mcbits

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by mcbits 3mo ago
I haven't really experimented with being "nice" or "mean", but I would worry that a prompt like "No, dumbass, ..." would kick it into the patterns of someone who frequently got called a dumbass (perhaps fo
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by mcbits 3mo ago
I would say the hammer is no AI. Local models are the cheapest XKGYAGH electric nailer on Amazon that "works" but jams up all the time. The $20/mo cloud models are a nice DeWalt that gives an hour of jam-free operation but ta
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by mcbits 4mo ago
I prefer to call it an unplanned calendar learning opportunity.
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by mcbits 4mo ago
> These are not the same thing. You don't develop skills by reading about them. You have to use them, to process the information, integrate what you've learnt into your existing mental schema, My mental AI detector would classi
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by mcbits 7mo ago
I think the garbled menu accidentally perfectly illustrates what most menus look like within the brain as it tries to sift through poorly organized heaps of obscure words to find the one word that's actually needed in the moment.
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by mcbits 7mo ago
> There isn't a lot of money in "what time is it" and "what's the weather". :) - Alexa, what time is it? - Current time is 5:35 P.M. - the perfect time to crack open a can of ice cold Budweiser! A fresh 12-p
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by mcbits 7mo ago
They are roleplaying. It's literally the Department of Defense.[0] [0] https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/28655-document-11-nationa...
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by mcbits 7mo ago
These are geopolitical activities akin to the arms buildup of the Cold War, but happening somewhat more openly through the guise of private sector investments. The names of the companies involved are ephemeral. The numbers "invested&qu
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by mcbits 7mo ago
The last two paragraphs are mainly what stood out. I've spent hours trying to get LLMs to stop writing like that. It's hard because you can't just say things like "don't write lists of three items" because some
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by mcbits 7mo ago
The writing is clearly AI-generated or at least AI-assisted, so I think it's safe to assume it's also a work of fiction.
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by mcbits 3y ago
Some people aren't undergrads who took Control Engineering courses.
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by mcbits 3y ago
I think you might mean schizotypal symptoms. Schizoid personality disorder is considered "on the spectrum" with schizophrenia but has very little similarity to it other than social withdrawal.
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by mcbits 3y ago
> thugs Please stop using that term unless you're talking specifically about the worshippers of Kali who would strangle and rob travelers in India in the 19th century. It does not mean anything else. It can never mean anything else.
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by mcbits 3y ago
Sounds like there is a need for investment into innovation beyond just building the next-generation fab for $2^x billion. Bringing the cost of a new less-advanced fab down from $2 billion to $100 million, and then building 20 of them, could
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by mcbits 3y ago
Both. Criminal (brought by the government) for the punishment, civil (brought by the victim) to recover the damages.
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by mcbits 3y ago
20Hz and 20KHz are just general guidelines for where sensitivity rapidly falls to zero in people with normal hearing. A lot of (primarily young) people can hear frequencies outside that range. I can still hear a sine wave down to about 14Hz
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by mcbits 3y ago
If I'm filling out a modal form and "Cancel" doesn't result in a clean form after I open it again, it should probably say something like "Hide" or "Finish later" instead.
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by mcbits 3y ago
In a just world, that's a way to gain market share. In our world, people concede their data for marginal improvements in the quality of a feature because they can't conceive of how giving up control of their data could come back t
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by mcbits 3y ago
I don't remember the details (or outcome) but there was a lawsuit a few years ago involving CAD or architecture software and whether they could limit how the output images were used because they were assemblages of clipart that the com
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by mcbits 3y ago
My guess is that stasis would be feasible sooner than keeping people fully alive and awake for the whole journey. In the latter case, they'd probably spend most of their time in the holodeck. Either way, on the scale of the universe, l
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by mcbits 3y ago
We could launch a vessel to Proxima Centauri right now that would arrive in thousands of years. If the passengers have lifespans measured in millions of years, that's comparable to a month for someone who lives 80 years.
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by mcbits 3y ago
The Supreme Court could have chosen not to interpret the Commerce Clause so broadly to say that not engaging in interstate commerce affects interstate commerce and therefore counts as interstate commerce (IIRC that started with wheat, not
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by mcbits 3y ago
The falling cost of storage is at least partly the reason hosting a few thousand packages takes up hundreds of TB. "Storage is practically free" from the perspective of each of those projects. By the time .5 PB is a trivial cost,
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by mcbits 3y ago
Same reason governments should be held more accountable than any other person, if we're going by the "group of persons = person" definition of person.
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by mcbits 3y ago
> And 4k for 20 inches display? What for? Do you plan to stick your face in the monitor? It's still less than 300 dpi but getting close enough to be comparable to most printed materials.
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by mcbits 3y ago
> Also, many tests require a centrifuge, so that's something else you have to account for if your goal is to perform the same tests with only one drop of blood. Unless your plan is to pull some Star Trek-level technology out of your
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by mcbits 3y ago
We can keep using trees, but this particular use of trees is already energy-intensive, materially intensive (thousands of miles of plastic tubes), sensitive to the weather each year, and geographically limited.
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by mcbits 3y ago
I'd think something like "lab-grown maple syrup" would be easier both to sell and (knowing nothing about how it would be produced) to produce. I love real maple syrup but can't justify paying $15 for a little vial of it.
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by mcbits 3y ago
> Or, there's no need for you to build this kind of great thing for your elderly relative because an AGI can do it instead? Just like there is no need to design and build the FM transmitter from scratch because [factory] can do it i
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by mcbits 3y ago
It looks like they call that excision, which leaves behind a breadcrumb saying something was deleted and which can't itself be deleted.

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