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by tjr 1y ago
What do you work on, and what do LLMs do that helps? (Not disagreeing, but most of these comments -- on both sides -- are pretty vague.)
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by tjr 1y ago
Working in aerospace, code generation tools are indeed reviewed pretty thoroughly.
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by tjr 1y ago
Almost, but not entirely, unlike fish.
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by tjr 1y ago
You might like working in aerospace.
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by tjr 1y ago
This seems reasonable. Much AI research has historically been about building computer systems to do things that otherwise require human intelligence to do. The question of "is the computer actually intelligent" has been more phi
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by tjr 1y ago
I might even think that a symbolic chess program is in some sense more intelligent than a modern LLM. It has a concrete model of the world it operates in along with representation what it can, cannot, and is trying to, do. When LLMs get the
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by tjr 1y ago
Local and preferable Free. It seems odd that the majority of the software development world is gleefully becoming dependent upon proprietary tools running on someone else's machine. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/w
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by tjr 1y ago
I for one have been known to keep some cameras longer than some cars.
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by tjr 1y ago
People seemed to prefer shorter domain names as far back as I can remember domain names. I always presumed that successful companies switched to a shorter name because they were better able to pay to acquire it from someone who had owned it
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by tjr 1y ago
I imagine that pitting LLMs against computer games is itself an enjoyable activity. Generally speaking, people play games for fun, and I suspect that will continue. Even if an LLM can beat all humans at computer games, it doesn't matte
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by tjr 1y ago
Some ideas going back even further than that, like 1994: https://philip.greenspun.com/research/shame-and-war-old
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by tjr 1y ago
When the doctors tried their own searches in ChatGPT 3.5, they found that the AI did include bromide in its response, but it also indicated that context mattered and that bromide was not suitable for all uses. But the AI "did not prov
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by tjr 1y ago
Even if it appears to do what you want, but you don't actually read and understand the code, how do you know it doesn't do something else also? Maybe something you don't want?
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by tjr 1y ago
I am finding that I really like AI for tasks I don't want to do, and am annoyed by it for tasks I enjoy. A non-programming example: I do some work in library music. I thoroughly enjoy writing and producing the music itself. I don'
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by tjr 1y ago
If we were to reach a stage where humans don't write code any more, would there even be a need to have advances in programming languages? Maybe what we currently have would be good enough. I don't know what future we're looki
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by tjr 1y ago
I'm concerned about this also. Even just reading about AI coding, I can almost feel my programming skills start to atrophy. If AI tools continue to improve, there will be less and less need for humans to write code. But -- perhaps depe
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by tjr 1y ago
I have mostly worked in aerospace software, and find this rather horrifying. I suppose, if your tests are in fact good and comprehensive enough, there could be a logical argument for not needing to understand the code, but if we're tal
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by tjr 1y ago
That sounds like a navigation tool that I absolutely do not want! Occasionally I do enjoy meandering around, but usually fastest / shortest path would be preferred. And I'm not sure about the other either. In my 20+ year career in
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by tjr 1y ago
I used my Amiga 3000 for a lot of video production and graphics work, along with some word processing / desktop publishing, and a bit of programming. And games! In my observation of other Amiga users at the time, this was typical. Besi
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by tjr 1y ago
Carol has said though that, for the most part, Brian did write the bass parts that she played.
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by tjr 2y ago
The linked article seems unrelated to the post headline.
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by tjr 2y ago
My dog also developed an aversion to cameras, and I wondered if it was the USM focusing. That might have been what started it, but she still doesn't like any cameras at all, USM or not.
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by tjr 2y ago
I would imagine it's more unusual for someone to have exactly one interest?
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by tjr 2y ago
Bring on the quadruple-precision floats!
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by tjr 2y ago
It would be nice if there were some sort of standardized tests for skill competency. Like an employer could state, "we need someone who can handle C at level 5, JavaScript at level 3, and Fortran77 at level 9", and leave it to a t
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by tjr 2y ago
I was just trying to solve a configuration problem in Xcode today. I started with a web search, and found lots of proposes solutions, but nothing that worked for me. I asked ChatGPT, which regurgitated the same ideas I found on the web, plu
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by tjr 2y ago
I think it is fair to say that existing copyright law was not written to handle all of this. It was written for people who created works, and for other people who were using those works. To substitute either party with a computer system and
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by tjr 2y ago
https://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/ Ask a wage slave what he'd like to accomplish. Chances are the response will be something like "I'd start every day at the gym and work ou
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by tjr 2y ago
If you're into music / sound production: https://vi-control.net/community/threads/live-now-2024-editi...
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by tjr 2y ago
I have not gotten the impression that raw milk aficionados are in it for the money. What makes you think that?

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