lovecg

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by lovecg 6d ago
You’re imagining a last minute perfectly executed response after what appears to be a series of gross errors of judgement. Rarely works that way.
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by lovecg 1mo ago
FDA requires 97% reduction to claim “decaf”. Swiss Water Process removes 99.9% for example.
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by lovecg 1mo ago
> studies at Microsoft and elsewhere showing it’s closer to 14 percent This is a depressing stat. The real productivity gains come from leaving soul sucking big tech companies where nothing gets done with any sort of urgency.
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by lovecg 3mo ago
Yeah I’m confused about this part. Is there some loophole where they never have to pay the loan back? Otherwise they’d be taxed at that point.
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by lovecg 3mo ago
Do people do that? Can I e.g. borrow against my assets and not pay any taxes? Curious to learn more.
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by lovecg 3mo ago
Perhaps it’s a generational change? People who grew up with computers went on to be more productive with them, something like that might happen with AI too.
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by lovecg 4mo ago
I’d give humans some credit, they’re an adaptable bunch. AI won’t replace humans in the same way humans did not replace cockroaches. It’s a non-sequitur.
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by lovecg 4mo ago
By making it think for 100+ pages https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/1625eff6-5ac1-40d8-b1db-5d5cf925d... Regular ChatGPT users don’t have a way to do that, this is something they do internally only. edit: apparently that’s on
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by lovecg 4mo ago
The problem is the amount of data with that cutoff is really minuscule to produce anything powerful. You might be able to generate a lot of 1700s sounding data, you’d have to be careful not to introduce newer concepts or ways of thinking in
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by lovecg 5mo ago
I’ve noticed some people with seemingly fulfilling hobbies stop doing them after quitting their job as well. It’s entirely possible all those hobbies are valuable precisely as something powerful to latch onto and disconnect from the day job
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by lovecg 5mo ago
This could have been written almost verbatim after the printing press came out and printed pamphlets became ubiquitous.
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by lovecg 5mo ago
It would be hilarious if he intentionally or accidentally lost the key, and has been trying to cash out through those Bitcoin adjacent business ventures ever since.
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by lovecg 6mo ago
Let’s just hope that the people in charge of the really important decisions that affect us all approach LLM generated advice with the same wisdom.
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by lovecg 6mo ago
(2017)
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by lovecg 6mo ago
Don’t know why this is being downvoted, that’s exactly right. One needs only to attend a local city meeting about any smallest step towards more development to see how the voters think.
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by lovecg 6mo ago
I see quite a few: “what X actually is” “the X reality check” Overuse of “real” and “genuine”: > The real story is actually in the article. … And the real issue for Cursor … They have real "brand awareness", and they are genuin
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by lovecg 6mo ago
Definitely, you can’t get much safer mode of travel than a modern airline. There are some humorous statistics that hour for hour taking a shower is more dangerous. Accidents generally go up as you move down the scale of regularly scheduled
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by lovecg 6mo ago
You’d be surprised. Small aircraft crashes, if control is not lost before hitting the ground, are much more similar to car crashes than to large airliner crashes. For example, a recent “innovation” that saved a lot of lives was making shoul
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by lovecg 6mo ago
I can’t get past all the LLM-isms. Do people really not care about AI-slopifying their writing? It’s like learning about bad kerning, you see it everywhere.
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by lovecg 6mo ago
As in, you used 0 AI to write or edit this text? Or some AI? I’d like to calibrate myself.
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by lovecg 6mo ago
In an indirect way it kind of is though. At the end of the day there’s more energy trapped in the atmosphere (stronger jet streams, more frequent and stronger frontal weather)
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by lovecg 7mo ago
Yeah it’s been amusing to see people rediscovering tmux as well
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by lovecg 7mo ago
If this was a jet there’s no good technical reason for it to stay so low, but one common reason could be air traffic control congestion, you go through different sectors at 10k than you would at 30k so it’s sometimes feasible to go lower an
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by lovecg 7mo ago
Let’s have some compassion, a lot of people are freaking out about their careers now and defense mechanisms are kicking in. It’s hard for a lot of people to say “actually yeah this thing can do most of my work now, and barrier of entry drop
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by lovecg 7mo ago
I’m guessing, would love someone who has first hand knowledge to comment. But my guess is it’s some combination of trying many different approaches in parallel (each in a fresh context), then picking the one that works, and splitting up the
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by lovecg 7mo ago
Surely there exists a protocol that would allow to prove that someone is human without revealing the identity?
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by lovecg 7mo ago
If you look at the blog history it’s full of those “status report” posts, so it’s plausible that its workflow involves periodically publishing to the blog.
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by lovecg 7mo ago
It’s only “natural” up to a point. I’ve never seen 10^100 of something so there’s that.
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by lovecg 7mo ago
Though is some cases it is a very interesting question, like why gold and copper the color they are instead of being boring and silvery like all the other metals?
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by lovecg 8mo ago
Agreed with other commenters that nothing was likely actually broadcast, but if it was it would definitely be highly illegal and you’d have feds knocking down your door pretty quickly. They don’t joke around with illegal transmissions like

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