jamesrcole

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by jamesrcole 1mo ago
> Lets assume what you say is true about Musk There's no need to assume. If you are actually educated on the subject, you know it is the case. You don't because you're ignorant about it. Which would be fine, if you weren&#
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by jamesrcole 1mo ago
I see you didn’t pay attention to what I did and did not say in my original comment. I’ve read a biography of him and When The Heavens Went On Sale, which covers SpaceX [Edit: I'd remembered the book incorrectly. I have read that book,
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by jamesrcole 1mo ago
You literally don’t know what you’re talking about. If you’d read any biography of him you’d know how utterly wrong your claims are.
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by jamesrcole 2mo ago
After the endings of Thimbleweed Park and Return To Monkey Island, I lost a lot of respect for Ron Gilbert.
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by jamesrcole 2mo ago
> "Having the courage to go on when nobody believes in you" If you're doing something that isn't like how people are used to things being done, is novel, or is contra to common beliefs, there's a good chance that
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by jamesrcole 2mo ago
> As we advance it becomes more difficult to advance. You obviously make most advancements around the things that are easiest to improve. Then all the easy things are done. This isn't some foregone conclusion. It completely depend
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by jamesrcole 3mo ago
I would expect a model's result each time to be of a similar quality to the other times. There's something wrong if it does a way better or worse job, at the same problem, sometimes. It's possible, but I haven't heard an
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by jamesrcole 3mo ago
it's unfortunate that they live an extra 6 months???
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by jamesrcole 4mo ago
Though you'd want to make sure there's no essential information that only this employee knows, because that action might terminate that employee's desire to cooperate with the company.
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by jamesrcole 5mo ago
technology gets cheaper over time. If they were always going to cost the amount they do now, you might have a point. But they'll eventually get much cheaper.
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by jamesrcole 6mo ago
> I've long considered writing to be the "last step in thinking". I think it's often useful to use writing all the way through the process of thinking through something, rather than just at the end.
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by jamesrcole 8mo ago
And if there are aliens? I'm being serious. Why does it have to be human intent? And I think it is entirely feasible that at some point -- how far away, I don't know -- AI becomes superior to us in its appreciation of life and liv
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by jamesrcole 8mo ago
We're in the very early stages of AI generated art. What will it be like in 10 years time? 20? 50? You might think it won't get much better. I think that's unlikely.
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by jamesrcole 10mo ago
I assume they mean "we don't yet know all the things a computer can't do, only certain limits".
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by jamesrcole 11mo ago
it's common in Australia
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
The science fiction author Greg Egan has been "battling" with Google for many years because, even though there are zero photos of him on the internet, Google insists that certain photos are of him. This was all well before Google
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
A tool that can handle more than one question at a time is useful. Modern LLMs handle that with ease. So it's completely reasonable to be critical of that limitation.
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
Who said it was? I’m pretty sure they’re trained on a lot more than just those.
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
what do you object to about it? I don't see an issue with referring to "the corpus of human knowledge". "Corpus" pretty much just means the "collection of".
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
There aren't any spelling errors. If you want to claim otherwise it would be easy for you to show examples.
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
You talk about it as if doesn't exist anymore. If you're not aware, it still exists.
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
> He also should have run this through a spell checker. What's an example of a spelling mistake in it? I read it carefully and didn't notice any.
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
[EDIT: people downvoting this, how about you explain what you object to in it] > It's really a bummer to see this marketed as 'AI Discovers Something New'. The headline doesn't suggest that. It's "AI Helps U
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
> You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-Al is? Wrong direction. > I want Al to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for Al to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
> These videos of robotic cow milking machines, feed mixers and distributers and pushers, and manure roombas are amazing! These robots need to be named "moombas"
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
I think it’s probably for the better… but it’s a bit hard for me to judge. I don’t know much about the project, and didn’t understand those details, so I don’t know how important they were, or whether there is a better way to address the is
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by jamesrcole 1y ago
Some feedback on the webpage. "The goal? To make the inside of systems explainable. [image] caption: "The need for moldability is pervasive. The treemap shows the classes of Glamorous Toolkit organized in packages. Blue denotes cl
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by jamesrcole 2y ago
The text you quote doesn’t really answer the question. Does “number of kids” come under their interpretation of “overall financial circumstances”?
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by jamesrcole 2y ago
seeing it as non -conformity
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by jamesrcole 2y ago
I think this is a glimpse of the future. I can imagine ever-greater amounts of information overload, and AI used everywhere to filter it to manageable levels.

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