics.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Doesn't that map consider an entire region serviced if a single residence in that entire region can get the advertised speeds?
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by rockskon 2y ago
Thus whole thing reeks of boomer Chinese and U.S. spies believing in magical social media mind control powers and fighting a war over something that doesn't exist in any such meaningful form. It's idiocy borne from octogenarian hy
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by rockskon 2y ago
I am assigning the notion of a single entity governing the theoretical nation of Palestine. All current look as if that entity would be Hamas. What alternative do you have in mind?
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by rockskon 2y ago
It's uncommon and requires a person have remained mentally and physically active into retirement.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Because critics always say what they don't want but rarely think through what they do. The very likely case of Palestine replacing Israel would be a rapidly anti-US, anti-Western, anti-Democratic government and a loss of a very valuabl
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by rockskon 2y ago
For their landline customers? I'm not aware of any other ISP that's so shamelessly brazen about the practice.
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by rockskon 2y ago
So do other ISPs. Yet AT&T is by far the worst of all of them with regards to customer privacy. Did you know that AT&T has a commercial product where they sell Metadata of websites visited (unclear if it's only Netflow or if i
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by rockskon 2y ago
That doesn't excuse this. If these records only existed so they could give them to the NSA at a later time, that further illustrates the dangers of accommodating the agency's desire for access to data generated from the U.S. Tele
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by rockskon 2y ago
In parts of the world, publishing research papers is required for advancement. The scientific value of the papers is irrelevant. So yes - AI is seen as useful for people gaming a system for personal advancement at the expense of global sci
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by rockskon 2y ago
O&O shutup does a good job of disabling most of the modern Windows garbage though you may need to occasionally re-run it as sometimes Windows update decides to re-enable some garbage marketing you'd previously disabled.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Because if I already knew the answer then I wouldn't be asking the LLM?
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by rockskon 2y ago
AI is not like some random person posting on the Internet. A random person on the Internet often has surrounding context to help discern trustworthiness. A researcher can also query multiple sources to determine how much there is concensus
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by rockskon 2y ago
LLM is just about all hype. I've found AI song generators to be entertaining but that's about it.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Which doesn't describe much of my stuff at all. At least not my stuff where it'd be quicker to ask an AI agent for help with.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Only if the trial-and-error process has no meaningful consequences for failure.
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by rockskon 2y ago
That's the thing - I can't trust ChatGPT. If I am searching for something I don't know the answer to and don't have the luxury of trial-and-error for the information I'm given, I can't rely on an unreliable age
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by rockskon 2y ago
I've never met an LLM that consistently behaved well at all. Quantized or unquantized. Honestly it feels like the bulk of the industry is acting out one big LARP where they're always right around the corner from developing AGI and
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by rockskon 2y ago
And that's a pretty big caveat! Helpful framing to highlight who'd be most likely to benefit from this.

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