dclowd9901

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by dclowd9901 16d ago
I don't think you've said anything different than the person you're responding to. The difference primarily seems to be whether you think AI is transformative vs simply being another tool (which is really just a matter of per
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by dclowd9901 18d ago
Anymore I almost don't buy any IKEA stuff without intending some modification. I do woodworking as a hobby so it's nice to be able to skip all the rote stuff like building a large flat wooden surface or a square box or table legs.
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
Clearly some folks here have never worked at Amazon before. It's genuinely terrifying to see what most of the internet runs on.
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
Yet, with 37% of people being only a $400 surprise cost away from financial destitution, you might be completely wrong. https://www.investopedia.com/here-s-how-many-americans-can-t...
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
Still, it lowers the resolution of the results if you have to throw out a significant portion of the interviews.
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
> Whenever I see a claim that "x% of adults do y", my brain goes Would that everyone employed this level of skepticism before commenting on figures.
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
Ah, guess I was conflating the two (they are quite similar after all). From their documentation (the link you posted): > For untrusted repos, use a basic text editor instead. Is that really our options here? How shitty.
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
This draws to mind the dialog that opens when you open a new project in Cursor (and VSCode too, I think), where the IDE asks the user if they trust the project they're opening. Is Cursor under the impression that this is sufficient sec
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
I'm always confused by these phrases: > The new API cuts word error rate by 3.5 to 4x on the same audio: from 9.02% to 2.12% on clean speech Shouldn't they have said "cuts error rate by 78%" or something?
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
Oh yeah, I think I alone have shared this article with a few dozen people.
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
Just more focused places to find it, I think. I loved the historical seafaring stories that DI would post, but then I realized that there were subject matter podcasts that dug into these stories even more. So I think it was just specializat
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by dclowd9901 2mo ago
Admittedly, I haven't read DI in quite a while, but seeing this post brought back a flood of memories from my college days of waiting for the next article to drop. This blog was the precursor of an entire genre of "generally inter
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
There is no such thing as a complete piece of information and it is unreasonable to expect every published piece of every bit of information to contain all required context to understand it. I'm not defending the Yale article's ba
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
Or even the UN? That organization that this administration wants no part of...
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
https://archive.is/fZ9CN > Michael England, a spokesman for the National Science Foundation, said the decision to dismantle the network, known as the Ocean Observatories Initiative, “aligns with N.S.F.’s wider strategy t
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
"Ingenuity" is what I think is missing. The sheer _want_ of solving a problem that is distinctly a living creature's concern. The irony is if we ever taught machines how to have this, they'd probably not want to work for
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
Nonsense. The goalpost is "this is as good as a senior engineer". A senior engineer can easily understand architectural rationale. Don't dismiss my argument because it's inconvenient to yours.
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
I'm not sure what your background is, but as a staff level engineer, I can assure you they do not. They in fact seem to lack any understanding of architectural intent within a sufficiently large code base. This seems obvious since they
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
I've been using it mostly to bat away yak shaving rabbit holes one can get into when working on a large and complex project. I work mostly on platform work, which is generally nebulous in its feedback loop and testing. Relegating AI to
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by dclowd9901 4mo ago
I see it as rude as well. The literal interpretation is: "your time is worth absolutely nothing to me."
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
Without reaching for my tin foil hat, I have a feeling MS is able to suppress these incidents somehow, because yeah, that one was pretty bad.
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
What's your general increase of cost and maintenance overhead? How many devs and repos do you have?
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
Or last week's "If you use merge queue, oopsie, we accidentally destroyed your trunk", which also failed silently.
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
I kind of had assumed that had already begun impacting downtime, though I guess it would be good to get some confirmation.
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
"Useful" is an interesting term. How useful is someone who is an expert at using AI but has no computer?
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
So I guess I should just give up on my dream of having a useful AI assistant for day to day "human" tasks. We're just hell bent on replacing humans in jobs.
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
Then prove I'm wrong. Prove that an LLM can in fact solve completely novel arithmetic.
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
Well we're not. Theory of mind is _understanding_ you're not.
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
How is it not true? Theres a world of difference between predicting the next word of a sentence in a summary and understanding the tenets of mathematics. You're mistaking general application of mathematical knowledge with memorization
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by dclowd9901 5mo ago
Because they don't _understand_ things. If I teach an LLM that 3+5 is 8, it doesn't "get" that 4+5 is 9 (leave aside the details here, as I'm explaining for effect). It needs to be taught that as well, and so on. We

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