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dosinga

945karma·259submissions·January 18, 2017
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Writer of code. Cofounder of https://neptyne.com
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yeah, the future movements don't do a great job avoiding collisions and when they do, they just bounce sometimes.
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> If there is anything to learn from the history of science, it is that breakthroughs happen via better or new theory and not by brute-force compute that might just be an illusion. humanity as a wh…
5d ago·view thread
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there's actually a little [+] button that allows you to add one city
6d ago·view thread
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> outside of the highly specialized embedded-application market, RISC is in retreat with hindsight it is funny to realize that RISCs come back would start from inside that highly specialized market…
7d ago·view thread
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this is probably an unpopular opinion, but isn't this working as intended: * Palantir started in the US as a start up and burned a lot of money building the systems they are running today and…
11d ago·view thread
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People keep saying that the open models are cheaper. Until recently that seemed true because they were smaller. And some of the best smaller models are still open and cheap. But K3 with its 2.7T param…
12d ago·view thread
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I don't know. This reply is AI generated and I really care
24d ago·view thread
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> Mozilla exists because one company tried to own the front door to the web, and an open community rose up to make sure it never could. I'd say that the front door to the web is pretty much ow…
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> ...and it's rebuked by Maynard Keynes: "We're all dead in the long run". Keynes said that when somebody complained that his theories didn't work in the long run. And the …
2mo ago·view thread
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second paragraph > A model can generate a login system in seconds. It will not ask if emails must be unique. That single missing requirement can collapse the system. LLMs cannot see the category of…
2mo ago·view thread
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What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?
2mo ago·view thread
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Does anybody else find this article reads really AI written? The way the argument is built, the emdashes, the dramatic one sentence paragraph: "That assumption is wrong." "The human is …
2mo ago·view thread
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The company I work for pays for my tokens, but I find enough joy in doing weekend projects supercharged by AI to chip in myself too
2mo ago·view thread
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Yes! It's a great addition to the argument
2mo ago·view thread
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The counter argument (not mine): Software Engineers are willing to spend their own money on AI. The same people that wouldn't pay 10 dollars for code if there was a workaround that took hours.
2mo ago·view thread
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Austerity does not create fascism. The examples in the article are just all wrong. Even if you call Trump and Orban fascists, they did not follow austerity. The reaction to the financial crisis was th…
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I ended up using https://eu.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot -- just have a finger robot push the button…
4mo ago·view thread
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Employers and landlords do that sort of thing all the time. Rent goes up, job descriptions change, return to office is suddenly required. And yeah, you can get a different job or a different home if y…
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> if you exclude the enslaved, the south had a higher GDP per capita than the north. In other words, if you remove the people that earned the least (close to nothing) the overall income per capita …
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you can run https://block.github.io/goose/ in headless mode (I work on goose)
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ah, but you can always just ask the LLM questions about how it works. it's much easier to understand complex code these days than before. and also much easier to not take the time to do it and ju…
6mo ago·view thread