chriswait

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by chriswait 4mo ago
I think that's the joke
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by chriswait 5mo ago
I always find it a bit weird to see posts on the front page where all the comments disagree with the central premise of the article. In this case the post is an ad advocating for executing code you didn't write and handing the results
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by chriswait 2y ago
Ah okay, I think it's a perfect analogy, and this helps clarify where our disagreement is. I do believe it's a binary thing: One day a model gets released which is sufficiently good at programming that I don't need to be able
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by chriswait 2y ago
Not really? Your thinking about the definition of the word "relevant" seems a bit confused here... By your logic, home insurance is "irrelevant" because you don't seem to use it much, then one day it's suddenly
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by chriswait 2y ago
Obviously I assume LLMs will continue to improve, I don't know why you'd think I don't. But the actual relevant prediction here (the one you're confident enough about to give skills development advice on) is whether they
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by chriswait 2y ago
Okay, but what will you actually do when your LLM writes code which doesn't actually error but produces incorrect behaviour, and no matter how long you spend refining your prompt or trying different models it can't fix it for you?
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by chriswait 3y ago
If this wasn’t true, we couldn’t know it.
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by chriswait 3y ago
The author wrote a follow up in Gizmodo - apparently Google's answer boxes were also claiming that it took "about 5 minutes", and they were listing OPs article as the source. Incredible. https://gizmodo.com/
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by chriswait 3y ago
This comment is unusually well known. If you google the url wrapped in quotes, you'll see it referred to as "the famous/infamous dropbox comment". It's become something of a symbol for how hackernews commenters some
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Can a neural network learn to walk as a physical object in a physics simulation?(twitter.com)
2 points by chriswait 3y ago|0 comments
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by chriswait 3y ago
>It would be LESS work to just follow the source material. But the source material might be less marketable and therefore less profitable. So it might be less work, but it would also mean less money, hence the changes.
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by chriswait 3y ago
>WHY would a superintelligent AI, trained on the collective data of humanity, want to destroy humanity? Why would humans want to damage various ecosystems on earth? We don't really, they're just sort of in the way of other stuf
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by chriswait 3y ago
This is super interesting, and I think depends how you define information. You can take some information, combine it with other information, apply various kinds of reasoning to it, and get something new as a result. E.g. (1) Bob is a monk
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by chriswait 4y ago
I was curious what you were referring to here, and found this case study which was interesting: https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry...
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by chriswait 4y ago
IANAL but I don't think it matters whether the purpose of collection is specifically to facilitate paid features. From the European Commission: > The GDPR applies to: [...] > 2. a company established outside the EU and is offer
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by chriswait 4y ago
I don't suppose you could share which site(s) you're using these days? I recently tried torrenting for the first time in a while, and it seems like many of the sites I used to use (e.g PB, KAT) are either dead or mining crypto.
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by chriswait 5y ago
Very cool! It would be really satisfying if it could detect a balanced stack, show some kind of effect, then offer to restart. Maybe the restart would just replace all your rocks with different ones, which would cause the stack to fall?
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by chriswait 5y ago
>I wish there was a way to smooth out the UX so that this feels first-class and I stop accidentally breaking this illusion at times. This is probably not what you meant by "smooth out the UX", but I like to enable "reduce
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by chriswait 5y ago
Maybe you misread the article - the obsession here is with "speedup", which is not the same as productivity. The author gives the example that instead of simply doing more X, being faster can enable you do Y instead of X (where Y
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by chriswait 5y ago
Yeah, I don't think they're literally meaning "hurt" here. Maybe a better analogy is where you're having a conversation with someone, and they throw in a double-negative. It's not like you're literally una
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by chriswait 5y ago
The article talks about this: "Now, I think the vast majority of drivers will understand what’s going on and treat them as normal blinking turn indicators, but these indicators hurt your brain, at least a little bit" I think you a
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by chriswait 5y ago
Did anyone else feel like they missed the bit where it explained why you shouldn't be building websites for iPhones? I kept looking for a sentence which summarised the analysis of performance issues and brought it home. I don't
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by chriswait 5y ago
Does anyone else feel like replacing all the legacy finance infrastructure with decentralised code is going to produce a worrying number of stories like this? Most of the examples I've seen so far it's happening to someone who wor
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by chriswait 5y ago
I don't think this is very unusual for people who spend a lot of time typing.
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by chriswait 6y ago
This comment is really hilarious in the context of your submission history.
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by chriswait 7y ago
I disagree with some of Sarah's takes on how education should change, e.g: >Most curricula lack a preliminary phase of collectively exploring students’ existing interests, before introducing them to material in a way that will be re
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by chriswait 8y ago
I decided to use the feedback/chat mechanism at the bottom right to suggest they don't do this. Maybe with enough feedback...
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by chriswait 8y ago
Which country is that, out of interest?
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by chriswait 8y ago
One interesting approach might be to work backwards from desired practical applications: https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-top-10-st...
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by chriswait 8y ago
Emerging for 50 years, and still going strong

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