teiferer

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by teiferer 27d ago
Yes, and 3 steps in it's going to post your API keys to this thread.
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by teiferer 27d ago
> In my experience, telling the model it screwed up without specifically addressing, unambiguously, how to fix it, only leads to more suffering. I wonder if this is just a reflection of some senior folks being arrogant towards junior fol
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by teiferer 27d ago
Um sorry? I don't see where I mocked anybody. You might be seeing sarcasm where there was none.
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by teiferer 27d ago
Of course I disagree because this generalized statement is quite obviously false. Have you used electronics made by hand? Versus made by a machine? You can't possibly claim that a PCB assembly by hand has higher quality than done by a
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by teiferer 27d ago
> > just as top notch quality as they produced before, just that now they are much faster. > No, they are not. It fascinates me with what conviction you are writing this. You don't know any of the people involved nor how they
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by teiferer 28d ago
The right tool for the job. There are tasks for which LLMs are unbelievably helpful. In programming, used well, it can 10x your productivity. (Well maybe not literally, but Nx for non-trivial N.) I've seen really good programmers becom
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by teiferer 28d ago
Just like all non-AI related nobel prizes before them. Every laureate stands on the shoulder of giants which is their field as a generations-spanning body of researchers. They did the last step and get recognized. The good ones acknowledge
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by teiferer 28d ago
> it should be the same rule for everyone I don't think that's going to suffice. Neither for the people arguing the original point who want protection for what they are doing but don't want protection for the big players w
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by teiferer 28d ago
> I then realized Oh, your grandma doesn't know which android version her phone is running? Or the build number of the Windows on her laptop? You just realized this?
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by teiferer 28d ago
Funny how people writing such things are also at the forefront of accusing LLM companies of stealing big time. Because of copyright violations. So, which one is it?
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by teiferer 28d ago
They are busy generating pelicans on bicycles. The summary therefore needs to be written by a human. (This was a joke. I value Simon's role in the community.)
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by teiferer 28d ago
How is that any different from any other academic research? Every PhD candidate solves problems essentially nobody cares about. They don't even get $1M, they get nothing. There are two benefits though. One is recognition. Cred. The PhD
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by teiferer 28d ago
That's because what people enter into LLMs is the last gold there is out there. Everything else is already scraped or ensloppified. Maybe next step is to filter your input client side through an unknown number of obfuscators where you
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by teiferer 28d ago
Maybe that shows how scientific discoveries come to be. It's not a genius sitting alone in their chamber for a decade and then suddenly they emerge with this huge thing. That's Hollywood fiction. Scientific progress is the colabor
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by teiferer 29d ago
I have. And it is ridiculously hard. But having your decompression algorithm not produce what you compressed earlier is also ridiculously bad. So, seems worth the effort, given that AI can do lots the heavy lifting these days.
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by teiferer 29d ago
> I don’t have any good reason to do that, but it seems like fun. What better reason is there to do something than it being fun?
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by teiferer 29d ago
> 2. Isar Aerospace is the first fully private European company (a startup) to do this. Sure. But that's different from "Europe now has sovereign access to space." don't you think? If anything, a state-owned manufactu
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by teiferer 29d ago
First, is that so? My neighbors just got their 80-year old parents a Thinkpad. All works. They bought a mouse the week after. Worked right away. Second, they don't buy this kind of thing every week.
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by teiferer 29d ago
> I think this is akin to arguing that saying coffee has caffeine in it is misleading I don't agree. I don't know anybody snorting caffeine lines and it doesn't have all the connotations of an illicit drug either. > It
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by teiferer 29d ago
It's beyond me why such foundational libraries don't have formal correctness proofs attached these days.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
What kind of issue would you expect that the OS she currently uses does not have?
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by teiferer 1mo ago
That well funded company already happened 20 years ago. Canonical. Their distribution is called Ubuntu, you might have heard of it.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Windows and a Linux distro are not comparable in the extent of the software that they include/provide.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
These things swing back and forth. Look up LiMux. Things don't just go in one direction.
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Ok, then why don't they launch from Norway and why is the article considered news even though the whole European package already exists?
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Um excuse me? Some people use LLMs to generate slop. That slop tends to have a certain style. I happen to use similar style. And now you are suggesting that I should adjust my style so that lazy people won't be tempted to classify
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> most famously Coca Cola which was Cocaine + Kola nut. That's a common misleading myth. Early coca cola was coca leaves and kola nut. Yes, the former contained cocaine alkaloids. But it's different from saying you take a soda
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by teiferer 1mo ago
Scrolling through the comments here, let's be honest about having actually read the entire article. Have you? Be honest. At first I had not, only the first 3-4 paragraphs. And it just read like another one of those articles where someb
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> > Europe now has sovereign access to space. > I understand what is meant here, and of course said company need to push that forward, but French Guyana is full french territory, it's not even a foreign territory. Does French
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by teiferer 1mo ago
> 15 years to throw away centuries of greatness Great for whom, exactly?

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