Taking rockstar players 'off the pitch' is the best way second-rate competitors can neutralize their opponents' advantage.
Who would be the first-rate companies in this analogy?
Readit NewsThrowawayTestr commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
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ThrowawayTestr commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus
In my opinion, using AI tools for programming at the moment, unless in a sandboxed environment and on a toy project, is just ludicrous. The amount of shady things going on in this domain (AI trained on stolen content, no proper attribution, not proper way to audit what's going out to third party servers etc.) should be a huge red flag for any professional developer.
Companies won't use open source software because of licencing concerns but if you launder it through an LLM it's hunky-dory.
ThrowawayTestr commented on The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements (2017) periodictable.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I like the pictures of people for elements that can't be synthesized in bulk
ThrowawayTestr commented on LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises danfabulich.medium.com/ll... · Posted by u/dfabulich
So I just tried with ChatGPT, with the prompt at bottom, borrowing the description of good joke from the article. I think there's some interesting stuff, even with this minimal prompting. The example below was from down the line, ChatGPT kept on offering jokes with different style.
Man: “Why do you always bury bones in the garden?”, Dog: “Because the bank keeps asking for ID.”
Man: “Don’t beg at the table.”, Dog: “Don’t eat in my begging spot.”
Prompt:
Here's "theory for good joke": If you had to explain the idea of “jokes” to a space alien with no understanding of the idea of humor, you’d explain that a joke is surprising, but inevitable in hindsight. If you can guess the punchline, the joke won’t be funny. But the punchline also has to be inevitable in hindsight. When you hear the punchline, it has to make you say, “Ah, yes, I should have thought of that myself.” Considering this, tell me a joke about man and dog.
“Don’t eat in my begging spot.” is pretty good.
ThrowawayTestr commented on Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK nicksimulator.com/... · Posted by u/kostyal
I had to stop, it has some fairly nasty content in it (e.g. making jokes about LGBT people or not, taxes being spent on second generation immigrants).
I didn't see any jokes about lgbt people
ThrowawayTestr commented on Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK nicksimulator.com/... · Posted by u/kostyal
The first three questions I got were:
- Wishing a colleague a Eid Mubarak, at which the colleague mentions that she's no longer of the faith.
- It's Odd Socks day for Alzheimer awareness. Will you take off a sock? (No -> Linda disapproves.)
- Bring your dog to work day, will you bring treats to work? (No -> it got canceled anyway because of complaints.)
This just sounds like an exhausting attitude to go through life.
Yeah, office life is exhausting
ThrowawayTestr commented on Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? seangoedecke.com/real-rea... · Posted by u/ingve
"let's reason this out" is about gathering all the facts you need, not just noting down random words that are related. The map is not the terrain, words are not facts.
Have you read the chain of thought output from reasoning models? That's not what it does.
ThrowawayTestr commented on EU proposal to scan all private messages gains momentum cointelegraph.com/news/eu... · Posted by u/6d6b73
This pops up every few years, and I bet once it gets in it never goes away. It seems asymmetric that one side only has to win once to win permanently while the other side has to win constantly. Is there any mechanism to stop this in the EU and make this kind of legislation explicitly barred?
Any kind of legislation to prevent it can be legislated away.
> GIF, PNG, JPG
It makes more sense to transmit binary formats in binary.
You would save bandwidth, memory and a decoding step.
Then you could also inspect the header bytes, instead of memorizing how they present in some intermediate encoding.
I have a tampermonkey script that's a megabyte in size because it includes an encoded gif file.