HNisCIS

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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
I took a picture of a jpeg and compressed it as a jpeg for extra jpeg
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
Yes, but the point being for the LLM to be useful to us it has to do something relevant for us and we have to define what is relevant. Even if you view them as fully human level or beyond (in terms of agency) there's still some purpose
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
Maybe? At the end of the day, even if they are some insane oracle (pun intended), they're still bounded by training data and how it relates to the real world. Even if they're a near perfect tool, we are still the interface between
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
You develop a set of heuristics for skimming it in the same way you do with code. Big wrapping operations like sums, integrals, and matrices, then what's nearby them, give you a very good idea of where things are going context wise.
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
FWIW I quite liked it but I'm from the RF world so maybe I'm biased.
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
It's a 4th power because you're doing the inverse square law twice, once for the outbound pulse and once for the reflection.
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
8B is still three orders smaller than current frontier though
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
The anti counterfeit strategy is that the volumes here aren't worth it for someone to clone, even if the board and code are dead simple. These niche hobby products are usually reasonably safe because they rely on community network effe
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
Still a strawmam somehow?
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
I fear you underestimate the malice of the average tech company
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
Medical/psychological experiments involving human subjects are mandated by federal law to run through a review board. Did that happen here? This isn't a medical experiment, but I don't think its nuts to feel like maybe there
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
That's not what the parent is talking about. You're using the strawman of what appears to be occupancy zoning or something similar to argue that a techno fascists should have free reign to manipulate the mass movements of people w
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
Yeah, it always strikes me when this crazy, obviously stupid stuff ends up "49 to 51" like either there are active forces fighting each other ending in an equilibrium, or the equilibrium is arising passively, everyone and their re
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
Idk if many people remember how Reddit was when it started, its whole draw was that it was a bunch of relatively intelligent/friendly western internet people who liked to kinda role play as a hive mind. I wouldn't call it the most
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
I see this parroted constantly but it seems to be getting proven wrong by Japan and, frankly, the US
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
I agree with the second part, 90% of apps are just a vague rehashing of 100 other apps, very little novel software ever gets written, especially at the component level. The point being that if you want to create truly novel systems you be
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
Here's a much simpler reason: the output of an LLM, mathematically, is average. The code it writes is, effectively, the geometric mean of github. The ideas it comes up with are the geometric mean of wikipedia and reddit. Go ask it how
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by HNisCIS 2mo ago
I take the opposite view but to the same conclusion. I've heard the joke "the more advanced you get the worse you get at math" from a lot of mathematicians. I'd bet most mathematicians can't do a long division pro
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by HNisCIS 3mo ago
The manufacturing is really deeply gnarly. Like crazy materials you'd have to reverse engineer the production process for, then reverse engineer how to form the blades so they'll survive insane loads for thousands of hours of ope
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by HNisCIS 3mo ago
It's actually safer-ish. First: terms. Filtering is good, involves moving slowly through stopped traffic between the cars, usually under 20mph differential. Splitting is less good, that involves weaving between cars at speed and is ac
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by HNisCIS 3mo ago
Motorcycles aren't invulnerable 3 ton steel tanks but the stats and anecdotes are deceptive. They're really not that bad if you're not a moron, even if you're mostly worried about other road users. The stat are wildly b
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
It's so fucking bad. I'm watching a team try to maintain a huge dashboard/control application that interfaces with a large amount of hardware using solely AI workflows. Literally nothing works, all the timers/time count
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
The issue wasn't really git master, that was a side effect. Google what MISO means and maybe go learn some actual kernel development.
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
On one hand yeah it's a little over the top. On the other hand I don't think this was written for our proto-techno-fascist forum...
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
There are a multitude of ways to significantly curtail crime that don't rely on this paradigm of spying on everyone. That's like saying "I can't get to work on time, we need to keep making the highway wider".
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
I don't think you're wrong broadly, though I want to add that the particular interceptor warheads were relatively small and nukes detonated in the upper atmosphere generally don't do much to stuff on the ground. There's
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
Totally different situation. People are removing those words as a sign of respect and a very small number of people are chasing down those that don't because it implies an open lack of respect.
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
Two different discussions, but I've had an earthy crunchy employer ask me to put in for one once.
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
For pure generic full-stack-whatever devs yes. For EEs, embedded, FPGA, RF, etc you can pull waaaaay more in the defense world, especially if you're willing to do cleared work.
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by HNisCIS 4mo ago
I can't name names but 3 of the startups I've worked at. Places I haven't worked: Skydio Applied Intuition Saildrone Planet Labs Boom Scale AI Also worth noting that sometimes it's on purpose, sometimes the founders are

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