andrepd

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LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)
5 points by andrepd 3d ago|3 comments
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by andrepd 3d ago
Reads like satire. "I get 100$ for every 1$ I put in" is exactly the kind of phrase that triggers ponzi alarm bells on anybody reading this x)
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by andrepd 4d ago
How in god's name—irrespective of how valid this is, and its very valid—is this even remotely germane to the issue of AI in mathematics? Rattling off incidents and making the case that there is discrimination and sexists in mathematics
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by andrepd 5d ago
> mathematicians (as a community, even though there were outliers) didn't care - not even the slightest - about the impact of LLMs and generative AI, other type of AI and machine learning until it started impacting them. So I have n
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by andrepd 5d ago
> People prefer larger tap targets on touch screens. Only in a completely stupid, nonsensically A/B tested notion of "prefer". I'll refer you to this ~~excellent piece of satirical writing~~ actual post from Google de
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by andrepd 5d ago
I think it's obvious that the target audience has a huge overlap...
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by andrepd 5d ago
Seeing "Material 3/Material You" is a negative point for me, not a positive. It's almost comical just how atrocious the UI is. Yes let's make all phones 20% huge-er and all whitespace 40% wider, said no sane person
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by andrepd 5d ago
Yes if you don't think about the matter for more than 6 seconds you would indeed conclude that, and retreat to the comfortable cliché of "it's just a tool". Meanwhile, I'm glad that there are still people who _think
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by andrepd 6d ago
I'm an AI skeptic, but I don't see how this squares with what the organisers of the event actually say. "It previously suggested that math researchers already have no place in mathematics"? I don't see this.
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by andrepd 8d ago
> As a parallel example, can we prove the phase of the moon had no impact on the NS solution? No, not without a bunch experiments run at different phases of the moon. The _gall_ to say something like this. Do you perhaps think we are all
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by andrepd 8d ago
Lmao my friend, the whole "drama" is that there are allegations of plagiarism.
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by andrepd 8d ago
> "I deeply apologize for this extremely poor choice of words, it is the opposite of what I was trying to convey." The AI-isms are seeping into their speech :)
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by andrepd 8d ago
Holy late capitalism. Everything revolves around line-go-up, and sociopaths rule the show. These people cannot even collaborate like civilised scientists on one of the most famous open problems in mathematics? “It would be simpler if Levent
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by andrepd 9d ago
1. Interaction with Meta is virtually mandatory in many places in the world. Try opting out of Meta when your kid's daycare or your building's group chat is on whatsapp. 2. It doesn't really matter if you opt out, because _ot
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by andrepd 9d ago
Pardon my French but bull-fucking-shit! A CEO _should_ take responsibility for what their subordinates do. It's preposterous to simple throw up our arms and say "oh well, some employees were sloppy so we lost some 100 million user
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by andrepd 9d ago
As I understand there is no advantage in using a custom dictionary to compress 1 file. It benefits compressing _several_ (small) files.
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by andrepd 10d ago
There are excellent FOSS gallery apps already, like the Fossify suite. Why not use them I wonder?
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by andrepd 13d ago
> I've been at the point personally where I am reasonably confident that there's essentially nothing that I am better than Fable What a sad thing to say. These models are not even better than me at _writing code_, which is as w
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by andrepd 13d ago
His video about reality TV music, and the one about the newest musescore default font, are some of my favourite yt videos of all time. Great communicator.
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by andrepd 16d ago
Slop code is already hard to tolerate, but any hint of slop in text will immediately make me chuck it into the bin / close the tab, no exceptions. My lifetime is finite, I'm sure as fuck not gonna spend time reading something that
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by andrepd 16d ago
WoW needed a purchase, an expensive subscription, and a good PC. Runescape ran on a potato, was F2P, the P2P was 5$ a month, and you could get started in 2 minutes from Miniclip.
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by andrepd 16d ago
Ultima Online is one of very few games (probably Star Wars Galaxies and that's it) that actually merit the label MMORPG. It's kind of insane when you think about it, that the MMO that most closely came to fulfilling the promise of
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by andrepd 18d ago
> I enjoyed it way too much Well if you enjoyed it it's was not a waste of time! Much human endeavour (and _all_ hobbies!) are ultimately pointless. If it negatively affects other aspects of your life it's a different story tho
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by andrepd 18d ago
Countries have wildly different needs regarding monetary policy. Those interests are sometimes in conflict. When push comes to shove, unsurprisingly the powerful dictate the rules: see the 2010s Eurozone crises.
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by andrepd 18d ago
A maneauvor whereupon a foreign power allows as many people into a small enclave as already live there (literally 60k into a territory of 80k) cannot be called anything other than "invasion". When did Mexico conspire to help 60k p
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by andrepd 18d ago
> profligate Greece being "thrown out" of the euro zone. In this dark scenario Greek civil servants would get their pay rises in worthless drachma, but Greek homeowners would be left with unpayable euro mortgages That was indee
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by andrepd 21d ago
The problem is not governments or people posting there. The problem is platforms/utilities not being treated as such.
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by andrepd 23d ago
People _2000 years_ ago were writing books about why this is not true, but in the year 2026 there's still people saying "just give them the death penalty bro"....
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by andrepd 25d ago
Weird thing to say when early Rust had sigils everywhere.
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by andrepd 27d ago
> Guys who work in bike shops like to joke about bicycle-shaped objects—sure, that mass-produced hunk of metal and plastic has a seat, pedals, wheels, and handlebars, but that doesn’t mean it’s a bike. When the materials are so cheap and

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