volkercraig

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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Without the gnu projects, software would have remained in the domain of universities and industry. Distributing it for free and encapsulating it with an actual legal license was radical in and of itself, but the notion of being required to
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Your boss tells you to choose a vendor for your AI integration. Your options: Company A - First to the market, Reasonable Cost, Most well known name. Very easy integration. Company B - Well regarded tools, Higher cost, Better performance an
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
If thats youre definition of learning, my casio FX has an "ans" feature that "learns" from earlier calculations!!
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Because corporate aint gonna approve the vendor that lets their dumbass employees generate child porn when the other vendors do not.
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
I'm lazy
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
You conversely get the same issue if you have no guardrails. Ie: Grok generating CP makes it completely unusable in a professional setting. I don't think this is a solvable problem.
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
I mean semantically language evolved as an interpretation for the material world, so assuming that you can describe a problem in language, and considering that there exists a solution to said problem that is describable in language, then I&
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
They are text generators, and yes they are pretty good, but that really is all they are, they don't actually learn, they don't actually think. Every "intelligence" feature by every major AI company relies on semantic tri
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
What you're describing is still ultimately the "view" layer of a larger autopilot system, that's not what OP is doing. He's getting the text generator to drive the drone. An LLM can handle parsing input, but the way
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
I don't think you understand what an "LLM" is. They're text generators. We've had autopilot since the 1930s that relies on measurable things... like PID loops, direct sensor input. You don't need the "lang
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
I don't understand. Surely training an LSTM with sensor input is more practical and reasonable way than trying to get a text generator to speak commands to a drone.
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Yeah the level of depraved code I've had contractors ask me to review... I don't think people realize how low the bar is.
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
> This is largely about extending that thesis to the entire ecosystem. No GH issues, no PRs, no interaction. No kudos on HN, no stars on github, no "cheers mate" as you pass them at a conference after they give a great talk. Oh
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Is it though? Think about being a musician 200 years ago. In 1826 you needed to essentially be nobility or nobility-adjacent just to be able to touch an instrument let alone make a living from it. 100 years later, 1926 the barrier to entry
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
This feels like one of those tropes that keeps showing up whenever new tech comes out. At the advent of recorded music, im sure buskers and performers were complaing that live music is dead forever. Stage actors were probably complaining th
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
> I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points Haha, Highcharts is a running joke around my office because of this. Every few years the business will bring in consulta
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Don't get me wrong, If hating Microslop was an Olympic sport I'd be on the podium every 4 years, but Win 95, XP, and 7 were functional, usable and stable OS's. 8 got a lot of flak for it's horrible UI changes, but under
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
I think you are thinking about it way too hard. Windows 11 is a dog. Constant hardware problems, slow, and frustrating UX. Is any desktop linux perfect? No, but its better than w11 right now.
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Youre right about croatia and romania, they are not near 20%, because they are at 35% and 38% respectively. Italy is 21%
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Yeah, just like telling a heroin addict that getting clean is easy, just stop doing heroin. Oh except the heroin is available literally everywhere and you need to do just a little bit every day to stay alive
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Its faster to type "the west" than "the developed world except france, bennelux, and nordics" everywhere else has obesity rates approaching or above 20%, which is a systemic catastrophe
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
In happyland im sure everyone would eat lean high protein meals and squat their bodyweight 3x a week, but that isnt reality. The amount of mental and physical effort required to lose and maintain weighloss is absolutely not commensurate wit
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Personal experience: the first time i took buproprion/naltrexone it became clear to me why people that arent and have never been overweight think "just eat less move more" is the only advice you need.
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by volkercraig 9mo ago
Why are you writing off eliminating obesity as something purely cosmetic? Obesity itself is the most costly affliction by far in the west. It increases all cause mortality, increases healthcare cost, and reduces outcomes for surgeries and r
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by volkercraig 10mo ago
Fads like AI come and go. Any argument that AI is going to replace all programmers is based on the notion of indefinite exponential growth,which is something very rare in nature. Once you get your foot into the door and get put on your firs
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by volkercraig 10mo ago
I publish into an open sea and hear nothing in reply. The constant reassurance from every platform that i use that i am merely "one more post" away from all my wildest dreams has to be true eventually, right?