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by worik 1y ago
I am against agents. (I will happy to be proved wrong, I want agents, especially agents that could drive my car, but that is another disappointment....) There is a paradox in the LLM version of AI, I believe. Firstly it is very significant
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by worik 1y ago
I do not have a technical answer, but I have the feeling that the concept of "loss leaders" is useful IMO outfits like OpenAI are burning metric shit tonnes of cash serving these models. It pails in comparison to the mega shit
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by worik 1y ago
dd/mm/yyyy date formats are cursed.... Perhaps it is mm/dd/yyyy (really?!?) that is cursed....
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by worik 1y ago
Diminishing returns?
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by worik 1y ago
> CEOs pumping the stock price with wild promises. There is a big problem
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by worik 1y ago
I agree I think the pharmaceutical companies should be nationalised so that the mRNA vaccines can be developed as a community good We can in entices novel research with prizes, grants and bounties, rather than using markets Markets are good
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by worik 1y ago
> Not really, Yes, really
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by worik 1y ago
> criminalized maternal healthcare. The rotters! It is out and out misogyny. But it is abortion and birth control they target, is it not? They could argue that they are acting to increase population? Do not mistake me for in any way su
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RFK Halts mRNA vaccine research(pbs.org)
17 points by worik 1y ago|1 comments
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by worik 1y ago
> Money is an inescapable reality for every service in society. Yes That is a problem
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by worik 1y ago
As I read it: Meta's culpability was using the menstrual status people reported into the app for advertising "Meta intentionally used SDKs to record women’s communications through 12 “custom app events” with names like “R_SE
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by worik 1y ago
43% of American workers have used AI at work, they are mostly doing it in informal ways, solving their own work problems. Scaling AI across the enterprise is hard A lot of firms starting into this business are "betting the f
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by worik 1y ago
Yes. This is the unfortunate thing about wrapping LLMs in API calls to provide services. Unless you control the model absolutely (even then?) you can prompt the model with a well manicured prompt on Tuesday and get an answer - a block of te
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by worik 1y ago
> In the self-driving car scenario, you'd probably go with cold statistics No. There is a big difference in an accident caused by human error and an accident caused by machine failure. We tolerate much more of the former than the l
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Google loses app store antitrust appeal(arstechnica.com)
12 points by worik 1y ago|1 comments
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by worik 1y ago
Google has lost its appeal in the long-running app store antitrust case, which marks another major victory for Epic Games. Google lost the original case in 2023 when a jury found it abused its market position in smartphones to block
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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death(yle.fi)
6 points by worik 1y ago|0 comments
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by worik 1y ago
"inflexible ideology" is the dominant paradigm for Apple is it not? Mēh! Maybe not "inflexible", more "inscrutable", very hard to discern any method to their madness....
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by worik 1y ago
The fact that Emacs is happy in the terminal is what keeps me in Emacs and away from GUI editors that come and go over the years - that and Emacs' longevity....
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Getting Ridiculous Now(anarres.family)
5 points by worik 1y ago|1 comments
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by worik 1y ago
> In this day and age, it is almost impossible for certain businesses not to build on someone's else kingdom. No it is not It is often difficult and expensive, relative to letting Facebook (or the like) do the hosting. But VPSs are
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by worik 1y ago
> nuanced That is not good enough for a gun
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by worik 1y ago
That is exactly what it is. Propper security I depth means that when trusted actors betray the system, the damage is limited.
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by worik 1y ago
> they would've got a bug bounty from it! Why do you think that, rather than get sued? I am curious
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by worik 1y ago
> LSD became less popular in the underground drug culture. Hmmmm... Maybe relatively less popular, as the menu of recreational drugs is expanded from a very few bad ones to a cornucopia of good ones, but still very popular
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by worik 1y ago
Is this seen in some trees today? Near me there is a plum tree with purple leaves Not mentioned in the article...
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by worik 1y ago
> Idc about privacy Until you do. Then it is too late
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by worik 1y ago
I was in complete agreement until: > Ads are useful and have their place in keeping the web accessible to everyone, No. Advertising is a cancer on commerce.
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Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies(arstechnica.com)
68 points by worik 1y ago|52 comments
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by worik 1y ago
I use duckduckgo. Their AI assistant is very useful and has improved the quality of their search results, immeasurably IMO I have avoided Google search for over a decade I did try the searches mentioned in the article and it fools duck.al j

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