drpixie

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by drpixie 6d ago
> if the value is in the prompt, give me that prompt – I have access to a model too. Absolutely. I don't want to waste my time reading pages of (literally) mindless slop. If you can't be bothered writing well, just write points
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by drpixie 8d ago
That is how the PR reads, but is not at all what happened. A team of highly trained and skilled people used an AI tool, through many many instructions (prompts), to produce a specific mathematical theorem. The tool is impressive, the result
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by drpixie 11d ago
And be your own critic. Aim for great, not just ok. Find out what dry-joints look like. And too much solder. Then aim for a really nice job :)
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by drpixie 13d ago
Yeah - and if they wanted some cheap PR, that's one way to get it.
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by drpixie 1mo ago
Their basic point is very valid, and the term "AI" is now so overused that it's become essentially meaningless. Recently I've heard "AI" used to mean: * using large language models for code/text/image
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by drpixie 2mo ago
LLMs have shown us how easily humans are fooled. Just provide a similar answer to which was seen in similar circumstances, and we start misleading ourselves into it's method and "understanding". Though perhaps I'm wrong
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by drpixie 2mo ago
It's been amusing to watch the points bounce up and down on my comment. I guess equally half the readers agree with my sentiment, and half down-vote, being upset by my attitude to the AI industry :) PS. I'm quietly waiting for the
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by drpixie 2mo ago
> GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture Very misleading article title. Title should be "Un-named humans produce unverified proof of CDC Conjecture using GPT-5.6" ... but I expect only advertising
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by drpixie 3mo ago
Is there anything on the website that isn't "AI" generated? Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear :(
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by drpixie 3mo ago
Can't imagine it would survive the first descent storm. Unlike conventiolnal turbines, it doesn't seem to have any way of protecting itself.
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by drpixie 4mo ago
Few thousand? Really? Larousse Gastronomique is 3600 pages, averaging maybe 1 recipe and 1 ingredient per page - and that's just classic French cooking.
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by drpixie 4mo ago
Me too. The number of "revolutionary" designs that are announced but disappear makes me cynical. Looking wings on real aircraft, unless freshly painted, they're pretty close to finely sanded :) If the airlines and engineers s
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by drpixie 4mo ago
I'm inclined towards keeping an ancient android for those apps that require it, and maybe something open for actual use. Or perhaps a crappy old android for android and a small non-android tablet/laptop for daily-driver stuff, whi
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by drpixie 4mo ago
Same reason as "make another (better) windows" is very difficult - almost everyone wants to be able to run existing apps and drivers, so you're forever playing compatibility catchup with android (or windows). That's the
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by drpixie 5mo ago
I've always felt that to treat infinity as number is to commit a category error (aka type conflict), to confuse the process with the outcome of the process. Infinity has proven to be very useful, but usefulness doesn't make it alw
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by drpixie 5mo ago
It's a great pity but I won't be buy more Ubiquiti hardware unless their direction improves. I loved the Ubiquiti hardware until a year or so ago. It was well spec'd, well priced, reliable, and it was easy to upgrade to OpenW
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Replacing an Apple Time Capsule? Skip the Ubiquiti UNAS-2(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by drpixie 5mo ago|2 comments
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by drpixie 5mo ago
>> However, the tech exists for a reason and is not inherently bad, the issue is the lock-in, the lack of choice and interoperability. The marketing excuse for the tech might be features or efficiency, but the reason for the tech is
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by drpixie 5mo ago
>> It has barely hit 50% and it's already plateauing. Well, the curve has got to level-out at 100%.
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by drpixie 7mo ago
From Corsair >> DDR5 technology comes with an exclusive data-checking feature that serves to improve memory cell reliability and increase memory yield for memory manufacturers. This inclusion doesn't make it full ECC memory thoug
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by drpixie 8mo ago
As I understand it, the 50-move rule must be invoked by one of the players, lets assume our immortal players agree not to invoke that rule. The 75-move rule is automatic, so that would be the limiting factor. Note, that 75-move rule is only
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by drpixie 8mo ago
Personally, I would like the name to be somehow related to the system. When I'm facing a stack of names and icons, make it easy for me. Names without some connection to the thing are just more difficult. Maybe the name isn't d
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by drpixie 8mo ago
And I though the arbitrary, non-mnemonic, unrelated-to-anything project/app names had got too much ... obviously we're way past that :(
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by drpixie 8mo ago
To me, it looks like the whole article was generated by AI. Using slop to promote slop ;(
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by drpixie 8mo ago
How about requiring all APIs to be open? Companies are free to run/maintain/drop servers and apps, but we'd have the ability to use the hardware we bought, if we write our own apps. That might actually be good for security. I
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by drpixie 8mo ago
There are several versions of the Cray 1 Hardware Reference manual online. They're not as descriptive as Design of a Computer, but still informative.
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by drpixie 8mo ago
Oh great - yet another way to get AI slop. Slop text, a slop cover - just raw slop, straight from the slopperizor. And the internet gets another little bit deader.
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by drpixie 9mo ago
> software is easier than hardware Software is certainly easier to replicate that hardware, 1M copies cost almost exactly the same as 1 copy :)
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by drpixie 9mo ago
I thought for a long time that rather than move to Wayland, we could come up with a tidied-up version of X. Sounds like a good and useful project, I hope it progresses.
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by drpixie 9mo ago
Where do they say they're omitting drawing and xrender?

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