artifaxx

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by artifaxx 7mo ago
Interesting, where do you think LLMs perform the best?
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by artifaxx 9mo ago
Tracking already feeling pervasive suffers from the cognitive bias of all or nothing thinking. A phone can be turned off or apps disabled far more easily than a network of surveillance cameras. There are degrees of surveillance and who has
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by artifaxx 9mo ago
Didn't lose me, but point taken about gathering more support. How about: the costs of implementing a zero-crime world are far greater than the crime. Or attempting to trade freedom for safety will result in losing both.
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by artifaxx 10mo ago
Definitely, AI sentiment is positive among most people at the small startup I work at in the Seattle area. I do see the "AI fatigue" too, I bet the majority is from using AI as a repeated layoff rationalization. Personally AI is a
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by artifaxx 11mo ago
Indeed, there are levels to the asymmetry though. Oil change might be ~5x cheaper vs the 20-50x claimed for Heroku...
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by artifaxx 1y ago
I can share a similar approach I'm finding beneficial. I add "Be direct and brutally honest in your feedback. Identify assumptions and cognitive biases to correct for." (I also add a compendium of cognitive biases and example
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by artifaxx 4y ago
I don't see their comment as trolling. Reducing the negative impact Meta already has is a more accurate description. Given their track record so far, you'd be a tiny minority to even get to work on that instead of ad/user eng
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by artifaxx 7y ago
DDG is growing exponentially, Google is just massive and it takes a while to grow big enough to notice https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
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by artifaxx 7y ago
Correlation vs causation leaves a lot open, chronically sick with a number of illnesses people may sleep more. Their mortality risk is also higher. I'd wish we could see controlled studies that randomly assign people to different sleep
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by artifaxx 9y ago
Different people are trying to get different things from Facebook. I use facebook but disable notifications and unliked all pages/companies. Crippling the annoying parts to them allows people to have their Facebook cake and eat it too.
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by artifaxx 9y ago
I remember a professor who equated smartphone use with smoking, he told people to go outside with the smokers if they wanted to use their smartphones/Facebook.
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by artifaxx 9y ago
This definitely depends on a lot of factors. If you do work where you are easily replaceable sure. Most software developers don't have anything special rights wise as so few unionize. As an independent developer if you choose work in
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by artifaxx 9y ago
It really depends on the person, thats great you recognize that you do well in the corporate world. Unfortunately in many places the company would own your spare projects due to the intellectual property assignment rules in their employment
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by artifaxx 9y ago
Depends on where you are, in some US states you can get licensed to call yourself a software engineer. This holds you legally liable to the code of ethics. It often influences court cases involving companies too: http://ethics.ac
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by artifaxx 9y ago
Software has a professional code of ethics, it isn't universally read/adhered to though: http://www.acm.org/about/se-code
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by artifaxx 10y ago
Good point. I don't think Google did exactly that, but I did find this: https://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-man... It still is Google specific data though, so sadly it won't generali
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by artifaxx 10y ago
I agree, the title is certainly overconfident if not negligent. Preventing people from writing inaccurate communications would be the topic of many studies and papers by itself though!
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by artifaxx 10y ago
For current issues yes, it doesn't matter you just fix it and get the results. If you want to prevent it in the future it helps to know which one causes the other. Then you can focus preventative efforts on the factor that causes the i
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by artifaxx 10y ago
Unfortunately without putting randomly assigned teams into controlled settings to test this, how else can we figure that out? I want to know too, but this seems expensive to test to any high level of certainty for the causation.
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by artifaxx 10y ago
I agree, its great to take that personal responsibility yourself. When it comes to software that others use, the easier you make it the more people use it. Isn't that a key part of why we use automation? Put work into setting it up onc
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by artifaxx 10y ago
That is a good distinction to make, but if we don't know exactly what the cycle is things get harder to figure out. Neurons hold state and we aren't sure how much yet, let alone a deterministic method of computing it. https:&#x2F
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by artifaxx 10y ago
I agree the CAD analogy doesn't work well here. I don't think any of us can say for sure whether or not a high level representation will need to account for such details. You are right that it might not, but it sounds like it is a
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by artifaxx 10y ago
Wow, if mitochondria need to be modeled in that level of detail for accurate simulations of neurons that could be problematic. Exaflops of computational power were already the estimate just for simulating the neurons/synapses of a huma
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by artifaxx 10y ago
It can be healthy if done right http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-he... It is probably a huge improvement over the crap you find in many hospital cafeterias.
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by artifaxx 10y ago
It feels that way, but estimates look quite promising. If lab grown meat ends up using 1% of the land needed for animal production that would make a huge difference! http://phys.org/news/2011-06-lab-grown-meat-emissions
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by artifaxx 10y ago
Testify makes a moderate improvement to writing tests, but I still love it. Multiply the improvements across a hundred tests and the difference is huge.
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by artifaxx 10y ago
I find that yoga classes that integrate meditation (such as hatha) tend to work better. It also forces you to sit and work through it for at least an hour. Here is a page to get started with the evidence: http://www.health.harvar
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by artifaxx 10y ago
Where did you read this? I am sure I am not the only one here who would love to read more to get a better idea.
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by artifaxx 10y ago
Thanks for a practical counterbalance to the pointless snark here. Your comments about software improving efficiency reminded me of Google's datacenter optimizations. https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/e
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by artifaxx 10y ago
What many people don't realize is that you can put the paper in front of potential users and have them interact with it. You can draw/move the results of their actions to get an idea of how they will use your software before you h

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