area51org

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by area51org 10mo ago
One thing people often don't realize or ignore: these LLMs are trained on the internet , the entire internet. There's a shit-ton of bad and inefficient code on the internet. Lots of it. And it was used to train these LLMs as much
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by area51org 10mo ago
Maybe it's things like 4-year tenure, or shorter tenure, or something else. But I think it's a matter of motivation, Bob. > The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care. It's
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by area51org 10mo ago
We've seen what happens when we pretend the market will somehow regulate itself.
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by area51org 10mo ago
Depression isn't just feeling sad. It's not necessarily caused by anything external. You cannot necessarily just "figure out why" you feel bad; that's really not how it usually works.
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by area51org 10mo ago
I wouldn't go that far, but there was a now-famous study (Princeton?) that showed that doing aerobic exercise for maybe 30 mins every day, about five days per week, was equally effective at alleviating depression symptoms.
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by area51org 10mo ago
One fundamental difference: Wikipedia is not a for-profit corporation. OpenAI is. That probably matters.
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by area51org 10mo ago
For all intensive purpose's their one in the same.
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by area51org 11mo ago
Quote may be cliched, but still it's valid. "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could , they didn't stop to think if they should ."
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by area51org 11mo ago
I had that issue, and I think I still might have it in my closet. (Weren't those Robert Tinney covers amazing?) I always wanted to try out Forth but had no real opportunity. Maybe I should now?
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by area51org 1y ago
What would you propose? Donating money to blackhole political organizations? Taking to the streets? None of that, or much of anything else, will "do something about this". There is no doing anything about this. It's also just
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by area51org 1y ago
Samba is used for Windows support.
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by area51org 1y ago
Anyone care to boil this down?
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by area51org 1y ago
Not necessarily true, as the success of streaming shows. The problem comes when the unbounded greed of the billionaires in charge leads them to inflate prices beyond their customers' ability and willingness to pay.
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by area51org 1y ago
The aggravating part about this: that was not the intention of the copyright clause. "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Wr
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by area51org 1y ago
Having lived in that era: no one "complained endlessly", or even at all, about the internet. It was seen as magical. When compared to not existing at all, being slow wasn't all that awful.
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by area51org 1y ago
That seems very dependent on which company you work for. Many would not grant you that kind of flexibility.
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by area51org 1y ago
Presumably because there's a perception that if there are lots of rich people, they can afford to be gouged. This begs the question of how many rich people there actually are, though.
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by area51org 1y ago
> Why code when you can just ask the computer to do what you want and get the results. Because then you won't know the design of the code or how it even works. The hard part of coding isn't writing the code itself. It's th
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by area51org 1y ago
"Journalism" is now often just a euphemism for shock porn and clickbait. At the end of this Atlantic article, the author admits: > Luckily for humans, though, skepticism of the strong interpretation is warranted. For one thin
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by area51org 2y ago
Stupid question, maybe, but IANAL: is this even legal? Isn't it illegal to pay others to bury your competitor?
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by area51org 2y ago
This kind of smokescreen only works for so long. Once it all starts failing and profits dip, things will change.
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by area51org 2y ago
As an Apple Music customer, I am heartened to hear that they do not promote AI songs and that they pay artists more.
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by area51org 2y ago
My company isn't. Apparently, "We've heard of Microsoft" == "They won't do anything wrong with our data" in the minds of non-technical lawyer types.
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by area51org 2y ago
Don't leave out ChatTelex and ChatCarrierPigeon.
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by area51org 2y ago
Fair enough, but this isn't about how cool it was that there were warring factions. There were reasons that the divide existed, and most of the reasons involved the behemoth Microsoft throwing its weight around and trying to bully th
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by area51org 2y ago
> with instructions read from punch card memory If that isn't a stored program, I don't know what is.
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by area51org 2y ago
I don't know that the problem is short attention span. Poor communication has always been with us. I am sure Luu has compelling insights—what I was able to get through seemed interesting—but he is a poor communicator. It's not jus
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by area51org 2y ago
While we're at it: enough with the brain teasers and weird analogies. These, too, have nothing to do with actual day-to-day work and are really just a way to exercise power over candidates.
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by area51org 2y ago
He actually did know how to code. He and Woz created the classic video game Breakout while working at Atari. (I have no doubt Woz did most of the heavy lifting.) It's not that he didn't know how to program, it's just that cod
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by area51org 2y ago
Agreed that the author doesn't seem to understand what is and is not a conspiracy theory. The article starts off by calling the ancient alien astronauts "theory" a conspiracy theory. Who are the conspirators? I don't mea

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