vrighter

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by vrighter 2y ago
AI doesn't make mistakes. You get exactly what you asked for. Junk fitting a learned probability distribution. A mistake is made when someone has an end-goal in mind and incorrectly executes one or more of the steps required to achieve
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by vrighter 2y ago
Backwards compatibility is not in style anymore. Upgrading several libs system-wide is likely to cause breakage in old apps. A statically linked application doesn't rot (because linux guarantees userspace compatibility). By "doesn
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by vrighter 2y ago
He doesn't want AI for the world. He wants the world for his AI.
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by vrighter 2y ago
well yeah.... one gives you energy and reduces carbon emissions, The other takes energy and reduces a tiny bit of co2
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by vrighter 2y ago
"inverse" has a very specific meaning: inverse(x) * x = 1 x^2 * x != 1 for any x other than 1. So no, x^2 is not the inverse of sqrt(x)
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by vrighter 2y ago
To be honest, I only ever turn the radio in my car on once a month or so, specifically because of this reason. You listen for one hour, you're all set for the month. You've heard everything that channel will play all month long. O
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by vrighter 2y ago
I still try, occasionally. I agree that it's very hard to convince the OSS community to think about the user first and foremost. Especially with the fact that choice is not a good thing for the vast majority of the world, and is not
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by vrighter 2y ago
i cringed so hard when reading Digital Fortress. I could not put it down. spoiler: the answer is 3
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by vrighter 2y ago
which drastically reduces its energy density
850.
by vrighter 2y ago
So what? They probably paid for api access just like everyone else. So it's a TOS violation at worst. Go ahead, open a civil suit in the US against an entity the US courts do not have jurisdiction over and quit whining...
851.
by vrighter 2y ago
That's against their terms of service. It is not illegal. That's a civil suit, at most.
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by vrighter 2y ago
Good luck enforcing that. If it were a paid product you might be able to ban selling it. But the weights are freely available on the internet. There is no practical way to ban it, short of scanning every storage device in the country to che
853.
by vrighter 2y ago
You can't be "exfiltrating data" from an api that you pay for access to. That's just called "using what you paid for". Exfiltration is when you extract internal data that's private to the company.
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by vrighter 2y ago
so it's ok if they ignore robots.txt and just vacuum up every scrap of data they can, but not when someone else does it to them, iiuc
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by vrighter 2y ago
It was there 3 (three) decades ago.
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by vrighter 2y ago
Programming is a mindset, more than just the ability to type (or copy/paste, nowadays) something that the compiler accepts. So no, they can't program. If something goes wrong they have no idea why it's wrong. They also have n
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by vrighter 2y ago
'Instead, I’m starting with “No-AI Days.” One day a week where...' That's not enough. You will inevitably hit a problem which you will leave for "tomorrow" because tomorrow is not a No-AI day.
858.
by vrighter 2y ago
an incentive is meant to encourage, not to force. They are not equivalent. A digital currency turns suggestions into orders.
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by vrighter 2y ago
any python libraries that offer any sort of real performance, is written in C
860.
by vrighter 2y ago
Because the only time I can be confident in the answers it gives me, is when I already knew the answer before asking, which makes using the LLM pointless. Anything else would require me to do research to fact check it anyway. Might as well
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by vrighter 2y ago
This looks like it focuses on path tracing. In which case, https://pbr-book.org/ is a great, completely free book.
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by vrighter 2y ago
Something that can excel at "mastering atari games with natural intelligence" is called a speedrunner. It is not made of silicon.
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by vrighter 2y ago
we did too ;)
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by vrighter 2y ago
you wouldn't believe how scary computers were to most people. Once i added a batch file with the shutdown command in the startup folder of one computer, as a prank (trivially fixable by booting into safe mode) and got banned from the c
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by vrighter 2y ago
Can confirm. This just happened to my team at work as well. Had to urgently update to "fix" a vulnerability in the linux kernel that had something to do with bluetooth... on a virtual machine running on a rack mounted server in ou
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by vrighter 2y ago
I unintentionally made something that had a similar effect once. I wrote an application (back when android phones still had notification leds) that allowed us employees to notify each other whether our boss was in the building or not. A sta
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by vrighter 2y ago
This is the one I use and has worked pretty much flawlessly since day 1. I highly recommend it. I don't even have the f-droid app itself installed anymore.
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by vrighter 2y ago
I fully agree with this. It's so hard to actually find good apps on f-droid because of this. I've been bit by woefully incomplete prototypes on f-droid multiple times.
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by vrighter 2y ago
I had done something similar once on an 8x8x8 LED cube. I implemented a 3d, 2-player lightcycle game with two snakes. You could move around the cube's surface, or you could press a button to cut through the cube to the opposite side. C
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by vrighter 2y ago
dude, if you have the llm write the tests, then you have no confidence it's testing what you think it is. Making the test worthless

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