JKolios

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by JKolios 12d ago
> Thanks for trying Write.as! This post will automatically be unpublished after 1 hour. ...why though? What's the appeal of this?
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by JKolios 3mo ago
> When you use an LLM, [...] you get to pay the social tax: you converse and negotiate and convince and sometimes even get angry1 at the so-called tool. Might be a subjective opinion, but this is how writing code always felt to me, even
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by JKolios 3mo ago
It was a tongue-in-cheek comment, not really a perfect analogy to the situation. Still, the author expects teams with different priorities and design philosophies to follow a new standard, that can easily end up in more fragmentation.
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by JKolios 3mo ago
1. There are 5 competing standards. 2. This is clearly unacceptable, so we've created the one standard to unite them all™. 3. There are 6 competing standards.
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by JKolios 3mo ago
Well, the Matrix did this. Badly. "Machines who have developed nuclear power are using human bodies as batteries"-level badly.
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by JKolios 6mo ago
"A rogue AI led to a serious security incident" is certainly a way to write "Someone vibe coded too hard and leaked data".
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by JKolios 6mo ago
Now that there's widespread direct connectivity between agents and browser sessions, are CAPTCHAs even relevant anymore?
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by JKolios 8mo ago
Casual threats of invasion don't build solid and lasting partnerships? Who knew.
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by JKolios 1y ago
More diversity in the LLM space is always good. In my experience though, speaking as a native speaker of one of the less-used European languages, Mistral's models already use it pretty well.
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by JKolios 1y ago
>(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago) This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think that the war happened last Tuesday and there are parts of t
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by JKolios 1y ago
For some reason it was very hard for the Victorians who pioneered archaeology to understand that ancient humans were actual human beings and not storytelling archetypes or moral exemplars. This kind of archaeology is just inverted science f
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by JKolios 2y ago
The release day of Civilization n is always the best time to buy and play Civilization n-1.
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by JKolios 2y ago
> Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency. So, who's the VC that will fund the 4-9 failed governments we'll have to go through until we get a unicorn?
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by JKolios 2y ago
Even if you absolutely have to use an LLM for some reason, there are already perfectly good LLMs for code generation that you can comfortably run on commodity hardware.
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by JKolios 2y ago
Please elaborate on how "maybe they don't need good infrastructure" can be taken positively. It is, at best, deeply patronizing.
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by JKolios 2y ago
Nice sentiments, but the problem with the Internet in Greece is a runaway oligopoly of three telco carriers and a "business-friendly"(one set of sarcasm quotes doesn't feel enough in this case) government that won't brin
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by JKolios 2y ago
Cheese was, and to a degree still is, stored and distributed in wheels. As a retail buyer you rarely encounter an entire wheel, but it's definitely a common sight in wholesale.
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by JKolios 3y ago
"Many problems that would otherwise seem quite difficult yield to the method with hardly a line of calculation." This is the furthest from encyclopedic language you can possibly get. Vague, unsourced, flowery and subjective.
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by JKolios 3y ago
Which textbook is that? 1492 is Late Renaissance at the cusp of the Early Modern age.
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by JKolios 3y ago
Or, you know, people understand that their actions have consequences on others and living in an organized society is far better than the alternative. We're not endlessly settling an untapped frontier that exists solely in our heads.
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by JKolios 3y ago
My workspace in Europe is also in some kind of (unannounced) Read-Only mode.
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by JKolios 3y ago
And it's also perfectly fine to point out the rest of the building's entirely true and factual history, without having to accept snide remarks like "byzantine fake news".
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by JKolios 3y ago
That is not even a good example of lying by omission. You directly altered the facts as I presented them by joining sentence fragments. In this case, the grandparent comment is replying to an article that mentions the Hagia Sophia in the sa
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by JKolios 3y ago
What exactly is "false" or "fake news" about the parent comment? All three sentences look entirely factual to me: The Hagia Sophia was indeed a church. The Hagia Sophia was also indeed a museum. The reconversion into a M
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by JKolios 3y ago
Which useful service have you been locked out of? We're several years into full GDPR enforcement. I've only been locked out of some US newspapers, which is trivially by-passable, and some of the worst attention economy addiction b
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by JKolios 3y ago
I thought this was a day for lies. This is the stone cold truth.
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by JKolios 4y ago
"Problem X? Who cares about problem X? What about problem Y? Not to mention problem Z!"
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by JKolios 4y ago
There are already several models "in the wild" designed specifically to produce anime-styled "adult material". In Stable Diffusion for image generation, NSFW filtering is basically a post-processing step that can be disa
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by JKolios 4y ago
Google killing of Reader was the symbolic point where the business plan of the internet moved from "Let's sell stuff to users!" to "Let's sell users to advertisers!".
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by JKolios 4y ago
Do you mean literally public domain or books with permissive licenses in general?

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