fluxinflex

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by fluxinflex 3y ago
It seems that ADHD is trending on HN today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36719713 or is it just my focus today :thinking:
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
In sense yes, previously we were engaged in "google engineering, then we went to "stackoverflow engineering" and now its "prompt engineering" - with every step, the magic and mystic increases.
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
I've been playing around with Node-RED[1] for a while and thought I would recreate this using Node-RED (also being a big fan of Node-RED). The flow[2], i.e. code, is online to have a look at (editable but not deployable) and the feed[3
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
That made my day! That's soooo incredibly unbelievably mindnumbingly stupid that I love it :+1:
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
The underlying point being made - by the comment - is that if an author is biased because they are selling a product and complaining about their competition, how can the article or the "facts" be trusted? The orignal article is di
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
I once worked at a company where I was responsible for exclusively doing this: building internal tools. It was one of the most satisifying jobs I ever had. It was for a mobile games company with between 100 and 200 employees. Most developer
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
https://archive.is/18Q7c
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The Problem with Counterfeit People(theatlantic.com)
4 points by fluxinflex 3y ago|1 comments
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
Ownership is not always complete. Nature and natural resources are in fact a societal good and shouldn't be dominated by a small class of people within society. Sure someone "owns" that land (whatever that means since it was
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Supreme Court versus Warhol foundation: copyright fight over Prince photo lost(nbcnews.com)
1 points by fluxinflex 3y ago|1 comments
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
> The court concluded in a ruling authored by Justice Sonia Sotomayor that the works made by Warhol did not have a sufficiently different commercial purpose from that of the original photo taken by Goldsmith: Both are used to illustrate
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
Indeed, the tenor of the article is that AI will not reach the levels of creativity that humans display, instead our expectations of creative process will be lowered by the sheer quantity. Our expectation on quality will decline so far that
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
> AI operates by making high-probability choices: the most likely next word, in the case of written texts. Artists—painters and sculptors, novelists and poets, filmmakers, composers, choreographers—do the opposite. They make low-probabil
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Why AI Will Never Rival Human Creativity(persuasion.community)
10 points by fluxinflex 3y ago|16 comments
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
That would imply only those that have political expertise may speak on politics. At which point would one then be allowed to speak on AI? I think the author (Naomi Klein) was speaking on the societal aspects of AI, inparticular those that w
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
> There is a world in which generative AI, as a powerful predictive research tool and a performer of tedious tasks, could indeed be marshalled to benefit humanity, other species and our shared home. But for that to happen, these technolo
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AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are(theguardian.com)
12 points by fluxinflex 3y ago|3 comments
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
Humans will always spend their time doodling or burning wasted compute cycles. Cave dwellers spent an awful lot of time throwing stones into rivers. Boredom is uncurable and should not be taken in a sorrowful manner. - ChatGPT
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
Article makes an interesting point that reading and writing is killing the oral transmission of wisdom. Books get read and then forgotten as they get put into libraries. The article points out that oral traditions can go back as far 7000 ye
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
As talked about here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35697922 - need to login to check it out? Sorry no dice.
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
Depends on which storyteller you listen to. The English would tell you that the Chinese were being unfair in their trade and had it coming it to them (the wars). The Chinese would tell you that they have had a century of humiliation[1]. Som
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
This is was the reason for the Opium Wars with the English. The English wanted Chinas tea but the Chinese didn't want anything from the English so the English were bleeding gold and silver into China. So the English forced Opium onto t
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
This similar to Chinas stand on IP: copying is ok so long it doesn't happen to our IP. But this is how small economies can grow quickly, by ignoring IP. So nearly every western nation had a period of ignoring copyright and/or IP.
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
That's not quite true -> https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=jacobin.com there are plenty of non-flagged articles there.
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Who is baduk1234 and why are they creating hundreds of PRs?(github.com)
2 points by fluxinflex 3y ago|2 comments
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
I just noticed the baduk1234 is creating hundreds of pull requests all with the same comment: > This is a bug bounty test. Please ignore.. Please DO NOT APPROVE THIS! Does GitHub have another PR bug or something? I wonder why it takes 10
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
Ironically if you work in a big company you are living in a communist state: CEO tells the workers what to do and everyone is following the plan. Ok, you get brided by your salary to do it and if you behave like a good communist, you might
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
And where has that gotten us? An internet that can't be trusted, people stuck in bullshit jobs (David Graeber words) and retirement and health systems that don't work. Yet another bank crisis. Yet another war. And people still liv
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
Thank you, I hope can I post an Show HN one day with a prototype. The more I play around with the idea, the more I realise how complex the enduser experience would be. Need to define core features and use cases and focus on them.
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by fluxinflex 3y ago
> Isn’t Wikipedia already the mind map of humanity in a way? In a way however it does not provide a two dimensional visual representation of that mind map. I'm sure there are projects to do that but it isn't the default way to

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