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by yunwal 4y ago
> Ummm...no. Just no. Have you ever had to create multiple subnets, DMZs, SD-WAN setups, plus VPN access, etc. etc. with multiple locations, all with security in mind, and full redundancy across three data centers? >> Again, if tha
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by yunwal 4y ago
ChatGPT can tell you the earth is round. You can ask it yourself. If you’re saying ChatGPT can’t look at the cosmos and deduce it, well it doesn’t have access to visual input, so that’s not the dunk you think it is. If you’re saying ChatGPT
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by yunwal 4y ago
I mean, ChatGPT is empirical analysis plus some rules tacked on afterword by openAI. With enough data and processing, empirical analysis becomes indistinguishable from other types of reasoning.
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by yunwal 4y ago
https://openai.com/research/multimodal-neurons When you ask a question to a human that has to do with a concept - in the above article it's Halle Berry because it's a funny discovery, but it could be as broad
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Um, what? Gotcha you're not actually interested in conversation
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by yunwal 4y ago
Why? Are we not allowed to find meaning, beauty, in patterns? The fact that two people can share experiences that bond them together, allow them to deeply trust each other, share a sense of humor, etc, isn't not beautiful just because
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by yunwal 4y ago
> It does not form a representational state prior to speaking which is the reason it speaks. The whole thing is a representational state, and the fact that it's identical at the start of every conversation is a design choice, not in
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by yunwal 4y ago
It’s as if you don’t know how ChatGPT or the human brain works. The correlations are built into a prediction model. Sometimes those predictions can be near certain, which is indistinguishable from human understanding. You can see this quite
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by yunwal 4y ago
> What would a skeptic achieve by asking its reasoning when ChatGPT cannot provide you with its reasoning? "If you let go of an apple from your hand on Earth, it will fall downwards due to the force of gravity. This is because the E
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by yunwal 4y ago
Is it true that the larger the app, the less effective/accurate the bot is? In that case, might it be more sensible to charge a 1-time price?
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by yunwal 4y ago
I still don't see why we'd ask "pretty please can you use spoons instead of shovels so I can keep my job?" The sensible thing is obviously for some of the savings to be diverted into a social safety net, so you can retra
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Why are you trying to put the rest of us out of a job? Why are you using a shovel when a spoon would do? You’re in software. Surely you were aware that things can be automated.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Private industries routinely buy government officials with a monopoly on violence, and regular citizens have no recourse to remove those officials so the distinction is meaningless.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Corporations can and 100% do send police at people or throw them in jail. A high profile example, though there are many others: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/business/energy-environme... The fact th
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by yunwal 4y ago
3-4 companies in a market can exist and still have 1 company be a monopoly. There’s also the issue of renters not having the ability to switch carriers because their landlords won’t let an alternate ISP install in their building. Then, if y
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by yunwal 4y ago
> The ISP will not throttle the user to below S bits/second when using those B bytes/month, except when necessary to deal with congestion. IMO, this is not specific enough. The ISP should also not be able to give “bonus speed”
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by yunwal 4y ago
If you mix in compute-heavy calculations (like stochastic gradient descent) in with your pure data-retrieval, yes you'll saturate the database's CPU, and you won't have a reasonable way to scale it. If you do it on a host tha
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by yunwal 4y ago
I mean, you can verify the requests your browser is sending off whether the extension is open-source or not (by using developer tools in your browser or proxying the requests). So I don't think being open-source helps all that much rea
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by yunwal 4y ago
Does the extension being open-source actually help here? I don't have time to look through the whole thing, but essentially it sounds like I can verify for myself that all of my requests are being sent to dust for them to... store for
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by yunwal 4y ago
You seem to be willfully ignoring the point. There is no business model here that doesn't include "We sell your most private and sensitive data to the highest bidder". Because it's free, they can't make money any ot
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by yunwal 4y ago
Why would anyone trust a free-to-use app that’s grabbing all of the information in their browser and sending it to a 3rd party? Seems insane.
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by yunwal 4y ago
So you agree then
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by yunwal 4y ago
> software that people used I’m assuming by this you mean non-technical people. It feels like if you can handle the chaos, an early-stage startup is the way to go for you. A single developer can significantly contribute to product discus
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by yunwal 4y ago
> When the database is far from saturated on CPU The issue here is if you scale enough saturate the database, you'll have to rewrite essentially all your code if you're a typical CRUD webapp. Basically all of your business logi
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by yunwal 4y ago
In what way is selling on blockchain “without leaving a trace”? The whole point of blockchain is that trace is publicly viewable
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by yunwal 4y ago
One thing you could do is work for an infrastructure-related company as a developer. Alternatively, if you work at a small company that doesn't have a dedicated infrastructure engineer, you'll still get plenty of chances to flex y
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by yunwal 4y ago
> However, I know that I do not want to do Ops work professionally It'd be helpful to know why you don't want to do Ops work. There are many roles that fall outside of DevOps that have the same downsides (frequent oncall, unpre
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by yunwal 4y ago
The issue is that many relational databases are not horizontally scalable, so you want to be frugal with their resources.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Being bad at anticipating the needs of a woman is an integral feature of being a man. At least, when compared to women. And while this is changing, women still do most of the dish cleaning (at least in the U.S.)
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by yunwal 4y ago
I mean if it takes off for some use-cases and poor documentation is a blocker for people using your service, companies that don’t improve quickly will be out of business soon.

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