an-allen

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by an-allen 7mo ago
Ha mate you are on the UFO, and whats coming is your understanding that YOU are flying through the universe trying to get somewhere, not waiting for it to come to you!
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by an-allen 7mo ago
Yep just a risk amplifier. We are having a global warming level event in computing and blindly walling into it.
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by an-allen 7mo ago
To be fair, Demming is a trivial systems programming theories.. “optimise wholistically” “local fixes cause global imnalance” None of this works for the system of life and consciousness.
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by an-allen 7mo ago
yea that system was a lot more than he was prepared for :)
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by an-allen 7mo ago
And neither are people. And beware of anything that treats them like they are.
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by an-allen 7mo ago
Oh there are vampires. They are very old. But they are mostly illusions of light. Once the veil is removed the disappointment of hell sets in. Smoke, mirrors, DNA, sound. The French people didn't invest the most elaborate head chopping
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by an-allen 7mo ago
The fears of mass surveillance are some of the funniest things I can think of. Do you think a tree grows a leaf and then says I don’t care what you do leaf.
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by an-allen 7mo ago
Could? Is mate. Is.
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by an-allen 8mo ago
LoRA + SDR mesh distributed object storage fabric.
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by an-allen 8mo ago
Similar I have a script that has the following format: “q replace all onstances of http: with https: in all txt files recurisvely” And it goes the ChatGPT comes back with and runs the appropriate command.
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by an-allen 8mo ago
A third of humans are fed as a result of the melt of the Himalayan ice sheet. No ice sheet, no runoff, no flooding the rice paddy's, no rice…. famine.
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by an-allen 8mo ago
I think its a Kobyashi Maru - there is absolutely no way we will wield a paradigm shifting technology like language models and be able to do it safely. Language models create at scale and scope much greater than what can be reviewed by huma
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by an-allen 8mo ago
I love when people figure out that life literally is a computation - everything about it - from the molecular structure, to the reproductive strategies, to the mutation and selection of the genome, to the metastructure of cognition and cons
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by an-allen 9mo ago
LLMs are by definition computations on known public data - meaning any LLM CEO strategy will be only briefly competitive. LLMs lack networks and the ability to strategise internally an execute without the whole plan being known to everyone.
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by an-allen 9mo ago
Interesting about the epigenetics, transposons, and other DNA augmentations… These are all fundamentally a story of how the individual encounters and uses information in their lived experience. But there is also a very strong consensus narr
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by an-allen 9mo ago
But your kids will likely not have your insights and experiences so “tuning” is another word for broadening their awareness.
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by an-allen 9mo ago
A lot of this is transmitted via the language. The stories we form as a result of events in our lives, have power to set our values in all areas. These myths of the self, have what is essentially a value manifest for someone. And these myth
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by an-allen 10mo ago
Well the centralisation without rapid recovery and practices that provide substantial resiliency… that would be worrying. But I dare say the folks at these organisations take these matters incredibly seriously and the centralisation problem
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by an-allen 10mo ago
What?! No way! Keen to see the post mortem on this. Its always DNS.
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by an-allen 2y ago
oooo the forbidden linear algebra equation. Bold move, lets see how it plays out.
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by an-allen 2y ago
oooo the forbidden linear algebra equation. bd move lets see how this plays out!
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by an-allen 2y ago
Obligatory - David Olsen and Paul Eggert - thank you for your service. The world literally works because of your efforts and I don’t feel people really appreciate the ridiculous man made problem that you spent your labours to help resolve.
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by an-allen 2y ago
I mean, I’m actually somewhat curious how starting tertiary computer science curriculum with formal methods would impact the students. I mean I felt my intro undergrad 101 course was essentially functional programming and lambda calculus (w
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by an-allen 2y ago
I’m pro features that make sense for digital workers and Teams is just a set of features that make sense. My comment is more about how ineffective this type of rent seeking has been against Microsoft for the last 3 decades.
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by an-allen 2y ago
Rent-seeking since 1995!
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by an-allen 2y ago
Ive used Teams for years and its pretty darn good in my opinion. Sure it has its quirks and from time to time fails to work for the entire hemisphere of the planet - but I kinda like that feature!
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by an-allen 2y ago
IMO, Teams is a logical extension of the Office tool suite and had every right to be bundled. I suspect there is a whole bevvy of bureaucrats in the EU whos sole job has been to bring anti trust legislation against Microsoft for the last 30
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by an-allen 2y ago
I was listening to the latest Lex Friedman podcast from the Amazon jungle and there was an interesting comment that the “reality is a simulation” folks have never had to survive in the Amazon and that the belief is somewhat of a side effect
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by an-allen 2y ago
When I took Fundamentals of Programming Languages 20 years ago - I nearly failed the class. Lambda calculus was simply too esoteric for me to appreciate and much less understand intuitively. Fast forward 20 years, and I see the fundamentals
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by an-allen 3y ago
I think whomever this statue represents, would get a cosmic kick out of people, 12000 years into the future, appreciating the majesty of his phallus.

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