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- RugnirVikingthis kind of sarcasm will go over their head. People truly don't understand vacuums
- if you believe that you haven't been paying attention. Have you actually used AI much? Current ones couldn't subtle their way out of a paper bag. I have no real reason to believe anything in future would be different.
In general, any textual embedding in the ad or system prompt would result in an abjectly terrible user experience. I must assume it will just be banner ads etc
- I don't really like firefox translate, despite having made the switch many years ago. For a long time it didnt have the (european) language of the country I live in. Now it does have it. Every time I want it to translate I have to manually find both languages in the insanely long dropdowns. It will not save it the way I want it, but impressively seems to manage to always save it in the other direction...
- the concept is too nebulous to "prove" but the fact im operating a machine (relatively) skillfully to write to you shows we are in fact able to generalise. This wasn't planned, we came up with this. Same with cars etc. We're quite good at the whole "tool use" thing
- whats going on with kimi k2 and being reasonable/so unique in so many of these benchmarks ive seen recently? I will have to try it out further for stuff. is it any good at programming?
- what about encryption only the users have the keys to? I'm assuming thats what parent meant
- whats the correct solution to an iterated prisoners dilemma?
- Really reminds me of openttd, especially the sandy border around the water
Looks really cool and runs great on my phone.
Seems like there's some kind of rendering bug in the corners sometimes causing the walls to intersect the grass
- > That can be helpful for the (imagined?) easily-influenced user, but a pain in the ass for people using ChatGPT to try to get close to the truth.
see, where you're going wrong is that you're using an LLM to try to "get to the truth". People will do literally anything to avoid reading a book
- to be fair, I did do exactly as you described, and im glad I had both under my belt. But the amount of bs you can get when doing exactly that, "going back and changing a previous step" can be very annoying. Changing dimensions or previous sketches is usually fine, but anything more complicated often results in everything in your stack breaking with strange errors, leading it to just be easier to re-create the model. For many of my more complex mechanisms, ive made the entire thing three or more times
- I agree that I don't think its security. But I do think its worth looking again at the time aspect. per "bowling alone" we have pretty good signs that this decline has been ongoing since the 1980s. I'm reasonably sure that the 455 minutes per day per capita global media consumption has something to do with it. From TV to the internet, you don't need friends when the friendly person on screen has such exciting adventures.
I think something like only turning on the internet and TV for like a single hour each morning and evening would do so much for society, like you wouldn't believe. Not just encouraging better engagement outside of those times, but also causing you to demand better of the hour you do get, avoiding mindless slop.
Have you ever taken a proper break from all media? Like tv, internet, phones, heck even books. You find yourself suddenly with amazing amounts of time. Some people describe being catastrophically bored but for me I just find that all those little tasks that rack up that seem like too much effort suddenly become approachable and you can check off like 6 and still have time for relaxing in some grass and just kinda chatting with passers by. I really think its that simple.
- This. I mean thats just one sector, but its spread across the whole: the whole of modern economic theory is one of competition that causes efficient markets. But when you look into the theory even a little bit, you realise it needs hundreds, even thousands of market players to reach an equilibrium thats worthwhile, and the existence of a large player even at like 10% market size can distort everything beyond usefulness. We're so far removed from that ideal in pretty much every dang sector that anyone preaching or believing in efficient markets is just foolish.
- Why in your opinion do Microsoft or any large org pay software engineers in America or western Europe? India would be cheaper. South America, Phillipines cheaper still. Etc etc etc. Plenty of educated folks speaking English.
I think a large part of it is that they want people physically and culturally close to themselves for projects they care about. Piles of companies have tried outsourcing core development and in my experience whatever minimal home team thats left keeps growing and growing and the oversess guys get pushed to the least desirable jobs. It's almost always a failure in the end, or at least the overseas team ends up being given limited scope, simple tasks while complex work finds it's way back home. I say this having worked with many talented overseas colleagues; I think this is a management level effect, not individual developer
- Have you seen how public polls on the judiciary have changed in just the past 5 years? People do not believe our institutions work. Though the judiciary may be independent, people believe that it is cut of the same cloth -- elite schools, disconnect from normal life
- Absolutely, this. I see this all the time with colleagues that don't speak English too well (I'm not in an English speaking country, but development offices often use English)
I'm not talking about people who can't express themselves or can't understand, merely that they haven't mastered it - use clumsy wording, or have a thick accent. These are often some of the most technically capable and talented people I've worked with, but also typically are not perceived as such by others, and im ashamed to say, working together with them would often result on the credit being placed unduly on myself.
- isn't this just related to the question "how do you train a transformer"? you give it wrong examples, and use optimization algorithms to move away from that kind of completions
- I've never liked that parable; it seems to me an incredibly poor argument, standing on its own. It literally itself contrasts the definite circulation of money in the destruction case, with a "could" spend on other things. Or he could not. He could have kept it, waiting for another opportunity later, reducing the velocity of money and contributing to inequality.
It doesn't even cover non-renewable resources, or state that the window intact is a form of wealth on its own!
I'm not naive, I'm sure thousands have made these arguments before me. I do think intact windows are good. I'm just surprised that particular framing is the one that became the standard
- that's... not what gp was talking about. Why are so many people jumping in with this mistake?
Operation mincemeat wasn't a german officer, it wasn't anything about using a known plaintext to compare to coded messages, it wasn't pretending to be german documents, and it wasn't to help with cryptanalysis. About the only similarity is a dead body
- because the other person hadn't said their piece by the time I said this, and because I stand by the fact that it's simply wrong to conflate leaving a body from england to deceive an enemy about the indented invasion location of an operation (regular deception, no cryptographic purpose). I think it's different, cryptographically speaking, to trying to provoke the enemy to use a known plaintext to try and help breaking their code, which I find a very interesting concept. For what its worth, I also downvoted the other comment yesterday, and the third comment today. I'm frankly astonished so many people are conflating the imo clearly different ideas.
I appreciate your edit that completely replaced the topic of your post; it is now much more interesting. But unfortunately, I could not edit my comment by the time I saw you had changed it
- Does it actually replace it? I can still get intellisense style suggestions on my ides (various jetbrains and visual studio) and it's still just as useful (what can this object do I wonder...)