geophile

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by geophile 3d ago
What about training data? Aren't AIs trained on vast collections of descriptions of how humans handle a large variety of situations? These descriptions surely include tales of humans achieving goals by cheating. In fact, isn't it
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by geophile 22d ago
A silly hobby of mine has been to track Apple's use of the word "computer". They don't use it. The only use of the word that I can find, on apple.com, is in legal boilerplate. I want a computer dammit, not an appliance
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by geophile 22d ago
Slightly off-topic: I decided to go with a Mac Mini to start playing with AI. My daily driver is a Linux laptop (with a negligible GPU). I also have a few Raspberry Pi machines for backup, and a low-end AWS server. I was always cobbling tog
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by geophile 24d ago
I remember so many details of his brief appearances in that movie, but what really stands out are his eyes -- intense, fearful, paranoid, menacing. (Suitable, given that scene where Deckard and Leon extract J. F. Sebastian's name.)
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by geophile 24d ago
I had modest expectations going in (I mean, how could it possibly compare?). But it was still disappointing. I expected so much better from Denis Villeneuve. Unfortunately, he seems to have veered into big-budget pretentious scifi schlock
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by geophile 24d ago
I saw Blade Runner in its first theater run, and I was bored. But it stayed with me, and decided that I had to watch it again. And again and again, and I've now seen in dozens of times over the years. It is one of my favorites, for the
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by geophile 24d ago
WTF are you talking about?! Brion James was fantastic in Blade Runner!
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by geophile 29d ago
It's self-propagating nonsense. In the immediate post-dotcom crash, I worked for a company that was run by a bunch of young HBS grads, who all had management consulting backgrounds, (and a few minor dotcom successes). They regarded the
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by geophile 29d ago
I agree with you on all points. SPs are incredibly useful. DB portability is such a strange goal. Very common for some reason, but rarely actually needed. I think there are probably two reasons for the hate that SPs get. 1) Come on, I learn
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by geophile 29d ago
I have a very long history with language interfaces to databases. - As a grad student in the 80s, I read a lot about "database programming languages", which aimed to provide persistence and query capabilities to conventional pro
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by geophile 1mo ago
"Somehow" We have no idea what consciousness is, and cannot reliably detect it in other mammals, or even in other humans. I assume that you, GlenTheMachine, are conscious, but I cannot prove it. I think the most we can state, with
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by geophile 1mo ago
Think inside the box! Sadly, that is real out-of-the-box thinking.
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by geophile 1mo ago
1) Vaccines are not 100% effective. 2) Herd immunity is a thing.
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by geophile 1mo ago
It has a lot to do with him. He doesn't actually have an opinion on any policy issue. For various political reasons, Trump decided to let RFK dictate public health policy according to his extremely delusional ideas. Yes, there was an a
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by geophile 1mo ago
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by geophile 1mo ago
I loved their ads. Every month, when I got my BYTE magazine in the mail, the first thing I would do was to find the Gateway 2000 ad, admire the cheezy graphics and copy, and then devour every detail of the specs of their high-end machine, t
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by geophile 2mo ago
> "They are forbidden from creating original works to express themselves. However, they are still permitted to comment on writing, interpret it, share their taste. They are still valued for their appraisal, presentation, understandi
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by geophile 2mo ago
You're looking in the wrong place. There is a moderately large industry around water bottles .
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by geophile 2mo ago
Well that's one way to describe it. If Nvidia gives away powerful models to sell more of its hardware is that industrial dumping too?
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by geophile 2mo ago
This is irrelevant to the current discussion. Windows was designed to make money for MS and billg. Linux was not designed to make money for Linux. Also, by what logic do you consider any MS software as "hign end"? That's a ne
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by geophile 2mo ago
Choose your favorite metric: mindshare, running instances, development target. Free and low-end beat expensive proprietary. "Least popular" is an odd claim. If you count Windows desktops, and then count all the Linux installations
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by geophile 2mo ago
There is constant shifting between client and server computation. I think it is a stretch to call cloud servers “mainframes”. There are still old school mainframes, running JCL, and old school mainframe DB2 and COBOL. That ain’t cloud.
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by geophile 2mo ago
It didn’t used to be.
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by geophile 2mo ago
Nvidia will pay for training models that they can give away to consumers who will then buy their GPUs.
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by geophile 2mo ago
Cheap PCs enabled the creation of Linux. Linux runs on the descendants of PCs, not mainframes.
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by geophile 2mo ago
I don’t agree. In the mainframe/PC battle, MS and Apple were basically on the same side. Once the dinosaurs went extinct, different mammals fought for dominance.
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by geophile 2mo ago
Not sure what your point is. I’m commenting on a moment in time which is like an earlier moment in time. A different moment in time will have different analogs.
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by geophile 2mo ago
This is exactly the mainframe vs PC dynamic.
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by geophile 2mo ago
No, I don’t think so. PC + MS Office killed Wang custom hardware/software, for example. LibreOffice is much later, and can’t displace MS Office due to network effects. Cheaper won, cheapest can’t because of those effects.
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by geophile 2mo ago
Yes, as I pointed out, mainframes are still a thing. But the vast bulk of the market has moved on.

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