piokoch

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by piokoch 6d ago
But here you are in the text generating industry, the worst that can happen is bad grade because AI will mess up John Keats with John Cleese or your React application will have bugs. Inconvenient, but mostly harmless.
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by piokoch 8d ago
Yup, this is "inclusive education" effects, predicted long time ago by education experts. Kids with special needs (from handicapped to criminals) are thrown into regular schools and classes, making education totally inefficient.
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by piokoch 9d ago
One more marketing stunt. We are so good, AI is so powerful so we need to use AI to fight with it. The message is: if you don't buy from us, your competitor will purchase all of this amazing power... I understand that investors are buy
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by piokoch 19d ago
That's why I like Lenovo, you can just buy version without OS.
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by piokoch 22d ago
Sorry, but what? EU literally destroyed its economy by forcing "green energy", so manufacturing was moved to Asia (who cannot care less about climate and uses whatever cheap energy source thy have so this was a rather stupid move)
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by piokoch 28d ago
"Typst instead of LaTeX" Is this really an alternative? I would never replace battle proved TeX with consistent syntax, build for processing text, with great fonts, thousands of plugins for some Markdown mess, which is, in additio
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by piokoch 28d ago
In the times when everyone was installing Apache + PHP + "Some database" stack, the easy path was to use MySQL for a very simple reason: it had ready to use MS Windows installer. Another thing: those were times when web applicatio
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by piokoch 29d ago
Why not MySQL/MariaDB? DuckDB and Quack might be new and flashy, but sooner or later you will need things like connection pooling, data retention, backups, replication. In a real setup there is nothing lightweight about DuckDB as it wi
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by piokoch 1mo ago
"I just don't see how you justify a trillion valuation for US AI" - military applications - financial applications - medical - applied science In all those cases it is achievable for those who have needed training data, and C
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by piokoch 1mo ago
Great story, I am wondering if nowadays this kind of being hooked on in any kind of technology is possible. Kids have ipad style computers or smartphones which are not really hackable. There are things like Scratch, which provide kind of ea
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by piokoch 1mo ago
The question is: is such policy even enforceable? If someone is "clever" enough to drop em-dashes and some bold highlights how one would know if something is AI generated or not?
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by piokoch 2mo ago
There is also a simpler explanation that does not make Musk looking like an evil wrongdoer - Musk is working on human-shape robots, for this he needs AI. BTW. Musk started electric cars revolution (which is supposed to help the planet?), he
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by piokoch 2mo ago
"How is that better than the Zig codebase you started with?" - It will be worst, as this will not be idiomatic Rust. That's kind of interesting, BTW, as in next iteration LLM will be trained on tones of crappy code, created a
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by piokoch 2mo ago
Well, I see LLM coding capabilities as a great enabler for people who have some codeing-like skills or needs, but were not sufficiently skilled to do something more complicated. Think of people who are good at Excel, who use statistical too
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by piokoch 2mo ago
Yup, that is called progress. One freedom to live in a cave with his 6 spouses and hunting animals all day was indeed taken away. In exchange you don't need to hunt all day, you can go to groceries, you don't need six spouses and
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by piokoch 2mo ago
No surprise, I've noticed that "agents", not only CC (I am using Copilot) are trying to be "clever", searching for a lot of data. This is good for LLM providers as this eats a lot of tokens.
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by piokoch 2mo ago
Sadly, European Union that could be really useful (all-EU, flagship AI model anyone? But no, better restrict AI development, what can go wrong?) so people would genuinely like it, chosen to fight the people and try to gag criticism.
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by piokoch 3mo ago
Think of 90 y.o. lonely people who can't care less about some company seeing the interior of their house. Surely, it is a risk, but being without any help and assistance.
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by piokoch 3mo ago
That worries me a bit. ArXiv was and is great and so useful to humanity, giving access to otherwise closed knowledge, hold by publishers cartel, that I would not like to see it is turning into a "non-profit" of OpenAI kind...
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by piokoch 3mo ago
You don't need to. Just sample 1% of data, let the model do the feature engineering, ask model model to replicate everything in Pandas (or R, or whatever else), so you can run it for a full dataset.
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by piokoch 3mo ago
You are talking about "stealing" from people who already used stolen texts to train their models.
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by piokoch 3mo ago
Thanks for the very interesting write up, I am teaching management studies programming Python (people who want to be quants, dana analysts, etc.) and I am struggling with the same problem - how the hell do grading to make it reliable. LLMs
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by piokoch 3mo ago
Yup "protecting kids" has a long, long history of being used as an excuse to restrict citizens rights, yet something like Epstein Island was happening with all the proponents of child protection being happy visitors of the said is
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by piokoch 3mo ago
One of the striking things about LLM-s is verbosity. A junior guy had to do some task and create docs how (a rather simple) change needs to be done. He produced, using Copilot (all those hyphens, additional lines between paragraphs, etc.) ,
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by piokoch 3mo ago
One more wake up call for anyone outside USA, especially Europe. AI will be weaponized, on the battle ground too, but the bigger battle will be fought in the industry competition. Those who have access to state of the art models will have a
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by piokoch 3mo ago
We have too many videos (since creating one is so easy), too many music (since recording it is so easy), too many books (since publishing an e-book is so easy). Now the same story happens again, for software. But this time it causes more tr
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by piokoch 3mo ago
Soon, very soon, if you will need something useful, like medical advice, financial advice, you will be told that, well, ok, but you need to pay for an "extended license" that gonna be in thousands of dollars per month, otherwise y
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by piokoch 3mo ago
Yup. That's a big disappointment they could not cram universal generics faster. But I get the problem - they have to preserve backwards compatibility. I can take 30 y.o. Java 1.0 JAR and run it on Java 27 and it will work.
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by piokoch 3mo ago
There are big theories already born out of that glitch (like https://archive.ph/2OWwO#selection-1373.278-1377.12 ). The Doom is Coming!
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by piokoch 3mo ago
If it weren't for the IPO, Anthropic would just ship another model, called Opus 4.898, people would run another "duck on the bicycle" test that would be slightly better than the one from previous version 4.897 and move on. Bu

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