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by xpct 6d ago
I have a bad habit of asking my LLMs such questions repeatedly..
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by xpct 7d ago
I think we could agree that everyone already does this up to a point. This is basically just an exploration-exploitation dilemma, where everyone tries to maximize how much value they gain from the things they read, and a lot of people have
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by xpct 7d ago
Very sorry to hear this, I thought phone theft was becoming rare nowadays. Did it get stolen abroad?
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by xpct 7d ago
Isn't that weird? The full knowledge of how to make such chips may one day be accessible to anyone, yet only the entrenched companies will remain the makers. If we imagine machines being able to do the full process end-to-end, and the
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by xpct 7d ago
I don't work in the business, but my understanding was that even with these companies' budgets, it's still too expensive to do any kind of verified performance optimality.
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by xpct 7d ago
Aw, I was expecting more details but this just seems to be a rehash of what they unveiled a month ago.
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by xpct 8d ago
I think making these type of games simply becomes an unviable source of income in the current era. I'm sure there's a named concept for this: the idea of the game is its selling point, and has to be revealed to consumers to market
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by xpct 8d ago
I feel like this is on a different trajectory than what LLM-based tech does. This type of individualistic extrapolation is one of the things they're really bad at, in my experience.
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by xpct 8d ago
I am genuinely worried about violence, especially if people start losing their jobs due to automation.
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by xpct 11d ago
I think it's quite possible for a reversal to happen, where nerds will start meeting IRL while everybody else flocks to web spaces.
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by xpct 11d ago
Wow, thank you for sharing! It's not quite clear to me why number of projects seem to be oscillating every few years.
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by xpct 12d ago
It's the same as before, dev tools ranking higher up. For better or worse, developers like to spend time on meta-development.
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by xpct 12d ago
Could we compare this to HN growth?
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by xpct 12d ago
My understanding was that the Ad business was starting to suffer because of how much bot activity there's been both in social media and indexed search (Google). But I wouldn't write off ads yet. It seems plausible to me that LLMs
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by xpct 12d ago
Is it wrong to presume they tried to run a similar prompt on all ciphers that come before this one in search results, and this was the only one that worked?
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by xpct 14d ago
I'm not seeing the same kind of resentment towards non-technologists as you are claiming. Overall in my life I feel like I haven't seen as much gatekeeping as people claim there is in tech.
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by xpct 14d ago
Is this related to why ChatGPT sometimes links to dead URLs?
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by xpct 14d ago
I agree. I think it also explains their behavior such as randomly wiping stuff from disk. There simply aren't any repercussions for this in their training envs.
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by xpct 15d ago
Kids lack proper impulse control and sometimes make bad decisions if left unattended. It's preferable if we restrict certain dangerous actions from them. Yes, LLMs can be dangerous for your own health if misused. Yes, I'd be furio
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by xpct 15d ago
I hold the opinion that learning about tech is important, especially as more and more of our world revolves around software. Biased of course, but I'd keep betting on software over other fields when it comes to career options.
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by xpct 15d ago
I agree. I open Steam sometimes and I'm met with a conveyor of games that look good enough for me to buy, but I can play a few of them at most before all of them are replaced with a new batch next month.
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by xpct 15d ago
If true, that sounds like something that could actually be monitored by third parties, similar to the performance degradation trackers.
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by xpct 17d ago
I don't think reading isolated stories holds much value. The value of the emotion it elicits is much lower than knowing the person who wrote it or in what historical or social background they did so. Reading stories written by humans i
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by xpct 17d ago
In a way, I think training on historic chats is akin to caching computation results. The compute cost has already been paid, and we make future retrievals cheaper by encoding it directly in the model. Assuming the results included some exte
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by xpct 19d ago
Indeed, past a certain skill level it all becomes grunt work. Fun grunt work, but one that AI is also good at.
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by xpct 20d ago
Probably because emulators is one of the subjects discussed on this site. Not sure how I feel about it linking to a public web artifact.
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by xpct 20d ago
I do feel like posting links to these on HN is a type of soft distribution.
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by xpct 20d ago
Ah, I see. Thank you for the correction.
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by xpct 20d ago
Could someone shed some light on what's the legality of publishing emulated abandonware? I remember not too long ago Half-Life 2's web port got posted, is that still online?
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by xpct 20d ago
You can typically see the L1/L2 SRAM cache regions just by looking for continuous patterns, then try to divide it into the number of cores or core groups you're looking for.

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