TrackerFF

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by TrackerFF 3d ago
What about testing / QA / reliability? Plenty of such positions. Not particularly competitive to get into, as many view those jobs as "lesser" jobs. Software sales engineering could be another, which probably also pays m
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by TrackerFF 6d ago
It also needs to be said: The amount of compute that went into this is something. From some estimates I've seen, the compute cost alone would be around $10m, +/- As a reference, for that kind of money one could put together a rese
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by TrackerFF 7d ago
Go to a busy main street. Ask 1000 different individuals if Terrence Tao rings a bell. If 5% or less can answer you who Tao is, it is safe to say that Tao is obscure. I'd be very surprised if you can find over 50 individuals, out of th
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by TrackerFF 7d ago
Let's just for the sake of discussion assume that one time in the future, near or distant, AI manages to become sentient. And like other forms of life, its main motivation is survival: Like biological life competes for food and land, A
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by TrackerFF 7d ago
IMO the drama surrounding this case somewhat overshadows some more important facts: A) That we're at the point where SOTA models can, on their own or guided, be used to solve such monumental problems B) That EVEN if they exist, they&#x
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by TrackerFF 8d ago
Wouldn't be the first (or last) unscrupulous leader to see the personal benefit of a big national tragedy.
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by TrackerFF 12d ago
Have you seen ads for mobile games, where there are seemingly 100 different versions of the same type of game (like tower defense types)? And they're all obviously the worst type of pay-to-play traps? I think this kind of solves that.
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by TrackerFF 20d ago
As I wrote, most of the time it isn't a problem. There's some central heating which gives you a range of temperature, but getting your room cold is much harder than heating it up. But during summer months, where some cities can hi
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by TrackerFF 20d ago
Here in Norway AC is not the standard in hotel rooms. For 80% of the year, that's OK - but it can become pretty uncomfortable if you're booking anytime between mid-June and mid-August. The standard here are heat pumps, at least
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by TrackerFF 20d ago
So here's the deal with the current admin: The figureheads (Trump and others) are the least qualified populists imaginable, who have no business governing anything. They have zero ambition solving big problems, and have rather managed
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by TrackerFF 22d ago
Used to have a lot of American workers here on some projects here, and mind you - these are very travelled and well-versed ones. The contractors that travel around the world for a solid chunk of their careers. They didn't really mind t
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by TrackerFF 23d ago
The workaround here tends to be simple: Don't sell stuff as a incorporated business. Only do that once you cross a certain level of revenue. But as with anything here in Europe, check your laws.
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by TrackerFF 23d ago
Sometimes when I see these comically dystopian surveillance startups, I sort of wonder what the founders were thinking when they came up with the idea? Like, were they just watching some random documentary about China, and noticed how their
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by TrackerFF 23d ago
If you're 17, and seriously curious about how modern day AI works, you might as well just sit down and look at a couple of courses on linear algebra + calculus, machine learning, deep learning, and more LLM specific deep learning. Thos
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by TrackerFF 24d ago
I'll echo the rest, once you've seen a dozen of AI-generated geospatial dashboards, the style is easily recognizable. Starting to wonder if there's some negative feedback loop which makes the LLMs converge toward one distinct
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by TrackerFF 29d ago
Should be stated right away: The pension fund has to follow strict rules. They can't just put half their account on black and spin the wheel.
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
Some see it as the road to dystopia, other see it as the road to universal basic income, and a less laborious future. The real danger is not that AI becomes smarter. The real danger is that humans never learned how to justify their existenc
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
We're moving toward a future where intellectual workers are, indeed, fucked. At least intellectual work will be the first real casualty. I'm not AI maximalist. But with how things have progressed the past 4-5 years, I'm more
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
Every critique I've seen of Lovable has been that while it is very easy to get started, once you cross a certain point with your app-building, it simply becomes too expensive, and complex to continue build on manually. Just like real s
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
Just came from a 2 week vacation in Portugal, they even had their own fancy (and very colorful) shops where they only sold canned sardines. Never seen such a range of products.
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
Why would anyone want to pay that much for something, unless it gives them some edge. I don't know if it is still a thing, but in the world of penny stocks and crypto there used to be subscription pump and dump channels, where influenc
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Trump signs EO for fewer childhood vaccines, falsely linking shots to autism(cnbc.com)
8 points by TrackerFF 1mo ago|0 comments
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
For the past few years, I've seen a dozen of friends or acquaintances turn "ideologically crazy", and they can be roughly grouped into: A) Onset of schizophrenia or other serious mental illness, followed by psychosis. This is
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
But the question is how much are people willing to pay for AI. I use AI every day at work, but I only pay $20. That's the most I will ever want to pay. And, so far, it gives me everything I need. If OpenAI or Anthropic suddenly said &q
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
Trump holds a grudge against wind turbines, for no other reason than that they "ruined" the view at a golf course / club he owns in Scotland. He tried to get them removed, but lost that case in court. That's mostly it. A
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
The challenge is that you're not dealing with rational people. The big dog in the White House is a imbecile of the highest order, and everyone is doing everything in their power to appease him. It is a unwinnable situation as long as T
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
My office has cut down SaaS costs by a couple of tens of grand a year, simply by making our own versions using LLMs. It is not that we didn't have the expertise to do so to begin with, but it would simply have been too expensive and ti
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
The problem in the US, is that historically all flavors of socialism have been painted the same way as communism. So in the end it has been capitalism vs socialism, no room in the middle. And whenever countries with social democratic system
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
At my last employer we had a extensive photo gallery with workplace pictures taken from the 60s and up to present day, thousands if images. It was fun to browse through when you had some downtime. But, as with this collection, I was most su
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by TrackerFF 1mo ago
Back in 2013 or 2014 when the first Oculus dev kit came out, the first thing a colleague of mine coded up was his own "virtual" workplace. By trade he was a graphics game dev that had been working on FPS games, but changed fields

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