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by smadge 4y ago
I don’t know if it’s fair to say Google is just stepping into generative language models. They invented transformers!
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by smadge 4y ago
Is it a keyboard and mouse?
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by smadge 4y ago
This turns upside down the standard role of automation in control systems. E.g. the humans sets the temperature on the thermostat controller, or the pilot sets the parameters on the autopilot, but the plane is still under control of the pil
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by smadge 4y ago
The problem isn’t using tools at all, it’s using the wrong tool.
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by smadge 4y ago
Stadia was built on GCP.
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by smadge 4y ago
The most important reason for queues is the variability of job inter-arrival times and service times. If there was no variability there would be no need for queuing.
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by smadge 4y ago
Google is an LLM search engine.
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by smadge 4y ago
> if people working below the minimum wage are flying to protest at Google headquarters, someone is paying their airfare. Doesn't look like a spontaneous act to me. The raters who spoke and delivered the petition are members of Alph
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Google search 'raters' demand fair treatment, deliver petition at headquarters(mv-voice.com)
56 points by smadge 4y ago|30 comments
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by smadge 4y ago
That model makes sense for aircraft, in my opinion. The software isn’t a standalone product that can be independently continuously improved. It’s tightly integrated with safety critical physical systems. You need to do the upfront work of s
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by smadge 4y ago
Is there actually a distinction here? A good machine would learn about boxes and object permanence.
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by smadge 4y ago
As in you construct a FSM that can recognize all strings of a context free language less than a certain length?
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by smadge 4y ago
Forgive me for inferring your reasons, but the reason you actively avoid web based apps is because the web app experience is inferior to native apps because (or at least as the thread claims) Apple and Android actively sabotaged support for
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by smadge 4y ago
The other posts in the chain go into more detail. By improving and pushing the web experience on Mac, Apple gets access to a whole ecosystem of web-based application which make the Mac more valuable to customer, instead of relying solely on
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by smadge 4y ago
The digital sharecropper analogy is less about the monopoly position of platforms but about the content creator and platform relationship. More platforms wouldn’t change that relationship.
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by smadge 4y ago
It’s not only “don’t screw things up.” They still develop features, they just go through a gauntlet of design review, experimentation, and then launch review.
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by smadge 4y ago
I’m sorry. Not only is that unethical, it is illegal. These companies need to stop discriminating on age.
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by smadge 4y ago
I think that’s a gross oversimplification of the history of political violence in Weimar Germany. Much of the Nazi’s rise to power in Weimar Germany came from their paramilitary forces, the SA and SS. The state was unable to control or supp
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by smadge 4y ago
The problem is that fact checking functionality is a harder NLP/ML problem than bullshit generation.
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by smadge 4y ago
We need a synthesis of rules based symbolic systems and statistical systems.
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by smadge 4y ago
Imagine doing code review for this change. How do you say “I think this is illegal” without getting fired? Not that I would work for FTX.
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by smadge 4y ago
Does this apply to big tech companies, which usually have generic numbered “levels” which have a relatively fixed distribution?
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by smadge 4y ago
That makes sense on some corridors but I'm not sure about the economics of building 2000 miles of dedicated right of way for a train that runs 3 times a week. Maybe if price, reliability, and speed of the service improved to such a deg
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by smadge 4y ago
Aren’t the factorio solar panels propped up on little steel struts?
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by smadge 4y ago
ChatGPT already gives wrong answers. When I asked it to cite sources for its incorrect information it made up a non-existent journal article and provided fabricated direct quotes from the non-existent article.
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by smadge 4y ago
It’s pretty nifty but it’s not accurately emulating a computing environment, just the facsimile of one.
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by smadge 4y ago
Tankie used to describe a subset of online teenage Stalinists but now apparently describes anyone left of center.
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by smadge 4y ago
What does $3B of road maintenance look like? Is there a positive ROI on it?
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by smadge 4y ago
I hope my comment was well executed.
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by smadge 4y ago
The great thing about California’s welfare program as mentioned in the article is that the amount of welfare received is not dependent on income so it does not disincentivize employment.

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