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3y ago
Human or AI generated, it's clearly SEO optimized. I think that's the real problem.
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> Within 5 months, I single-handedly launched 5 iOS apps. > Staying in any company right now is a negative return; you are wasting personal leverage. Isn't it obvious that this doesn't work if _everyone_ does it? Also, if th
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3y ago
Why is it that in every other development, these days, one reads a quote like "researchers think this would be used for <insert thing that benefits humanity, but will remain underdeveloped because nobody wants to invest enough money
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3y ago
(I mean, their title is "Photorealistic Renders for Buildings")
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3y ago
None of the renders from their examples look "photorealistic" to me, rather "sci-fi/cyberpunk themed, high contrasted, high-quality videogame renderer".
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3y ago
Something is not clear, or does not make sense. Do they compare the consumption of crypto mining in the US, with the amount of power consumed by all computers in the US? How can the first be bigger than the second, which is the upper bound
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3y ago
Free market economists are followers of a cult full of animistic creatures, like the "Free Market" and "Inflation", which have their own volition and just choose to "stick around" or "fairly distribute goo
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3y ago
AI will not replace humans. IBM's CEOs and managers will replace humans with AI. Shareholders will force IBM to replace humans with AI. Let us stop blaming the only thing that is _not_ making any decision. Capitalism is a powerful idea
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There's something I really, really don't understand. > The fabricated leaves did snag the bugs, but they didn’t hinder the insects’ movements quite as effectively as the living plants. But the researchers are not deterred by th
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3y ago
>> How Much Notice Can You Give? >> It depends on a lot of things: The list misses what's most important for me: depends on how good am I feeling at the company, or I appreciate its people. Then, I want to make it also easi
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> The differential value of being better at putting words in a row just dropped to nothing. Anyone can now put words in a row pretty much as well as I can. People seem to overvalue "putting words in a row" and undervalue "
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3y ago
Surely this knowledge is worth preserving on Wikipedia.
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Teaching inmates in Argentina to make video games in prison
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4y ago
There are projects out there to build or retrofit cargo ships with sails, have you looked at them, and what makes you different? e.g. https://www.dykstra-na.nl/designs/wasp-ecoliner/
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4y ago
> "The industry is contracting," said Cook In other words, even Mac people don't feel an urge to upgrade their systems so often anymore. A slowdown of consumption, in these times of climate crisis, is nothing but good.
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4y ago
In Berlin, it's mostly youth having fun, tourists being touristy, or people with enough money that they could either rent a bicycle or purchase one, but find it cool, don't want to sweat, or share public transport with others.
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4y ago
It's a pity that cooperative broadband is usually ignored, while people and local governments expect venture backed companies to solve their problems. They work for themselves, not for you. Cooperatives tend to have reasonable prices,
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> We have right now 1.3 billion cars (that are) internal combustion engine powered on the planet. We need to replace that with clean mobility. If by "clean mobility" he means "more cars", then I'd ask: why? These
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Reminds me of an art project I made in 2018: Faceliza, the chatbot psychologist from Facebook that shows ads instead of being helpful. (based on a javascript implementation of the Eliza chatbot from Joseph Weizenbaum and never actually fini
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> This has interesting implications because it means people will gravitate towards languages/frameworks/libraries that GPT knows well, which means even less training data will be generated for the new stuff. This is a form of v
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"Model designed to guess next tokens from a sequence, based on its training data, fails to guess next tokens from sequences not similar to its training data." What's the news?
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Why isn't it possible to find the monthly cost for this service anywhere on duolingo's website?
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In my writing, I find world-building to be a very enjoyable activity and would not delegate it to a bot just because of that. I would also like to say that employing ChatGPT or similar tools for this task would make all worlds feel the same
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So the reasoning seems to be: 1) We can create such tools 2) Then we must create such tools 3) They can be used to harm others 4) Then we must change the rest of society and the laws to adapt to them, alter publicly available images and i
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What is more interesting for me, is why anyone is surprised that an algorithm based on choosing a statistically probably combination of words, trained with whatever random crap appears on the internet, happens to choose some combination tha
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I have a degree in computer science and worked in a technical field for over 20 years. I don't call myself "rational and scientific", though I do think that the Scientific Method is a great way of creating useful models of th
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Let me correct my sentence: there's a blind belief that _technological_ progress automatically equates to better life conditions. And to clarify: I'm not saying "all technology is bad", but rather "not all technolog
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> Well, you can tie that into a lot of questions, like, ‘Is human population a good thing?’ ‘Is immigration a good thing, where we seem to have been able to take advantage of new sources of humanity that are willing to engage in economic
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Kind of my thought, too. With that title, I expected the article to be about the real thieves: Shell.
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4y ago
In Germany you're asked to send cover letters for almost any job, in any industry, outside low level entry jobs like cleaning, tending tables, etc.
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