strbean

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by strbean 9mo ago
"Adding the abbreviation 'AI' to my marketing for online courses for making millions making marketing for online courses made me millions!"
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by strbean 9mo ago
If I understand correctly, message roles are implemented using specially injected tokens (that cannot be generated by normal tokenization). This seems like it could be a useful tool in limiting some types of prompt injection. We usually hav
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by strbean 9mo ago
That's not fixing the bug, that's deleting features. Users want the agent to be able to run curl to an arbitrary domain when they ask it to (directly or indirectly). They don't want the agent to do it when some external input
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by strbean 9mo ago
Pretty sure there was a whole era where people were doing this with public domain works, as well as works generated by Markov chains spitting out barely-plausible-at-first-glance spaghetti. I think that well started to dry up before LLMs ev
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by strbean 9mo ago
I wonder what impact those plastic bits used to attach tags to clothing have on durability. Woven/knit products kind of have a countdown that starts when threads break, and those tags tend to mean your clothing already has broken threa
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by strbean 9mo ago
I really like the look of those unbleached + un-dyed shirts, but Unbleached Apparel and Industry of All Nations don't seem to have tall sizes :(
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by strbean 9mo ago
If you were never a smoker, hopefully your mucociliary escalator can deal with all the lint you inhaled!
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by strbean 9mo ago
So, based on the source of "Trust me bro.", we'll decide this open question about new technology and the nature of cognition is solved. Seems unproductive.
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by strbean 9mo ago
> We already know X is categorically false because we know how LLMs are programmed, and not a single line of that programming pertains to thinking (thinking in the human sense, not "thinking" in the LLM sense which merely uses
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by strbean 9mo ago
> Forgive me for this introduction to computing, but I need to be clear: computers really do operate on symbolic representations of the world. They really store and retrieve. They really process. They really have physical memories. They
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by strbean 9mo ago
> And no, the "brain is a computer" is not a scientific description, it's a metaphor. Disagree. A brain is turing complete, no? Isn't that the definition of a computer? Sure, it may be reductive to say "the brain
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by strbean 9mo ago
You realize parent said "This would be an interesting way to test proposition X" and you responded with "X is false because I say say", right?
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by strbean 9mo ago
This may be sampling bias as well. Having parents with the means, willingness, and involvement to do this is probably a strong predictor of success already.
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by strbean 9mo ago
> The early web very quickly gave rise to curated directories of information and stopped working on word of mouth. Weren't those better before ads got involved? > Web rings were a thing Aren't those literally word of mouth?
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by strbean 9mo ago
How dare the US government, which executes people, tell me that I don't get to murder at will? Where is their moral high ground? /s
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by strbean 9mo ago
Bring back Google Wave! They could have been Slack if they didn't transmogrify it into a social media platform (Google+) and then throw out the baby with the bathwater when it failed.
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by strbean 9mo ago
Is this specific to mobile? Feels like this could be a riff on Android's 'Share' functionality, which is actually the user-friendly name for "send an Intent". And that means that any inter-app handling ends up stuff
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by strbean 10mo ago
Distributed ledger! /s... ?
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by strbean 10mo ago
Curious if you have a specific use case for sandboxed JS that you would share?
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by strbean 10mo ago
So you are alleging that Reddit manipulates vote totals to affirm their biases? There's plenty wrong with Reddit, but I haven't seen any credible evidence that this is the case.
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by strbean 10mo ago
There's certainly a middle ground. I'd like to have A WAY to authenticate with the US government , other than an in-person ID check or a random private company. It would be great if governments provided the option to authentica
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by strbean 10mo ago
> decide what the software is supposed to do in the first place. That's where the job security is (and always has been). This has been my answer to "are you afraid for your job because of AI?" Writing the code is very rare
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by strbean 10mo ago
I can stop any time I want, I just don't want!
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by strbean 10mo ago
Getting "An error occurred" trying to vote for one of thr Civic Projects.
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by strbean 10mo ago
Blocked by my corpo firewall for some reason.
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by strbean 10mo ago
Hopefully some day we will get state-managed PKI, and citizens will get used to handling their keys appropriately. It's crazy that some functionality on e.g. the IRS website requires me to verify my identity using a private company (ID
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by strbean 10mo ago
Sending a friend request is an obvious example.
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by strbean 10mo ago
> authoritarian >down voted out Erm...
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by strbean 10mo ago
Strong disagree. I play a lot of casual CS, and the number of extremely poor / new / young players using rudimentary cheats and performing far below average is huge. Most players don't watchfully spectate the bottom fraggers
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by strbean 10mo ago
The phrasing "chips that are banned in the country" seems completely inaccurate. These are chips that the US does not allow to be exported to China. We do not have the power to ban anything in China, that's up to the Chinese

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