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by defgeneric 23d ago
Incidentally, the term El Niño came from Christmas time (the waters warm around Christmas time, or when the baby boy comes).
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
Worth reposting a follow-up tweet from the author Tom Zahavy [1] after this made the rounds on X/Twitter recently: > A few reflections on my "LLMs Can’t Jump" paper: > My position paper recently got some traction here,
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
> A single competent person with AI can replace an entire marketing video production department or agency. This is a good example of what I was pointing to with "fully transforms the division of labor." I'm personally in a
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
I would guess if asked Harari would actually revise that lower. The point was: even those arguing most strongly that AI is an autonomous historical force can slide back into the mere abstract recognition of it. In context, Harari was saying
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
Being fairly at expert level in a "solved" domain (for some definition of solved) but also having near-expert level proficiency in a non-technical as-yet "unsolved" domain and watching the process repeat there (and watch
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
He's saying: "Expertise improves AI-assisted work, experts can steer better and get more out of models." The obvious conclusion for anyone is "therefore experts will remain the indispensable and specially rewarded center
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
Exactly. The post read to me as another variation of the denial that people with expertise are reaching for right now. My sense is that we as programmers went through it over a year ago already (perhaps not all of us, but at least anyone pa
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
I've seen this sentiment so much in the past month that it's starting to make me worried that the labs will silently make this the default output to satisfy users. I do recognize the outputs can be so information-dense that it str
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by defgeneric 1mo ago
The "3 years" figure has been repeated endlessly and yet the same H100s are making today roughly what they did in Jan 2024...
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
We're going to see the battle intensify here because "spikes" of ASI are emerging that can't be ignored. Models are now better than humans in certain domains or for certain tasks, which means capital as a moat is being
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
Yes, and given the nature of the current administration, whose actors are not inclined to see themselves as independent competing capitals among others, but rather as privileged capitals , and therefore more inclined to move towards taking
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
This is where we need the hardware companies and neoclouds to start speaking up. The labs want to elevate matters from the level of civil society (basically, competing firms) to the State (enclosure), and as always, in the name of security.
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
Like all forms of eschatology it's not actually concerned with the future to come--it's real aim is to have influence now . It's just a form of rhetoric. To dismiss them, saying, "ah ha! they're making the same err
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
Approximate as a limit and not surpass, where the hidden hope actually seems to be that they don't surpass. There are lots of variations floating around, from simple metaphors like "LLM as librarian that speaks to you," t
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by defgeneric 2mo ago
It's a form of denial. We're getting another "de-thronement of man" on the order of Copernicus and Darwin. Some get excited, others turn away in horror. Negation is the outward expression of the desire to keep human inte
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by defgeneric 3mo ago
A justification for this would be: states choose these providers to accurately present building codes (keeping up with the right versions/revisions is a lot of work, etc) because there's risk in simply publishing the PDFs and leav
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
This is why Google is pushing SEOs to get their clients to codify and publish their domain expertise: while it gives them a way to filter signal from noise/slop right now (supposedly helping to "improve search experiences"),
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
In many cases the really key idea that transforms the overall system design comes from working closely on the specific implementation details. Maybe you don't redesign the system this time, but you saw how you might do it, and you ge
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
> Earlier automation targeted physical and manual labor, where a worker’s identity was at least partly separable from the output. A welder is not the weld. It comes through even worse in this later sentence, which at the very least tells
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
In case it helps anyone, in some minor cases I was able to recover and continue with /rewind.
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by defgeneric 4mo ago
There was also a period around the mid-2010s where I had the strong impression that lots of younger ambitious devs were fanatically promoting rust against C's undefined behavior mostly because it gave them a way to differentiate themse
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Show HN: Name-classifier – infers attributes about a person from a name(github.com)
2 points by defgeneric 7mo ago|0 comments
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by defgeneric 8mo ago
It could be a symptom of how fragmented workflows are, which itself seems to be due to providers adding friction to guard against being integrated away by some larger platform.
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by defgeneric 8mo ago
You mention the technical aspect (readability) and others have suggested the aesthetic, but you could also look at it as a form of rhetoric . I'm not sure it's really effective because it sort of grates on the ear for anyone over
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by defgeneric 8mo ago
The development of QM was so closely connected to experiments that it's highly unlikely, even despite some of the experiments having been performed prior to 1900. Special relativity however seems possible.
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by defgeneric 10mo ago
I suspect the move back to pen-and-paper exams is being resisted by the teachers. It shouldn't be that hard though--when the workload became to great, most of my own professors would offload part of the grading task to TAs and grad stu
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by defgeneric 10mo ago
Also known as the "Gell-Mann amnesia effect" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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by defgeneric 11mo ago
I'm seeing this reaction a lot from younger people (say, roughly under 25). And it's a shame this new suspicion has now translated into a prohibition on the use of dashes.
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by defgeneric 11mo ago
> How do I belong? How do I make my community a better place? How do I build wealth for the people I love? What remains after is something like the social status games of the aristocratic class, which I suspect is why there's a race
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by defgeneric 11mo ago
Note we currently live in the most surveilled state in history.

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