svachalek

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by svachalek 4mo ago
Is it so different in the US? These are just the surveillance we know about, and they're not openly telling us about these, they're actively fighting public knowledge of such programs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by svachalek 4mo ago
The US situation is mitigated by both Russia and China deciding to make massive, foolish maneuvers at the same time as ours. However neither can match how stupendously we are lighting our future on fire in every possible dimension.
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by svachalek 4mo ago
It's not an opportunity to improve until the source of chaos is removed. You don't rebuild from a hurricane while the winds are still 150 mph.
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by svachalek 4mo ago
Because until this administration, it has been considered a vital principle of democracy that the elected government supports all the citizens and institutions of the nation, not just the ones that it controls.
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by svachalek 4mo ago
I had a similar experience at Google, they were so convinced they were the only good engineering company in the world and had to protect themselves from all the wrong-thinkers outside and yet the only progress they made was via acquisitions
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by svachalek 4mo ago
The patterns it talks about are true, but imo largely because of model defaults rather than model range. That is, if you prompt for a pelican on a bicycle, each model is going to have a small variety of ways to do it (the default). But if y
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by svachalek 5mo ago
The H-1B visa is specifically for hiring "highly specialized" workers. Lack of the supposed skills that let them across the border is in fact a legal issue.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
TikTok and Instagram have YouTube worried for sure.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I'm unconvinced of this "polishing" everyone seems to claim. Whenever someone dumps a load of slop on you, that's always the answer, oh this is totally my own work, but I used AI to "polish" it. Then why is it
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I appreciate actually attempting to engage with the concept skeptically rather than assuming an answer in either direction. As someone who's fairly neutral on the answer, I'd speculate: 1. Consciousness seems to me to be the aware
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by svachalek 5mo ago
So that's all pseudo-intellectualism, but the real intellectual take is "I personally speculate that it's the electro magnetic field in the brain, it's the only way to be able to globally represent information". Dis
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by svachalek 5mo ago
It's a parody of an original story that reversed the premise. In it, machine intelligences were marveling that an apparently intelligent species could in fact be created without any sort of reliable digital substrate, and instead just
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by svachalek 5mo ago
They're not better than the best humans at practically anything. However I doubt there's a person alive that could outperform an LLM on a broad suite of tasks like Humanity's Last Exam and the vast majority of people probably
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Most LLMs are multimodal now, able to map visual concepts to language and vice versa. If OpenAI's recent Erdos solution was faking math, it faked it very well.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Ni'ihau is also privately owned, and Kauai is also home to a few gigantic personal properties.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Yeah I have the same issue with code reviews now. I can put some comments in, but they're just going to get forwarded to AI for addressing, so should I just tell my AI instead and make my comment in the form of a commit, saving a hop?
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by svachalek 5mo ago
NVDA is like 8% of SPY and 6.7% of VTI. So these mega tech stocks are less dominant in VTI, but it's not a night and day "won't really be affected" kind of difference. And most index funds including Vanguard track an ext
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by svachalek 5mo ago
The additional securities it includes are weighted by market cap though. So a total market fund ends up being 80% S&P 500, and even if they add thousands more companies those all fit in the 20% slot.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
This is a good point. It didn't really work on older small models but the latest crop are quite good at following instructions and paying attention to detail, they just lack a lot of the sophistication and nuance that the frontier mode
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by svachalek 5mo ago
The problem is that once you reach a certain level in coding (not particularly high imo, although some would differ) the most significant improvement in your output comes from understanding requirements better and finding ways to meet requi
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Not entirely comparable, but it's easier to find in Korea. "I do" by I-dle [formerly (G)I-dle] for example, has a wonderful 80s sound.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
For me I definitely need Calendar and sometimes Clock (alarm). iOS is constantly freaking me out by prompting me whether or not I want to continue receiving notifications from those apps. To me those apps exist entirely for the purpose of g
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Depends how billing works, but it's pretty rare to see terms that say we'll deliver exactly what you asked for, on a fixed price and fixed timeline, and take all the liability for failure. To some degree or another you are paying
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by svachalek 5mo ago
It's also illegal to pay someone to do murder or arson, which is easy to obfuscate as an "event contract".
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by svachalek 5mo ago
It was always strict, that was its feature. But it was dying well before ChatGPT came along, due to going from strict to unusably over-moderated.
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Yeah I'm guessing it's using one of the gemini-flash-lite models which are really basic. What I don't get is how they settled on this idea rather than having full Gemini generate a good answer and CACHE IT rather than having
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by svachalek 5mo ago
Sure, at the beginning it will be some "sponsored by" text, maybe even highlighted for you, that is easy to snip out. But the long game is slowly slowly shifting you towards Russian victory, manosphere rage bait, South African imm
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by svachalek 5mo ago
`Geoffrey Challen, a computer scientist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, plans to offer a new course this fall in which he will teach students to develop software “without writing, reading, debugging, or viewing a single l
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I've found the hardest thing is to get a really soft, fluffy bread or cake. You really need the bonding strength of gluten to hold up a structure like that. So a nice airy New York style pizza crust is out, but thin crispy crusts are d
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by svachalek 5mo ago
I really like the Open Nature (Safeway/Von's store brand) cauliflower crust. No one believes me because it's a store brand but I've actually hooked some people on those that don't have any gluten restrictions. I hav

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