squidbeak

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by squidbeak 4d ago
Naivete and scorn of autism in one short sentence - you're very efficient. Yandex.com is the international front end to yandex, and not a portal for 'a handful of western autists'. But on Russia's granular propaganda and
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by squidbeak 5d ago
Declining to follow a blunderer into a blundered war really isn't a "decision to live with high oil prices" rather common-sense. This is the USA's mess.
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by squidbeak 5d ago
This sounds like all engineering, rather than just AI. The greatest effort given to the last small difficult details, often for results that seem trifling but which matter at scale. But it's a poor argument. The code improvements with
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by squidbeak 6d ago
> Goodness me. Sit and think about that for a while. You're quite right, let's think further about this. - A person racing to meet their deadlines. - Another sweating through a difficult meeting. - A third using some terrible c
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by squidbeak 6d ago
> I am saying he is, to me, evidently mentally ill in the way I feel I have been mentally ill. I wouldn't accept a doctor telling me my problems are work stress. I'd find it far less acceptable if a doctor told me work stress w
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by squidbeak 7d ago
Before AI, did you find that the existence of human expertise in the world far surpassing yours 'automated your thinking and cognition' or limited your intellectual scope to inventing party-tricks? I've always found greater i
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by squidbeak 7d ago
I agree with you and I'm nitpicking, but if you play a GM, you more than likely are playing Stockfish until your opponent's out of book.
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by squidbeak 7d ago
This is total bollocks. The skeptics are all present and just as forceful in any AI thread.
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by squidbeak 8d ago
One man's cliche is another man's hacker news comment
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by squidbeak 10d ago
Your cynicism is blinding you to impressive feats that don't have precedents. Performances like these aren't faked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUmlv814aJo&pp=ygUbY2hpbmEgb... https://www.youtu
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by squidbeak 10d ago
China's robots are not Tesla's.
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by squidbeak 10d ago
> But Orwell's rule 4 should be ignored ... Orwell himself routinely ignores it, even in the first sentence of the essay Orwell can answer you himself if you read just a little further: > vi. Break any of these rules sooner than
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by squidbeak 10d ago
Remember he's transcribing a scripture into bad modern prose, instead of riffing on it.
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by squidbeak 10d ago
My view doesn't need tempering. I talked about progress, which is indisputable, whatever its pace or current limitations might be. And that was the entire point: robotics is not a stagnant field.
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by squidbeak 10d ago
This is the 'Not today, so never" fallacy. As capabilities in all fields are stagnant and human progress stands still. I would switch off the 'nam flicks and check out some of the recent Chinese robotics progress before attem
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by squidbeak 14d ago
> This shows a deep misunderstanding of the paper's claims, which in no way challenge the established view that these bots are next-token predictors. No, this shows an appreciation of the symbolic richness behind that token 'pr
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by squidbeak 14d ago
Reading stuff like this (as a layman), diminishing these things as 'Next token predictors' seems absurdly reductive. At some point we'll need to concede that 'selection' is a better term for this than prediction.
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by squidbeak 18d ago
The gaps aren't toss-ups. For instance a recent poll on rejoining the EU: https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54567-how-strong-is-uk-sup... > Support: 55% Opposition: 34%
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by squidbeak 18d ago
> I have a mixed bag of UK friends, and it's about half-half. Polls show the population regrets Brexit. [1] > One thing I think myself is that there was an ugly _hope_ that the UK would suffer as a result. A hope which, as far as
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by squidbeak 18d ago
Any excuse to kill something, eh? Tell me, in the free market where a competitor was eating into your paycheck, or threatening the fast food supply to your children, would you head over to their HQ packing heat?
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by squidbeak 19d ago
How dare their need to feed spoil a lawn's appearance...
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by squidbeak 19d ago
Believe it or not, it's quite straightforward to get laid (abundantly) and find a mate (and a chain of replacements) in the suburbs, too. But your ordering works well for remote thinly populated areas. Hungering for a mate there is lik
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by squidbeak 19d ago
You're making a conceptual mistake here, comparing a chess tool to its operator. Deterministic tools produce superior results compared to models in many areas, so we allow models to use tooling. The correct analogy here is Fable as a s
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by squidbeak 23d ago
> Although I partially applaud what Anna's Archive is doing, I like their model the least (they want to CHARGE to download while doing Copyright infringement?). This is bollocks. AA gives users a means of paying to enjoy faster spee
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by squidbeak 26d ago
> It would be if it made the point you think it is. All of this is more and more hand waving. 75 copies in museums? Then I think we’re good. You're repeating the seller's contextual point, as if it's a counterargument. Do
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by squidbeak 26d ago
The British Library has a large quantity of books that have literary, academic, cultural or bibliopolical significance but are too niche to ever see print new print runs. This idea that there can only be merit in a work if it's commerc
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by squidbeak 26d ago
It doesn't automatically mean pointless or worthless, either. And it's too late to judge either way once it's been destroyed.
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by squidbeak 26d ago
> Show me which “rare” books they are destroying and _maybe_ I’ll care but so far the pearl-clutching over this BBC good enough for you? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3rprx2wl4o "A recent academic te
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by squidbeak 26d ago
> A book is really just a stack of paper, I don't get the sacred feeling attached to it. Especially since books are printed in thousands to millions of identical copies. If you've read the articles covering this issue, you&#x27
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by squidbeak 1mo ago
This isn't true. There have been plenty of other applications (Corel, Paint Shop Pro, Fireworks, Krita etc) with their own workflows and keybindings that weren't confusing for users. GIMP's UX is just bad. I loathe photoshop

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