galdauts (u/galdauts)

galdauts commented on I'm going to cure my girlfriend's brain tumor andrewjrod.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/ray__

greazy · 4 days ago

OP if you're reading this, your time is better spent advocating for your partner, being there for her and loving her.

We've been using "AI" in science far longer than you realise. We happily take on new tech at breath taking speed.

Don't waste your time, please just focus on her and not the disease.

galdauts · 4 days ago

I agree with you. Having lost a close family member to cancer over a period of years, the only regret I have is not trying more to improve her quality of life for as long as I could. Putting in effort to understand the diagnosis is warranted, but there are no miracle cures, even if there are miracles sometimes.

galdauts commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless

friendzis · 5 days ago

Because literally no real-world non-research project starts with "we have an extremely comprehensive test suite and specification complete down to the most finite detail" and then searches for a way to turn it into code.

galdauts · 5 days ago

Precisely. Figuring out what the specification is supposed to look like is often the hardest part.

galdauts commented on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype antirez.com/news/158... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

galdauts · a month ago

I feel like the use of the term "anti-AI hype" is not really fully explored here. Even limiting myself to tech-related applications - I'm frankly sick of companies trying to shove half-baked "AI features" down my throat, and the enshittification of services that ensues. That has little to do with using LLMs as coding assistants, and yet I think it is still an essential part of the "anti-AI hype".

galdauts commented on Building an AI agent inside a 7-year-old Rails monolith catalinionescu.dev/ai-age... · Posted by u/cionescu1

midnightclubbed · 2 months ago

What does the end user do with the AI chat? It sounds like they can just use it to do searches of client information… which the existing site would already do.

galdauts · 2 months ago

You see, now they can market the tool as AI-powered! I‘m sure the sales department is overjoyed.

galdauts commented on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model book.sv... · Posted by u/costco

diffeomorphism · 3 months ago

The robots.txt is pretty explicit that this scraping is "disallowed"

https://www.goodreads.com/robots.txt

So legalities aside, this seems unethical.

galdauts · 3 months ago

I agree. As a frequent reviewer on Goodreads, this feels really icky.

galdauts commented on Sora: Creating video from text openai.com/sora... · Posted by u/davidbarker

geysersam · 2 years ago

I've always found that take quite ridiculous. Fake videos have existed for a long time. This technology reduces the effort required but if we're talking about state actors that was never an issue to begin with.

People already know that video cannot be taken at face value. Lord of the rings didn't make anyone belive orcs really exist.

galdauts · 2 years ago

The issue is not even so much generating fake videos as creating plausible deniability. Now everything can be questioned for the pure reason of seeming AI-generated.

galdauts commented on Apple is spending a lot of time and money working out how LLMs might be useful bloomberg.com/news/newsle... · Posted by u/sanat

dvngnt_ · 2 years ago

open world video games with lots of npcs

galdauts · 2 years ago

Do people really want that? I feel like what often makes a game good is a tight experience, not added bloat.

galdauts commented on Ask HN: Why aren’t planes boarded back-to-front? · Posted by u/robomartin

ghaff · 3 years ago

I don't know any that are front and back these days--at least using jet bridges which is just about any major airport. But it's common on certain wide-bodies to have separate doors for First/Business and the various economy classes.

galdauts · 3 years ago

I was recently on a Norwegian.com flight and they boarded both in the front (using a jet bridge) and at the back (using stairs)

galdauts commented on Overcoming Bias: ‘The Profit’ Socialism Challenge overcomingbias.com/2021/1... · Posted by u/hirundo

dantheman · 4 years ago

I'll take the vast improvement of living standards under capitalism over those found in socialist countries.

Are you arguing that the rapid decline in poverty in China due to capitalism is a bad thing?

galdauts · 4 years ago

I'd like to add that there are different flavours of both capitalism and socialism. The kind of disaster capitalism practiced in Russia and other former Soviet Union countries in the 90s certainly didn't lead to an improvement of living standards for quite a long time, if even. China also presents a case of state capitalism where companies are strictly controlled by the government as evidenced by the recent set of regulations published a few weeks ago and many companies are owned by the children of party members.

galdauts commented on Think BTC Is a Dirty Business? Consider the Carbon Cost of a Dollar susanfsu.medium.com/think... · Posted by u/eric_khun

galdauts · 4 years ago

Considering the environmental impact of the US economy and its policies is important in its own right, but applying that to the dollar is a stretch in my opinion. Also, the dollar is not the only traditional currency in the world.

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