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by svantana 1y ago
Yes, I hadn't heard that before. It's similar in spirit to this norwegian folk tale about a deaf man guessing what someone is saying to him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Good_day,_fellow!%22_%22Axe...
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by svantana 1y ago
You're quite the pessimist. I think the arts would do well to look at sports as a glimpse of their future. Machines are faster and stronger than people, but that hasn't had any impact on sports at all. Nobody's tuning in to t
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by svantana 1y ago
It seems likely they will grow up to be nostalgic about those things, and equally worried about some aspect of growing up in the 2040s
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by svantana 1y ago
> they have a monopoly on the ad market Only if you look narrowly at search ads, but really they compete with Meta, Tiktok and X for ad spend. And the quality of the LLMs is beside the point, just like search engine quality. ChatGPT has
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by svantana 1y ago
> get everyone on the planet to subscribe to their $200/month plan Not necessarily. Google is valued 7x that and most people don't pay them anything. They just make ridiculous money from ads for insurance and loans. Meanwhile,
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by svantana 1y ago
I suspect that the main goal here was to grab the top spot in a bunch of benchmarks, and being counted as an "available" model.
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by svantana 1y ago
Yes
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by svantana 1y ago
I think the analogy still holds; fast fashion is generally of higher quality than "random-person-sewed-a-shirt-at-home". At least superficially. What the vibe-coded software usually lacks is someone (man or machine) who thought lo
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by svantana 1y ago
Same. Maybe this AI text generator trend will bring salaries back down, the opportunists will leave for greener pastures and us mega-nerds will have the software-writing all to ourselves.
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by svantana 1y ago
Is it the chair-sitting she couldn't do or the things that you do while sat in said chair? Or both?
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by svantana 1y ago
Interesting, I had the opposite idea, where the bacterial solution seems destined to give rise to resistant mosquitos and god knows what other unintended side effects. The energy needed to kill a mosquito shouldn't be more than a joule
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by svantana 1y ago
With modern electronics, wouldn't it be possible to build a device that detects bugs using some type scanner (radar or whatever) and zaps them with a microwave laser? That seems like it could be 100x more efficient than this solution.
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by svantana 1y ago
The big difference is in low light conditions, where a 10-year old phone or cheap camera will give you 90% noise, and a new-ish phone or quality camera will actually be pretty good.
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by svantana 1y ago
Oh great, together we are two datapoints that reinforce the OP's hypothesis. I have a strong distaste for gambling in all forms and I don't enjoy using opaque, unreliable text generators either.
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by svantana 1y ago
I don't think it's so clear-cut. The C spec I found is 4MB and the tcc compiler source code is 1.8MB. It might need some more code to be fully compliant, but it may still be smaller than 4MB. I think the main reason why code bases
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by svantana 1y ago
General Fusion claim to get around these issues by having the fusion take place inside a centrifuge of liquid lithium. I'm not knowledgable enough to determine how plausible their claims are, though.
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by svantana 1y ago
What is your source for that statement? According to [1], countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Denmark are way ahead of the US in those respects. [1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/
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by svantana 1y ago
Why even bother with the people in the mix? Just tell the AGI: make as much money as you can in 6 months. Preferably without breaking any laws.
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by svantana 1y ago
The post is not about ChatGPT (and its like), it's about "AI" being forced into services that have been working just fine without AI for a long time.
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by svantana 1y ago
His instagram bio reads "Housing advocate, democratic socialist", so if self-descriptions are taken as truth, it kinda undermines the whole point of the argument.
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by svantana 1y ago
The marginal cost of selling software is so small that with enough customers, almost any price is sustainable. They are estimated to earn $2M/month from this app [1], which should be more than enough to cover their costs. 150k new cust
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by svantana 1y ago
I'm not surprised it works with that amount of hand-holding.
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by svantana 1y ago
> the outcome of the 46th presidential election By my count, the winner of the 46th US presidential election was Nixon. I would be pretty surprised if any chatbot managed to get that right.
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by svantana 1y ago
I never understood why wind turbine towers are built as hollow, tapered cylinders. Isn't the best mass-to-strength ratio acheived with truss/grid type structures, like in construction cranes?
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by svantana 1y ago
Where did you get that idea? In the post they are repeatedly referring to SWEBench-Verified and nothing else.
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by svantana 1y ago
Yes, suno has definitely focused more on lyric and melody than prompt following. If the prompt is more than 3-4 words then it deteriorates pretty quickly. I think one reason is that there's not a lot of high quality descriptions of mus
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by svantana 2y ago
cheap hosting services do that, don't they?
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by svantana 2y ago
I see a strong similarity with the (over)use of CGI in movies 25 years ago - the producers were of course thrilled to save money on special fx and at first glance, it looked real. But after seeing a lot of it, a feeling starts to creep in:
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by svantana 2y ago
I see two main problems with this approach: 1. productivity and quality is hard to measure 2. the codebase they are ruining is the same one I am working on.
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by svantana 2y ago
> the main problem really is [...] no fraud protection It's a problem for the victims, but I don't think it's why there's a scam epidemic in Sweden - scammers don't care if you get reimbursed or not. I believe th

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