klik99

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by klik99 4d ago
Yes, but I don't feel that counts as a danger of the technology - that's a danger of these escalating, unicorn based investments that have to make bigger and bigger bets to survive until the bets as big as the US whole economy. Th
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by klik99 4d ago
I believe he's saying "Citation Needed" - It does seem the opposite is true, while maybe token cost is going down, frontier models use a lot more, so it's no an accurate gauge of cost. Trying to find any chart of token c
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by klik99 5d ago
I’ve noticed a weird thing about the discourse around this, that it can only be a marketing thing or a true belief, as if everyone working in AI has a monolithic opinion. The tweet kicking off this article has that assumption “it’s not a ma
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by klik99 20d ago
This is true but every recent president has expanded powers, and had their party agree. Due to my age, I first noticed it with Bush then when Obama continued it, it felt weird to be fine with allowing more power in the executive branch when
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by klik99 1mo ago
Anti-authoritarianism is a core part of the hacker ethos, so much so it’s even in the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic
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by klik99 2mo ago
Typically I agree, NYT on China is usually fear mongering, but in this case the article is very neutral and just the facts. I mean, it's the same kind of thing Palantir is selling to US and that various three letter orgs have started b
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by klik99 2mo ago
I ask that you please read the comments before you make your own comments, just as you asked people to read the paper before commenting (I did!) > Your assertion that it is all culturally relative ("nurture") and none from the
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by klik99 2mo ago
Harry Partch has a book Genesis of a Music, which is half autobiography and half a theory that all melody derives from the micro pitch variations of speech - as in melody is a stretched out version of how we speak. I don't know if this
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by klik99 2mo ago
You might like the book Emotion and Meaning in Music - it starts from some outdated psychological ideas (that emotions are only intensity and that we assign positive/negative valence post-hoc) but ties that to early information theory
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by klik99 2mo ago
Yeah, that's really getting to the heart of why the idea of a totally objective theory of music seems legit. Major/minor doesn't exist in a vacuum, there's a lot of other signifiers in the music that are highly correlate
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by klik99 2mo ago
I meant "fully scientific theory of harmony" in the same way your second paragraph does, not as predictor of popularity but predictor of what kind of effect it raises in the listener. A big part of how music effects the listener i
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by klik99 2mo ago
I read through a lot of this article and it does a good job explaining the ratios and math behind harmonics and how that makes chords, but ideas like lower ratios are more pleasant and minor chords feel like something is missing (from the a
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by klik99 2mo ago
He means specifically open vs closed AI model development, and how that’s topsy-turvy for the reasons you mention.
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by klik99 2mo ago
Hmmm, seems like that is not true for Roku which is specifically the one that is bad - maybe I'll just grab an Onn or something
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by klik99 2mo ago
I just set up Jellyfin on an 1819 this weekend and so far it seems great, dunno if it’s improved or my device has bit more oomph - the ui on some devices is not as nice as plex but it’s been great
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by klik99 2mo ago
Very cool - I made my first game in BASIC over 25 years ago and now I'm still making games - I've been looking for a good BASIC to help teach my kids programming because pygame, scratch, roblox lua, all have unique issues that mak
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by klik99 2mo ago
Also AAA dev, this is true but also the original comment about “engine feel” still holds, since the whole point is studios are trying to spend less time engine wrangling, and keep to more “the Unreal way”. I’ve noticed over the last 15 year
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by klik99 2mo ago
After years of dipping into random chapters for reference I read through the first 2.5 volumes sequentially until life got too busy. I plan on gifting the current full set to myself this xmas- but even if you just dip into it like a coffee
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by klik99 2mo ago
Exams are usually discussed and part of the corpus though right? Performance on novel problems are really the only good metric and those decay really quickly across models once they’re known, like the pelican on a bicycle test
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by klik99 2mo ago
I recently did a feasibility test for porting complex c++ project to a stripped down DSP processor with no c or c++ stdlib without making changes to the actual project - sonnet was able to do it in half a day and stumbled for another half a
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by klik99 3mo ago
An administration that ran on anti-war, less regulation, free speech, and the news is war, AI models being regulated, and requiring identification for speech. Maybe the current administration are accelerationists who want to show how bad al
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by klik99 3mo ago
My favorite Jimmy Buffet story - after a gig everyone was hanging out partying, when they realized Jimmy wasn’t there. Someone went to his room to find him, and he was deep in running through financials. Jimmy said “Don’t tell anyone you sa
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by klik99 4mo ago
I read about this previously and had the same reaction - something seems missing, it’s too crazy, this has gotta be just one side of the story. Normal reaction in this media landscape. But this seems to be one of the rare cases that, yes, i
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by klik99 4mo ago
I remember lack of generics being pitched as a feature of Go initially, not a lack. The original design goal was simplicity. I don’t use Go, so have no opinion on this, just interesting that it’s going in this direction.
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by klik99 4mo ago
He finally realized that you could just rsync
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by klik99 4mo ago
I have to mainly drive Windows 11 for work reasons so I use komorebi for a tiling window manager (highly recommended btw). I bet the ideas in this post can be applied in that environment too, gotta try it now, great idea
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by klik99 4mo ago
IIRC the interview that quote was from came with the story - Russia was seen as a lost cause by the game industry, there was so much piracy that nobody even bothered trying to give legitimate ways to purchase, why invest in distribution whe
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by klik99 4mo ago
You’re spot on. I’ve lived in Atlanta for many years, grew up with family in northeast, so I know how to drive in snow and have seen how Boston, New York and Atlanta all deal with it. Atlanta has a very very small fleet to clear snow and ic
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by klik99 4mo ago
"Build the most open and best-documented ARM computer in the world, with full mainline Linux kernel support." ... "the HDMI port is proprietary and requires licensing fees" Are they upstreaming opensource HDMI 2.1 suppor
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by klik99 4mo ago
This is why the comparison to people’s reactions to Darwin/evolution is just wrong - people had thought experimented things that looked like evolution, but when we were able to measure it we could start linking it to the real physical

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