ryandvm

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by ryandvm 3y ago
Very nice. Was just thinking about building an LLM-assisted version of this where it DMs people asking their availability and then figures it all out. This is way more efficient.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Great idea. We could also give them clove cigarettes until they're old enough to smoke!
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Do you also think that children should be allowed to buy cigarettes? I'll be honest, I am not certain that social media is any less deleterious than tobacco. I'm a pretty pro-market guy, but there are times when the interests of t
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by ryandvm 3y ago
My understanding is that the Coast Guard is pretty selective and it's not easy to get into. Something like 15% acceptance rate. I don't think they're having the same recruiting difficulties as the larger branches.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
It sounds like somebody telling you, "you're going to die as soon as you fall asleep." Painless? Maybe, but you just might find me a wee bit squirmy.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
> I predict it will drop until Tesla releases Optimus, the $25k EV, or something else and then we'll see it go back up. Heh. I love the optimism. It reminds me of the too-far-gone political folks who think they're always *this
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by ryandvm 3y ago
For real. Recently re-activated my eBay account after 10 years to buy a relatively obscure item and amazingly it is almost exactly the same site that it was 20 years ago. I guess there's something to be said for not chasing infinite gr
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Indeed. These recent AI demos are pretty damn impressive (even knowing there are smoke and mirrors), but it's hard to get excited about what's happening with their R&D when my Google Home device seems to be regressing on a dai
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I find the "it's just picking the next most likely word" argument to be not very convincing. If anything it makes me wonder if that's not all there is to my own intelligence. Hell, try writing a paragraph backwards and t
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New theory suggests LLMs can understand text(quantamagazine.org)
79 points by ryandvm 3y ago|106 comments
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I dunno. I'm in my 40s and I can't even begin to imagine the neck strain you'd have after strapping goggles to your face for 8 hours a day. Even counter-balanced, it's going to be hard on your neck. We'll probably s
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by ryandvm 3y ago
The scariest part to me is the realization that not only will we probably crack AGI in my lifetime, if we keep throwing resources at it, it will almost certainly have a richer more sophisticated conscious experience than myself. What the he
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by ryandvm 3y ago
We have to understand it to build it? That seems absurd. Did evolution understand it? I'll grant you that maybe we should understand it before building it, but it's absolutely not a requirement. The reality is that your consciou
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I found Seneca's letters to be much more approachable than Meditations.
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Of course - this entire thread is nothing but speculation. That said, the premeditated murder of someone, let alone your wife and children's mother, is not something that the average person is capable of. It is entirely different than
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by ryandvm 3y ago
"What Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away"
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Glad they're making changes because it couldn't possibly be worse. It is one of the few products I use daily that gets noticeably worse over time. Shopping lists, calendars, reminders, timers, etc use to work pretty well, but now
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Liquid tin battery stores electrical energy as heat(hackaday.com)
1 points by ryandvm 3y ago|1 comments
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I tell you what, my cat fucking sucks at pair programming
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Sure, and if you show me the Pepsi logo 3000 times I can draw a pretty good copy of it. I think that's mostly irrelevant to the conversation. Logically, I find myself on the side of the "humans aren't so special" side of
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Indeed. For his own sake, he ought to start spinning the narrative that this was all just 12-dimensional chess to rid humanity of the dopamine dirty bomb that Twitter has always been. If there's anything the last decade has taught us i
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Agreed. LLMs seem almost purpose built for the boilerplate part of legal work. "Read this user agreement and point out any unusual or particularly risky clauses."
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by ryandvm 3y ago
I was with you until YouTube. I would say the educational value of YouTube with channels like 3Blue1Brown, Fermilab (Don), PBS Space Time, etc. makes it an educational resource second to none. Sure there is a lot of garbage on YouTube, but
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by ryandvm 3y ago
What's funny is the Stockholm syndrome aspect of this behavior. "Oh no, our chat is acting weird because there is an Android user in here." It's like hostages complaining that somebody left the door open and is letting i
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Android users do not want iMessage. What they want is their friends to stop telling them to buy an iPhone because Apple ignores the RCS standard and does a purposely shitty job of integrating SMS group chat into iMessage. I'm generally
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Why are people obsessed with implanting CloudFlare right in the middle of everything they do? There is absolutely nobody that needs DDoS for their SSH server. I get that CloudFlare has been a well behaved netizen so far, but let's be r
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Agreed. I think abortion is a right that should be preserved, but not at the federal level. These asshats in DC can't even do something as simple as stop minting pennies. They are in no way qualified to be legislating on women's h
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by ryandvm 3y ago
No, it's not just you. I want to enjoy his podcast because he has such great guests, but generally his questions stink and he has the natural charisma of a Ben Stein character in a John Hughes movie.
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Do you guys live in abandoned missile silos?!
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by ryandvm 3y ago
Disagree. I've had dogs all my life - many breeds. We currently have a rescue that is a pit/lab mix and although she is sweet as could be to humans, she is a menace at the dog park or day care. Constantly trying to fight. Folks wh

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