mindcrime

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by mindcrime 4d ago
And when I say "back" I mean, really, truly back, and uploading fresh new content. This isn't just another false-start, "Hey I'm back" announcement. No, this is the next video in his ongoing Differential Equati
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Professor Leonard is back [video](youtube.com)
6 points by mindcrime 4d ago|1 comments
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Virtualized Conversations (Vcon)(datatracker.ietf.org)
3 points by mindcrime 7d ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 7d ago
I didn't "trust" OpenAI with anything sensitive to begin with. I use ChatGPT quite heavily, including for research. But if things start pushing into the territory of something that I think has actual potential to be genuinely
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by mindcrime 7d ago
Great. And you felt the need to scream this to the entire world? Look, if you don't like Generative AI, then don't use it. This isn't rocket science, and you're not making yourself look hip, cool, edgy, informed, suave,
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by mindcrime 12d ago
If you hear a payphone ringing... DON'T ANSWER IT. Especially if there is no payphone in the room!
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by mindcrime 14d ago
This is fine with me. Like many of the other comments said, my fear when I saw the headline was "OMG, is LWN shutting down or something???"
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by mindcrime 15d ago
Rap's Law of Inanimate Reproduction[1] strikes again! [1]: "If you take something apart and put it back together again enough times, eventually you have two if it."
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by mindcrime 16d ago
There isn't just one specific "plan B", but I have a few things in mind for potential ways to make money if I lose access to my current career. Unfortunately reality collides with some of the possibilities... I am a certified
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by mindcrime 18d ago
FWIW, ICQ was being discussed here less than a month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49224443 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167258 OK, OK... to be fair "discussed" is an over st
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by mindcrime 20d ago
I think it's a judgment call. Sort of like the way "derivative works" work vis-a-vis copyright law. If a work is "substantially transformative" or whatever the phrase is, then it's considered an original work.
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by mindcrime 22d ago
There is still work on symbolic and hybrid AI A tremendous amount of work. The annual AGI Conference[1][2] was just a couple of weeks ago, and was the most heavily attended one in the event's history (which goes back about 19 years,
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by mindcrime 23d ago
I guess on balance this is a positive development. But I still have pretty much the opposite of the "warm fuzzies" in regards to Qualcomm. I have a very hard time imagining a world where I actively seek out any of their products,
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by mindcrime 23d ago
Hack The Planet!!
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Solid State Transformer(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by mindcrime 23d ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 25d ago
You'll love this one then: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/ Just, whatever you do, do NOT press the red button!
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by mindcrime 27d ago
while maintaining that we have no apparent means of discriminating between the two. Yeah, and that's part of what makes this whole conversation so frustrating. And maybe also pointless in the end. We have a hard time even establishin
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by mindcrime 27d ago
Why not just say, "Human consciousness is ontologically axiomatic," and leave it at that? OK, but why does "human consciousness" even need to enter into it? What I mean is, what's our basis for demanding that the
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by mindcrime 27d ago
> Meaning for LLMs is something in the concept-space that is detached from any worlds. I suspect there should be a test which can tease apart the ungroundedness of the LLMs just from having a conversation with it. But that isn't the
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Maximilian Schwarzmüller – "Don't ignore the new stuff" [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mindcrime 29d ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
Yeah, I saw this headline and immediately thought "these people are living in an entirely different world than me". Of the restaurants I regularly eat at, I can just walk in and have a table in 5-10 minutes at most, probably 95% o
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
Guess it's time for Trump to fire another BLS director and find one who's better at cooking the books...
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
It's been reported that William Gibson saw Blade Runner before releasing Neuromancer and was worried that people would think he stole ideas from Blade Runner, as the aesthetic of Blade Runner was so close to the way he imagined the Neu
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
Exactly. That's not just a load-bearing truth — it's a testament to the power of the contemporary zeitgeist!
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by mindcrime 1mo ago
I believe they are referring to the millimeter wave x-ray machines.
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Play Neuromancer(archive.org)
2 points by mindcrime 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com https://phins.com https://www.linkedin.com https://news.google.com https://youtube.com https://broadcastify.com https://www.gmai
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Quadraphonic Sound(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by mindcrime 2mo ago|0 comments
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by mindcrime 2mo ago
Not sure if you're familiar with this or not, but that concept appears as part of the story in the novel[1] and movie[2] "Johnny Got His Gun". The premise is based on a badly injured soldier during WWI who has lost his abilit
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by mindcrime 3mo ago
See, to me, you're just leaning into the outdated and archaic aspect of this. Sure, that's the way encyclopedia's have been for a long time. But none of that means that they need to continue to work the same way. Technologies

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