zebomon

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If you can't warp spacetime, what are you doing on the Starship Enterprise?(gardnermcintyre.com)
3 points by zebomon 2d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Browse 27 years of movie ticket stubs in ThreeJS(gardnermcintyre.com)
2 points by zebomon 9d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Browse 27 years of movie ticket stubs in ThreeJS
4 points by zebomon 10d ago|0 comments
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by zebomon 1mo ago
Posting for visibility a reminder that this type of watermarking is comically easy to beat. See Scott Aaronson's 2023 research in which he coined the term "pineapple attack": one must simply prompt the model to add the word &
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by zebomon 2mo ago
I built and open sourced something similar between 2024 and 2025. https://github.com/humthentic/itypedmypaper-v1 As others have pointed out, it's relatively a lot of effort to create an artifact that realistically
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by zebomon 2mo ago
I think you're thinking of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow.
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by zebomon 8mo ago
This exactly. I don't understand the argument that seems to be, if it were real intelligence, it would never have to learn anything. It's machine learning , not machine magic.
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by zebomon 8mo ago
https://gardnermcintyre.com
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by zebomon 8mo ago
I saw him perform 26 times in my life, and still those were rookie numbers. Still I thought there would be so many more too. Thanks for all the music, Bobby Weir.
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by zebomon 9mo ago
I've been doing pretty much the same thing since 2019. The only big change I made was in early 2023, when I started saving a new version of the long txt file each day. It works very well for me but I recognize it isn't the right s
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by zebomon 9mo ago
I won't be providing my full name and email without more information, like at least a peek inside. Interesting legal argument regarding the brand though.
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by zebomon 9mo ago
The author's argument seems to be a practical one and two-part: 1) without death, there's nothing to motivate us to live life well and 2) unless we live life well, there's no point in living. I just disagree with both postula
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by zebomon 10mo ago
It honestly seemed like pretty sharp marketing to me already when I read about it on AV Club.
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Opinions Are a Last Resort(gardnermcintyre.com)
5 points by zebomon 11mo ago|0 comments
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by zebomon 1y ago
I first used Duolingo back in 2018. That was how I started learning French. I majored in Classics in college and had taken Spanish all eight years of middle school and high school, so my vocab progress was very fast. Within that year, I fel
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by zebomon 1y ago
I can see that your approach would be effective at shutting down conversation and stopping people from telling you their wild conspiracy theories. I think that with my experience, I've had to recognize how fragile some of the most impo
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by zebomon 1y ago
My experience has been very different from the one you're describing. The person I was talking to is someone who cares deeply for me (and whom I care for deeply too), someone I've known for almost my whole life. He wasn't hav
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by zebomon 1y ago
It's a combination of never having learned the basics of science and now seeing the falsehoods they've been fed as equivalent to science. Take the Tylenol thing. You can explain to one of them the scientific method, what a survey
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by zebomon 1y ago
I think providers of so-called "answer engines" will read the writing on the wall and find new ways to support content creators in order to keep their databases fresh, relevant, and centered on human perspectives. I also think tha
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The Cables Stuck Too Deep(gardnermcintyre.com)
1 points by zebomon 1y ago|1 comments
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by zebomon 1y ago
I've been using the voice chat in ChatGPT more and more frequently. I'm curious now to see how the costs associated with this would work through the API on some user-facing features. It's a cool update at a glance.
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Dog May Stop Loving You(gardnermcintyre.com)
6 points by zebomon 1y ago|1 comments
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by zebomon 1y ago
Intriguing analysis. I'll be following along with interest!
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by zebomon 1y ago
This is very interesting. I think a lot of people may be quick to overlook the value of such simulators when thinking about AI agents at the extremes. (Either they're not good enough to trust or they're so good they'll leapfr
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by zebomon 1y ago
I think this attitude is here to stay: people don't like reading something only to realize that it's been written by an LLM. That's only partially because of what the author describes here (low value to word count ratio). Mor
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by zebomon 1y ago
Creator here, just seeing this. Thank you very much for the share! I'm reading all the comments now and will make updates to our database accordingly.
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by zebomon 1y ago
Very engaging look at a very difficult topic to approach analytically. I'm reminded of something I learned about the founder of Stormfront, the internet's first white supremacist forum. His child went on to attend college away fro
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by zebomon 1y ago
Good read. I've been reflecting recently on the idea of demand-side economic growth as something that happens across two variables: consumption and reproduction. Until very recently in history, only the reproduction variable ever moved
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The Goal Is to Think as Little as Possible (without Ever Being Wrong)(gardnermcintyre.com)
2 points by zebomon 1y ago|1 comments
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by zebomon 1y ago
This is very exciting given the rumor that OpenAI will be launching a (presumably not open source) browser of their own this summer. I've joined your Discord, so will try it soon and report back there. Congrats on launching!

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