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by wiz21c 7mo ago
I'm sure that if a car appeared from nowhere in the middle of your living room, you would not be prepared at all. So my question is: when is there enough training data that you can handle 99.99% of the world ?
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
within 20 years, everyone will be developing software which will be copyrighted partly by AI and be behind walled gardens. Sure you'll be able to do things locally but everything (security clearance, walled garden, government's co
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
> My point is that we settle with what we see for convenience/utility and base our models on that. I disagree with that. My abstractions are pure in my mind (well, I hope even if it sounds a bit pretentious). I try to get the best o
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
they are activists, everything make them nervous. however I'm sure there are tons of past reasons to make them nervous...
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
don't forget the size of the search space...
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
I don't think any policy is ever 100% success for the government, especially if it implies collaborating with the public sector. I came to the conclusion that it is a fact of life. Another case: present government (rightwing) has lower
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
definitely. With AI I can stop working on the painful tasks and spend much more time on things that matter most to me: building the right abstractions, thinking about the maths, talking to the customer... But TBH, I have been a bit "sh
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
Retire at 60! Lucky one. In my country it's 67!
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by wiz21c 7mo ago
Abstractions pretty much exist and in assembler they matter even more because the code is so terse. Now, there are abstractions (which exist in your brain, whatever the language) and tools to represent abstractions (in ASM you've got m
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
> Wasteful mismanagement of public funds is a plague of Belgian public service. Please don't propagate rightwing ideology. There are plenty of public services and servants who do their job very well. I worked in several administrati
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
I don't get it :-(
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
Asked Gemini about that: "are there efforts to train big LLM in a distributed fashion à la seti@home ? " answer was really interesing: - https://github.com/PrimeIntellect-ai/prime - https://www.tog
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
I would be very happy to solve problems that "very few, if any, people have taken the time to work on them already." My experience (as someone how works with a team of PhD's) is that code is about 30% of what we do but in the
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
The goal of this language is pretty close to the goal of the old COBOL: make core easy to read.
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
CO2 seems very threatening but loss of biodiversity is also a problem, and it has nothing to do with energy... We're in deep s*t
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
I want an OpenClaw that can find and call a carpenter, a plumber when I need him; take appointment for all the medical stuff (I do most of that online), pays the bills and make me a nice alarm when there's something wrong, order train
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
> roughly 1000x as productive as Googlers You do realize it means doing in (350 days * 10 hours / 1000) = 3.5 hours what someone else does in a year ? That's a bit exaggerated isn't it ? And we're not even talking abo
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
notice that all these buzzwords you give actually correspond to real advances in the field. All of these were improvements on something existing, not a big revolution for sure, but definitely measurable improvements.
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by wiz21c 8mo ago
in the short term maybe, in the long term it depends how many winners you have. If only two, the market will be a duopoly. Customers will get better AI but will have zero power over the way the AI is produced or consumed (i.e. cO2 emission,
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
with AI we have entered capitalistic computing, where it's the scale of computing that makes it political (before, it was a clever idea that brought the political thing, like MP3, encryption, etc.). As it is massive scale (think 2GWatt
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
I was talking about ethics. And many countries have ethics committees that feed input to politics to write laws. Ethics permeates in law. But that's not the important point. The important point: it's decided as a society and it is
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
> We generally favor cultivating good values and judgment over strict rules... By 'good values,' we don’t mean a fixed set of 'correct' values, but rather genuine care and ethical motivation combined with the practica
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
On my part, I don't use that carry method at ll. When I have to substract, I substract by chunks that my brain can easily subtract. For example 1233 - 718, I'll do 1233 - 700 = 533 then 533 - 20 = 513 then 513 + 2 = 515. It's
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
I was in the demoscene long ago and that kind of optimisation is definitely in the ballpark of what we did: optimize algorithm down to machine code level (and additionally, cheat like hell to make you believe we ran the algorithm for real :
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
Although I do use the dead internet, I didn't see much of "fake news" like that...
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Work/life/pet project balance?
3 points by wiz21c 9mo ago|0 comments
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-energy-source-sub?c... gas (ofss fuel) is increasing a lot... So yeah, there is some renewables, but we're still pretty far from what is needed...
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
I missed that. For the curious: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1j8shzb/microsoft_r... When asked why go and not rust, they said: "The existing (javascript) code base makes certain assumpti
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
while impressive, it's a very specific case of compression: english text. It may be in use in many places but there are many more things to compress. It'd be nice to have a comparison here: https://morotti.github.io&#x2
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by wiz21c 9mo ago
I've been using rust for several years now and I like the way you explain the essence of the issue: tree instead of spaghetti :-) However: https://www.reddit.com/r/typescript/comments/wbkfsh/which_pr

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