serverholic

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by serverholic 3y ago
I really don’t understand the people who have a problem with rust. Do you not value the increased memory safety? Now that Microsoft and Google are adopting rust and reporting significant decreases in memory related bugs it’s pretty clear th
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by serverholic 3y ago
Thanks, can you explain what you mean by “vouched”? I’ve noticed that my comments have been getting much less engagement recently and sometimes they don’t show up.
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by serverholic 3y ago
Perhaps the biggest issue is the mental framework that people use to approach AI. I've found that there are so many assumptions in people's thinking and these assumptions are strange and/or don't match up with the eviden
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by serverholic 3y ago
I’m curious why you are so confident in your assertion. It seems to me that an advanced statistical model of the world is an essential component of AGI. How do you know that we aren’t a few breakthroughs away from AGI? Some recent papers ha
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by serverholic 3y ago
I don't think that's necessarily proof against the Bayesian brain. It seems reasonable that the brain is also using its statistical models to assess the relevance of new evidence. So it's not just "new evidence, I need t
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by serverholic 3y ago
I'm skeptical that RNNs alone will outperform transformers. Perhaps some sort of transformer + rnn combo? The issue with RNNs is that feedback signals decay over time, so the model will be biased towards more recent words. Transformers
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by serverholic 3y ago
Yes. Capitalism.
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by serverholic 3y ago
It’s interesting how the first benefit he lists for AI is productivity. It was a similar message in one of OpenAI’s recent blog posts.
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by serverholic 3y ago
It is definitely not as good as GPT-4. It's much less creative and detailed in its answers. The answers are more surface level and shallow.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I don’t understand why the threshold is “never”. Isn’t it entirely possible that the AI is learning a model of chess but this model is imperfect? What if AIs don’t fail the same way as humans?
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by serverholic 4y ago
This is likely related to data-oriented design https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design The idea is that you use data structures and algorithms to make better use of CPU cache.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I don’t think you really understood what I said. If your goal is population distribution then you are inevitably hiring based on attributes other than skill. For example, women don’t make up 50% of the engineering talent pool so if your goa
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by serverholic 4y ago
That sounds nice and all but the distribution of engineers doesn’t match population distributions. This leads to organizational pressure to hire based on population distribution. Doing so inevitably means hiring based on attributes other th
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by serverholic 4y ago
More than that, it puts your data into your hands. If someone kicks you off a server for whatever reason you still have your account and you can visit other servers. With mastodon you’re at the mercy of whoever owns the server.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Same with mastodon. Your id is tied to the server so if you get banned you have to create a new id on another server. Mastodon is worse because your data is in the server owner’s hands. At least with Bluesky your identity and server are sep
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by serverholic 4y ago
He literally said that's what he's looking for when he announced his company. He also shows off his work stats on twitter.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Politics is just decision making in groups of people. Similar analyses can be used whether you're talking about government, schools, your workplace, open-source projects, your household, etc. As a general rule I tend to always interpre
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by serverholic 4y ago
Wow. It's clear nobody gives a fuck. We're all doomed aren't we.
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by serverholic 4y ago
I’m inclined to believe you. In my experience men are socialized to downplay mental illness whereas women are the opposite, they wear their illnesses on their sleeve.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Because then my choices are: 1) give in and pretend to go along with it. 2) look like an asshole at a wedding. Sorry if I don’t want to ruin someone’s wedding lol.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Just so you know, if I ever met you at a party I probably secretly resent you and I'm guessing I'm not alone. I DONT LIKE DANCING. I DONT LIKE THE THING THAT YOU LIKE.
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by serverholic 4y ago
My issue is the claim that these people are poorly adjusted. Perhaps these people are responding to other peoples sense of superiority. These other people don’t get called out because they are “normal” and we assume that normalcy is automat
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by serverholic 4y ago
Or perhaps people are different and they find themselves pressured and bullied by “normal” people.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Whenever someone has done that I end up pretending it’s fine until it’s socially acceptable to stop.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Yeah I just don’t find dancing fun. That’s it, end of story. Wherever there’s dancing at a wedding or something I just think of it as something I have to get through so I don’t appear rude.
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by serverholic 4y ago
one touches people's emotions, the other doesn't.
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by serverholic 4y ago
Yes and then someone comes along and makes a change that breaks something seemingly unrelated and it’s less likely to be caught because there is no type system. And please don’t say tests solve that because they don’t. They help but they do
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by serverholic 4y ago
See this is what I’m scared about in my current job. We have some people who want to use dynamically typed languages and some who want to use static. I don’t think being able to brain dump code is a good thing and it leads to an unmanageabl
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by serverholic 4y ago
It looks like this guy has created multiple accounts and posted the same URL multiple times.
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by serverholic 4y ago
A little unsafe is better than all unsafe.

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