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by slfreference 8mo ago
Linus's law is the assertion that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow".
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by slfreference 8mo ago
On National Geographic channel, I have seen cannibalism in lions and spotted hyneas.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42041926-the-scout-minds... When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. In other words, we have what Julia Galef calls a soldier mindset. From tribalism
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by slfreference 8mo ago
Distributed verification. 8 billions of us can divide up the topics and subjects and pool together our opinions and best conclusions.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
I think what LLMs do with words is similar to what artists do with software like cinema4d. We have control points (prompts + context) and we ask LLMs to draw a 3D surface which passes through those points satisfying some given constraints.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
Sculpt coding?? Sculding?? Rice by any other name??
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by slfreference 8mo ago
ZeroHedge can stay irrational far longer than you can stay sane.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
Blade Runner 2049 | "Cells Interlinked" and Pale Fire https://youtu.be/OtLvtMqWNz8 The best video essay on the movie
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by slfreference 8mo ago
You are what you know. You know what you are told.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
dont spread yourself too thin;or else river will dry; pick your battles.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
Never perfect a game something to its theoretical limits, It stops being exciting. https://youtu.be/0Yubn6P5DUw
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by slfreference 8mo ago
I can sense two classes of coders emerging. Billionaire coder: a person who has "written" billion lines. Ordinary coders : people with only couple of thousands to their git blame.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
https://x.com/JDHamkins/status/2014085911110131987 I am seeing the doomed future of AI math: just received another set theory paper by a set theory amateur with an AI workflow and an interest in the continuum hypo
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by slfreference 8mo ago
>> In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do thi
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by slfreference 8mo ago
prompt: Collapse of Circle to 3 points is like Quantum mechanics of mathematics.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
ghosts react : imagine a youtube channel but opinions expressed are from the POV of a ghost. put the above prompt and enjoy some imaginative writing.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
vagueprose = vagueposting
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by slfreference 8mo ago
Remember how Denmark supported the illegal creation of Kosovo without a UN resolution, on the basis of self-concocted EU rules? Today they’re being subjected to something similar. Thank you Donald Trump for holding these hypocrites to accou
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by slfreference 8mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07v-ttoJZs When Carlin asks about the last white people America bombed, he answers his own question: the Germans, and specifically notes they're "the only ones." But here&#x27
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by slfreference 8mo ago
Whitelands or Anglosphere will always be cooperating and coordinating because blood is thicker than water. So all these developments of Canada moving closer to China are superficial. When push comes to shove, the real affinities or allegian
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by slfreference 8mo ago
"The US government hates China and also hates Muslims but suddenly cares about Muslims in China" - forgot who quoted this. Compare US stance on Gaza. If media can ban discussions on gaza, can't it invent phantom genocide in X
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by slfreference 8mo ago
But by claiming one thing and doing the exact opposite (on a statistical quantitative basis), Wikipedia and all other western outlets have become just a front for propaganda which is also the reason why I don't believe in "Persecu
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by slfreference 8mo ago
I think this indicates the features from vision and audio got aligned properly and hence we know what is what intuitively.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
Have you seen lately, that in order to win AI race, nobody [big tech especially] cares about climate anymore?
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by slfreference 8mo ago
This spam LLM account "MarkusAllen" (towards the very end) could be used by an adversory to discredit books / courses /"youtube channel" they link to. This is reverse psychology attack vector made possible by a
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by slfreference 8mo ago
I have a question. Why can't Whatsapp or Meta make a markdown INFO only website for small business owners (e.g. technicians, shopkeepers, handyman, etc) using their immense reach and clout. The method of using whatsapp groups to keep u
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by slfreference 8mo ago
All these attempts looks like emulation of "Pen (software) is mightier than Sword" or that only if more people believed in the cause, we would be close to resolution. Remember folks, soft power is nothing in front of hard power.
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by slfreference 8mo ago
I think we can safely the problem isn't lack of information at the local or national level. The problem is nobody is taking action on it when informed. It takes only 1 person to report a problem but the responsibility to take action is
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by slfreference 8mo ago
I heard Boeing whistleblowers died unexpectedly. Two prominent Boeing whistleblowers, John Barnett (died March 2024) and Joshua Dean (died April 2024), have died in recent times, raising significant concerns about retaliation and safety at
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by slfreference 9mo ago
If you block /r/history, you would prove the aphorism, "One thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history"

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