tekne

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by tekne 7d ago
Surely the only rational reason to care about liability is you get paid in the bad outcome. Let's assume you get paid 0$ for AI mistakes -- no liability at all. Then your EV is roughly: (AI accuracy - human accuracy) * (cost of acciden
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by tekne 26d ago
Data point of one, but after a few months of uselessness, I have managed to get some pretty serious, measurable performance improvements with AI optimizations -- order-of-magnitude speedups of business critical processes which took days as
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by tekne 26d ago
I think the issue is precisely the rationalising part. Let's assume I have pre-decided something: if the fruit weighs over 100g, I'll buy it, otherwise I won't. I can then measure and find out. My emotions -- based on looking
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by tekne 26d ago
A better technical solution imo is more P2P hosting -- say content addressing. Something designed to deal with the scrapers -- and maybe even make them bear infrastructure costs.
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by tekne 26d ago
Honestly, I'll take it a step further: what's wrong with training? Having principles means applying them uniformly -- even to large entities or those you hate (it's fine if the principles themselves have size bounds in them
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by tekne 28d ago
Assembly can totally interop with C.
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by tekne 1mo ago
Content-addressed storage and error correcting codes mean that one can make bitrot astronomically unlikely with honestly minimal infra investment. It's copyright that causes anything to disappear from the web IMO -- torrents never di
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by tekne 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure it's a lot more reasonable to use a fixed set of frequences and use the timezone for offset
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by tekne 2mo ago
Can we please do content addressing one day?
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by tekne 2mo ago
Air (or rather, nitrogen -- oxygen at that pressure is something you'd rather avoid) can be pressurised to that degree too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_pool
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by tekne 2mo ago
Different pros and cons -- SQLite is smaller is the big one
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by tekne 2mo ago
You know, I'm pretty sure post-slurping the text is still there...
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by tekne 2mo ago
There is also the deep magic... https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs
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by tekne 2mo ago
Would they ever have done so without a lifetime of listening to the music and culture of others?
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by tekne 2mo ago
Eh. On one hand -- phones are evil, and the world is no longer 2004. On the other hand, I would not be the same person if I didn't get that laptop.
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by tekne 2mo ago
Not if the datacenter itself is operating at the same internal pressure as the water around it
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by tekne 2mo ago
So I suppose I should have added a bit of a disclaimer: I genuinely believe free access to computation and information to be a human right; up there with the press 100 years ago. Restricting computers, morally, is like restricting the print
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by tekne 2mo ago
Though no one cares, I feel compelled to put down my 2 cents. Such a "speed limit" is an unfathomably bad idea, in every way, and moreover is a violation of fundamental human rights. I deeply oppose it. That is all.
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by tekne 2mo ago
Thanks! Apologies about the tone -- I meant it as a syllogism, not a snark! I'll try to be clearer next time!
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by tekne 2mo ago
This explains a lot... I feel bad when I think about staying put. Forward always feels better . It's like one of the fundamental axes, I guess.
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by tekne 2mo ago
"Some 5 year olds could use a gourmet meal. Giving them a mass-produced TV dinner is no different than sedating them with opiates* and pouring garbage on them instead of being a parent." * the more things change the more they stay
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by tekne 2mo ago
I suppose there's nature -- i.e. physics -- and Nature, i.e. the false god of the status quo. These are not, in fact, the same thing. Small-n nature says (as best as I can tell) that I must obey conservation of mass and can't go f
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by tekne 2mo ago
I'll wear the dunce hat if I have to, but I don't want to be an animal . I am one, now, but I don't have to be one. I refuse to be limited by what is "naturally" possible -- my nature is to be a being with a mind,
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by tekne 2mo ago
Controversial opinion: at the time, it was. To be able to live well now with much less of that may not have been possible without the sacrifices that came before.
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by tekne 3mo ago
The raw pretrained models make the errors, I believe -- we then reinforcement-learn them out.
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by tekne 3mo ago
a) yes it does b) it is literally trivial to buy a tiny RISC chip for a dew cents that can handle HTTPS just fine
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by tekne 3mo ago
Will you? That's only if both violins are tuned the same way, and one must continually tune them lest they get out of sync. Similarly, an LLM can be extremely consistent if tuned properly -- indeed, if you fix the weights and settings,
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by tekne 3mo ago
To be fair: a voice, personality, and personal history sounds a lot like training data. I don't think LLMs are people in any sense, at least as they're constructed now -- but they very much have what we would call "culture&qu
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by tekne 3mo ago
Absolutely -- why on earth would I spend more time and effort than I have to? Now I can focus on the reason why I wanted to learn German in the first place, like appreciating German culture or talking to German people. Note this is not sa
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by tekne 3mo ago
Ah yes... the exceedingly dangerous "Fallout New Vegas" trojan

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