dmortin

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by dmortin 10d ago
It's different by location. E. g. in Europe many people uses Facebook, many under 40s too. In the US: 25–34 years: Around 25.7% to 25.9% (the largest single demographic group).
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by dmortin 11d ago
Maybe the robot won't take all the jobs, but they may take many jobs. Those masses won't be happy if some of the people will still have jobs. And BTW, 75 year olds doing physical labor is not an ideal state of things unless that p
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by dmortin 11d ago
In the future the product itself will be implemented by the end of the meeting.
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by dmortin 24d ago
> What's left for humans to do? Live on UBI, explore this wonderful world, colonize other planets.. If AI is so good then why would feeble humans travel to other planets? AI will use robots to discover them which don't need foo
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by dmortin 24d ago
If it does not gain traction then it's irrelevant in the global software field. You can have fun with it, but it won't make a difference, so from the point of view of the software market it won't exist.
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by dmortin 24d ago
Judging from the rate of improvement in AIs it will happen gradually over the next few years. Comparing AIs of a few years ago to the ones today there is a good chance they will improve enormously. Some humans will always be needed for hand
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by dmortin 24d ago
> Software Engineering as science will be largely dedicated to AI development Which will require fewer people. Simple software engineers who work on CRUDs and are not PhD-s and stuff will go away. Most of software is like this. The few
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by dmortin 1mo ago
Isn't it expensive, though? If you let it perform gui or web tasks for you using vision, I'd think it consumes lots of tokens.
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by dmortin 2mo ago
Do you actually get any signifcant AI traffic today?
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by dmortin 2mo ago
Nothing, but the article is about American AI, so using Chinese models by American companies can be risky. And it's risky for the Chinese to use American models. So every country or block needs to run their own models to avoid opening
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by dmortin 2mo ago
Are open weights models secure? E.g. if a Chinese model is run by an American provider then can it still do bad things, like inserting backdoors into generated code or accessing external URLs (if browsing is enabled) to send info to them? I
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by dmortin 2mo ago
There should be at least some correlation. When building the model they give more weight to some pages (e.g. Wikipedia) which have bigger trust (pagerank?). And when they provide links in answers, those matches are listed first which have b
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by dmortin 2mo ago
Secifically in Google AI Overview I always see links to sites where the information is sourced from. Or at least some of the sites, if the same info is sourced from 100 pages then it only shows 2 or 3, maybe the ones with the biggest PageRa
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by dmortin 3mo ago
Is his code maintainable, though? Or is it just a pile of code which happens to work? What if he wants to change something? Does he generate again the whole thing from scratch? Or does he tell Claude to make the changes and doesn't eve
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by dmortin 4mo ago
That's exactly what PageRank is about, invented by Google.
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by dmortin 4mo ago
The strength of the sources are not a question of quantity. A hundred obscure blog post have not the same strength as one wikipedia link, because the latter is more trustworthy. There could be some indication beside the info showing the str
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by dmortin 4mo ago
There should be some warning if some "fact" is only supported by one or very few obscure sources. The strength of the sources should be clearly indicated in the answers to help users gauge how trustworthy the info is.
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by dmortin 8mo ago
Was it inability or simply calculation? He made a livelihood out of making up stories about ancient aliens. He was financially motivated to keep telling his stories.
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by dmortin 1y ago
What bothers me is that even some tech forums use Facebook groups and stuff, hiding the information in non-searchable silos. Why can't at least tech people use only traditional forums which are easily searchable, readable without logi
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by dmortin 1y ago
> Content can’t be free if you want it to be of any quality. There are lots smaller local websites which can produce useful local content because of ad support. Those may not have enough subscribers to continue behind a paywall.
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by dmortin 1y ago
> Luckily, there's tons of information on the web provided not by commercial entities but by volunteers The question is: is there content which is useful, but not provided by volunteers? We see more and more content behind paywalls,
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by dmortin 1y ago
" it will be interesting to see what the business model for Anthropic will be if I can run a solid code generation model on my local machine " Most people won't bother with buying powerful hardware for this, they will keep us
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by dmortin 1y ago
> but unless you're deeply, deeply into repetitive religious tracts of 600 years ago, most of the collection is more of a curiosity than a valuable resource to modern scholars. It's an abbey, so they are probably into religious
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by dmortin 1y ago
Unless that typo was inserted intentionally to make it look like it was written by a fallible human.
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by dmortin 1y ago
Keybindings are the least interesting part of emacs. I modify the default keybindings heavily, because I find them uncomfortable. Emacs's strength is being a portable programming platform which once you learned it allows you to very qu
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by dmortin 2y ago
> I just want write some scripts and SSH to a Unix box I don't want to maintain kernels, web servers, or SSL certificates. That's my use case too. I don't want to maintain a VPS, just have some server available. Something
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by dmortin 2y ago
> I don't trust Google reviews anymore, Maps or otherwise. What do you use as alternative?
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by dmortin 2y ago
> I saw some shady third-party tool that scrapes the data, but it's against the Terms of Service and I don't want to worry about being banned from my entire Google ecosystem. I'm pretty sure Google Terms prohibits using d
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by dmortin 2y ago
How does he have time for that beside CEO-ing several companies and hacking the government?
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by dmortin 2y ago
I wonder how long vim and emacs can stay vibrant. I've used emacs in the last 20 years, so I stick with it, but new generations who are trained on vscode and such are less likely to use such "old fashioned" tools. Surely, the

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