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senko
1y ago
Just did and it behaves as expected for me in the Android app (ie. not the dark pattern you described)
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senko
1y ago
> Are we going to continue to use the 60 billion dollar data centers in Louisiana when the bubble burst Why not? Tracks in the middle of nowhere are useless. Data centers in the middle of nowhere are useful, as long as energy, cooling
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senko
1y ago
Updating the internal knowledge is not the primary motivator here, as you can easily, and more reliably (less hallucination), get that information at inference stage (through web search tool). They're training new models because the (s
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senko
1y ago
Except it was hallucinated (by a human, no less): https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1jsq1bc/psa_hayao_m...
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1y ago
Several paragraphs later, the article argues this time is different: > Yes, retail can buy Nvidia, but they can’t access pre-IPO rounds where the real speculation happens. This concentration among professional investors won’t prevent a
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senko
1y ago
> dynamic home page which is mostly items that have been liked by many, but includes a mix of some that haven't made that threshold yet. Maybe instead of pure likes it could be a ratio of likes to views. You've just invented mu
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senko
1y ago
Not OP, but many technologies nowadays push users to use a server-side component when not needed. An example is NextJS where you're strongly encouraged [0] to run a server (or use a platform like Vercel), even if what you're doin
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1y ago
I am assuming integrating over all possible configurations would be a component of The Total Perspective Vortex. After all, Feynman showed this is in principle possible, even with local nondeterminism. (this being a text medium with a high
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senko
1y ago
The article missed the chance to include the quote from that standard compendium of information and wisdom, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other
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senko
1y ago
Did a double take at Berman bring described as an AI investor. He does invest but a more appropriate description would be "AI YouTuber". I don't mean that as a negative, he's doing great work explaining AI to (dev) masse
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1y ago
Can't you just not use / disable AI and telemetry? It's not shoved in your face. I would prefer an off-by-default telemetry, but if there's a simple opt-out, that's fine?
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senko
1y ago
Just use a database that supports both filtering and vector search, such as postgres with pgvector (or any other, I think all are adding vector search nowadays).
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senko
1y ago
> From 1st to 8th grade you were required to write in fountain pain. Fountain pens or ballpoint pens? (I do believe it was a fountain of pain either way :)
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1y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. It perhaps is a combo of cheap pens and learned pressure from pencils/ballpoints (and let's not forget smudging from hand sliding on paper if the ink takes too long to dry - I will emphatically n
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1y ago
Left-to-right writing as a left-handed person involves a lot of pen(cil) pushing, which is a big no-go for fountain pens. If it works for you, I'm willing to bet you're twisting your hand in a D position (going over and around the
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senko
1y ago
You guessed wrong. I did read the article. I am guessing it wouldn't be near as on point were it written solely by Marcus.
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1y ago
How is that relevant?
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> Claude Code has realtime no-intervention autoupdate enabled by default. Everyone running it has willfully opted in to giving Anthropic releng (and anyone who can coerce/compel them) full RCE on their machine. Isn't that the s
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1y ago
tldr: Gary Marcus Went To Black Hat - What He Saw There Will Shock You (it won't if you've been following LLM coding space, but anyway...) I hoped Gary would have at least linked to the talks so people could get the actual info
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1y ago
Obviously, just the part within our light cone.
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> But quizzes like this are explicitly designed to be contextless. You're supposed to answer with your gut feeling, the first step in the random walk [...] > Someone who actually depends heavily on context and doesn't have a
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1y ago
The mediocrity (and "hacks" like LinkedIn broetry[0]) make it super-easy to stand out just by talking plainly about interesting stuff! I have a (subjectively) high (self-imposed) bar for posting on my blog, but my bar is much lowe
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> It should be wholly possible to publish a site intended for human consumption only. You have just described the rationale behind DRM. If you think DRM is a net positive for society, I won't stop you, but there has been plenty publ
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senko
1y ago
One SEO content writer pulls a random number out of their behind, next thing you know it's stated as a fact by IT news sites, and I fully expect to see it parroted by mainstream media in a week. And we blame AI for slop and hallucina
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1y ago
> there are dozens of tools/concepts related to packaging ... Why is that hard for the Python community to come up with a single tool to rule them all? They have: uv > Don't understand how a private company like Astral is
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1y ago
> If you have to review what the LLM wrote then there is no productivity gain. I do not agree with that statement. > Leadership asks for vibe coding Leadership always asks for more, better, faster.
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> Just got out of a 15m huddle with someone trying to understand what they were doing in a PR before they admitted Claude generated everything and it worked but they weren't sure why... But .. that's not the AI's fault. If
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1y ago
I ain't lugging that setup around :) I have a VPN so all its resources are available in a Starbucks via ssh and/or RDP. This one was a custom build with maxed ram, heaps of storage, a modest Nvidia card with as much VRAM as poss
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1y ago
> Why would anyone except a gamer buy a desktop computer anyway? Because you get a beast of a machine for the price of MacBook Air, and because you prefer looking at a big ultrawide monitor instead of alt-tabbing like crazy on a 13"
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tl;dr > This is driven by two developments: more parallel agents and more work done before human feedback is needed.
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