earth_walker

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by earth_walker 2y ago
Abstractions are a way to manage complexity - hiding things is only one way to do that. Deciding how to organize it, when and how to expose it, and when to get out of the way, are all important aspects of designing abstractions.
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by earth_walker 2y ago
Good question - and there's been lots of work on this area. See for example property testing and fuzz testing, which can do something similar to what your second paragraph suggests. You should be able to find a property testing library
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by earth_walker 2y ago
Paint didn't replace charcoal. Photography didn't replace drawings. Digital art didn't replace physical media. Random game level generation didn't replace architecture. AI generated works will find a place beside human g
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by earth_walker 2y ago
Elm's strengths are its constraints, which allow for simple, readable code that's easy to test and reason about - partly because libraries are also guaranteed to work within those constraints. I've tried and failed several ti
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by earth_walker 3y ago
Agreed. I've run the house using google minis and assistant for years now, and asking assistant to do / about stuff has not improved one iota in that time and has introduced several more quirks and bugs. Makes me wish I had bet on
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by earth_walker 3y ago
I work with the regulated drug development industry, and believe there is a useful and important distinction between Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA). I wonder if perhaps this distinction would be useful to software quality t
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by earth_walker 3y ago
Hint: V = Vanadium and I = Iodine.
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by earth_walker 3y ago
I just typed in "6 minutes and 55 second" in the youtube search and someone had posted a video called "6 minutes and 55 seconds of X"
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by earth_walker 4y ago
That's exactly how I start every morning. Now I'll just imagine myself as an emerging super-intelligence!
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by earth_walker 4y ago
> It's another reason not to expect AI to be "like humans". Agreed. I think the adaptive noise filter is going to be the really tricky part. The fact that we have a limited, fading memory is thought to be a feature and no
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I guess that assumes AGI's emotional intelligence scales with processing power. What if it instead over-thinks things by multiples of billions and we get this super neurotic, touchy and sulky teenager?
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Reading all about this the main thing I'm learning is about human behaviour. Now, I'm not arguing against the usefulness of understanding the undefined behaviours, limits and boundaries of these models, but the way many of these c
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by earth_walker 4y ago
The reaction you're seeing is not because we've all got drinking problems. It's due to the reactionary way this and other similar studies are headlined: "No level of alcohol consumption is safe...". It's click-
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by earth_walker 4y ago
The hippies did not 'push' free love and drug use - those are themes evident in every generation's youth. It's what teens do. In the hippies case, as the movement became more mainstream the establishment funded efforts
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Location: Southern Alberta Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Experienced QA professional, particularly in GLP/GMP/GPP. QMS / quality process design, implementation and streamlining. Spreadsheet, softwar
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by earth_walker 4y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote / Southern Alberta. Will consider travel and relocating for the right opportunity. My name is Brendan. I'm an experienced GLP/GMP/GPP QA professional with a bit of a programming problem. I help regul
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I don't find twitter to be seamless nor easy. They have reduced my choices to the point where I can't actually see what I want to see without doing a bunch of research into how to 'game' the system. Looking at my home pa
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Oh, they are paid. According to the contract they take various types of payment ranging from: Sunday mornings drinking bad wine, tithes all the way to lifelong celibacy and blood sacrifice.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Here in Canada that's what we called John Player Specials. Black and gold. To go with your tux.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Having said that... as I play with it more, I really like the UI. If there was a privacy-first option I would definitely use it.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
For me, never. For most of the other people in my life, they are primarily searching for products, books, people, and ideas for recipes or various projects around the home. So I totally see the utility of having these social media sites in
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by earth_walker 4y ago
As impressive as this regime is if you can do it, I'd recommend most people start a little slower and mix it up a little more - this kind of highly repetitive strain will burn out your body, just as the insane work schedule burnt you o
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Here in Canada private companies can and do pay dividends to their shareholders.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Please go ahead and provide proven solutions to those of us who are exhausted and desperate. If you profit while you're at it too, it's a clear win-win!
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I think there will likely be better ways to bias the training of specific instances - Something like a 'training library' with biased training data that you can plug in for your use case. For example let's say you're a w
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I see what you mean about GPT returning copies. But is there really a difference if your model just happens to 'calculate' an exact copy instead? For example, if you enter in something simple and high profile, what it returns look
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I disagree. The majority is never informed enough to make a good decision on something as nuanced as censorship. At least a dictatorship could, theoretically, be benevolent and act on the advice of experts.
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by earth_walker 4y ago
I think you don't give enough emphasis on the "if you even could before" part. Sure, this makes realistic fakes easier and more available to to the masses. So what? We've had the technology to 'frame' people in
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by earth_walker 4y ago
America has always paid 1x for a TV without ads. It is the TV and media companies that are a) using lies and deception to convince America that it's ok to instead pay (1x + advertising + a hidden loss of privacy) for a TV, and b) collu
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by earth_walker 4y ago
Not giving them your money in the first place would be the easiest solution.

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