coliveira

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by coliveira 6d ago
Yes, I think people have this fantasy that Jazz has anything new to offer in terms of music theory. That's false, everything used in Jazz was already part of the practice of classical music sometimes centuries ago. For example, improvi
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by coliveira 6d ago
Some people are interested in making sure these simulations have the same status of humans, and some others want to make gods of them. That's the problem.
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by coliveira 6d ago
Capitalism had already evolved into a religion, AI is their messiah.
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by coliveira 6d ago
But the AI industry is not run by engineers. They pay engineers to do what they want, but the founders are hacks that are good at getting funding from investors and favors from government. That's why we don't see an engineering-or
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by coliveira 8d ago
This to me is another level of dishonesty. Imagine if a company producing math software starts to hear "rumors" someone is using their software to prove an important result and start massive runs of that software to beat the team.
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by coliveira 9d ago
Exactly, especially when the company can assign "blame" to the models themselves "ops, they just escaped our commands not to store user inputs..."
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by coliveira 9d ago
At this point these models have been trained to recognize every important math and science result based on context. They can easily flag conversations concerning the top 100 open problems in mathematics and use them for their advancement.
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by coliveira 9d ago
Yes, and this puts in check the credibility of everything they say their model "discovered". Who knows what is really behind these "discoveries", what kind of backroom deals they did with other researchers who didn'
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by coliveira 20d ago
A good CEO according to the market, which is what counts in the US, is one that drives up the valuation of a company and increases profit in a mature company. It has nothing to do with personal interaction as most of us would prefer.
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by coliveira 20d ago
That's funny when you said that a CEO reads the body language of programmers. CEOs and high executives don't even bother looking at you!
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by coliveira 23d ago
> China that still seems acceptable China has made a tremendous effort to move to a clean(er) industrial system, using a lot of renewables and clean energy and improving environmental standards. At this point production in China is proba
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by coliveira 25d ago
Here's the problem: as bad as republicans are, democrat governments have the tendency to let most everything they did in place, and even add more as a way of playing a "bipartisan" game. The result is that democrat government
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by coliveira 26d ago
High inflation will fix this: it balloons the USD denominated GDP, so very soon this will be less than 100%. At the same time, the US will export inflation to other countries, since products are denominated in inflated dollars, and pressure
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by coliveira 26d ago
You're just confirming it.
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by coliveira 27d ago
The garage or dorm story is the biggest myth they keep repeating, it's basically nonsense.
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by coliveira 27d ago
The art may have been created independently, but rich money laundering is the main reason why that art is considered valuable. Remember that this is a movement created in NYC, where they perfected the connection between strange new art form
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by coliveira 29d ago
This is the best explanation, thanks.
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by coliveira 1mo ago
For people who passed their 30s, everything that happened after their 20th birthday is recent. For me, September 11 is recent memory, as well as the 2008 great recession.
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by coliveira 1mo ago
This type of problem doesn't happen in all languages. Many languages are more precise than english and will avoid exactly this type of ambiguity.
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by coliveira 1mo ago
Most people don't understand how cheap models like DeepSeek and similar are. I have $5 in an account that I use for months. I can get very complex code for less than 50 cents.
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by coliveira 1mo ago
This shows a problem with the English language: the same sentence can be understood in at least two ways: "the server can now work as a phone", or "the phone is now my server". It is to solve this kind of issue that many
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by coliveira 1mo ago
You're kidding yourself if you don't realize that the US gov can have access to any data they want in any of these US-based products. That's why they consider so important to "win" the development race for LLMs. It
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by coliveira 1mo ago
A lawnmower doesn't decide to do something bad by itself. The case with L.E. is much more sinister.
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by coliveira 1mo ago
> incredibly sophisticated companies We need to stop thinking that just because they have money they're incredibly sophisticated. We have a few examples like Mark Zuckerberg, who had early success with FB, but he seems to be incapab
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by coliveira 1mo ago
Also, a lot of real estate is owned by the Hollywood investors or their close friends, so this is a circular economy where they get rich, then buy property in that place and get even richer with real estate increasing in value. The same thi
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by coliveira 1mo ago
What will probably happen is that they'll buy the rights to use faces of famous people (actors or not) and use AI (or cheap actors) to do the real scenes.
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by coliveira 2mo ago
Yes, but Americans don't have the freedom to experience this. They have to choose between expensive and more expensive.
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by coliveira 2mo ago
EVs continue to be expensive in the US. But the trajectory is the opposite in the rest of the world due to the benefit of Chinese exports. In Brazil, for example, new car prices have a now a discount of up to $10K, all due to increased comp
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by coliveira 2mo ago
When you're a foreigner learning a language your experience is mostly from reading. There are words, however, that are much more common at home and in spoken language. So you'll probably never learn the words that a 10 year old ki
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by coliveira 2mo ago
Yes, it is relatively easy to find any solution to a bug. It is hard to find the root cause and change only what is necessary to fix the bug. AI makes it very efficient to "fix" bugs with code that needs to be fixed again later. T

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