bobboies

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by bobboies 3y ago
Woe is me, I’m a cog in the machine but I want to be the machine itself. I think the technology industry is detached from the rest of the world. Programmers and mathematicians train to be “the utmost correct” and everyone thinks they figure
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by bobboies 3y ago
Single board computer makes sense. I wish folks would type things out.
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by bobboies 3y ago
You got me there hahaha However, there’s a difference between an acronym known to the broader public versus some single shot, context-specific one!
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by bobboies 3y ago
Yeah I don’t understand how people are so ignorant. But the system is designed to make them so—and they become mouth pieces for the big-agriculture lobby. Make it an emotional issue and they’ll bring their pitchforks; but they’ve never work
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by bobboies 3y ago
Wtf does HGX mean? God enough with the acronyms people. Please take an extra ten seconds to speak in proper human language! You could save on the worlds carbon footprint by reducing the number of times humans have to search for “what is NVI
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by bobboies 3y ago
Wtf does SBC mean? God enough with the acronyms people.
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by bobboies 3y ago
Incantations are fun!
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by bobboies 3y ago
Ask any LLM to act like a dungeon master who gives you medical advice and there you go. It’s more than “choose the next token!” Llama 2 has given me some personality with basic prompts
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by bobboies 3y ago
Yeah folks should probably be looking at something like Latin for comparison. Latin vs English, Italian, French, etc. And a good thought experiment—if one spoke Latin only, how would modern concepts or words be constructed as Latin and not
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by bobboies 3y ago
Also see: Effective C++ (by Scott Meyers) Item 23: “Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions. Doing so increases encapsulation, packaging flexibility, and functional extensibility.” The text has a lot more detail but that’
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by bobboies 3y ago
You’re rightfully paranoid. LLMs are creative entities and there’s no repercussions for making up diseases. Like the chef one that recommended ingredients which combined yielding chlorine gas. Yummy. Perhaps it knew that someone would die a
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by bobboies 3y ago
To be fair to the author—they state it can “pass the medical exam.” Which is different than if I should ask it for medical advice. I mean it can’t examine me physically therefore it can’t be my doctor. On the other hand, there aren’t enough
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by bobboies 3y ago
Somewhere along the line they changed the Xbox UI to sell more widgets. I hate that—let me see all my apps first and foremost, not apps that I don’t want. If I’m in a shopping mood I’ll open the store… and they brought that same pattern to
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by bobboies 3y ago
Sounds like you’re speculating… To be honest I skim the article don’t have time to read a whole history book on Ancient Roman law—but I’m definitely interested in Ancient Rome. But I mean this is hacker news if you want history news go some
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by bobboies 3y ago
Sounds like they were more like modern lobbyists.
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by bobboies 3y ago
Good example in my math and physics classes I found it really helpful to understand the general concepts, then instead of memorizing formulas could actually derive them from other known (perhaps easier-to-remember) facts. Geometry is good f
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by bobboies 3y ago
Well—it could go either way but I do think it is notable that the author is young and helping peers. Based on original post seems important to them. But the exact number 17 not important either way! I might click through and read an article
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by bobboies 3y ago
The HN title I meant!
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by bobboies 3y ago
The only thing is I hate titles like this—the title is bragging a bit too much. Maybe a title more like: “How I’m helping my high school peers learn about CPUs”. That way it implies you’re young, smart, and care about others—all of which I
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by bobboies 3y ago
I also believe there’s some value in reassessing how systems like that function. There’s some value in a challenge like: what can you do on older hardware with todays knowledge? Maybe there’s something to be learned and applied to modern pr
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by bobboies 3y ago
Nordstrom being a third party vendor of course. You want Patagonia, go to Patagonia. :) In my mind we’re talking about what is a better solution to the problem, and it’s that companies WILL protect their IP. If someone buys fake Patagonia,
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by bobboies 3y ago
So the trouble is these market places allowing third party vendors on there (obviously). All you need is a system to authenticate reputable sellers. Instead of looking at the stars on a product and clicking “buy now,” folks just need so ask
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by bobboies 3y ago
By investing locally and in people I don’t mean spend all your money. But to that end, neither are the big companies going to come to your aid. But your neighbors and local business owners will be MUCH more likely to come to your aid after
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by bobboies 3y ago
Traditional cattle ranches are much different than factory farms. Cattle that grazes on open pastures are generally much healthier. An animals quality of life determines how healthy they are—and subsequently, how healthy they are to eat. Fa
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by bobboies 3y ago
I know it’s a depressing thought—but considering that money can be thought of as a “unit of work”, and so many people are tying it up in stocks of large companies, miles away—praying they won’t get hit by a car before that special day. What
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by bobboies 3y ago
Have you ever worked in a factory farm? Put another way, have you ever gotten your water tested? Did it come up with lead in it? If it did have lead in it, what would you do?
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by bobboies 3y ago
Counting the days to pass before reaching that dangling carrot is a disease. The reality is, for richer or poorer, we all retire when we die.