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by skippyfish 3mo ago
To sign up for what? The experience of approximately every author on the planet is that they found out that Anthropic did something bad at the same time they were "opted into" the class. The only thing they could do is opt out and
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
It just feels deeply unserious that these labs talk about apocalyptic risks, ship models with safeguards that make them borderline useless for sensible tasks, and then YOLO stuff like that on the backend and use it as an opportunity to mark
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
I always find it hilarious when these opinion pieces about the impacts of AI are AI-written (as is almost certainly the case here, a major trend in ACM and IEEE publications). Like, really? An LLM has a breadth of experience managing AI, an
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
Possibly. I think the US is a lot more exposed to the apocalyptic narratives from the bosses of AI labs, who sort of painted themselves into that corner in the pursuit of valuations.
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
The thesis of the article is spot on. The title is weird - I don't know what's the point of bringing such an emotionally charged term into it. Unless your point is that LLMs are sentient creatures capable of suffering, but I don&#
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
I don't think the author makes a persuasive argument. Most of the photos they're analyzing are obviously lit by various point light sources, e.g.: https://nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/IMG_0064.JPG You can s
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
> This study is pretty bad. The study is OK. The article (and the original headline that came with it) is pretty bad because it claims things that the study doesn't. And I guess it is ironic that the TNW article looks 100% AI-gene
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
Sort of, but I think this was a mix of "I want to sound smart" and "I actually want to know the answer", because summarizing Google search results still required you to read the content, form an opinion, and then rephras
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
Not literally, but I had two projects I had to fundamentally redesign due to multi-year chip shortages in the COVID years. And we're not talking about any fancy chips.
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
Hardware has a reputation for being hard for three reasons. First, it scales differently than software. It's far harder to design something you want to make a million of than something you want to make ten of. Second, it's harder
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
> Godel's incompleteness theorem or the halting problem are applicable to everything including the human brain. Maybe. That's if you assume that the universe is a conventional computer. Far from settled and the alternative isn&
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
The article is massively overstating the implications of Godel to the AI industry, so to be clear - are you defending the article, or are we bikeshedding about my phrasing? Because my "not that profound" should be interpreted as r
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
Aside from seemingly being 100% AI-generated, this article makes a really spurious use of Godel's argument, which I think is best exemplified by the following passage near the end: "These four threads share a common ancestor in wh
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
Here's the tool developed by the author that was almost certainly used to generate this book in its entirety - "A structured pipeline for writing long-form nonfiction, packaged as a Claude Code skill": https://gith
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
I'm confused by your response. I was trying to understand if the product and the company are real. An AI-generated website is not a positive signal. Neither is the lack of any product photos. And if you go to Wikipedia, you'll lea
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
> The ancient curve tracers, like the widely used Tektronix 576 or 577, could do things for which you would need much more expensive SMUs than that shown in TFA. If I'm searching right, Tektronix 576 had an MSRP of $18,000 back in 1
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
> Just how many millions of people do those outdoors activities? Many, but that's irrelevant. There are hundreds of thousand of bicycles in my city, and very, very of them have cameras. That's kinda the point: what you're
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
I find it somewhat amusing that this attracts a lot of ire, but most of us would prefer a 2,000+ sq ft suburban home with a lawn when we could live comfortably in a 500-700 sq ft apartment, like people do in most European cities. Ultimately
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
My first reaction after seeing a website with vibecoded aesthetics was to wonder if this is even real, but apparently, it is - at least to the extent of getting some press coverage: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/usa&
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
No, that's precisely my point. It's only an action camera, and you assert that the market is massive, but I don't see it. Just how many millions of units can you sell to YouTuber spelunkers, YouTuber mountain bikers, YouTub
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
I slept on GoPro for a long time because, but then wanted to document some outdoor activities. I went with two Hero 5 units and as a photographer, I was shocked by how overhyped these devices seemed to be. The first surprise was just shod
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
I find it nuts that "creators" is basically synonymous with "streamers". To add insult to injury, these workspaces appear to be overwhelmingly staged. There's nothing interesting to me about a workplace with a clini
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
To be fair, that's what it was for most of history: artists were bankrolled by wealthy patrons, for their own enjoyment. Artists making money by selling directly to consumers is a very recent innovation (although we all grew up in that
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
It's a weird title. AI lets ordinary people feel more creative than before. It's largely an illusion because of the problem outlined in the article: every video, image, blog post, or book written by AI is very same-y, especially i
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
They have names in their URLs when you click. I meant this one: https://clocks.dev/clock/figure-hands Around :15 and :45, the minute arrow is sticking outside the drawing region.
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
Some of these seem subtly off. For example, on the orange "number field" clock ( https://clocks.dev/clock/number-field ), you can't distinguish between 12:10 and 10:12. On the "word field" one (
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by skippyfish 3mo ago
"Parasocial relationship" is a bit of a misnomer. You might feel some affinity to a celebrity, or consider yourself to be a part of the "team", but a healthy person doesn't perceive that as a preferable alternative