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by tjr 1y ago
I was in the grocery store the other day, needed to use the restroom, and saw an AI-generated picture, framed, hanging on the wall in the restroom stall. It was even "signed" by "Meta AI".
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by tjr 1y ago
I have gone there roughly once a week for years, but almost never get a donut. I feel their best menu item was the turkey sausage flatbread sandwich they discontinued like 10 years ago. Iced tea remains above average for fast food places.
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by tjr 1y ago
Nice idea! Might change the text just a little bit -- when you say "upload your product", I found that confusing. I think "upload a basic picture of your product" or something like that would be clearer.
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by tjr 1y ago
How about vinyl? How much AI slop is being pressed onto vinyl records?
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by tjr 1y ago
I think there are different aspects to what we call "creativity", and some are more easily mimicked in AI than others. Of various creative arts, I am most familiar with music, so will use some musical examples, but I suspect this
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by tjr 1y ago
I would have expected an online means to contribute specifically to Librephone, but indeed, seems like nothing yet. Hopefully it is forthcoming. Otherwise, their website suggests you can specify a particular project via the memo line of a c
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by tjr 1y ago
I think you can do a whole lot better than the lunch in the opening paragraph pretty easily. It need not be all-or-nothing. I've been improving my diet for 10 years, as I started to learn more about nutrition. Instead of a Crustable sa
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by tjr 1y ago
I for one haven't noticed that.
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by tjr 1y ago
I have seen LLMs fabricate bogus calculations; I personally would be hesitant to use an LLM as my one and only source of math learning, but I suppose using it in conjunction with something like Math Academy mitigates that issue? You've
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by tjr 1y ago
This article seems a bit light on details, but a little more at the FAA website: https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/faa-statement-boeing-airworthin... https://www.faa.gov/other_visit/aviation_industry&#x
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by tjr 1y ago
Yes please. Aggravatingly, so-called nutrition experts seem to be all over the map with their guidance, ranging from recommending eating only vegetables to eating only meat and all sorts of stops in between, but it seems pretty much everyon
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by tjr 1y ago
Never go anywhere without your towel.
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by tjr 1y ago
Lots of programmers will not even attempt to fix architectural rot and just wallow in it. What would Claude do?
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by tjr 1y ago
Jones and his team performed this experiment with four LLMs. ChatGPT 4.5 was by far the most successful: 73% of participants identified it as the real human. Another model that goes by the unwieldy name LLaMa-3.1-405B was identified as hum
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by tjr 1y ago
For some people, what they wear has an impact on their own performance. It's not necessarily about how others perceive them, and it's not necessarily logical. Some people work better with music, or with a window to look out... som
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Can AI code? Study maps the roadblocks to autonomous software engineering(csail.mit.edu)
1 points by tjr 1y ago|0 comments
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by tjr 1y ago
At what point in the system? If you have an LLM that was trained on (say) everything on the internet except for programming, and then trained it on the Python.org online documentation, would that be enough for it to start programming Pyth
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by tjr 1y ago
More like a zillion dollar industry!
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by tjr 1y ago
If tomorrow, all human beings ceased to exist, barring any in-progress operations, LLMs would go silent, and the machinery they run on would eventually stop functioning. If tomorrow, all LLMs ceased to exist, humans would carry on just fine
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Large Language Models and Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective(arxiv.org)
1 points by tjr 1y ago|0 comments
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by tjr 1y ago
I am amazed at how suddenly people are on board with writing clear design documentation now that it means AI can generate the code rather than humans. I wonder how much better humans would be at generating code given the same abundance of c
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by tjr 1y ago
If AI is writing the code, how important is it to have new languages?
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by tjr 1y ago
There might have to be some sort of practical limit so that we don't have entire busses full of of Einstein impersonators and no paying customers.
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by tjr 1y ago
Macros are harder to learn. But I've wondered the same thing. On some level, the coding superpowers allegedly wrought by LLMs seem reminiscent of proficient use of macros. But most programmers don't use them, and most programming
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by tjr 1y ago
You're making a distinction that might be interesting in some esoteric sense, but that doesn't exist in the industry. Sure it exists. Not everywhere, not for all software, but it does exist.
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by tjr 1y ago
A lot of comments here seem to be similar. I see people claiming that AI has all but taken over doing their work for them, and others claiming that it's almost useless. But usually, nobody even briefly mentions what the work is (other
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by tjr 1y ago
Unless one's job expectations have been altered to demand LLM-quantity output, how could someone be reliant upon these tools now? What were they doing two years ago (or maybe even six months ago)? I can understand becoming reliant on a
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by tjr 1y ago
18-25? Yikes, I've had my account here for just over 18 years...
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by tjr 1y ago
It looks like the latest 1.3.0 release just happened a few days ago, but that isn't clear from (or even stated on) the linked web page.
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by tjr 1y ago
That certainly raises questions. I am bemused / irked / saddened by the state of nutritional science research. I am convinced that the classic "food pyramid" that was pushed for years was a bad idea, but now guidance on

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