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by viccis 11mo ago
I think it's still a bit of a tortured metaphor. LLMs operate on tokens, not words. And to describe their behavior as pulling the right word out of a bag is so vague that it applies every bit as much to a Naive Bayes model written in P
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by viccis 11mo ago
Given that LLMs are incapable of synthetic a priori knowledge and humans are, I would say that as the tech stands currently, it's reasonable to make both of those statements.
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by viccis 11mo ago
Every day I see people treat gen AI like a thinking human, Dijkstra's attitudes about anthropomorphizing computers is vindicated even more. That said, I think the author's use of "bag of words" here is a mistake. Not onl
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by viccis 11mo ago
The Guardian sourced information about it to Snowden's leaks in 2013. What makes you think it's from a separate leaker, and that it's the same leaker as the "shadow brokers"? All I see is conjecture in those links.
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by viccis 11mo ago
Saying something is "secret" is not the same as saying it is "classified Secret"
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by viccis 11mo ago
>Another big accommodation request is extra time on tests. Yep. Speaking from experience, top colleges will give students with ADHD or similar conditions as much as double time or more on exams. One college I know of sends them to a disa
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by viccis 11mo ago
I miss First Saturday in Dallas where we honest to god did buy decommissioned datacenter gear out of the back of a van.
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by viccis 11mo ago
I clicked through to the app's website, linked immediately in the writeup [1]. It slowed my browser (Firefox) to a crawl for 10 seconds but ultimately had no information whatsoever. Clicked the FAQ at the bottom, where the first questi
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by viccis 11mo ago
>I didn't see anything in that story that suggests he was responsible for capacity management. I'm referring to this: "The week before launch, the capacity planning project was shifted to Rich and I." >His argument
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I dunno, he was one of two people in charge of one of its biggest technical disgraces (capacity management). That's pretty bad. But what's worse is that he thinks that actual product changes from 3.5 to 4 were good ideas, and that
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by viccis 11mo ago
This is part of the reason I make this point online. People need to understand that there are jobs available if you do the work to make yourself valuable, especially if you aren't demanding high compensated FAANG roles right out the
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by viccis 11mo ago
It really depends. In many states, for the latter, there are state programs that cover tuition if the student can meet some GPA and enrollment minimums. I knew someone in such a state still telling their kids to start in CC because that&#x2
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by viccis 11mo ago
>Certainly if a student can get admitted into an ivy league they should at least inquire about eligible aid packages. Bear in mind when I say "elite college", I'm not talking Ivy Leagues, as those have covered tuition for
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by viccis 11mo ago
Obviously. But part of a democracy is voting on politicians who will choose what resources are distributed. Do you think "TANSTAAFL" every time you take a road without paying a toll?
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by viccis 11mo ago
>there are people (even college-educated people) who genuinely believe the government can just make something appear from nothing Untrue. >These kinds of quips are discouraged here. "Free" has a specific meaning in English,
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by viccis 11mo ago
People watching tons of ads on streaming services to save a few dollars a month is proof enough that ads aren't going to deter your average person.
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by viccis 11mo ago
By this definition, nothing is "free"; there is always some cost, whether financial or otherwise. It's an absurd bit of pedantry that does nothing but derail discussion. Free tuition is free at the point of sale to the studen
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by viccis 11mo ago
The student does not participate in a transaction that involves paying money in exchange for education. Taxes are collected and allocated as seen fit by the state. Students and others pay their taxes, but taxes are not directly transactiona
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by viccis 11mo ago
Many private colleges like Rice cover 100% of costs for all students with parents under a fairly high salary. Almost 40% of MIT students have financial aid that's equal or greater than their tuition. This is starting to get more and mo
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by viccis 11mo ago
Well that specific example paragraph was about financial aid, not the value of a high school diploma, so I fail to see your point.
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by viccis 11mo ago
>Nothing the government provides is free. Yes it is. "Free" doesn't mean "has no cost paid by anyone" and never has in these discussions. It means "at no cost to the student". Apologies if English isn&#
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by viccis 11mo ago
Yep, I've seen this with a lot of my friends who did a similar thing. HR employees screening you out alone is a huge problem. I have some middle and upper middle class gen X and older friends giving their children TERRIBLE advice about
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by viccis 11mo ago
>Is this not rational behavior? If you think the purpose of an education is literally nothing more than the diploma, then yeah sure. If you think that I'm interviewing you for an entry SWE job (yes, we do this still) and you think
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by viccis 11mo ago
Yeah I'm sure that one was really working on it.
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by viccis 11mo ago
This is like claiming that one of the North Korean nuclear scientists is credible on atomic bombs after theirs immediately fell into the ocean. Presiding over a disaster doesn't give you some magical insight on why you completely faile
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by viccis 11mo ago
I read more of the author's blog posts and it's actually insane to me that he not only was involved in one of the worst product deliveries in internet history (Digg v4), but he still justifies it somehow??
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by viccis 11mo ago
Yeah but imagine being one of the dotcom CEOs, knowing it was gonna pop, and being like "hey guys this is a bubble, also, we're pivoting to it as much as possible". The smart ones cashed out like Mark Cuban did.
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by viccis 11mo ago
Given the way he framed it, if you somehow will admit to fitting his scarecrow of a reader who considers these "fundamentally fraudulent because books are supposed to be fun and the world is so awful why would you want to suffer and an
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by viccis 11mo ago
>They present a vision of the future that never happened Hauntology strikes again
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by viccis 11mo ago
Very cool and healthy for the CEO of a company investing massive amounts into a given technology to casually refer to it as a "bubble" at the same time. I guess he softens the statement a bit by calling it "an AI bubble"

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