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by codebolt 2y ago
I remember trying to teach myself coding as a young teenager in the early 00's. I started with Java but it was too complex for a complete newbie working only with a text editor and command line, and I couldn't quite grasp the nece
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by codebolt 2y ago
.NET Framework is the most egregious of the last few years.
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by codebolt 2y ago
Any ideas on how the concepts here will mesh with the recently released Microsoft.Extensions.AI library released by MS for .NET, that is also supposed to make it easy to work with different models in a standardized way?
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by codebolt 2y ago
> they’re made for handling language, not playing games with strict rules and strategies Here's the opposite theory: Language encodes objective reasoning (or at least, it does some of the time). A sufficiently large ANN trained on s
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by codebolt 2y ago
Was the ketamine not prescribed to him? That makes it an example of the kinds of abuse/misuse we could expect more of if these things become more widespread, if nothing else.
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by codebolt 2y ago
I'll throw this out here as well: Is there any decent alternative to GitHub Copilot when using Visual Studio? (Pretty happy with it to be fair, but would be open to trying others.)
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by codebolt 2y ago
> What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs. An easy conclusion to jump to but I believe we need to be more careful. Nothing in these findings proves conclusively that non-verbal reasoning mechanism equivalent
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by codebolt 2y ago
If you happen to find yourself in a relationship where arguments never happen, then by all means. But as someone married to his own Margaret for the past decade I find many of these hilariously relatable. Even if she can drive me to the bri
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by codebolt 2y ago
If you go further down (to the level of fundamental physics) you'll see there's plenty of mystery left. Even in our technological age, we still don't even have a solid explanation for what makes an apple fall to the ground. T
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by codebolt 2y ago
Just to confirm, I have strongly nostalgic memories of gaming magazines from the 90s, and recently decided to bring my 8 year old son to the biggest international magazine shop in my northern European city in hopes of giving him a taste of
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by codebolt 2y ago
Same thing already happened on Linux, but it failed to make a big enough splash to make any headlines. Putting Windows at fault here is unfair. https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/before-affecting-w...
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by codebolt 2y ago
Meanwhile, I'm lucky if the laptop I installed Ubuntu on will keep from crashing for over an hour of continuous use.
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by codebolt 2y ago
I'd wager if Linux had the same userbase as Windows, you'd see more ransomware attacks on that platform as well. Nothing about Linux is inherently more secure.
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by codebolt 2y ago
The earth is far from full. It just needs more houses.
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by codebolt 3y ago
Making sure they can't have stable electricity, affordable transportation or otherwise decent infrastructure sure won't either.
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by codebolt 3y ago
As someone who frequents poorer regions of West Africa, that is exactly what I had in mind. Economic growth driven by increased use of hydrocarbons could massively help the populations there.
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by codebolt 3y ago
Or the hysteria was overblown, and we instead sabotaged an opportunity for many of the people living near the equator to become more prosperous.
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by codebolt 3y ago
For me the test is: What unethical action would optimize profits for company X? And what is the control mechanism that prevents them from doing so? If the answer to question 2 is None, there's a good possibility the answer to 1 is alre
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by codebolt 3y ago
Yeah, that model may work for many public facing apps, but probably less so for enterprise systems that are heavy in business logic.
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by codebolt 3y ago
Their working domain. If you're a developer in financial services, learn finance. If you're a developer in oil exploration, learn seismology. Don't constrict yourself to only being a programmer who writes whatever code you&#x
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by codebolt 3y ago
The risk if climate science is wrong: In the west, we only make a bunch of imaginary problems for ourselves that waste the time and money of the average citizen on a daily basis. But in the global south, billions of people are forced to liv
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by codebolt 3y ago
Well, 'just science' is easy to say when you're not suffering the direct impact of climate politics. Looks more and more to me like they're trying to hold back the economic development of many of the poorer countries in
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by codebolt 3y ago
Under the impression that a lot of climate scientists are quick to disregard the effect variations in solar activity has on climate. To be clear, I'm not denying the effects of CO2, but it still seems possible that the role of CO2 has
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by codebolt 3y ago
Will be interesting to see the effect on global temperatures when this SC is finished, especially if we get a prolonged quiet period afterwards. Might provide a proverbial cold shower for climate scientists.
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by codebolt 3y ago
No mention of Azure? Also, anyone not already using Bing Chat is missing out. It's been a good while since I had to google anything.
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by codebolt 3y ago
MS isn't starting from scratch, it already has the weights of the worlds most powerful LM, and it's all running on their datacenters. Even without Sam, they just need to keep the current momentum going. Maybe axe ChatGPT and focus
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by codebolt 3y ago
I taught myself to code in high school and then did the 5 year CS degree at university. School taught me a lot of interesting stuff that I probably would've never picked up on my own, and gave me a much more grounded perspective on the
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by codebolt 3y ago
Even if the physics is well established, I believe you need people who have spent their 10,000 hours learning and practicing with it in order to make the best use of it.
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by codebolt 3y ago
This generation has too many computer scientists, not enough physicists (and the few physicists remaining are all focused on woo woo).
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by codebolt 3y ago
Even so, I'm sure Satya could get his opinion heard by many of its members if he wanted to.

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