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by solsane 2y ago
It is a hat. Chugging a bottle of liquor has way more harm potential.
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by solsane 2y ago
McDonalds has gotten so expensive. a mcdouble that was literally $1.50-$2 2-3 years ago is at least $4 now. Unless you game coupons you’re spending a similar amount to dine in restaurants in my experience.
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by solsane 3y ago
Another reason to feel good about donating to the EFF.
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by solsane 3y ago
Ok but can someone explain what this means
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by solsane 3y ago
As a TA the remote schooling definitely had an impact on the quality of incoming students.
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by solsane 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprogram_Research_Facility
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by solsane 3y ago
Yeah, if there’s a way to discriminate AI from human writing that could also be used to train a better AI and become indistinguishable again.
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by solsane 3y ago
I support all your action items but based on your preamble I was expecting something more along the lines of political engagement/activism.
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by solsane 3y ago
Not so sure about that. Wendy's drivethrough chatbot is programmed to upsell. Even the base GPT is heavily tuned to cater to a corporate audience.
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Ask HN: Anyone using a locally hosted copilot for work?
1 points by solsane 3y ago|0 comments
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by solsane 4y ago
I don’t know why reading ‘it were stones’ made me chuckle as much as it did.
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by solsane 4y ago
Have you played with ChatGPT or GitHub copilot? 5 years ago, I'd agree with you, but nowadays, 'cherry picked wins' happen far more often than not in my experience.
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by solsane 4y ago
It’s quite simple. If you’re doing something niche (ie, it would be difficult to find similar examples online), and deals with highly critical code, it’s probably worthwhile to write it yourself, since there’s a high risk for it to produce
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by solsane 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20221231201517/https://www.nytim...
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The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare(nytimes.com)
5 points by solsane 4y ago|1 comments
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by solsane 4y ago
Psychologists, the least scientific form of scientists, use the term ‘disorder’ far too liberally if you ask me. The term has implications for how people view others with these diagnosis and how those people view themselves. The term is bor
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by solsane 4y ago
I recently (last 6 months) went into tech away from my home town. (not too far; US town to different US town) I’ve found life to be good here, but I can’t help but think I had it made in my home town: in terms of family (father recently got
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by solsane 4y ago
There’s a notion that AI isn’t ‘creative’; it doesn’t ‘have a soul’; that it ‘just imitates’, as if we are uniquely capable of being creative. Yet, it seems increasingly clear to many of us ‘AI bros’ that this isn’t true. For now, I largely
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by solsane 4y ago
Real neurons are far slower (interaction is chemical vs electrical) and far less precise ( iirc something comparable to 4 - 7x less precise than 32bit float) than physical neurons.
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by solsane 4y ago
Based on the diagram this does matmul like a resistive crossbar array (something like https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.2031.pdf ). Talked about this in a ‘neuroprocessor’ class I took at uni. It’s practically ‘free’ since you
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by solsane 4y ago
As a kid, I recall being told by camp counselors that we couldn’t canoe since ‘TVA’s been dredging and now the coal ash is mixed with nuclear waste’.
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Legacy of Contamination:TN Kingston coal ash spill unearthed a nuclear nightmare(grist.org)
1 points by solsane 4y ago|1 comments
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by solsane 4y ago
I don’t follow this comparison. Seems like DDoS protection is a defensive measure.
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by solsane 4y ago
I feel like this should be the end of the discussion. A crime against a criminal is still a crime. Furthermore, who decides who the ‘criminal’ is? A ‘tit for tat’ policy may leave progressive activists and whistleblowers vulnerable to DDoS.
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by solsane 4y ago
There’s a chance podcasts aren’t for you. After listening to a couple briefly, I found I’m not interested in them. Subjecting myself to an oration from a single point of view, without comments feels like brainwashing to me, or at least very
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by solsane 4y ago
I disagree. The moral responsibility really rests on the person who uses the tool. For instance, I once cheated by using gcc/godbolt to generate assembly output for a class from C code. By this logic, Richard Stallman should be blamed
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by solsane 6y ago
IMO, this would be a bad outcome for all parties involved. The jobs being replaced are highly tedious, ie, fold the box, put the thing in the box, repeat for next 8 hrs. Those displaced would likely find better jobs.