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by simonh 5mo ago
Cool. I couldn’t find a way to search the site.
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by simonh 5mo ago
No Pick? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system My first actual job was working for a local health authority here in the UK, and they had a Pick computer running some database application thing, I think to
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by simonh 5mo ago
That’s fine if the vendor anctually understands the users needs better than they do, otherwise it’s just pure chance if they happen to align.
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by simonh 5mo ago
I like the point about improvement. For a long time the geocentric cycle and epicycle models of the solar system generated more accurate predictions in most cases than heliocentric ones. Yet anomalies in planetary motion could never have le
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by simonh 5mo ago
> An engineer doesn't care about how fast something is made That is absurd, these are tools only my own team use. Why would I not care whether I had them in a month or two, or fur many of these tools quite possibly never because we
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by simonh 5mo ago
We’re using Copilot at work to build reporting and automation tools. Nothing ground breaking, but very useful and tailored to our needs. Frankly without AI assistance many of these tools just wouldn’t exist at all. We can build stuff in 6 w
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by simonh 5mo ago
It’s training data only goes up to late 2024 or early 2025 so that might be why, though it does have access to the internet.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Or punishing to those that don’t pay for software and services to the companies that lobby for it to be this way.
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by simonh 5mo ago
So now we're using an AI cheat snoop to detect the behaviours of AIs, which means the cheat AI will need to learn to avoid the tell-tale patterns the AI cheat snoop looks for and avoid them, which mean the AI cheat snoop will need to..
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by simonh 5mo ago
The stress tests with multiple Youtube windows open simultaneously, editing 4K video, and doing heavy duty image editing tasks, in some cases doing stuff like that all at the same time have been very impressive. It does have to fall back on
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by simonh 5mo ago
According to some reviews I’ve seen, it tops out at around 60.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Oh, wow. I was assuming it might be about toxins released when they burn up, which seems implausible, but radio waves fry your brain? Seriously?
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by simonh 5mo ago
I still think it’s amazing they manage to fit all that AI technology into something as small as a button.
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by simonh 5mo ago
What will you make or do as a result of going hiking and looking at stars?
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by simonh 5mo ago
The film version of I Robot had this right, the three laws are a manifesto for totalitarianism. The AI cannot sit on the sidelines as long as there is anything it can do to prevent crimes or abuse of any kind, no matter how intrusive that i
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by simonh 5mo ago
Sure, but do we trust an AI to decide what the optimum way to achieve that is? Best way according to what criteria?
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by simonh 5mo ago
I get your point, but I’d say they do set goals, they’re just do bad at achieving them that it’s hard to tell. Hopefully AI would help us better achieve our goals, but they still need to be our goals. I’m just not sure what that means. I do
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by simonh 5mo ago
Right, such a society would have no need of human capitalists, government workers, experts, etc. The question is, to what extent would humans still set goals and priorities, and how.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Humans understand what mistakes are and can reason about what constitutes a mistake and what doesn’t. LLMs can’t do that. It’s for the same reason that they will invent bullshit instead of saying “I don’t know”, when they don’t know. They d
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by simonh 5mo ago
Much of it would come from borrowing, which would be paid back using tax revenues in later years from the regions developed using that investment. Just like most investments.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Almost all the troops that committed those massacres are still there, and if anything even more ready and willing to do it all over again, and have a leadership ready to give the order.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Trump's statements on these issues have always been self contradictory. On the one hand he says Russia would never have dared invade Ukraine if he was President, yet he was also against military support for Ukraine before the full scal
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by simonh 5mo ago
Firstly developers and designers of OSS need honest feedback from users as well, not just commercial developers. Secondly, how does being OSS justify significant regressions?
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by simonh 5mo ago
You really need to upgrade to UNIX Version 6 or later. Some of the improvements since 1974 are well worth having.
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by simonh 5mo ago
While as a species we may have moved on from thinking digital watches are a really neat idea, some of us will always remain stuck in the past.
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by simonh 5mo ago
Agree, it's mainly about the break in the direct relationship between the voters and their elected representative.
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by simonh 5mo ago
I'm not a fan of proportional representation as commonly implemented, but think it is important that the results of an election fairly represent the preferences of the voters.
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In theory maybe, but I think he’d be on thin legal ground doing that. It seems more likely that lack of availability of minis would push people up the product range, and I don’t see why we would expect a drop in Studio demand. Is there any
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by simonh 5mo ago
He said higher than expected demand. If he lied on an earnings call that's a prosecutable offence.
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Logic can't tell you what your objectives should be, only how to achieve them.

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