ricardo81

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by ricardo81 22d ago
Script kiddies aren't really a problem, but there's a place where technically competent CTO types can sooner/inexpensively solve problems with AI rather than documenting what they want done.
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by ricardo81 27d ago
I did (and do albeit somewhat in a neglected way) love biology. As much as I admired pure science (maths / physics) there is a certain romantic-ness to the real world application of chemistry and the emergence of it I suppose at the mo
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by ricardo81 1mo ago
It would seem to be. Anyone under 35 seems to type things in multiple messages on message apps, rather than one :-)
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by ricardo81 1mo ago
Excellent. Though many follow a shorter sentence style. Like this. To go on and on about what they're going on about.
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by ricardo81 1mo ago
I recall some link rot research from ~10 years ago that estimated it was in the high single digit percentiles per year. archive.org perhaps have/could have some interesting insights on it.
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by ricardo81 2mo ago
Seems like great advice. Beyond what we think are intellectual curiosities, passion tends to be the main driver.
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by ricardo81 2mo ago
yes, essentially. But gets hidden behind wealthier countries tucking away the debt.
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by ricardo81 2mo ago
The prophecies always were about water stress and food security. How that plays out, I don't know. If it's anything like the recent energy spikes it means burdening future generations of wealthy countries with subsidised amenities
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by ricardo81 4mo ago
DDG used to have a graph showing the number of queries they did daily. It was around 100 million searches a day before they removed it a few years back. They were receiving bad press at the time IIRC. An educated guess is they're doing
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by ricardo81 4mo ago
Because it has extremely plausible uses beyond the example you gave. More to the point it's trained on copyrighted material, so why entertain any use at all on that front if anything. If it's trained on the world's informatio
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by ricardo81 4mo ago
The point being that's the solution. I didn't say it is decentralised.
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by ricardo81 4mo ago
I think you're around the mark. Big tech has continuously eroded the idea of privacy and copyright and explains a lot of their market caps. Mitigating seemingly has devolved to trade wars and protectionism. The genie is out the bottle
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by ricardo81 4mo ago
I get "content not viewable in your region", from the UK. Not an ideal image sharing website nowadays.
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by ricardo81 5mo ago
Fair enough view. I would take the view that social media feeds are filled with all kinds of other junk anyway and were pre-ai.
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by ricardo81 5mo ago
Yuck indeed. I do find it offensive when someone uses AI in a conversational manner. It's one thing to use it to chuck up content on social media to attract eyeballs, but this is a forum intended for conversation.
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by ricardo81 5mo ago
Not too dissimilar to googlewhacking where you'd aim to be the only result for a search query on Google. And in a more indirect way, spamming Google's autosuggest feature to shape what people search for, though that perhaps is mor
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by ricardo81 5mo ago
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862497
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by ricardo81 5mo ago
Same old story of centralised algorithms being abused. Github stars is akin to 'link popularity' or 'pagerank' which is ripe for abuse. One way around it is to trust well known authors/users more. But it's hard
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by ricardo81 5mo ago
It'd ideally be more of a peoplerank though. I think Google discovered this problem themselves when Pagerank became a well known thing. You'd want to discard a lot of the noise in the bottom 20% of linking power. You want to focus
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by ricardo81 6mo ago
Ah. There's a whole generation of people who never enjoyed the Intel inside / Pentium jingle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVafplZCsjU
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
So basically the time it takes him to make a cup of tea he's surpassed the net worth of 99% of the world.
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
Using alternatives surely helps. I think so many people use Amazon because of familiarity and predictable delivery costs (free IIRC with Prime). A lot of the time other web stores can offer the same value.
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
I live in his hometown, thankfully a large chunk of the population has been aware of his story since the late 80s. He's an extremely eloquent person and has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the condition.
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
seems likely. but without a scientific method to back their claims it just becomes a 'common sense' thing.
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
Fair enough. It's a reasonable expectation of someone that enabled Google maps 15 years ago that enables Gemini 6 months not to understand the fundamentals of how Google treats their keys. If it wasn't explained on the enabling Ge
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
I was thinking more localised. When legislation changes happened (here in the UK) the problem disappeared quickly. The UK being an industrialised country in the context of the parent comments.
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
Yes, some things would have just stood to reason in a general respect, even if there wasn't hard science to back it up.
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
That long ago. Surely that helped identify it as a problem even though the science behind it would have been lacking.
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
A necessary (?) part of progress IMO. Environmental hazards have been a thing for a lot longer too. Settlements used to be covered in smog due to coal fires for example. Part of the environmental/emissions argument from developing coun
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by ricardo81 7mo ago
I did. Specifically the part about "When you enable the Gemini API". This doesn't take into account that people may have had years old forgotten about other services they use.

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