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by thwarted 11mo ago
That's almost more damning. The list was created by humans, who presumably read the books, but then couldn't be bothered to summarize the very books they read? Either the human is really lazy ("read" the book but can&#x2
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by thwarted 11mo ago
"Automating agency" it's such a good way to describe what's happening. In the context of your last paragraph, if they succeed in creating AGI, they won't be able to exercise control over a robot army, because the ro
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by thwarted 11mo ago
> they never go into buildings, the buildings all have similar size, the towns have similar layouts, there’s numerous visual inconsistencies, and the towns don’t really make sense These AI generated towns sure do seem to have strict bu
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by thwarted 11mo ago
Presumably, "design" here is referring to the visual, graphic design. > It is pretty interesting because it is true that design is better solo'd than committee'd. This applies to all manner of "design", es
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by thwarted 11mo ago
> IBM Slapped the Buzzwords 'AI Interpretability' on Generalized Continued Fractions and their Series Transformations and was awarded a Patent A good portion of the perception and use around patents is the word "awarded&
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by thwarted 1y ago
What is the logic behind adding machine translation for content that already had a seemingly robust, enthusiastic, and motivated (volunteer?) community maintaining the translations? The "saves money" rationale to deploy LLM/
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by thwarted 1y ago
Acquiring the skill to fly through such interfaces is equivalent to learning to play a musical instrument, where the desired attention (taking cues) and action (body/finger movement) becomes second nature. Such skill and interfaces are
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by thwarted 1y ago
Money (or access to money) is often a proxy for a certain kind of stability and access to leisure, two things that many people strive for. But the joke wasn't about long term, successful relationships. The guy was interested in looking
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by thwarted 1y ago
Exactly, it doesn't make sense other than that folks don't actually know how to do even the most basic thing with git (git init).
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by thwarted 1y ago
It doesn't matter. They are centralized on servers that are ssh accessible, creating it is effectively mkdir and git init. It's not about how long the action takes, it's about how much the team responsible for that is loaded
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by thwarted 1y ago
Not even "offline", just "using git".
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by thwarted 1y ago
They don't have a reason. There's no policy that keeps them from doing this. Sure, the whole point is to ultimately have the code in a common place where backups and code review can happen, but if it's a matter of starting so
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by thwarted 1y ago
Yes. I've been subject to claims that a single person can't start a project unless and until an official, centralized repo is setup for them. I've responded with "git init is all that is necessary to get started",
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by thwarted 1y ago
No, I'm saying that it is more meaningful to use what is directly derived rather than what is an indirect assumption. There is already issues with people erroneously considering whatever LLMs output as truth, the last thing anyone
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by thwarted 1y ago
If it did, it responded based on the accent it picked up on not race, because race and accent are orthogonal, correlation does not imply causation.
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by thwarted 1y ago
Unless you're on Windows, there's one in /bin or /usr/bin, you don't even need to go find one.
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by thwarted 1y ago
Every banking phone app I've used auto-logouts after being idle or unused for a bit, and my primary bank's app requires 2fa using an app that exists on the same device -- a second factor that secures nothing. They probably are no
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by thwarted 1y ago
> But it does highlight the poor security of desktop browsers where they are only trusted to do anything when a phone app approves it. Does it? The browser doesn't do anything, the person sitting at the computer where the browser
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by thwarted 1y ago
This isn't the browser not being trusted, it's access to the device the browser runs on. Forcing logout when idle, and authenticating again, is good in general to avoid leaving something accessible when walking away from it, even
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by thwarted 1y ago
This reminded me of the 1995 The Outer Limits episode "The New Breed".
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by thwarted 1y ago
Because one thing it tries to optimize for is avoiding TLS session negotiation.
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by thwarted 1y ago
The way you describe this system is exactly how I'd describe a system I worked on in the early 90s at PW (before it was PWC).
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by thwarted 1y ago
I got spam sales email yesterday touting that exact thing. Paying for product placement in conversations with chatbots, claiming it's "not an ad".
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by thwarted 1y ago
I wonder how much this can end up contributing to the Kleenex-ification of a brand or a term. You search for firefox and random other browsers come up. Now browsers in general are associated with the firefox term. Of course, when it comes
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by thwarted 1y ago
Because "constant time" here means algorithms that are O(1), rather than O(n). This isn't about wall-clock execution time, it's about avoiding the number of operations performed being based on attributes of the input.
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by thwarted 1y ago
An infinite number of people at an infinite number of computers will eventually be served the content they desire.
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by thwarted 1y ago
We're too lazy to browse now, that we need machines to do it?
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by thwarted 1y ago
Oops, missed a word in the last sentence: > Those who don't see the value are not taking risk management seriously.
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by thwarted 1y ago
> 99.99% of the time security guards are just standing around not doing anything or patrolling. They’re still needed even though they technically don’t do anything because there’s no way to predict when and where a breach will occur. S
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by thwarted 1y ago
The tech scene in SF and the Bay Area at large was taking its last breath in 2015. When I arrived in SF in 2007, it was, in retrospect, already on its way out. But you could still walk down Mission in SOMA and overhear people talking about

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