physPop

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by physPop 27d ago
Trained writers and journalists know that short sentences are an important tool. They convey directness. Perhaps that speaks more to your education and that of "most poeple on hn"
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by physPop 27d ago
I think you need to get out and see what life is like. This isn't a leadership problem at all, it is human nature. No one does sums anymore, we use calculators. We've outsourced computation. But now many workers outsource thinking
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by physPop 1mo ago
but you don't have separation of church and state... thats a poor comparison. religious dogma eats into nearly all public discourse.
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by physPop 1mo ago
HN crowd is not representative of the world at large. consumers don't care. cost and convenience are primary motivators.
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by physPop 2mo ago
yes thats the main reason, agda , coq similar ideas
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by physPop 2mo ago
re: wargames https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1iboomc/i_spent_a_...
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by physPop 2mo ago
agree. If oia and hf are anything like generic startup / corporate america, IT and security is always seen as a cost center and goes to the lowest bidder. Do we really think they're employing top notch sysadmins?
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by physPop 2mo ago
no it doesn't work at all -- because the LLM isn't sentient, emotional, nor does it care for the user
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by physPop 2mo ago
No. Even for large models that a good mental model. This is parroted all over and is wrong. Its not going to generate out of distribution answers. Its a probabilistic function of the training set.
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by physPop 3mo ago
Its for reasoning not generating art?
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by physPop 3mo ago
and the heating
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by physPop 3mo ago
butterfly and the swoop are both essentially useless too compared to their reference devices
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by physPop 4mo ago
Thats the definition of cherry picking and survivorship bias
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by physPop 4mo ago
no? this isn't what it argues at all. did you read it?
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by physPop 4mo ago
It's not widely known and mostly spun in MSM as fringe theory (thanks to marketing by big AI cos). this is a well written essay, and if it helps the discourse all the better.
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by physPop 4mo ago
Its also cheap, and fire retardant compared to other finishing. It used to be lathe+plaster. And before that plain wood.
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by physPop 4mo ago
China does it and it works well. We just need governments with executive planning capabilities. In my country (Canada) we only have myopic politicians who only care for re-election.
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by physPop 4mo ago
Upton Sinclair: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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by physPop 4mo ago
false dichotomy.
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by physPop 4mo ago
so you can do the transformations (see the rlisp macro section)
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by physPop 4mo ago
26% means not ai 3/4 times...
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by physPop 4mo ago
If you don't have stakeholders I contend you probably don't have a product, or you're building the bare minimum MVP which upon becoming a product will be woefully inadequate, generating the aforementioned bottleneck.
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by physPop 5mo ago
That's only true if you're making something that's already been done.
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by physPop 6mo ago
python isn't untyped, its dynamically typed https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2351190/static-dynamic-v...
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by physPop 6mo ago
I feel like thats really oversellign coro -- theres still a TON of boilerplate
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by physPop 6mo ago
Aren't utilities, by definition, state owned? Or is that also backwards in america?
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by physPop 8mo ago
Paper mills existed long before LLMs
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by physPop 8mo ago
it does but you need various config tweaks
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by physPop 9mo ago
its not though. the primary job of software engineers is to ship a product that produces income for their employer.
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by physPop 9mo ago
patently false, have you attended one of his lecture series in person?

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