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AlexeyBrin
11,534karma·1,345submissions·January 25, 2013
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Too bad that most Coursera courses are now behind a paywall. First they were free without certification, after a few years they removed the access to quizzes and tests but you could still audit for fr…
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In the context of book publishing speed is not a virtue. Why would anyone want to publish 100 mediocre books ? All I know is that when I see a new self-published book on Amazon, I go and check the aut…
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Thanks for the book. If you want to update it, why don't you slap a 2nd edition on the cover and some No AI sigil (I saw this strategy on the books of Nils M Holm from Lulu).
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You may have more luck with Omarchy - apparently they test against most Intel Mac based models.
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The author said that she used AI for research which I find reasonable. I just ordered two of her books House of Day, House of Night and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead .
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> It's basically like someone in the pre-industrial age complaining that the industrial revolution will lead to the permanent underclass of people who currently live on welfare in developed co…
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It is only spectacular because of the free tiers and the artificially lowered costs of the services. Put the real prices on the OpenAI and Anthropic services, remove the free tier and only than you wi…
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> I see AI exactly as what will help future generations, the possibilities it provides in terms of learning, research, analysis are huge. Do you really think a 20 years old that is afraid of not fi…
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Honest answer: nobody knows. You will need to create a poll large enough of people representing all society and ask the questions. Most people in tech (I include myself here) just speculate and projec…
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It depends how the AI is used. I have no problem with something like "Check this text for grammatical errors, do not change the writing style: < chunk of text here > ". If one is using…
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> I don’t understand why people act like we just have to submit to the AI revolution. Some people are genuinely interested and excited about this new technology. Other people have an interest that …
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Many cultures bury their dead with objects that the person enjoyed during their lifetime. This is present even today, I saw a burial in Eastern Europe where the parents put a game of chess and toys in…
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How is this relevant to his opinion on writing fiction ?
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It would be great to give anti-capitalists a forced one year vacation in a paradisiac communist country at the end of the 80's in say Eastern Europe or USSR. To say nothing of life during the &qu…
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> How this affects geopolitics by removing a bloated Tic of pro Russian propaganda and veto voting is worth watching. I'm hopeful it has some immediate effect regarding funds and support f…
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Worst case scenario if Ubuntu MATE is discontinued, you can switch to Linux Mint MATE. AFAIK, Linux Mint MATE does not depend on Ubuntu MATE.
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AFAIK, babies can survive on goat milk (barely). I think I read that this was used in the past when the mother died and there was no wet nurse available.