TimPC

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by TimPC 1y ago
I think if we do want to do this then banning bitcoin proof of work behaviours seems far more important.
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by TimPC 1y ago
How about the silly treadmill where we waste billions of compute to compute useless proof of work type behaviours and whenever more compute gets thrown at the problem we just make it harder to ensure there isn't better output. I believ
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by TimPC 1y ago
This critique is fairly strong and offers a lot of insight into the critical thinking behind it. The parts of the math I've looked at do check out.
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by TimPC 1y ago
Parts of this do align well with how to maximize profits. Shared walls, progressively smaller units over time and removing balconies have been the story of condo buildings over the last generation. The area that doesn’t line up is the low
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by TimPC 1y ago
This is a scapegoat at best in areas with high homelessness. The mentally ill and drug abusers are the most visible part of the homeless population not all the homeless population. There are also complex relations to cause vs effect where
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by TimPC 1y ago
The dilemma is you can’t make new housing cheap because if the price falls too much it becomes unprofitable to build and you don’t get new supply. My city is currently facing this where the interest rate hikes, build tax hikes and falling p
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by TimPC 1y ago
It's not clear to me it loses at all on point 4. It seems to me AI is quite far from producing human quality literature or even human quality news content for example so it's hard to see a direct line from OpenAI using book/
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by TimPC 1y ago
Almost all work is tax deductible. This isn't just for software developers and employees still pay taxes. The issue is software development is being classified as research which is one of the few areas where salaries aren't direct
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by TimPC 1y ago
Because employee salaries are normally deductible as an expense for companies which generally pay taxes on something resembling profit rather than something resembling revenue. The issue is they are classifying software development as a re
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by TimPC 1y ago
AI companies aren't seriously arguing that copyright shouldn't apply to them because "it's bad for business". The main argument is that they qualify for fair use because their work is transformative which is one of
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by TimPC 1y ago
The challenge with fan out is constructing a linear conversation that makes sense that captures previous history. In any context where the LLM needs that information linear loops often perform better than trying to splice together conversa
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by TimPC 1y ago
LLMs give you superpowers if you work on a wide range of tasks and aren't a deep expert on all of them. They aren't that great if you know the area you are working in inside and out and never stray from it. For example, using an
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by TimPC 1y ago
My CPAP does the first two. But generally if you get event the tiniest leak (and it's hard to stop all the leaks) it's very noisy for my partner. My masks leaks so little that I have between 0 and 1 events per hour but it's
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by TimPC 1y ago
This is the country of free speech zones away from the main event in the early 2000s and sending WWI dissenters to jail in 1914. You’ve long pretended to have freedoms you’ve never actually been given and this is hardly new.
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by TimPC 1y ago
I still believe in having humans do PRs. It's far cheaper to have the judgement loop on the AI come before and during coding than after. My general process with AI is to explicitly instruct it not to write code, agree on a correct app
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by TimPC 1y ago
Fair use allows for certain uses of copyrighted works without a specific license for those works. One of the major criterion is how transformative the work is and an LLM model is very different from the original work so it seems likely tha
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by TimPC 1y ago
I think the headline is a bit misleading. Mets did pirate the works but may be entitled to use them under fair use. It seems like the authors are setting up for failure by making the case about whether the AI generation hinders the market
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by TimPC 1y ago
I think it depends a lot on your finances though. If you come from a rich family and have parental support by all means it is amazing to travel young. But if your travel budget is coming out of your downpayment on your house that could eas
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by TimPC 1y ago
The context is completely different though. Building a normal computer app is not an attempt to do anything without government or legal structures so it makes sense that normal computer apps would be protected by government or legal structu
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by TimPC 1y ago
My supervising professor for the PhD program I left did a paper on the Chinese Room and argued that to a large degree understanding of the task was the ability to compress it many orders of magnitude. In that sense the LLMs are succeeding
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by TimPC 1y ago
After trying to set up wireless on my printer interface and enter a password with up and down arrows rotating through an entire set of keys, I'm fairly convinced that no wireless on the iPod was massively correct. If people were expect
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by TimPC 1y ago
I think the illegal monopoly claims are a bit out there given the range of offerings in the social network space. Are they arguing that Instagram specifically is a monopoly in photo-oriented social networking because X is mostly text and Yo
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by TimPC 1y ago
On the other hand the top ten comments as a whole are 3 bullish, 5 neutral, 2 bearish which is certainly not an overwhelming sentiment in any direction. That's despite the fact that bullish comments on start-ups tend to get more votes
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by TimPC 1y ago
Large aggregation is also to a certain degree a moat. Most creators have quickly found that people won't pay for one creator's content unless that creator is a huge volume creator (at the scale of maybe Disney). No one subscribes
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by TimPC 1y ago
I think it's less about wanting to be called an artist and more about wanting to be able to get the results of making things more easily. And there is a good case that we can have a successful boom from this sort of thing.
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by TimPC 1y ago
I'd argue many of the clones were better but not enough better. Doom was the first to do X and once you already played a game that did X the next game needed to do 2X not 1.2X.
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by TimPC 1y ago
Styles are notoriously hard to copy. It's not like Ghibli style being copied is anything new. For example, Studio Ponoc where former Ghibli employees did the copying. As long as they aren't literally generating copyrighted works
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by TimPC 1y ago
I personally think the line should be mostly output based. You should be able to train on any copyrighted work by having a single reader license (e.x. purchasing a book or e-book) for that work and no other special licenses. You shouldn&#x2
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by TimPC 1y ago
I think the reasons not to self-host are the difficulty of implementing any type of dynamic scaling. For instance when clicking on this article I get a result that their site is down. Instead of benefiting from the traffic their engagement
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by TimPC 1y ago
One thing that's nice in LangGraph is the flexibility in what a node is. A node doesn't have to be an agent it can be any State manipulation function. So you can create nodes that exclusively do preprocessing or postprocessing a

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