where did the Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics" go for agentic robots; An Eval in the End - "Thou shall no evil" should have autocancelled its work
Readit Newsalexcpn commented on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward theshamblog.com/an-ai-age... · Posted by u/scottshambaugh
In KungfuPanda there is this line that the Panda says "I love KungFuuuuuuuu", well I normally don't tell like this, but when I saw this and (starting to use this), I feel like yelling"I like Metaaaaa or is it LLAMMMAAA or is it Open source.. or is it this cool ecosystem which gives such value for free...
alexcpn commented on The Myth of the Second Chance ft.pressreader.com/articl... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
This sounds so true yet false. For absolutely every successful life there is a trail of failed lives left behind and restarted. And I dont mean like movie star or Nobel prize success; just plain vanilla happy and almost boring life. It is a real cliche, but it is true; never ever give up easily. That means that you may need to admit and give up things that never would have worked out, but hold on to things that may; and to know the difference is impossible; you have to trust in your principles; the right principles may extract a terrible initial cost but lead to great happiness in the end. Amen (And you can get Principles here - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34536488-principles )
alexcpn commented on We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x blog.redplanetlabs.com/20... · Posted by u/tekacs
Why choose Java of all languages. Why not something more modern and less verbose like Go or Rust. Just asking as I have worked enough in Java and then spend a lot of time in GC tunining. Granted the code was not that great and from a diverse team with different skill levels causing all the leaks.. But still
alexcpn commented on ChatGPT vs. a Cryptic Crossword jameswillia.ms/posts/chat... · Posted by u/jamespwilliams
The self driving car is a great example, you're right, it was so good and yet never lived up to the hype.
Perhaps one difference is that a human could potentially get extremely good at textual tasks with nothing but text to learn from. You can read how to solve cryptic crosswords, see examples and extrapolate. In that sense language models have a somewhat complete training dataset. Yes this requires an understanding of the material, rather than just parroting, but the signal is there if you can separate it from noise.
Driving a car requires an understanding of a much wider context which is perhaps hard to acquire with just driving data. Understanding of rain, birds on the road, shaky drivers, balls rolling out from between cars, lane restrictions... You can't just throw petabytes of data at the problem. Training data is limited and expensive, and I believe we are mostly tackling AI-assired driving with rule-based approaches.
I believe self driving works just fine in simulations where data is effectively unlimited. But then it doesn't generalise to the real world where context matters.
If there were enough cars fitted with sensors that can learn from their driver's actions and reactions I am pretty sure an AI system can learn from this huge pool and be a good driver. A good driver also makes mistakes. And this is still nothing related to intelligence. Our networks are as of now what one calls universal approximates. Actually replying to so many different queries whether it is medicine, computer science, history , it almost seems like a better interface to the net than google
alexcpn commented on Why does gRPC insist on trailers? carlmastrangelo.com/blog/... · Posted by u/strzalek
I use GRPC between micro services instead of REST and for that it is really great; All the deficiencies of REST - Non versioned, no typed goes away with GRPC and the protobuf is the official interface for all micro-services. No problems with this approach for over two years now; and also multi language support - We have Go and Java and Python and TypeScript micro-services now happily talking and getting new features and new interface methods updated. Maybe it was demise in the web space; but a jewel in micro-service space
We don't need it 'now' - maybe the right way
-- If choice is due to complexity of dockers loc as was mentioned, then that should be compared against stability; as abstractions go, it is not leaky and pretty stable -- Now-a-days it hardly takes a few minutes to use docker or podman; and few more to configure a free CI system; and you have a good base to start and grow and migrate to k8s or such when your services grow
alexcpn commented on Done Answering Questions Stack Overflow games.greggman.com/game/d... · Posted by u/polm23
SO has been invaluable for professional programmers like us who has to work on some many different platforms and use different frameworks that it is impossible to be master of all. But the one thing I don't like is being punished for a poor answer- the down votes, for just trying to help - a degree lesser than delete, but leaves a bad feeling still. I like more the medium way - just upvotes and then the rest naturally gravitate to the bottom
alexcpn commented on Trolls break into meetings on Zoom businessinsider.com/aa-in... · Posted by u/pseudolus
happened to my elder sister who is a teacher hosting video class due to lockdown in India. Some idiots think it is fun and the worst thing is that they put a video grab of this in their youtube channel - themed disruption or something - to drive traffic - yuck , the state of minds! and those who follow such channel. ( It is reported to local cybercell , but it left my sister who is bit older to all this technology very rattled)