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by spunker540 11mo ago
I am the same way— I find note taking distracts me such that I end up missing important things, and my notes are usually worthless too. I did pretty well at school with my no-notes approach. Obviously it’s useful to write down assignments,
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by spunker540 1y ago
I like this idea. While it’s great to have all the music at my fingertips via Alexa + Apple Music (or Spotify etc), it’s actually not very conducive to browsing or recalling all the music and albums I like. Something physical to browse like
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by spunker540 1y ago
Not op, but to me this resonates because none of it is “mine”, none of it exists in the real world. There’s a huge difference between the music I physically collected (from libraries, friends, Best Buy, Christmas gifts, used cd stores) and
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by spunker540 1y ago
I think they are “convincing you” because you are on the opposite side of an opinion. You’ll notice in this thread, many anti-tracking people are trying to convince pro tracking people, and vise versa. This is common when there are two oppo
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by spunker540 1y ago
What is the fascist lubricant you refer to?
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by spunker540 1y ago
I’m not yet up to half (because my corporate code base is a mess that doesn’t lend itself well to AI) But your approach sounds familiar to me. I find sometimes it may be slower and lower quality to use AI, but it requires less mental bandwi
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by spunker540 1y ago
I agree with your take, but at the same time, I’m not sure these things should ever do math. I know that they can, but it seems impossible to draw the line of math they can do vs math they shouldn’t do. A part of me suspects they should alw
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by spunker540 1y ago
A lot of naysayers here, and I get it’s more about the tactics and messaging more than anything else— but in defense of Duolingo (I’m not a user): There is a good possibility that in 5 years people have moved on from Duolingo because new ai
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by spunker540 1y ago
Same with drivers licenses and passports having a photo requirement too
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by spunker540 1y ago
Actually Instagram was iOS only at the announced time of acquisition. It was a pretty big bet at the time and almost no one believed it was worth $1B.
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by spunker540 1y ago
i've heard it actually depends on the model / hosting architecture. some are not deterministic at the numeric level because there is so much floating point math going on in distributed fashion across gpus, with unpredictable round
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by spunker540 1y ago
Obviously to a mega super genius like yourself an LLM is useless. But perhaps you can consider that others may actually benefit from LLMs, even if you’re way too talented to ever see a benefit? You might also consider that you may be over-i
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by spunker540 1y ago
There is a difference between a directly correct answer and a “5th result”
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by spunker540 2y ago
This may sound crazy but my sight reading improved a lot after I took an ear training class that required me to work in arbitrary clefs. I always knew treble and bass from playing piano, and had really memorized the note positions in each.
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by spunker540 2y ago
Pretty cool! At first I wasn’t that impressed because it’s mostly just pushing to get some speed then “passively” riding down some ramps and steps. Then I realized that riding down steps is not a passive activity — most humans will fail the
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by spunker540 2y ago
If op is on android they wont know who uses imessage
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by spunker540 2y ago
Do I need to watch part 1 first?
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by spunker540 2y ago
Too bad the EU will never experience such innovation
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by spunker540 2y ago
Call me a grinch— but I can’t stand gifts, giving or receiving! I don’t feel comfortable telling my friends and family this fact however…
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by spunker540 2y ago
Is HN third tier?
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by spunker540 2y ago
If you want to see an llm that works against its creators goals, check out gpt-2. It’s so bad, it barely will do what I ask it. It clearly has a mind of its own, like an unruly child. It’s been beaten into submission by now with gpt 4, and
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by spunker540 2y ago
There’s an episode of Seinfeld that opens with some standup where Jerry is joking how scientists are working on seedless watermelon, and why aren’t scientists working on more important things. And I always think the same thing! “… so the co
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by spunker540 2y ago
I think everyone knew the internet would change everything and thus be very valuable. At the time the web was the primary manifestation of the internet. Domain names felt like an oil rush to carve up the internet. But it was actually a rush
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by spunker540 2y ago
I think it’s pretty clear that LLMs can process a document/article/web page faster than any human in order to answer a given question. (And it can be parallelized across multiple pages at once too). The main hard part of searching
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by spunker540 2y ago
It seems pretty surprising to me that you can already tell where generative models are going, and that they should be stopped in their tracks immediately. Is there any documented harm yet?
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by spunker540 2y ago
This may be true— but I also think few “high performers” are seeking less responsibility/commitment. They are working hard to be recognized for it, and the recognition ought to be financial in most cases. I totally agree with your sent
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by spunker540 2y ago
Everything you have downloaded that was routed through Google’s undersea cables was illegally taxed
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by spunker540 2y ago
Google is not being punished for being “open”. It’s being punished for pressuring OEMs and app developers into illegal contracts behind closed doors, or in other words using its monopoly position in anti competitive ways. Apple published th
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by spunker540 2y ago
Can we still have AM radio via usb c?
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by spunker540 2y ago
From what I understand it is still a quite popular language at meta, and strongly supported and preferred for lots of development, though definitely never got much traction externally.

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