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by nnq 1y ago
DragoChat - https://www.facebook.com/ai.drago.chat <~~^(o_o)^ TINY attempt to fight the growing divide between "AI haves" and "AI have-not" with - PREPAID access (+ bring-your-own-API-keys alternative
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by nnq 2y ago
At least Penrose himself has an excuse for this: he's actually intellectually honest and came to this from a mathematics first purely theoretical perspective - he might have been deluded by others' trashy science, but he didn&#x27
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by nnq 2y ago
I was basically always slowed down by RAM on Android - prob bc I switch between lots of very badly coded apps... so even on desktop I've grown to see RAM as "insurance against badly written code" as in "I'll still
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by nnq 2y ago
...so, you haven't used Android in over a decade?
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by nnq 4y ago
you can also translate "being useless" as "they having no reason to manipulate me into slaving as a cog in their machine/society/whatever"... I'd say uselessness should be our highest aspiration, when pe
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by nnq 4y ago
this is cool, but try C (modern, C99) instead: all I see in this C++ version is obsfucation and confusingly named things... (sure, for an "industrial strength" version C++'s features are worth the cost, but for learning/
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by nnq 4y ago
"Eugenics" is a wide term. What part of it are you against strongly enough to completely condemn anyone involved with the idea? At the most basic romantic selection level we're all doing it after all... it's how evolutio
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by nnq 4y ago
At least appreciate his honesty - it's way better for everyone to be so blunt about it.
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by nnq 4y ago
Besides the missed irony, I mean that we need to have and we'll inevitably have a separate internet layer / set of protocols / etc. where information will be freely broadcastable and exchangeable without enforcement of any l
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by nnq 4y ago
Yes? ...this was the original dream of non-national cyberspace and we almost had a hope at getting it. Then the second chance with web3 but this was also spoiled by people getting too greedy and too nasty too fast. A parallel anonymous-and-
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by nnq 5y ago
besides karelp's sister comment, there's also the "obvious" fact that stock price is not a function of time, it's not P(t), it's a function of time and the entire f universe that also evolves through time, mor
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by nnq 5y ago
Bc there's some treaty prohibiting space-based weapons smth smth... hence your satelite will not be able to carry missiles (or use them without admitting it carried them). ...and bc ICBMs are not weapons you'd want to EVER see use
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by nnq 5y ago
Optimal virulence is kinda bullshit with rapidly evolving things on small timescales... Sure, if a mutation that makes it give deadly miocarditis 50% of the cases pops up, that strain would have a clear evolutionary disadvantage ...but if a
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by nnq 6y ago
...but you can find the motivation to offer a product that just works (mostly) perfectly and doesn't need support! Rarer updates, because you just need to test your things perfectly and ensure 99.9% of user will not need any "
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by nnq 6y ago
The same here :) I love to work with other software considered user hostile by others, but Gimp... WTF. It's like they took the most horrible stuff from Photohop s horrible UI and mixed it with more horrible ideas... But PS manages to
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by nnq 6y ago
> Doesn't it technically also contain its own address Huh? Then you probably don't understand the meaning of "contains" here. Or what variables are in general. Variables are hard...
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by nnq 6y ago
...god, my eyes, they hurt, that design, they're bleeding now ...you almost made me change my mind of whether this would be a good idea :) (Hint: I'm interested in mostly using this for creating a graphically rich but minimalistic
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by nnq 6y ago
Cut the crap, if you're app is really successful you're gonna end up re-writing the UI at least three times, trust me, and you're probably also have to maintain different multiple UIs (think Android native, iOS native, web et
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by nnq 6y ago
Anyone interesting in using this to create a code-editor / IDE? I'm dying to try my hands at a next gen IDE created using a game engine :D
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by nnq 6y ago
> messing with one's brain is dangerous Meh. I'd say we're likely stuck in a local optimum - the default programming of our brains is clearly not optimal for our state of evolution... our brains evolved for hunting and g
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by nnq 6y ago
You're "forced" to leave in an environment with a certain structure (architecture, infrastructure) under a certain set of laws. Adding a non-damaging, mind altering temporary experience that opens people to multiple alternati
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by nnq 6y ago
Maybe even healthy people even should be encouraged to try psychedelics or some other potent mind altering technique at least once in their life. Maybe make it as in initiation ceremony when they reach 18 or smth. Or maybe at least for the
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by nnq 6y ago
> I expect to be able to use it to compute intermediary results in a shell loop You have a very peculiar use case that most other users don't! ...either you write a shell script, or a Julia script. It's preposterous to want e
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by nnq 6y ago
> to have the nvidia card kick in triggered by the OS somehow when really needed would be the non-plus ultra, but come on, this is science fiction Can't smth simple & obvious like the macbook pro GPUs work fine, eg. Intel graph
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by nnq 6y ago
> Unpredictable progress is lethal to businesses At peace, or in a quasi steady state, yes. But not in all situations. Eg. in war or other adversarial situations you need to both be making progress and be as unpredictable as possible,
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by nnq 6y ago
Not pure unpredictability in general, but unpredictability about how much and when progress will be made in a positive direction, eg. what you'd tend to get in applied AI. A few ideas: - in a highly competitive market your actions can
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by nnq 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: AI will start being useful to business when it will start being used to re-organize and re-architect core business processes... Not as part of existing business processes, the "augmentation" will never offer to
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by nnq 6y ago
> have any insight to what you can actually deliver Maybe that's the problem. In lots of AI/ML problems you just CAN'T know ahead of time what can be deliver you need to spend the time and resources to do it and then s
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by nnq 6y ago
...that's mildly insulting
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by nnq 6y ago
> hardware engineer Software's different because you can hire-fast & fire-fast. Unless you have broken processes and incompetent people surrounding the new hire, you can easily determine if they're good enough. Hack, it&#x2

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