iepathos

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by iepathos 23d ago
I see a lot of parallels with how people were worried for decades that kids who learned with calculators wouldn't be able to do math. Instead, studies show the opposite that kids who learned with calculators do better in math even when
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by iepathos 1mo ago
An LLM finds a dubious bug, an LLM turns it into a convincing report, and now the proposed solution is to have an LLM triage it? There are a lot of turtles holding up this approach and the circular logic seems hard to miss. Automated triage
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by iepathos 1mo ago
For additional context, for first I've ever seen their rfs specifically asked for startups focused on military applications and warfare "The Future of American Defense" https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs Disappo
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Nice marketing Google, now tell us how many of the bugs that were fixed were actually introduced by AI usage to begin with?
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by iepathos 2mo ago
> The motion also states that Tunick asked four times to speak with a lawyer and was denied each time. This is the kind of thing that loses cases, even if they were legitimate at first. Seems like the prosecutor is desperate charging for
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by iepathos 2mo ago
If I commission a part specified as 10.00 ± 0.01 mm, I can verify it with a calibrated micrometer without understanding the CNC machine, its software, or how to manufacture the part. Likewise, a function with a finite input space can be exh
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by iepathos 2mo ago
This post ignores that verifying something works doesn't require you to fully understand it. This is easily observable in products we use everyday. We don't need to understand them to be able to verify they work correctly. The cos
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by iepathos 2mo ago
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Perhaps, but it's important to keep in mind not even a majority of Codeberg users voted for this. A majority of their privileged voters did, which is a small minority of the actual users, and it wasn't unanimous amongst the voters
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Prohibiting fraud or infrastructure abuse is one thing, but declaring entire categories of lawful software harmful to Codeberg’s reputation is another. They've ironically tanked Codeberg's reputation far more from these policy cha
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Haha, ty for this. That's just a personal habit. I tend to call Discord disco for short amongst my friends.
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Your two points seem logically at odds. If simply asking people not to upload prohibited material worked without enforcement, then Codeberg's existing copyright policy (and international laws) would already be sufficient. If people don
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by iepathos 2mo ago
MUDs never disappeared. People stopped finding them engaging enough to use. Blaming Discord reverses the causality. MUDs lost engagement long before disco was created. People congregate on disco because it offers a more compelling social in
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by iepathos 2mo ago
This seems like a wild basis for a hosting policy. It doesn't ban code shown to be infringing, malicious, insecure, or unmaintained. It bans code based on how Codeberg believes it was produced or some individuals at Codeberg believe
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Do the people who sign sworn affidavits already have to have proven identities? If so, then they're unable to recover from a situation where they lost everyone's identity.
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by iepathos 2mo ago
The article, the teacher, and the general academic community skips the hard question when it comes to AI and that's whether these exams are testing knowledge that is still worth internalizing in the same way? Academia has a long histor
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Sure, the tweet was about their releases since 2016 when I assume this particular dev was involved, not the original release. To be clear, I'm not saying their games aren't good or even that they didn't have some success. 20
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by iepathos 2mo ago
Wow, that tweet claiming the Doom series is the best first person action game in the entire industry is crazy. That dev has to be completely disconnected from the rest of the game industry or delusional. No stats support that claim at all.
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by iepathos 2mo ago
It's not all that surprising that people were worried and believed this. The AI companies and infrastructure companies partnering with them have spent a lot of money and time trying to convince people this is the case year after year.
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by iepathos 3mo ago
"LLMs are as good as almost any security researcher" Oh really? If LLMs were as good as almost any security researcher then you wouldn't be getting flooded by bullshit reports from them. You'd be receiving legitimate rep
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by iepathos 4mo ago
Ahh good to know, thanks for clarifying.
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by iepathos 4mo ago
That's right, Airbus is responsible for the faulty equipment onboard, not pilot training. Air France is responsible for its pilots' operational training and recurrent training.
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by iepathos 4mo ago
Gun rights are generally not gone forever. Federal law bars people adjudicated mentally defective or formally committed to a mental institution, neither of which include a temporary mental hold for suicide watch. State laws vary, but none o
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by iepathos 5mo ago
You can see in their stats view they have a lot of providers/nodes connected but practically no actual demand/consumers. They just launched and I'm sure get providers was top of their agenda, but it's essentially unusabl
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by iepathos 5mo ago
Not quite the same. Here it wasn't just the overreaction from some weak authority figure. The arresting cop had to knowingly violate established laws. The officers who pursued the charge had to have done the same. That's systemati
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by iepathos 6mo ago
Location: Mountain View, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Rust, Typescript, Go, Infrastructure, DevSecOps Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenbbaker Email: iepathos@gmail.com Hi,
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by iepathos 6mo ago
This is essentially 'License Laundering as a Service.' The 'Firewall' they describe is an illusion because the contamination happens at the training phase, not the inference phase. You can't claim independent creati
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by iepathos 7mo ago
If the Ars Technica editorial process requires assuming reporters don't fabricate quotes, then their process is inadequate. That's like a software company letting junior engineers release directly to production with just a spellch
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by iepathos 7mo ago
The idea that China hasn't 'attacked anyone' in 40 years is factually incorrect. In 1988, they engaged in a deadly naval skirmish with Vietnam over the Johnson South Reef. More recently, the PLA engaged in fatal border clashe
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by iepathos 7mo ago
Refreshing response from Google especially given the incompetence with which Anthropic has handled bans.

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