bun_at_work

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by bun_at_work 7mo ago
Nope. I'm out. I might still use the API, but the monthly subscription is already gone and I'm on to Claude.
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by bun_at_work 9mo ago
Is it prohibitively larger? And is the size a fundamental constraint of the technology, or is it possible to reduce the size?
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by bun_at_work 11mo ago
Hey - this is awesome. I've been working on a small local app like this to import financial data and present a dashboard, for the family to use together (wife and I). So yeah - great work here, taking control of your data. I'm cur
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
Be careful what you wish for. VS Code is maybe the best product Microsoft has ever released, largely because the extension market. If Microsoft polices the marketplace more, you can probably expect VS Code quality to degrade. Here's my
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
Using a random walk algorithm through genetic space over millions (or billions) of years.
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
If you don't like the equivalence to slavery, pick a different example, there are three I posted and more you can probably think of on your own. We know that the idea of a rational agent in economics is a myth, and as you mentioned, it
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
> not all students get the benefit, some already paid off their debts or a large part of it. I'm one of the people who paid off a large portion of debt and probably don't need this assistance. However, this argument is so offen
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
Given the Cambridge Analytica scandal, why wouldn't it be achievable at Facebook, let alone TikTok. The CCP could mandate that the TikTok algorithm display certain types of political content, then further mandate that any criticism of
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
One way could be age limits and more stringent verification of age for all social media platforms. Another way could be limiting feed algorithms to chronological order only. Another could be limiting what data can be collected from users on
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
> but it looks at times like the company is less an organism and more a writhing mass of creatures in a thin, shared skin trying to make it appear as one. This is pretty accurate. A bunch of disjointed orgs who get sometimes seemingly ra
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
The why is not trivial to explain, but it's related to the petrodollar system. It's good for the USA if we create markets with countries that are developing by moving manufacturing there, because it helps them acquire the dollars
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
Just calling out that worker protections and increased labor costs seem to be the result of workers making more money. As the work force becomes wealthier, they _need_ less money, and their standards rise. This means their labor becomes mor
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
That's true - their revenue from VR/MR hardware is less than 2.5% of revenue though. Meanwhile, ads make up the other 97.5% of their revenue. 97.5% of everything Meta does is to hoover the data and sell it. It's effectively t
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
> Users must take responsibility for knowing how software works and the motivations of its creators. This doesn't seem reasonable. Let's try to apply the logic elsewhere: > Patients must take responsibility for knowing how m
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
side-step flamebait like winnie the poo
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Cards Against Humanity Launches a Super Pac to Match Elon Musk's Super Pac(apologize.lol)
86 points by bun_at_work 2y ago|89 comments
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
Sure - there is plenty of attention grabbing AI content - it doesn't have to grab _your_ attention, and it won't work for everyone. I have seen people engaging with apps that redo a selfie to look like a famous character or put th
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
I really think the value of this for Meta is content generation. More open models (especially state of the art) means more content is being generated, and more content is being shared on Meta platforms, so there is more advertising revenue
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
Meta makes their money off advertising, which means they profit from attention. This means they need content that will grab attention, and creating open source models that allow anyone to create any content on their own becomes good for Met
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
I read the whole article, that's where I found the quote attribution. Like I said, I'm not here to defend Altman, or attack him. It's just disingenuous journalism - or click-bait journalism.
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
> "We want to make sure you understand that if you don't sign, it could impact your equity," one rep told an outgoing employee, according to Vox. The article is doing a lot of click-bait stuff here. The quote, without the
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by bun_at_work 2y ago
Until people complain that Apple is being anti-competitive by not making vision tracking open, or allowing third-party eye-tracking controls, etc. etc.
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by bun_at_work 3y ago
I have a similar view to you and not much to add to your comment, other than to reference a couple books that you might like if you enjoyed 'Thinking, Fast and Slow'. 'The Righteous Mind' by Jonathan Haidt. Here, Haidt d
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by bun_at_work 3y ago
Don't people often fall into the "vaccines cause autism" trap from Google?
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by bun_at_work 3y ago
> OK I have a table in postgresql and I am adding a trigger such that when an insert happens on that table, an insert happens on another table. The second table has a constraint. What happens to the first insert if the second insert viol
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by bun_at_work 3y ago
GAs are super cool and I think underutilized in the NN era. One thing that might improve the algorithms in the linked write-up is not choosing the strict top results. Often, GAs perform better if you choose a random selection from the resul
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Norfolk Southern Snarled by Positive Train Control Outage(railfan.com)
2 points by bun_at_work 3y ago|0 comments
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by bun_at_work 3y ago
I wonder if it's actually overloaded or if there's a bug.
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by bun_at_work 3y ago
I think it's because of game development. Many devs target Windows for DirectX, since it's easier and cheaper to target one platform, and Windows dominates desktops, so you won't get gamers to migrate without that support. Th
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by bun_at_work 3y ago
Hopefully this serves as an incentive to Google to improve their search results. I find GPT-4 works so much better for finding answers (even in cases when it's wrong) than searching Google, especially for trivial ones. Add plugin featu

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