th0ma5

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by th0ma5 8mo ago
That is generally only applicable to extremely momentary arbitrage opportunities. There's still a lot of automation though, but it's pretty boring. It's basically look at the news and make a recommendation to a fund manager o
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
I certainly think both can be true, we can have different contexts of technology as we get on the train and go through this cycle Adams describes, as well as fundamentally disagree with a technology's marketing for fundamental reasons.
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
This is really well put together, it should probably include more about ethics, hidden bias, etc.
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
I don't know if you're right or not, but a lot of people who would otherwise be fans of meatheaded thugs are laughing at these people. I do worry the spectre of some unstoppable idiocy is myth. People at the time weren't used
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
I think this is covered in the Bainbridge automation paper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation ... When the user doesn't have practiced context like you described, to be expected to suddenly have t
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
You're not wrong that that's the intent, I'm just not even seeing stupid bigots that are happy with it and they also don't seem to care about that either. So, once they lose even the hateful for not being hateful enough
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
The difference for me is that the Stasi seemingly had more competent people and more people that actually believed in what they were doing and thought it effective. With none of that, these are the actions of an organization that is failing
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
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by th0ma5 8mo ago
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
I think when a moderator keeps intervening like this it really does mean that there's something wrong here. I think people would be less mad if you just went ahead and said that you have some kind of special arrangement here with this
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
Despite open plugins, and mostly open end result file formats, the entirety of the media software world is built around proprietary software primarily for several reasons: Ephemeral fads have you making money in one big upfront push, integr
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
I have yet to see a study design that sufficiently controls for all of the variables. In general it seems that if you could do the work on your own, it may not save time, and in the long run, most all output needs to be reviewed, perhaps mo
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
At least Excel worked a lot better.
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
Anyone have a schedule that works for different Timezones ??
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
I came here with this perspective and it made the rest of the thread feel like submarine PR cleanup for this mess. Perhaps they can afford to keep their high profits because of AI company money?
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
I just wanted to say I think it is doing people a great disservice to advocate for these specific kinds of tools, but the last paragraph is a universally correct statement, seemingly permanently.
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
No, when did I say that?
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
If this had any substance then it could be criticized, which is what they're trying to avoid.
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
Yes but follow this forward, what about current models would be informative about future models. We've seen waves of "insight" come and go, to the point where there are endless waves of people at different points in the journ
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
I've read enough to find this statement to be largely correct. I found myself fully aware of the kinds of people who admired the thought patterns they wrote about that now I wonder why more assholes haven't read the stuff, it seem
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
It's a shame that developers read these articles and not project managers.
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by th0ma5 9mo ago
I personally don't understand why asking these things to do things we know they can't do is supposed to be productive. Maybe for getting around restrictions or fuzzing... I don't see it as an effective benchmark unless it can
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by th0ma5 10mo ago
There was also a lot of profiteering going on? This was talked about quite a bit? And it's still going on in other markets with other things like cars??
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by th0ma5 10mo ago
No way to ever know in which condition that being somewhat accurate is going to be good enough or not. And no way to know how accurate the thing is before engaging with it so you have to babysit it... "Can do things" is carrying a
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by th0ma5 10mo ago
This submarines a few blame the AI haters ideas while promoting some honest aspects of reality.
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by th0ma5 10mo ago
I wonder if it was Cinepaint, one of the earlier Linux success stories
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by th0ma5 10mo ago
My question for OCR automation is always which digits within the numbers being read are allowed to be incorrect?
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by th0ma5 10mo ago
Sick!!

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