spideymans

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News coverage, often uncritical, helps build up the AI hype (2024)(reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk)
4 points by spideymans 2y ago|0 comments
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by spideymans 2y ago
> We have some of the highest living standards in the world. In caparison to the U.S.A. in particular, it's like a utopia. Give it a few more decades of compounding lagging productivity, and that will no longer be true. > The sil
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by spideymans 2y ago
It’s real easy to say this right now, because the EU has only lagged its peers in productivity for only the last decade —- thus the compounding effects of lagging productivity are not yet evident. However several more decades of lagging pro
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by spideymans 2y ago
The average human throughout human has existed at subsistence level. That means that nearly all of their time was spent producing/collecting the food to feed themselves. The average American now spends just 10% of their wages on food.
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by spideymans 2y ago
Productivity is ultimately the measure of the efficiency of human labor. The more productive workers are, the more free time they’ll have to do whatever it is they want to do to make themselves happy. In the short term, lagging productivity
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by spideymans 2y ago
EU productivity is already lagging its peers. Being locked out of having the most cutting edge technologies will further plunge the block into a productivity decay. Less productivity means everyone in Europe will get poorer, with declining
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by spideymans 2y ago
EU will regulate themselves straight out of economic productivity.
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by spideymans 2y ago
Over the years, overregulation will continue to lock the EU out of bleeding-edge technologies. Every feature, every website, every innovation that doesn’t launch in the EU further plunges the bloc into technological irrelevance.
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by spideymans 3y ago
The airbags needing a software update in the first place is terrifying.
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by spideymans 3y ago
Yup. Senior engineers spend a lot more time reading software, than writing software. Juniors spend more time writing than reading.
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by spideymans 3y ago
> I, on the other hand, work as a software developer and use ChatGPT as a discussion partner to get a better understanding of problem and solutions spaces. I don't expect ChatGPT to be correct but gladly take any inspiration or argu
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by spideymans 3y ago
If you ask ChatGPT an exceedingly trivial question, it’ll typically spend the next 60 seconds spewing out five paragraphs of corporate gobbledygook. And of course, because ChatGPT will lie to you, I often end up back on Google anyways to va
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by spideymans 3y ago
Another tangent: I feel this speaks to the hazard on building on these generative AI APIs. Your product may work great on Day 1, but there’s no way to guarantee it’ll still work as well on Day 500. Either due the models being nerfed, or due
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by spideymans 3y ago
My ChatGPT use is down. After the novelty wore off, it quickly became apparent that ChatGPT was exceedingly willing to outright lie to you. Which makes it not useful, unless you’re already a subject matter expert who can spot its lies. But
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by spideymans 3y ago
I’ll really be able to get my procrastination under control, now that Reddit has banned third party clients, and Twitter has limited users to viewing 600 tweets/day.
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by spideymans 3y ago
I'd love to see a federated Reddit clone. Administrators should have power over their communities, nor Reddit.
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by spideymans 3y ago
Apple says kids younger than 13 shouldn't use the product. Another excuse for you :)
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by spideymans 3y ago
What’s worse is that CS is a transport simulator that’s heavily biased towards cars; to the point where every new game starts off with a giant unsightly freeway in the middle of your town. I hope CS2 is more agnostic on transport mode. It
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by spideymans 3y ago
More relevant than ever: https://youtu.be/9ntPxdWAWq8
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by spideymans 3y ago
ChatGPT promises to have iPhone-level impact, but as of today (April 16, 2023), its impact has largely been to accelerate existing workflows. Its impact is more akin to Photoshop (still, a monumental impact), than the introduction of the sm
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by spideymans 3y ago
Breaking news: we’re all indoctrinated. That’s why men typically don’t run around wearing dresses, for example. Perhaps we should examine your beliefs for indoctrination? To use your indoctrination as an excuse to remove your bodily autono
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by spideymans 3y ago
It’s not their problem that you scare easily.
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by spideymans 4y ago
The only way to find the truth online nowadays is to append site:reddit.com to the searches. Redditors can’t help but correct people they think are wrong.
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by spideymans 4y ago
That might be true in K-12, but that’s definitely not the case in higher education, where iPads are very well used.
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by spideymans 4y ago
That’s exactly what it feels like. A word processor distorted into an application development platform. With nearly 30 years of technical debt as well. This is becoming untenable. The web has only gotten more and more difficult for novice u
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by spideymans 4y ago
Excuse me for my ignorance, but what are affiliate links? I never got to experience the early web.
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by spideymans 4y ago
If you want people to stop speeding, stop building infrastructure to let them speed. Any measures less than this are mere bandaids.
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by spideymans 4y ago
I don’t know if this company will go under. Give me a massive signing bonus and I’ll consider it.
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How to Use the iPad for Study and Deep Learning(thesweetsetup.com)
9 points by spideymans 4y ago|0 comments
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by spideymans 4y ago
It works on the iPad, but it uses the iPhone UI. But it works just as well

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