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by woolion 6mo ago
I had seen this, but all the examples correspond to having an actual, external threat as a result of this knowledge. I thought more about the buddhist parable that men don't know when they'll die, because only buddhas are able to
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by woolion 6mo ago
That's a good point. I think this one can be easily be resolved on a factual level, since hard work is one of the few variables you can actually control. But it is more interesting from an emotional point of view, since in many cases t
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by woolion 6mo ago
I have been thinking a lot about a notion of self-paradoxical knowledge, meaning knowledge that actively makes your reasoning worse. For example, knowledge of extremely rare diseases causes the mind to over-evaluate their importance by man
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by woolion 6mo ago
There is a similar path with Chinese painting. The language of painting was refined over millennia, but the last 2 centuries caused an extremely rapid integration of Western influences. This article is interesting because language is like w
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by woolion 6mo ago
I just re-read my comment (too late for edits) and there are a number of typos (including missing "not") that significantly degraded the syntax, but the point kind of came across anyway.
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by woolion 6mo ago
> We assert that artificial intelligence is a natural evolution of human tools developed throughout history to facilitate the creation, organization, and dissemination of ideas, and argue that it is paramount that the development and app
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by woolion 8mo ago
The ELIZA program, released in 1966, one of the first chatbots, led to the "ELIZA effect", where normal people would project human qualities upon simple programs. It prompted Joseph Weizenbaum, its author, to write "Computer
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by woolion 8mo ago
Flying back from Beijing, I had bought a lot of books. I filled my bags with it, so they were very heavy. When the agent came to try to check my backpack, he casually grabbed it, and fell on the conveyor belt trying to lift it. He looked at
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by woolion 8mo ago
Let's take the definition of "video-game art" as the art of defining interactive experiences that open themselves up upon mastery. This is the original definition of what video-games were at the start (Pac-Man, Space Invader
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by woolion 10mo ago
It seems the shader transparent version is badly aliased? The effect is less noticeable on Chrome than Firefox, but it is still quite visible. This defeats the purpose of vector graphics... It's a nice trick to play around, but that li
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by woolion 10mo ago
I have most sympathy for the ideals of free software, but I don't think prominently displaying "What's bad about:", include ChatGPT, and not make a modicum of effort to sketch out a basic argument, is making any service
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by woolion 10mo ago
"In theory it's a great idea, in practice not so much." I feel that's the lesson anyone who toyed with libertarians ideals ultimately come to. It just takes a bit longer for some than others. It's also harder to re
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by woolion 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure that some model at least advertised that it would work. I also think your example was in the training data at some point least, but I suspect these styles are kind of pruned when the models are steered towards "aes
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by woolion 10mo ago
I didn't go very far with my own benchmarks because my results were just so bad. But for example, here's a line art with the instruction to color it (I can't remember the prompt, I didn't take notes). https:/&#x2F
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by woolion 10mo ago
Oh, thank you for your reply. We may have different definitions of style and what editing would mean. If you look for example at "Mermaid Disciplinary Committee", every single image is in a very different style, each that you can
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by woolion 10mo ago
The comparison are very useful but also quite limited in terms of styles. Models tend to have extremely diverse abilities in following a given style against steering to its own. It's pretty obvious that OpenAI is terrible at it -- it i
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by woolion 10mo ago
I'm migrating my last AWS services to dedicated servers with Gitops. In principle, AWS give you a few benefits that are worth paying for. In practice, I have seen all of them to be massive issues. Price and performance are obviously b
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by woolion 11mo ago
So, something I find particularly annoying about hn is that you can segment it into very different subgroups that may or may not interact with a particular post. So you may find that in one thread, anti-hype sentiment is very high, and a m
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by woolion 11mo ago
The mascot it super cute lion too. How can a project do everything so right? I was browsing some popular python libraries and they just slapped on the first image they got out of ChatGPT. It's nice to see care in the craft.
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by woolion 11mo ago
Were you aware of the Dato Duo ( https://dato.mu/ )? It's very cool for kids, except for the fairly steep price point. The advantage is that it's limited, so it greatly reduces the wall of difficulty to manage to ge
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by woolion 11mo ago
It seems to me that it's exactly why I don't like word games. They use words like "combine", but it's generally mixing abstractions or taxonomies. To guess it, I looked at 'crab' because it's a quite
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Peekpoke: Tiny retro fantasy console with two commands peek and poke(github.com)
2 points by woolion 11mo ago|0 comments
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by woolion 11mo ago
I recently saw this, and technical subjects that actually have 0 books written about them now have entire pages filled with books. Title sound good, and the page look decently good, but there's something slightly off, and when you look
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by woolion 11mo ago
I don't think that it's necessarily true, but the big problem is that discoverability is almost impossible, and that the investment to know how good a book might be is much higher than other forms of media. It's also why you
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by woolion 1y ago
A lot of people will dismiss with some of the usual AI complaints. I suspect they never did real research. Getting into a paper can be a really long endeavor. The notation might not be entirely self contained, or used in an alien or confusi
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by woolion 1y ago
Parent says it's an outlandish claim that they can reliably tell whether ads are clickbait. I believe that detecting whether an ad is clickbait is a similar problem -- not exactly the same, but it suffers from the same issues: - it&#x2
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by woolion 1y ago
In the last 6 months, I've had to buy a few things that 'normal people' tend to buy (a coffee machine, fuel, ...), for which we didn't already have trusted sellers, and so checked Google. For fuel, Google results were 90
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by woolion 1y ago
I believe the main problem could be reframed as an improper use of analogies. People are pushing the analogy of "artificial intelligence" and "brain", etc. creating a confusion that leads to such "laws". What w
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by woolion 1y ago
100% agree. However, you'll probably get an angry answer that it's management fault, or something of the sort, that is to blame (because there isn't enough time). Responsibility would have to be taken up before in pushing bac
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by woolion 1y ago
Serious question: I'm currently re-evaluating if Cursor can speed up my daily work. Currently it is not really the case because of the many subtle errors (like switching a ":" for a ","). But mostly the problem I fa

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