deepfriedbits

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by deepfriedbits 9d ago
> Taking away some of the more monotonous and "uncreative" tasks in any job can be taking away some of the variety in the work. Variety is nice. Ultimately, and this applies to so much of life, "to each, their own," r
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by deepfriedbits 14d ago
Yeah, I can't believe all of the skepticism. If we're not at textbook AGI, we're awfully darn close. The demo video showed Astra create a drawing of a rocket ship from an audio prompt, take the drawing to blender, and ended w
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by deepfriedbits 20d ago
Americans are not uniquely ignorant. American ignorance is just blasted out to the entire world to see.
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by deepfriedbits 20d ago
It's wild how in America at least, the people have to relearn the same lessons every generation or two. It turns out, some regulations are actually beneficial to a society. Maybe don't take a chainsaw to the groups who implement a
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by deepfriedbits 21d ago
Usually I'm with you. In these instances, there's a ton of malice, however, with what DOGE did and the relentless drive from conservatism to shrink government and regulations (many of which aim to protect consumers).
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by deepfriedbits 27d ago
With all due respect, this is a wild take. Things aren't great in the U.S. right now, but they're not even in the same universe as what the Stasi was doing. > I think it would be easier to understand the playing field and choos
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by deepfriedbits 1mo ago
True, but you're still buying an entire battery yourself in the course of a calendar year. I love the spirit behind this but it's strange advice. I consider myself lucky to have a healthy roster of adult friends, and I still think
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by deepfriedbits 1mo ago
> "Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." What a cool way to convey the benefits of having strong friendships.
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by deepfriedbits 2mo ago
Reading this, I caught myself wondering how we distill what's in this excellent write up into something the average consumer understands, including the dangers from buying and using devices like this. Is it a graphic that's shared
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by deepfriedbits 2mo ago
Not only that, but all of this tooling around models has such a short shelf life as the models themselves grow in capabilities, they absorb the tooling. We've already seen it over and over again.
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by deepfriedbits 2mo ago
Yep. That was the entire subtext from the drop in IBM's share price yesterday.
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by deepfriedbits 2mo ago
Indeed. And you can make this case about any tooling at all that is model adjacent.
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by deepfriedbits 3mo ago
Exactly. No reasonable business will ban emails from this subdomain.
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by deepfriedbits 3mo ago
Thankfully this, like most other tech, will get cheaper through the years.
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by deepfriedbits 3mo ago
I could totally see that
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by deepfriedbits 3mo ago
Bingo. They see this as the future commodity it will be. Customers will choose AI providers much way they choose a car: taste, price, a few other factors. And to your point, Google has a massive balance sheet, produces their own AI chips, a
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by deepfriedbits 4mo ago
Said another way: "Pride is for the poor."
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by deepfriedbits 4mo ago
It's not about the paywall in this case. It's to prevent AI companies from scraping a publication's archives for training data. If AI companies want that data, they can compensate publishers, not extract it for free from the
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by deepfriedbits 4mo ago
On some level, it's the lesser of two evils. Both do suck as options, I agree.
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by deepfriedbits 4mo ago
I'm not jumping in with both feet, either, but "never" is a very big word.
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by deepfriedbits 4mo ago
Same. Legit groan laugh in an oh-no kind of way when I read this: > November 12, 1970. East Pakistan. The Bhola Cyclone. The deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded. Winds of 115 miles per hour. A storm surge of 33 feet. They estimate 5
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by deepfriedbits 4mo ago
I've thought about this a lot as well and could definitely see it happening.
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
Yep. There's no certification needed to create a financial model or close monthly books.
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
Yikes. They even placed his name and bio on the Notepad++ for Mac website to help legitimize it.
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
I wish you would have taken the time to reply and clarify your comment. I've been here for 16 years – my commenting history is readily available. My words and thoughts are my own.
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
That's a solid point. I've often thought about how a hit TV series some day might come out of one person's apartment. AI is inverting the old "ideas are worthless; value is in the execution" adage. Ideas themselves
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
Wait, are you implying I used an LLM to write my comment? Sorry if I'm misreading what you're saying.
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
Absolutely and you're dead on thinking about the opening of the possibility space. The value of software as an enterprise will fall as we enter an age of abundant, and often custom, bespoke software. There will be many great apps comin
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
Love your point about how AI tools are boosting fun side projects and how it reminds of early creator internet. Spot on.
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by deepfriedbits 5mo ago
Not only that, but they can make life inconvenient for your family. Nobody reasonable would accuse the CCP of outright violence, but there are a million bureaucracy-related tricks the state can pull to leverage you and/or your family.

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