CobrastanJorji

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by CobrastanJorji 4d ago
The NYT watches an event like Trump making a crowd of supporters swear to "cheat like hell" and to vote even if they're not registered, and they turn it into headlines like "Trump leads supporters in a pledge to vote.&qu
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by CobrastanJorji 5d ago
Plausible. Figure 100 GB each of search index for Stack Overflow, Wikipedia, and GitHub issues, then add a dozen more for docs of all your favorite techs. So maybe half a terabyte. Download and build updated dumps of those once every week o
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by CobrastanJorji 6d ago
What's wrong with my interpretation?
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by CobrastanJorji 7d ago
That's just it, though. The people who buy electric cars because they want to help the environment are wrong. They're only doing a good thing because they're self righteous pricks who are full of themselves. They're just
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by CobrastanJorji 8d ago
See the word "rare" in the headline? They didn't go after Gore because he was wrong. They went after him because he committed the cardinal sin of really, earnestly taking a stand on a big issue. That is NEVER okay in South Pa
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by CobrastanJorji 8d ago
As soon as I thought "man, this sounds like some evil sociopath shit," my second thought was "oh, Sam Altman must have been personally involved."
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by CobrastanJorji 14d ago
Appendix C is blasphemy against cuberule.
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by CobrastanJorji 15d ago
Thanks, I was trying to work it out in my head. I knew brazilian jiu jitsu was 20th century, and I was like "but wait, is jiu jitsu itself not that much older, that seems very surprising."
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by CobrastanJorji 16d ago
Tangentially related, but has anyone else noticed a big increase in fraud attempts over the last year or two? I hardly remember any a while back, but I've gotten probably a dozen calls this year that go "hey this is AmEx please co
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by CobrastanJorji 16d ago
Merlin's story is very interesting: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/the-magic-of-merlin/ The journey to a magical, free bird sound ID app involves some obvious steps (the NSF gave them money), but the amou
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by CobrastanJorji 23d ago
This would maybe be a pretty good opportunity to use some of that "upscaling" AI tech: given this weird results of spatial scanning, produce something plausible and much higher definition. There are some dangers of doing so, of co
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by CobrastanJorji 26d ago
Maybe it would, but I didn't say it was a good idea: I said I think people would vote for it.
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by CobrastanJorji 27d ago
> Why don’t the poor people vote to take all the money away from the rich people and redistribute it amongst themselves? It's because the Powers That Be don't put it on the ballot. If you put "take 99% of the money from th
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
Georgia Tech in the Mark Guzdial days?
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
La Fermiere makes these fancy little yogurts that are fine, I guess, but they come in these amazing little terra cotta cups that are amazing for all sorts of little organizing tasks. Each flavor's a different brightly colored glaze. I
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
A premium brand that got significantly worse but didn't drop the price? Seems obvious that this is going to be a story about private equity or a similar acquisition, and indeed it is. https://www.worseonpurpose.com/ ha
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
There are lots and lots of fun shared sci fi and fantasy universes out there, some of which were carefully designed to be a shared universe from the start. George R. R. Martin's "Wild Cards" comes to mind. Plus of course all
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
I can't agree until I have some reason to believe that the non-human leadership will be moral in a way that I can accept. Giving up control forever to some unfathomable, alien intelligence is basically the last meaningful choice our sp
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
I love when people do an amazing job carefully explaining something complicated in a way that makes it seem very intuitive. Excellent job. Way to show off those technical communication chops!
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by CobrastanJorji 1mo ago
We'll know that we've reached AGI when a key conservative political belief in the US is that AIs are not people and do not deserve rights. We'll know that we've reached the singularity when there's a mysterious and
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Yoot Saito, actually, although it does really feel like a Sid Meier or a Will Wright game.
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
This is great, but to me, the definitive elevator scheduling game was SimTower.
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
For small projects, especially small 2D projects? No. For big projects being done by pro teams that are willing to do a lot of work to customize their render pipelines and whatnot to really push resources to the limit? Yes. I am absolutely
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Why would I want to be the hero at the START of the movie? That's when I'm just doing my daily shit and I'm showing off all of my character flaws. That's the worst possible moment of the movie to be aping the hero.
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
There will have been tests, but there will have been missing end-to-end tests. Test 1 will verify that the new system/product emits billing entries in some expected way ("We did 100 bytes of operations and we see we called the bil
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Another tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xAI founders left. Your product's brand name is
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
> The Paxos algorithm for implementing a fault-tolerant distributed system has been regarded as difficult to understand, perhaps because the original presentation was Greek to many readers. Ha! That's very clever, author. You clearl
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
I interpret "keeps rising" negatively. Changes keep getting made, certainly. The AIs will perhaps never fail to fulfill your feature request. But there's no overall plan. It's just undirected, cancerous growth. It's
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Heck, even before they do anything, there is a sizable industry (with just a few players) focused entirely on the incredibly byzantine (but originally well meaning) process of bidding for government contracts (and also the politicking of ac
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by CobrastanJorji 2mo ago
Amazing character. Started as a regular robot-loving engineering kid, was in the right place at the right time and earned something like $140 million from Google, mostly from truly ludicrous performance bonuses, went to Uber for another gia

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