nightsd01

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by nightsd01 15d ago
I have to say, I am quite frustrated with Anthropic lately. I so badly want to use Fable to work on a side project of mine, which I used to do previously with no issues. But lately, they must have made some classifier change because it keep
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by nightsd01 18d ago
I will never understand why NASA doesn't build at least two copies of expensive space telescopes like this. One single launch failure and boom (literally), the entire project is a failure? It wouldn't double the cost assuming they
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by nightsd01 18d ago
> Since then I've done Opus and then Fable bug / security sweeps regularly. This part surprises me a bit. Fable always falls back to opus for me the instant 'security' is involved (thanks for that, Anthropic)
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by nightsd01 1mo ago
I was a bit triggered by your China comment, if only given the fact that there is a very specific institution that drove many formerly prosperous cities and communities into abject poverty (the CCP in Mao's era) and then tries to claim
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by nightsd01 1mo ago
Plenty of people are making money from AI? And I am not sure I've seen it "making things worse for most people" yet, do you have a source behind this? If your source is AI layoffs, there were plenty of layoffs with the invent
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by nightsd01 3mo ago
Got mine on launch day. It's been sitting in the case for over a year. It's frankly just not comfortable to use for more than 10 minutes.
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by nightsd01 5mo ago
The sad truth is - getting on a private jet would be just about the single worst thing you could do during a nuclear war. Most modern private jets are largely based on flight control systems based on computers and electronics that would be
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by nightsd01 5mo ago
It's doubled because it practically couldn't get any worse. Let's see what happens (sadly) now that USAID has been dismantled
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by nightsd01 5mo ago
I recently built a drone from the ground up - learned how to build PCB's with the ESP32, wrote all of the flight firmware, etc. and built a controller iOS app. Extended Kalman Filters are even more interesting because they let you do s
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by nightsd01 1y ago
Why is it exactly, that mobile providers can’t catch this…? Just like with SMS fraud. It might cost them a few cents per subscriber to do effective anti-spam measures, but now society has to pay the cost
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by nightsd01 1y ago
I am not an expert in AI by any means but I think I know enough about it to comment on one thing: there was an interesting paper not too long ago that showed if you train a randomly-initialized model from scratch on questions, like a bank o
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by nightsd01 1y ago
Apple’s biggest problem is their commitment to privacy. Delivering effective AI requires a substantial amount of user data that Apple doesn’t collect. Their other problem is they value designers and product managers more than engineers (esp
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by nightsd01 1y ago
Thanks to the EU for ruining the web by forcing everyone to show the ridiculous "Accept Cookies!" agreement. No wonder people prefer native apps. They’re better - for a lot of reasons, both because they can interface more cleanly
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by nightsd01 2y ago
I think you are right here - the ability to test theory of mind in an LLM would be more like testing how well it can distinguish its own motivations/ideas from that of a separate entity. I would agree that this question is more of a lo
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by nightsd01 3y ago
Yep, there is a big reason why Europe has so few successful big tech companies, it is a regulatory hellscape. They have so many pointless privacy regulations that only the “big” companies can even hope to compete in many markets like ad tec
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by nightsd01 3y ago
“Leaked” seems like a strong clickbait claim from whoever wrote this, along with the “it’s over” part….
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by nightsd01 3y ago
The bird and the airplane is such an excellent analogy!
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by nightsd01 3y ago
The same way we can simulate the movements of the planets - it will never be exact, but the better we understand it, the more precisely we can simulate it
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by nightsd01 3y ago
302 neurons doesn’t sound impressive to people who may be used to working with 7B+ parameter neural networks. But those neural networks have about as much in common with a biological neuron as a bicycle had with a horse. They can both trave
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by nightsd01 4y ago
Why would you say that?
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by nightsd01 4y ago
You have big problems. How do big problems get solved? The best approach is to take the big problems and break them up into smaller problems, divide and conquer. Get out a whiteboard and go over your problems logically, as if you were a dif
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by nightsd01 4y ago
This is an old failing site, it’s gonna fail for the same reason that Diaspora and app.net failed, and it’s the same reason web3 is going to fail. Real world users don’t care if their social network is on a “distributed” platform. And they
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by nightsd01 5y ago
I guess I am lucky since I enjoy coding itself so immensely. Whether I’m coding on a side project or coding for work, I love it all. This has not really changed over the past 8 years. The people I know who view programming purely as a means
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by nightsd01 5y ago
In my opinion, as a consumer, this is up to you. If you need this, get a UPS battery backup (or a laptop which has its own battery). Or, you can get a super specialized SSD. Ultimately though, most consumer SSDs DON’T need this feature. And
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by nightsd01 5y ago
What kinds of crime are you talking about? Loitering? Murder? Again, it’s all relative. How would increased police funding help with ANY of that…? There are plenty of reasons to want to move out of the Bay Area. Christ, traffic on the 101 o
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by nightsd01 5y ago
I can imagine automatically aimed and fired machine guns, all powered by Alexa of course :)
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by nightsd01 5y ago
Dude, I literally live in the Bay Area. And crime here is no where even close to bad as it was where I used to live in Texas. It’s all relative. Especially when politics is involved. I see absolutely no reason to believe that raising police
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by nightsd01 5y ago
Do you think the police in the jurisdiction where these train thefts occurred was underfunded? I’d be thrilled to hear your solution…
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by nightsd01 5y ago
Very few people want to actually defund the police. But try being a black friend of mine, who got thrown out of his car without resisting and beaten so bad he had to go to an ICU, purely because he was driving a car that “matched the descri
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by nightsd01 5y ago
It seems like you are already analyzing the mistakes you made and will adjust in the future accordingly, so you’re already many steps ahead of many of the less successful engineers I’ve worked with. Many of them will just blame everyone and

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