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by bloaf 4d ago
The next questions in my head are: A) Is there any performance penalty on the compiled result due to being optimized in separate pieces B) If not, why isn't the optimizer smart enough to split them up internally and optimize in paralle
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by bloaf 9d ago
To anyone who loves these, add this to your playlist: Otis Gibbs - Great American Roadside
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by bloaf 10d ago
The most obvious one is the "god of the gaps" problem now applied to intelligence. If you look at things like Aquinas' Summa Theologiae [1] you'll see that there are explicit assertions that things like rationality tran
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by bloaf 10d ago
The benchmark I want to see people adopt is: Build a flowsheet based steady state chemical process simulator, then use it to simulate and optimize a full scale oil refinery. 1) Building a solver engine that works at this scale is not a triv
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by bloaf 10d ago
As someone with a hobby interest in theology: Arguments about super-intelligent AI have all the hallmarks of the philosophical "proofs of god's existence": they start from seemingly innocuous premises, and conclude in an appa
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by bloaf 10d ago
Golf courses do pollute: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle... Also, the "pollution" from data centers is just "major construction project temporarily disrupts water table&
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by bloaf 11d ago
Look, you're talking out of both sides of your mouth. Either water consumption is a problem today, or it is not. If it is a problem, then golf courses are today a better target for people who want to solve the water problem than data
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by bloaf 11d ago
I've not seen a single politician calling for statewide bans on golf courses. Its pretty obvious here that people decided datacenters were bad first, then went looking for justifications second.
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by bloaf 11d ago
If people really cared about water usage, they'd be trying to shut down golf courses instead of data centers.
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by bloaf 11d ago
A lot of the anti-data-center rhetoric is "windmills kill birds" or "dihydrogen monoxide" style fearmongering, not an actual debate.
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by bloaf 11d ago
My money is on "someone higher up the chain of command got pinged for low T, and decided that the tests were bullshit".
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by bloaf 15d ago
But the article explicitly says that people did know what they were consuming. They bought poison honey, they got poison honey, they ate poison honey, and they got poisoned. Now you can certainly argue we should make that impossible, but I
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by bloaf 16d ago
I think to unabashedly declare that you know what someone does or does not deserve requires just as much if not more faith.
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by bloaf 16d ago
> Many to many are born. For the superfluous ones the state was devised... The state, I call it, where all are poison-drinkers, the good and the bad: the state, where all lose themselves, the good and the bad: the state, where the slow s
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by bloaf 24d ago
What's that? A law that all manufacturers need to have had a security review from one of the major AI player's AI models?
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by bloaf 1mo ago
I would like to point out that the last year when not a single law enforcement agency anywhere in the world could have possibly tapped anyone's phone was 1876. 150 years ago was the invention of the telephone, and I think that articles
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by bloaf 1mo ago
I feel like this is the exact opposite of the conclusion I've been coming to. In an age where anyone can vibe code stuff at the drop of a hat, I want the ability to assert guarantees/contracts at a high level, and then let AI wor
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by bloaf 1mo ago
I think they make things worse, because they very very often present straight inaccurate information. Just the other day I was trying to find out "What american tree species have the deepest roots". And all the AI responses were
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by bloaf 1mo ago
Yandex is the only search engine left which still feels like the "old" web. It feels like you're actually getting a best effort search, and not just the results that someone paid to put in front of you.
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by bloaf 1mo ago
As someone who regularly reads things online, then wants to read them again like 3 years later, Google has been monotonically declining in quality. Also I realized the other day how hard it is to find song lyrics for anything other than qui
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by bloaf 2mo ago
I don't think this is the right framing, because I think it confuses the means and the ends. Its like making a jig in woodworking. The measure of the jig's success is not whether it gets re-used or widespread adoption, its whether
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by bloaf 2mo ago
We have entered the era of small software, and no one knows what it will grow to. Here's an example: my office has a few cars for employees to use as rentals. The number is small enough that it would never be worth any serious softwar
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by bloaf 2mo ago
The software which manages our instrument spec sheets, and the software which manages our field tech rounds.
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by bloaf 2mo ago
Reminds me of this piece I read on hacker news over a decade ago: https://mcfunley.com/whom-the-gods-would-destroy-they-first-...
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by bloaf 2mo ago
We got the thumbs up from management last week.
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by bloaf 2mo ago
I think Sturgeon's law would tell us that everything will stay about the same. But in reality, a lot of corporate software exists just because there are plenty of companies who are afraid of owning code. They don't want to mainta
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by bloaf 2mo ago
Organizational inertia is a real thing. There are still fortune 500 companies with internal bans on AI. A lot of the answer to "how much impact has AI had" comes down to "how much have we even attempted?" In my workplac
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by bloaf 2mo ago
There have been demonstrated rowhammer-based ECC bypass attacks. ECC mitigates but does not fix rowhammer.
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by bloaf 2mo ago
As long as rowhammer is still out there, aint none of your memory safe. Fixing rowhammer is the memory safety absolutism I want to hear more about.
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by bloaf 2mo ago
Obesity rates have been declining over the same time period.

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