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by xg15 1mo ago
Yeah, the story reads to me less as if it was time pressure and more like they underestimated the risk. "What could go wrong" etc etc
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by xg15 1mo ago
There are other next token prediction algorithms such as markov chains or HMMs that also "fit the same interface", but are vastly simpler than what LLMs use. I've seen various posters talk about "stochastic parrots"
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by xg15 1mo ago
> which in no way challenge the established view that these bots are next-token predictors. I mean, of course they are, that's literally what the inference loop does. You can look at the source of your favorite model runner and yo
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by xg15 1mo ago
Personally, I like if not everything is going through my phone. It can be distracting. You have social media, messages and apps on the same device you need to login. Already makes it harder to put away the phone for a while. It can never be
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by xg15 1mo ago
Well, unless you have a device-bound or FIDO2 key, according to the post. And I think for FIDO2 keys, this is fine. If I can register a key (plus a backup) the usage doesn't seem so different from a regular key. For the rest, I think w
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by xg15 1mo ago
So, where are the nerds standing up against that and defending the progressive vision that tech used to stand for?
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by xg15 1mo ago
Both things could be true: It's possible that parents are more physically present (because they consciously decided to reduce hours or work from home) but are less mentally present (because a lot of that home time gets eaten by bei
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by xg15 1mo ago
True, but I imagine in an environment in which the vast majority of people smoke, the ones who don't will probably still passively inhale a lot more toxins than if no one smoked at all - making the effect size in direct comparison wit
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by xg15 1mo ago
I feel like the same article could have written 30 years ago about smoking. "Look, personally I'm all for smoking bans, so don't attack me, I just want to point out those studies that show that statistically, people in no-smo
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by xg15 2mo ago
CERN should just adopt the current gaming lingo and call it Season 4.
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by xg15 2mo ago
Seems a bit hypocritical though: Yes, operating one does not need electricity, but I don't see how you'd build one (or just produce the required quantities of butane and ammonia) without modern industrial equipment and electricity
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by xg15 2mo ago
If you go by this logic, you can forget the entire legal system. You might as well immediately close all lawsuits and declare the party the winner that has more capital. It doesn't (yet) work that way.
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by xg15 2mo ago
Yeah, I think this is basically what the author wanted to say. He just wrote it in a way that made the argument look less credible than just stating it on its own. (Even then, I'd expect the follow-up discussion here to ask whether t
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by xg15 2mo ago
I'm not in that debate at all (this was actually the first time I heard there is an "anti-daycare movement" at all) but I found the section on cortisol to be extremely unconvincing. The anti-daycare camp claims they have evid
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by xg15 2mo ago
> "this incident feels like it’s more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover. I continue to expect extremely rapid advances in capabilities over the next six months. I am not sure that we will get another warning shot before
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by xg15 2mo ago
> During training, different instances of Persistent-Sol had access to the same shared package manager called Artifactory. I'm surprised the models can make tool calls during training at all. Out of curiosity, how does the trainin
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by xg15 2mo ago
It's not exactly good style to break a longstanding feature that also persists data - even more so if that feature is called "persistent undo". But also... has this man never heard of Git (or another VCSes)? Writing entire bo
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by xg15 2mo ago
> Which is the only way a tiny island nation can afford essential imports. Shouldn't the imports become cheaper once they are in the EU single market though?
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by xg15 2mo ago
Well yeah, it's obvious that companies love the "anything goes, no expectations" update model of websites and want to apply it to apps as well. I just don't think this is in the interest of users. As an exteme example, w
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by xg15 2mo ago
In the interest of openness and honesty to the user, that would be more reason to document those preparations in the changelog, so users know what to expect later on, if more features are activated.
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by xg15 2mo ago
Who needs changelogs if you can have animated mystery buttons and "look at our new feature!" overlays instead that pop up at the worst possible time and cannot be read again once closed?
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by xg15 2mo ago
I think there is a deeper question: "record separator" and "unit separator" chars are a good idea, but why are they invisible? I agree that in the current form, they are mostly unusable. What was the idea of the designer
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by xg15 2mo ago
should be, but then you will upset all the marketing folks and their brandings.
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by xg15 2mo ago
I remember, during the german Heat Pump Saga (the Ampel government passing legislation that effectively outlawed installation of new oil and gas heaters and tried to move everyone to heat pumps), there was a minor subplot where journalists
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by xg15 2mo ago
Thanks for the link! All true - but if I understand the OP's article right, the whole emergence of the modern word "weird" came because in Shakespeare's time, the original root "wyrd" and meaning "fate&quo
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by xg15 2mo ago
They sidestep it (partially), but I don't think they solve it. Sure, you'll get your task done if the agent does it for you, but the agent won't show you how to do it without their help. So the next time you have to do the ta
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by xg15 2mo ago
Gives Terry Pratchett's "Wyrd Sisters" a whole new layer of meaning. The man knew his language history, apparently. Also interesting you can see the influences of Old English on German as well: > Wyrd comes from the same
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by xg15 2mo ago
What I find interesting to think about is how much more routine viewing things from high above must be for birds than it is for us. Looking at a city on Google Maps with satellite mode on was already a revealing experience when it came ou
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by xg15 2mo ago
One downside to the ribbons that I see is that they somehow inverted the hierarchy between menus and toolbar buttons: Previously, menus were the slow but predictable way to find a command, and both toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts wer
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by xg15 2mo ago
I think a first step would be a sane tab order, so you can easily navigate to a control using tab or cursor buttons. Second step are keyboard shortcuts. I don't see why removing the buttons would be desirable. All that would do is to

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