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by davebranton 4mo ago
This phrase always fascinates me : "AI-generated content must not be treated as authoritative without independent verification appropriate to its context." I've heard the same thing expressed somewhat more concisely as "
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by davebranton 5mo ago
I wrote something like this for windows 20 years ago, a friend of mine used it to make some cutout models for an art exhibition. It's an interesting problem to try to solve. Anything but the simplest model requires more than one cutout
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by davebranton 6mo ago
Interesting how many people "Like AI" because it's good at all the jobs other than the one they happen to make a living doing. Did you hear about the screenwriters school in which the professors said to avoid AI for writing,
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by davebranton 6mo ago
Indeed. But they won't get to "AGI", because that goal isn't even remotely defined. A "human-level" intelligence implies a large number of properties that cannot exist inside an inference machine. Dreams, for e
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by davebranton 6mo ago
I made such a thing ten years ago with an ESP8226 and a basic iOS app built using HTML and javascript. It still works perfectly. The valves were 12v solenoids from ali express, and the plumbing was from the hardware store. I almost guarante
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by davebranton 6mo ago
Precisely. As I wrote in my assessment of AI for my workplace; "Your unique human voice is more valuable than a thousand prompt-driven LLM doggerels."
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by davebranton 6mo ago
The more you write, the less this will be true. The more you write, the better you will become at it. Using an LLM to write is like sending a robot to the gym for you. The more you use an LLM to write for you, the worse you will become at w
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by davebranton 6mo ago
It doesn't matter. The guidelines are perfectly clear, no matter the outcome of your thought experiment. Hacker News wants intelligent conversation between human beings, and that's the beginning and the end of it. If you want LLM-
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by davebranton 7mo ago
Why would somebody read something that somebody couldn't be bothered to write? This article is AI slop.
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by davebranton 7mo ago
The deep, profound, cruel irony of this post is that it was written by AI. Maybe if you work in the world of web and apps, AI will come for you. If you don't , and you work in industrial automation and safety, the I believe it will not
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by davebranton 8mo ago
The linked article on medium was also written by AI, which immediately disqualifies it from being interesting or useful. "And the worst part? Apple didn’t provide a switch to turn it off." Now see, this is AI. A normal human being
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by davebranton 10mo ago
If I see another AI-written trash article I am going to scream. Overlong, overwritten garbage. People used to write, and there was personality in that writing. Now people believe it's acceptable to generate reams of utter formless shit
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by davebranton 11mo ago
I stopped reading at the AI image at the top of the page. The comments here suggest I was right to.
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by davebranton 1y ago
I very strongly suspect that this preference is learned. I've never made anything from a mix, but I've baked brownies, cookies, sponge, tarts, biscuits and bread. They have all turned out perfectly delicious, without any need for
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by davebranton 3y ago
My (much simpler, decades old) one https://plasticeagle.com/fractal.html I'm sure many people have written similar things, in various technologies, over the years. Let's see them.
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by davebranton 4y ago
YAML is much too complex. I am never able to remember all the different ways of formatting text, for instance, and have to resort to cheat-sheet guides such as this all the time. https://yaml-multiline.info/ The YAML spec i
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by davebranton 4y ago
Art is alot more than JPEGs. I don't have JPEGs on my walls, I have paintings and etchings and collages and even a small tapestry. I have some small ceramics, and a handmade charred wooden bowl. I have photographs printed on fibre-base
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by davebranton 4y ago
The answer to this question is that we don't make bread like we used to. There's a wonderful documentary on Netflix about this, called "Cooked" (the episode entitled "Air" is about bread). Short answer: bread u