phorkyas82

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by phorkyas82 9d ago
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. (some drama from good ol' William)
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by phorkyas82 10d ago
I'd guess the hurdles are always more structural and organizational - as even with Microsoft stack itself. See for instance the Limux/Munic story: https://lwn.net/Articles/737818/
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by phorkyas82 2mo ago
>It's still a ton of effort with dubious payoff. Isn't that valid for _any_ AI training? Let alone the "frontier stuff".
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by phorkyas82 3mo ago
That'd be so great. No more cursing if I forgot the "-ai" or "-ki" flag in my search and see this odious AI overview processing window rendering slowly and taking up the space where my search results should be.
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by phorkyas82 4mo ago
..just like any other government?
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by phorkyas82 7mo ago
"Just like humans..", was also my first thought. > frequently escalating to severe misconduct to satisfy KPIs Bug or feature? - Wouldn't Wallstreet like that?
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by phorkyas82 7mo ago
Don't forget that gcc is in the training set. That's what always puts me off: when AI replaces artists, SO and FOSS projects, it can only feed into itself and deteriorate..
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by phorkyas82 7mo ago
That's why there is separation of powers or ought to be.
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by phorkyas82 7mo ago
I always had this: "Only dead software needs no maintenance" in the back of my head, and similarly "bug free only means it's not been used and vetted enough" While probing into this, I think there could be a case wh
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by phorkyas82 8mo ago
Slightly moving into the other direction, after 17 years of science and tech optimism I see myself turning into a Luddite more and more. First observation was that communication and social aspects of software seems crucial for success and p
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by phorkyas82 9mo ago
Isn't that what no LLM can provide: being free of hallucinations?
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by phorkyas82 9mo ago
Second that. I see that as a failure of society or democracy as a whole - that we are no longer able to have that broad, public conversation and act accordingly. Why should every "innovation" be shoved down our throats, if we don&
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
Uff, dunno where to start even: I think as a transcendent number π cannot have a finite expansion like 10 in any base, then it would be rational. But that is not so important. I think in your argumentation you are mixing to things. The fini
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
Some human attempts: "Why did the sun climb a tree?" "Because it was chased by the Great Bear." "Why did The Sun climb a tree?" "To spy on The Royal Family having picnic."
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
Well, I wouldn't entrust critical infrastructure to the private sector which.. blindly optimizes shareholder value and sells your data anywhere. Germany's train privatization also comes to mind,.. or US healthcare - worse service
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
Generally, it's inter-subjectively decided what art is, which works enter the canon and are passed on. Placing it solely in each individual, "it's only a matter of taste", falls a bit short of some centuries of aesthetic
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
As far as I understood any AI model is just a linear combination of its training data. Even if that were such a large corpus as the entire web... it's still just like a sophisticated compression of other's people's expression
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
If you want to use non standard fonts, I think, you should use XeLaTex to compile your file. After installing the font in the system, this just worked on my Ubuntu: \usepackage{mathspec} \setallmainfonts(Digits,Latin){Old Timey Mono} \begin
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
The biggest pain I remember was placement of figures. I think the [h] parameter would advise to place the graphic right "here", but even if added the exclamation mark for extra force, it would often wind up somewhere else. Like wh
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by phorkyas82 1y ago
It's like the blaming in a playground fight; who started first? For context: https://nitter.net/KushDesai47/status/1907618136444067901
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by phorkyas82 2y ago
> $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt deal was reported: Monday, December 16, 2019 Just like a programmer complaining about some atrociously bad code only to learn she has committed it herself.
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by phorkyas82 2y ago
That was still operated 20 years ago: https://www.hnf.de/en/permanent-exhibition/exhibition-areas/...
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by phorkyas82 3y ago
Well, the learnedness as typist is probably not so much of a factor if you consider the setup: (b) type the presented word using the right index finger on the keyboard. That's really one thing that threw me off, when I stumbled
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by phorkyas82 3y ago
Not a very recent one, but this "Kingdom of nouns" resonates deeply http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
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by phorkyas82 4y ago
So.. the metaverse shall be written in Verse? - Would Shakespeare approve or die in disambiguity?
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by phorkyas82 4y ago
Somehow the code is not linked in the blog posts, but it seems to be there: https://github.com/objective-see?tab=repositories
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by phorkyas82 4y ago
I think, that's a common misconception about randomness: It doesn't mean the number has to change with every roll of dice. On the contrary the longer the sequence large clusters of the same number will occur. It's maybe not s
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by phorkyas82 5y ago
This is truly terrifying.
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by phorkyas82 5y ago
Count me in, too. For me it is really easier to parse ≥ than ">=", where I might even get confused about the order of the symbols. Seems more succinct and close the mathematical expression it embodies.
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by phorkyas82 5y ago
When due to lockdown I was doing some homeschooling and giving some exercises to my 7yo, I was also anxious to introduce variables; the magic "x" that scares so many. I ended up drawing squares or triangles instead. Maybe they sca

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