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JTon commented on Generative AI hype peaking? bjornwestergard.com/gener... · Posted by u/bwestergard

cenobyte · 6 months ago

Anyone who thinks the Hype has peaked is obviously too young to remember the dotcom bubble.

It will get so much worse before it starts to fade.

Infecting every commercial, movie plot, and article that you read.

I can still here the Yahoo yodel in my head from radio and TV commercials.

JTon · 6 months ago

> Yahoo yodel

I wanted to hear this again. Leaving it here for the next person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5FE0x9eY0

JTon commented on QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices github.com/devos50/qemu-i... · Posted by u/stormed

infotainment · 2 years ago

What’s sad about this is that without backups of the old App Store as it existed at that time, you can’t do much beyond playing with the calculator and notes apps.

Digital distribution and lock-in are a disaster for historical preservation.

JTon · 2 years ago

> Digital distribution and lock-in are a disaster for historical preservation.

Agreed. This reality slapped me in the face quite hard after I was given an ipad 2 (circa 2011). I figured I'd use it as a couch-side device for spotify. Soon realized nothing worked on it, even with old version apps loaded. Server side shut it down.

JTon commented on Welcome to the ad-free internet economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

DaiPlusPlus · 2 years ago

I think it's naïve of you to assume that an inefficiency in the financial system is, in any way, for the benefit of the end-customer.

JTon · 2 years ago

Perhaps. But what I described benefits the institutions as well, no?

JTon commented on Welcome to the ad-free internet economist.com/business/20... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

syndicatedjelly · 2 years ago

Unfortunately, a lot of American banking infrastructure is hard-coded on ancient systems, so it’s entirely possible that initiating a single transaction really has reached it’s price-bottom. That’s also why it takes 2 days to send money to people, in an era of instant communication.

Many companies (like Stripe and Venmo) mask these deficiencies. But when you have to do something like a wire transfer, you find that it’s all an “abstraction” over some really ugly systems.

I suspect that’s why there’s no institutional movement to build something better. It requires a ton of hard-coded systems to change, in lockstep…just so banks can charge you less? It would be like trying to change the entire US electric grid from 110V to 220V to reduce the cost of transmission.

FedNow was SUPPOSED to be the answer, but I haven’t heard a word about it since it was supposedly launched over the summer. Rumor is that no bank wants to touch the system even though it’s better…

Edit: After learning that FedNow IS getting taken up slowly, I guess the analogy is more like: FedNow is like a huge 220V line running through the center of the country, and all the banks/power stations have to run a line to it now. And maintain the existing lines at the same time.

For the pedants: Yes, overhead lines don’t run at either 110V or 220V, but I felt that made more sense than talking about changing from 60Hz to 50Hz

JTon · 2 years ago

> That’s also why it takes 2 days to send money to people, in an era of instant communication.

I always assumed anti-fraud had something to do with it. Give the victims time to notice and the institutions the ability to reverse transactions without loss

JTon commented on I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate mayer.cool/writings/I-Hac... · Posted by u/danielwmayer

JimWestergren · 2 years ago

In the old school community: counterfeits absolutely not ok. Proxies normally ok except in some tournaments.

JTon · 2 years ago

I've been told that many players buy counterfeits specifically for old school tournaments so they don't put their very expensive pieces at risk to theft or damage. I can't verify this, but it makes a lot of sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

JTon commented on I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate mayer.cool/writings/I-Hac... · Posted by u/danielwmayer

indigo945 · 2 years ago

I wouldn't call a format where Black Lotus, Ancestral Recall and the Moxen are legal "affordable" - even though you can't play all of them in 7pts Singleton, even any single one of them costs thousands (or tens of thousands) of dollars. However, I'm glad you and your son enjoy the game, and congratulations on his placement.

JTon · 2 years ago

You can get professionally printed proxies [1]. I've been told there's often a "don't ask, don't tell" policy around many unofficial mtg tournaments regarding proxies. It obviously upsets some people, but others see it as requirement for new players to enter legacy format (and keep it alive).

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/bootlegmtg/wiki/index

JTon commented on The new Paris métro forbes.com/sites/jennifer... · Posted by u/TheIronYuppie

refurb · 2 years ago

A very large part of Canada's national identity is "not being the US". The two countries are so similar, that Canadians hold on with their fingernails any marginal difference and any criticism is responded to with "it could be worse, we could be like the US".

JTon · 2 years ago

I don't know. I heard this narrative a lot more during the trump era, and I rarely hear it now. I have a pet theory that it comes up in popular Canadian culture when a republican is in office and dies down when a democrat is there.

JTon commented on Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration embracethered.com/blog/po... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

WaffleIronMaker · 2 years ago

> ELI5

The model can look at X amount of input to decide what words come next.

Normally, Google fills part of X with instructions, and you control the other part.

However if you give it exactly X amount of input, then there's no room for Google's original instructions, and you control it all.

JTon · 2 years ago

Thanks! So is patching this as simple as not allowing the entire space of X for user prompt? i.e. guaranteeing some amount of X for model owner's instructions

JTon commented on Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration embracethered.com/blog/po... · Posted by u/goranmoomin

MagicMoonlight · 2 years ago

I tested bard prior to release and it was hilarious how breakable it was. The easiest trick I found was to just overflow its context. You fill up the entire context window with junk and then at the end introduce a new prompt and all it knows is that prompt because all the rules have been pushed out.

JTon · 2 years ago

> because all the rules have been pushed out.

Can you unpack this a little please? Is it possible to ELI5 the mechanisms involved that can "push" a rule set out? I would have assumed the rules apply globally/uniformly across the entire prompt

JTon commented on Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic reuters.com/technology/go... · Posted by u/fofoz

revoxx3 · 2 years ago

What's CodeLlama 33b? I couldn't find anything regarding it online

JTon · 2 years ago

Not 100% sure but I believe Llama [1] is a LLM created by meta. Code Llama is probably one tailored as a coding assistant

[1] https://ai.meta.com/llama/