bithive123

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by bithive123 6mo ago
Before anyone buys a TPU for Frigate, try OpenVino on a cheap Intel N100 CPU. My mini PC frigate installation can handle 5 cameras easily.
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by bithive123 11mo ago
I struggle to understand how people attribute things we ourselves don't really understand (intelligence, intent, subjectivity, mind states, etc) to a computer program just because it produces symbolic outputs that we like. We made it
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by bithive123 11mo ago
"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you'd like to keep talking to me, please provide a credit card number. Merry christmas!"
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by bithive123 1y ago
"Inflation" simply refers to a rise in general price levels. The cause of inflation is known: someone sets a price. There isn't a single reason why someone might raise a price. It could be that they have some ideology about
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by bithive123 1y ago
I don't know if the author is right or wrong; I've never dealt with protobufs professionally. But I recently implemented them for a hobby project and it was kind of a game-changer. At some stage with every ESP or Arduino project,
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by bithive123 1y ago
Strictly speaking, yes, but there is so much variability introduced by prompting that even keeping the seed value static doesn't change the "slot machine" feeling, IMHO. While prompting is something one can get better at, yo
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by bithive123 1y ago
I went through a very similar thing at around the same age, and one of the insights that really helped me was meditating on impermanence, and cultivating more mental proprioception (awareness of one's subtle thoughts, "mindfulness
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by bithive123 1y ago
I think that if replacing programmers with "AI" was going well, the people doing it wouldn't shut up about it. So no, I don't think programming as a job will end soon, because there's no reason to think that it coul
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by bithive123 1y ago
It became evident to me while playing with Stable Diffusion that it's basically a slot machine. A skinner box with a variable reinforcement schedule. Harmless enough if you are just making images for fun. But probably not an ideal wo
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by bithive123 1y ago
War will happen as long as ignorance exists. Ignorance may exist as long as humans exist, but let's not pretend that humans are not responsible for wars. I take your general points. There is a saying "there is no right or wron
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by bithive123 1y ago
On a long enough timeline we're all dead. In the near term, expect a lot of stupid decisions and huffing and puffing based on an ideological framing of what the national debt is. I am not an economist or finance guy, but I have notice
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by bithive123 1y ago
Generally the experience of insight is prior to any discursive expression. We put our insights in terms of words, they do not arise as such.
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by bithive123 1y ago
There are no "things" in the universe. You say this wave and that photon exist and represent this or that, but all of that is conceptual overlay. Objects are parts of speech, reality is undifferentiated quanta. Can you point to
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by bithive123 1y ago
I clearly do not meet the requirements to use the analogy. I am hearing the term super intelligence a lot and it seems to me the only form that would take is the machine spitting out a bunch of symbols which either delight or dismay the hum
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by bithive123 1y ago
Nor am I. I'm not claiming an LLM is a formal system, but it is mechanical and operates on symbols. It can't deal in anything else. That should temper some of the enthusiasm going around.
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by bithive123 1y ago
Right. It's a dead thing that has no independent meaning. It doesn't even exist as a thing except conceputally. The referent is not even another dead thing, but a reality that appears nowhere in the map itself. It may have cer
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by bithive123 1y ago
I knew someone would call me out on that. I used the wrong word; what I meant was "expressed in a way that would satisfy" which implies proof within the symbolic order being used. I don't claim to be a mathematician or phil
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by bithive123 1y ago
Language models aren't world models for the same reason languages aren't world models. Symbols, by definition, only represent a thing. They are not the same as the thing. The map is not the territory, the description is not the
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by bithive123 1y ago
Of course it's a bubble. It's only about 20% as useful as the claims driving the current irrational exuberance. All it can do is generate pictures and text, and we had those _coming out our eyeballs_ for at least a decade. Prio
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by bithive123 1y ago
That didn't take long. There appears to be some kind of outage now, I'm seeing unicorns all over the place. I even got a 403 from githubstatus.com.
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by bithive123 1y ago
Or they would say what they've always said when Trump openly does something hideous. "That girl was no angel." "She was asking for it." "Biden and Obama did the same thing but worse." "The facts a
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by bithive123 1y ago
“See, there are basically two kinds of Philosophy - one's called prickly, the other one is called goo. Prickly people are precise, rigorous, logical - they like everything chopped up and clear. Goo people like it vague, big picture, ra
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by bithive123 1y ago
"The only way to go fast, is to go well." ― Robert C. Martin
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by bithive123 1y ago
Even absent ethical or practical risks, it seems presumptuous to assume that we know what direction our evolution should take. The inferior beings that need improvement are the same beings that will do the improving? That would imply an i
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by bithive123 1y ago
Yeah weird how LLMs randomly seem to reflect the politics of their owners, so random I guess we'll never know, weird.
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by bithive123 1y ago
"The cost of an item has no relationship to its sale price" --Economics knower bradac56
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by bithive123 1y ago
So your claim is that only the first hop of a supply chain is affected by tariffs?
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by bithive123 1y ago
Not every small business is a lemonade stand. I bet plenty of them resell or install equipment that is manufactured overseas. For example, I recently got a quote for solar panels and batteries and the price went up just in a few day perio
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by bithive123 1y ago
You are describing "same sign-on", which is generally less desirable than single sign-on, but at least users only have one set of credentials to remember.
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by bithive123 1y ago
You talk as though a company exists in its own right independent of the humans. This is a fictional way of thinking. This attitude of "if you want me to stop acting poorly, make me" is an abdication of all responsibility. It&#x2

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