xigency

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by xigency 1y ago
This happened to me and I tried to recover the last licensed version I had used but mixed up my shortcuts or something and, after the 100th time I saw the nagware screen, I gave up and uninstalled and went with something simple and free: No
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by xigency 1y ago
Troll / flamebait
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by xigency 1y ago
I used to be at Amazon on the B2B retail side and at the tail end we got automated A.I. spamming our TT's with completely wrong summaries. Some great "progress." Internal search had similar "improvements" that tippe
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by xigency 1y ago
That's a nice thought but I've only had one physical in the last 15 years. I'm sure others are sitting in the same boat.
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by xigency 1y ago
So that's why they dropped "Don't Be Evil."
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by xigency 1y ago
The problem I see with A.I. research is that its spearheaded by individuals who think that intelligence is a total order. In all my experience, intelligence and creativity are partial orders at best; there is no uniquely "smartest&quot
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by xigency 1y ago
Have you tried creating your own programming language? How about solving unsolved frontier problems in mathematics? Ever written a book that won a Pulitzer prize? How many languages do you know? As someone who was born ambitious I find this
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by xigency 1y ago
Oh for sure, I've gone as far as trying to get people to change their votes to avoid what we're currently putting up with. But you can't argue that each party paves the way for the other's abuses. Consider the average ag
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by xigency 1y ago
I agree. As someone with libertarian ideals I dislike both of these parties (almost) equally.
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by xigency 1y ago
Yeah, that's a very good question. I kind of doubt it since we've moved beyond a world of common sense. If this ruling holds the best thing would have been to have never paid the tariffs.
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by xigency 1y ago
> You're trading correctness for speed. That's AI in a nutshell.
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Why Does Life Suck in 2025?(hetmehta.com)
4 points by xigency 1y ago|5 comments
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by xigency 1y ago
Schrodinger's HN: LLM's are really great. No don't make me read it!
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by xigency 1y ago
That's not quite a valid point considering the article's conclusion: sowing dissent in the sciences allows companies to more easily package and sell carcinogens like asbestos, lead paint, and tobacco products. I understand his dic
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by xigency 1y ago
Sure but only because I'm unemployed, in debt, and behind on child support payments.
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by xigency 1y ago
I understand your point however no one forced Microsoft to buy GitHub and use it as a Trojan horse for A.I. And for that matter, they have all the power in the world to put gates around their repo's and the repo's comment threads.
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by xigency 1y ago
Right? Within 30 minutes of the first film you have a military tribunal discussing the dissolution of the senate. People who are triggered by politics in Star Wars have very low media literacy. (Sorry.)
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by xigency 1y ago
67% of the time it works all the time?
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by xigency 1y ago
Taking a wild guess, was this at Fog Creek / Stack Overflow?
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by xigency 1y ago
Indeed I was playing with a local model and thought I might work on a difficult project I've been putting off which is a new programming language. As I described the task, the model attempted to convince me this was a foolish endeavour
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by xigency 1y ago
Humans are social creatures. The existence of a tool that can replace humans is not nearly so depressing as the realization that a loud and powerful group of people are zealous and joyful to use it to such ends. The assumption that people c
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by xigency 1y ago
Not really, only when looking back at the 60's and 70's when most of the important algorithms I use were invented. For example, LR parsing and A*. Just wait until the MBA's and politicians learn about this Adam Smith guy. A p
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by xigency 1y ago
Note that this article uses A.I. somewhat interchangeably with the concept of recommendation algorithms in general. It's a long read (admittedly, I had not finished reading on submission) but well thought out with a number of really st
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Apocalypse Now(betterwithout.ai)
5 points by xigency 1y ago|2 comments
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by xigency 1y ago
I've applied to multiple A.I. companies now with the value proposition that I am grounded and skeptical (along with being a tenured technologist with a background in risk management) and they weren't having it. Free lunch for the
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by xigency 1y ago
Unironically it's a form of occult divination. I know it sounds crazy but it really is the synthesis of humans' collective works combined with some dice rolls. I'm quite honestly surprised someone more superstitious than I a
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by xigency 1y ago
One trillion atoms of the heaviest element is less than a nanogram. I get your point it's just that we can't even simulate all the blades of grass on a one acre lawn with every shortcut we have. Really I think it would be cool to
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by xigency 1y ago
It's a less well-known fact that criminals love chaos and grifters/scammers love the poorly educated.
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by xigency 1y ago
> I believe the future of such simulation is to start from the lowest level - ie. schrodinger's equation, and get the simulator to derive all higher level stuff. I do hate to burst your bubble here but I've been doing real-time
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by xigency 1y ago
I think you misunderstand what 'dumping' means in this market context. Sure, free software like Linux is great. But if you didn't have that preconceived notion, a competitor dumping free software on the market to make others&

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