ryandvm

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by ryandvm 3y ago
What do you mean by "not there yet"? I regularly use GPT-4 for things like "write exhaustive unit tests for the following function" and it gives fantastic results. They usually need fleshed out a little, sure, but in a f
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I think the issue is that there is no future for a trustworthy AI that doesn't completely cannibalize their ad revenue cash cow. Like, who wants to use an AI that says things like, "... and that's why you should wear sunscr
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> The real solution is to accept that anyone who bought in the last half century should have factored in the scientific evidence of climate change and not expect taxpayers to subsidize their failure to plan appropriately. It's mostl
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Not AI, but the USDA Agricultural Research Service has apparently developed a test strip for detecting amatoxins in some of the deadliest and most common poisonous mushrooms: https://www.ars.usda.gov/news-events/news&#x
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Sci-fi really dropped the ball on warning us about how much time we would be spending proving to robots that we're human. I thought it was supposed to be the other way around.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I read The Martian and loved it. It has a utilitarian sort of prose that won't amaze you but also doesn't get in the way. It's a plausible story with relatable characters. Perfect hard sci-fi in my opinion. I also enjoyed Pro
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I read the first one and, while it's definitely epic, I couldn't get past the terrible dialog and cardboard characters. I get the nerd appeal, but just because you're mainlining hard sci-fi doesn't mean you should have t
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Actually, do the math and you'll realize that a selling agent is incentivized to quickly take lower offers rather than hold out for higher offers. They more than make up the difference by increasing the volume of closings.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Couldn't have happened to a better rent seeker.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> They found that youth with ADHD had heightened connectivity between structures deep in the brain involved in learning, movement, reward, and emotion (caudate, putamen, and nucleus accumbens seeds) and structures in the frontal area of
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Privacy isn't the main problem. Having an mildly adversarial nation state wielding a massive propaganda firehouse on US citizens is the bigger issue.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Proof-of-work crypto mining is particularly egregious because it is quite literally zero sum. The world's Bitcoin miners could spend 100 watts mining crypto or 100 gigawatts mining it and due to the nature of the algorithm, the outcome
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Yeah, it's called being "California sober" (marijuana and/or psychedelics).
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by ryandvm 3y ago
If, hypothetically, prices for the next 30 minutes were published online through a standard API so that customers wouldn't need to install dozens of apps, would this ameliorate your concerns? I kind of agree with the previous poster th
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by ryandvm 3y ago
To me this seems not altogether dissimilar from the already common advertising practices in the food industry. Have you ever compared the dilapidated, tired sandwich you get from a fast food place with the image on the menu display? They us
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Whether an AI winter is coming or not, Nvidia is going to be selling a shitload of shovels for the next 10 years.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Gemini wouldn't even create a picture of Mark Twain for me. This obsessive need to self-censor everything is how Google will fumble the ball on useful AI.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Looking forward to spontaneous national holidays we'll all be getting when one of the 4 or 5 major models that all businesses will be using needs a "mental health day".
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by ryandvm 3y ago
As someone with ADHD, I've often mused this. It would absolutely suck to have a tribe of nothing but ADHD folks, but having just a couple around to think outside the box would be pretty damn helpful.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I mean, I'm sure it could be if it were a serious enough case, but the ADHD that I was diagnosed with is nothing more than the inability to do shit that I find boring. It's a career limiting inconvenience.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
This is my main objection to abusing chatbots. It has nothing to do with the victimization of the chatbot, but I have to imagine it might affect your own social wiring to be abusive to a seemingly sentient creature.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> The USA did this during the COVID era. We basically implemented UBI. We expanded the M1 money supply from $4T to $18T and largely handed it out in a diffuse way. For the first 6 months it was awesome. And then shortages started spiking
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Peak Stockholm Syndrome right here
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Kind of crazy to think that the only reason OpenGL was ever a thing for 3D gaming was because of John Carmack's obsession with using it for Quake II back in the 90s.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
They may be cheap and the UI does suck, but man, they are workhorses. I keep waiting for my 10+ year old 65" Vizio to die before I'll replace it with a 4K and it just won't quit.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
It should be really obvious by now that trying to prevent problems that will happen AFTER most of us are dead is an exceedingly futile exercise. Most humans aren't even capable of saving for retirement. How did anyone expect we were go
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Man, that is the most edge case reason I've ever heard for answering anonymous calls.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
A bubble implies there's little or no actual value inside. I disagree completely. As a senior software engineer that has fully integrated GPT-4 into my dev process, I can assure you there is definitely value here. I would say these LLM
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I don't understand worrying about falling birthrates. There are 8 billion of us. I think it's a little premature to be worrying about the extinction of homo sapiens. Something tells me when we're not all working 40+ hours a w
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by ryandvm 3y ago
As AI models continue to progress, I have a hard time seeing how captchas will stick around. GPT-4 can surely already answer which squares have traffic lights in them faster and more accurately than I can. What is the future of captchas? Re

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