surfingdino

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by surfingdino 1y ago
> - There is no doubt a large volume of abuse by tech consulting companies. It's likely even worse than it looks, because the H1Bs in the U.S. are to support even larger teams offshore. I don't understand why we can't just
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by surfingdino 1y ago
AI Santa next?
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Microsoft and nuclear reactors... what could possibly go wrong?
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by surfingdino 1y ago
This will paid to rights holders, not authors. Published authors sign away the rights to financial exploitation of their books under the terms of contracts offered. I expect some authors suing publishers in turn. This has happened before wh
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by surfingdino 1y ago
AI is the biggest threat to bs middle management/ba jobs in recent history. Those people panic and try to become "AI ambassadors/advocates" to survive. They are pushing the narrative so that they have answers and "m
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Out of curiosity, would CouchDB not be a contender for this type of application?
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by surfingdino 1y ago
The US government used to consult sci-fi authors, especially when they were writing stories somewhat based on extrapolations of current advancements of technology or science. I'm not sure any of the notes from those meetings are availa
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by surfingdino 1y ago
One thing that Gibson nailed is the story of Operation Screaming Fist, which eerily reminds me of what's going on in Ukraine. From the Neuromancer wiki: "Corto was a member of "Operation Screaming Fist," which planned on
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by surfingdino 1y ago
What "assisted dying" legislation is being introduced for. Start with "humane approach to suffering" end up with "right, you have no savings, and you have been taking your pension for way too long, we suggest a huma
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Because dinosaur audiences are hard to come by and when you do manage to get a bunch of them into the cinema for a pre-release screening they wreck the place.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
And if they AI companies don't like the license, they will ignore it or pay to be given a waver. Long may they rot in hell for doing that.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Meanwhile https://dev.to/rishabdugar/crafting-structured-json-response... and https://www.boundaryml.com/blog/structured-output-from-llms You are confusing API response payloads with Structured J
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by surfingdino 1y ago
> structured tool output Yeah, let's pretend it works. So far structured output from an LLM is an exercise in programmers' ability to code defensively against responses that may or may not be valid JSON, may not conform to the
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by surfingdino 1y ago
There's always https://www.fabfile.org/ no need to throw an LLM into a conversation that is best kept private.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
> just how loud the expectations around AI have become, especially among non-technical folks. This. It's bordering on mass madness. I am taking 2-4 calls a week from "two guys from ..." with mad ideas and unrealistic expec
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Exactly. That's their default mode of thinking.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Various fungi would love it.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Nobody at those big corps has any control of or time to pause to think over the effects of their actions.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
I'm so glad I wound down all of my AWS accounts and pay ~$1.5 for them per month. I'll close the rest this month.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Nope. Most of the early core research was done by RAND Corporation.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
When politicians get involved in research scientific proof and reason aren't always winning.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Are you saying that people who are affected by the AI's impact on their income/wealth are the least qualified to be concerned about it?
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Bell Labs had infinite money. Their owners made money every time someone picked up a phone. Not all businesses are that embedded in the society and those that have boards that might like the idea of funding their own labs have to answer to
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by surfingdino 1y ago
What annoys me is that every programmers who wish their favourite language / feature was as popular as Python and they choose to implement it in Python to make Python "better". Python was created as a dynamically typed langua
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by surfingdino 1y ago
And I want a DogCowPilot! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogcow
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Great idea. While someone's at it, could they please hook it up to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_MultiPoint_Mouse for that extra bit of madness?
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by surfingdino 1y ago
"Concrete military bunkers are a ubiquitous sight in Albania, with an average of 5.7 bunkers for every square kilometer (14.7 per square mile)." source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunkers_in_Albania
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Any code becomes legacy code as soon as it goes into production. The only non-legacy code is the one you delete right after writing it.
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by surfingdino 1y ago
Wheelchair users get extra points for doing backflips?
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by surfingdino 1y ago
I look forward to the day when AI returns a different list of my ailments for every new query from the hospital and suggests a new treatment for them.

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