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by ur-whale 2y ago
> It's incredible that the information necessary to create a human is just about 750 MB Have you not been playing with LLM's in the last year or so ? They seem to compress a sizable chunk of human knowledge in about 7 Gig And,
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by ur-whale 2y ago
The fact that elsevier and other similar entities ar allowed to continue to exist, i.e. that people are actually willing to give these parasites money needs to be analyzed so a root cause can be found and the dreaded thing can be put to pas
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Why?!? I really wish that wasn't the case. But I've been using Linux since '96, and Unix for way longer than that, and it has always been the case, so likelihood of it remaining that way is high at this point. Second,
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> what am I missing with desktop Linux Freedom. Not something that matters much for many people, apparently. But to each his own. [EDIT]: And "significant" is not what I would call it. More like minor annoyances. Living in a go
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Linux desktop shells will always be niche for the foreseeable future. Which is not necessarily a bad thing: like every social escape hatch on the planet, the moment it becomes mainstream, it'll likely cease t be an escape hatch an
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> desktop Linux frustrates me Yes, there are unresolved issues, and that's not going away But consider the alternatives: 1) ads in your menu bar an a pc that calls home to Redmond every 10s 2) a pretty candy-themed advent
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by ur-whale 2y ago
>" I don’t want the future of the Linux desktop to be some locked down spyware-ridden bastardized version of Linux like Chrome OS." Hear hear. As a matter of fact, this is a pretty accurate description of every major OS in 2024
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by ur-whale 2y ago
I wonder what fraction of "accepted AI-generated code" is used in the LLM building and training codebase ... Kind of reminds me of the mad cow disease problem.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Mmmh, the salesmanship and leadership/inspiration component are a key part of what makes a good CEO. Strategic thinking is another. Not entirely sure how an LLM will fit the bill other than their propensity to lie through their teeth (
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Another one is everyone in the 90's believed shared libraries were a major innovation and therefore to be used everywhere. They turn out to be bringing fairly little benefit (minuscule disk space saving) and giant drawbacks (the vaunte
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Almost the entire company Almost the entire company is composed of wide-eyed young AI researchers who probably were never confronted in their entire life to the kind of psychopathic predator Altman seems to be. One of the thing these t
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by ur-whale 2y ago
And the pile of evidence that demonstrates Altman is a high-IQ psychopath grows ever taller.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Ghidra is an amazing tool, and indeed the fact that the NSA contributed this to the public is amazing, but understandable if your goal is to enhance cyber-security: it is the perfect swiss knife to figure out if there's nasty things em
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Time to revisit Larry Niven's work I think.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> If it increases faster than blockchain size, then we're OK. Hope is not a strategy, and things should actually be the other way round: to avoid centralization, blockchain projects should be designed to scale at the same rate avail
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> Looks like you're on Mac Nope, Linux.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
I'm on Linux
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Show HN: You can now cut and paste from scanned documents in Firefox
33 points by ur-whale 2y ago|6 comments
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> There’s a recurring pattern here of OpenAI getting caught red handed doing bad things and then being all like “Oh it was just a misunderstanding This is a very standard psychopathic behavior. They (psychopaths) typically milk the willi
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by ur-whale 2y ago
So, the evidence is slowly piling up, and it is increasingly clear that a full blown high-IQ psychopath is officially in charge of the most influential piece of tech. developed since the internet came about. Who would have guessed this woul
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by ur-whale 2y ago
If at this point, it isn't very clear for OpenAI employees that they're working for the dark side and that altman is one of the worst manipulative psychopath the world has ever seen, I doubt anything will get them to realize what
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by ur-whale 2y ago
For those with an archeology bend, here's what the UI ended up looking like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ymv_0AtOMbE Keep in mind that this was software built in the 90's
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by ur-whale 2y ago
At least, Google followed some vague moral principles when they started. Allowed them to kind of try to sort of do the right thing for their users for 10+ years before they finally gave in and switched to being run by the standard team of p
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> That's nice, but what we actually wanted was a -Wanalyzer-not-halting . Funny. In the same vein: where be fully differentiable code generator ?
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Bitcoin Block Time Variance: Theory vs. Reality (2021)(blog.lopp.net)
4 points by ur-whale 2y ago|0 comments
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by ur-whale 2y ago
I note that the "example 1 on one dimension" diagram in the link you provided produces a very strange curve, typically not the one you'd draw intuitively by hand.
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by ur-whale 2y ago
> it accounted for 10.4 per cent of all North American equity trading in 2023 Which means they're rapidly coming to a position which will easily allow them to game the system (what used to be known as "cornering the market&quot
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by ur-whale 2y ago
Not entirely sure the AI scaling is more or less "correct" than the "interpolate the source data" method. Both use priors, the former a large and complex one, the latter a simplistic one, but both "invent data based
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by ur-whale 3y ago
A slightly off-topic point but nevertheless worth mentioning (re-iterating in fact): much like ISA's , API's of any kind should first and foremost be described in a machine-readable format. They unfortunately very rarely are. And
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/Gthb2

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