midtake

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by midtake 17d ago
This is a paradigm shift. If you know basic arithmetic, a calculator doesn't stop you from knowing how to add or multiply. But AI definitely stops you from learning how to reason. So it's not the same at all.
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by midtake 20d ago
Neanderthals live on in the human genome, they are genetically integrated into all non-Sub Saharan African humans alive today, it is their hunter-gatherer society that disappeared. It is thought they also had larger brains than humans. Mayb
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by midtake 27d ago
Why is this domain trending all of a sudden on HN? Three articles all highly upvoted.
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by midtake 27d ago
Why didn't you just not give blood that day?
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by midtake 28d ago
At least this has ostensibly a mission-driven purpose, to improve automated customer support. When someone less scrupulous than Google starts buying up Snapchat and Kik and Roblox (and other such platforms) and piecing together social graph
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by midtake 28d ago
So you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago but when a language model does it it's suddenly offensive? We should be instead celebrating how we have a mini software company at our fing
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by midtake 28d ago
This article is painfully shortsighted about Egypt's moment in the Arab Spring. (1) the problematic Vodafone message in question is presented as "without attribution" but it very clearly starts with the words "The Armed
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by midtake 29d ago
Because phones are surveillance devices people happen to casually carry everywhere, so the stakes are considerably higher.
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by midtake 1mo ago
Looks pretty normal to me. The data is kept and used internally for business objectives. This isn't like Uber mining users for information on whether they had sex.[1] 1: https://archive.md/j5oLe
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by midtake 1mo ago
The article is about modulating orexins in the brain. Orexin receptor agonism was thought to be a mechanism of modafinil/armodafinil but this isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. Modafinil is mentioned as a mere stimulant. It
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by midtake 1mo ago
Positive effects aside, legalizing recreational drugs will not eliminate the cartels, but instead will reroute the distribution of their product through "legal" channels. The cartels have sufficient power that the only move left i
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by midtake 1mo ago
But then you're lying. Why not add the comment "no tarot function" without reference to whether it existed in the past? A bit confusing because it's a trivial and seemingly unrelated statement but at least then you would
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by midtake 1mo ago
If that were true, US policy and trends would reflect that. Instead, as groups, we are seeing earning potential decreased in the young and wealth increase in the old. This is a dysgenic shift. Coupled with AI, which when viewed as a force a
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by midtake 2mo ago
You shouldn't know too much about biology, stupid human. You might live your life in an unexploitable way.
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by midtake 2mo ago
I agree that they are intelligent, just don't know about the "definition" part. A typical Ivy Leaguer isn't a dumbass. What's wrong with calling one intelligent? Try visiting a Walmart and interacting with literally
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by midtake 2mo ago
This guy builds
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by midtake 2mo ago
Reading SICP was some of the best advice I got from /g/
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by midtake 2mo ago
Name collision with Foreman, the provisioning/patching tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreman_(software)
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by midtake 2mo ago
> We have senior engineers review the actual functionality and none of them have read any more than a few lines of code. A senior engineer should be able to efficiently read thousands of lines of code per day. Maybe this is what you mean
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by midtake 2mo ago
Poster might mean that the TPM gives you some degree of non-repudiation since the TPM can cryptographically sign stuff.
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by midtake 2mo ago
To me this indicates that Microsoft has some sort of traffic analysis performed on endpoints, then linked to GDID. I'd guess this is part of Defender's real time protection or MAPS. Fun fact, Microsoft Defender MAPS was previously
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by midtake 3mo ago
Desktop for gaming and Macbook get shut down when I'm not using them, the Mac Minis stay on.
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by midtake 3mo ago
5 as in 5 times more likely to tell you that you can't edit your driver INF files because that enables DRM circumvention and is dangerous!
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by midtake 3mo ago
You can just download the zip over HTTPS
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by midtake 4mo ago
Sorry not sorry
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by midtake 4mo ago
Examples like yours and the author's don't convince me. It seems like a lot of what people are "missing" from the AI process is the social aspect which is largely a side effect in these examples. For instance, finding ou
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by midtake 4mo ago
> This I don't think it's changing after this administration.
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by midtake 4mo ago
Two ethernet ports, this is lethal af
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by midtake 4mo ago
Microsoft is the inverse hand of Midas, turns everything into shit.
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by midtake 4mo ago
You have a good point about the human rate of mathematical discovery, but Ayer was an idiot and later Witt contradicted early Witt. For the "already implicit" claim to be true, mathematics would have to be a closed system. But it

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