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jrm4 commented on Being “Confidently Wrong” is holding AI back promptql.io/blog/being-co... · Posted by u/tango12

jrm4 · 2 days ago

Genuine question from someone who thinks they understand the tech:

I don't get why I haven't seen a whole lot of (or any) of these models or tools "self reporting" on "confidence in their answer?"

This feels like it would be REALLY easy; these things predict likelihoods of tokens -- just, you know, give us that number?

jrm4 commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

jrm4 · 2 days ago

At the risk of being old and optimistic; my gut right now is: GOOD, maybe the antisocial youngn's could perhaps make some real fundamental strides in hacking around/replacing/ doing SOMETHING about DNS as it serves.

My old mind is like, COME ON, DNS is just a PHONEBOOK. Just make another one, or do something better.

jrm4 commented on The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024) tulach.cc/the-issue-of-an... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

jrm4 · 2 days ago

Can't help but consider how, perhaps, this could be a teaching moment for other folks. I know "convenience reigns supreme" but getting perhaps less-tech savvy gamers knowledgeable about what is being given up when you use anti-cheat.

Alas, I'd like to believe we could be in an era of "hey, not a problem, just have a dedicated gaming machine," but that too is difficult.

jrm4 commented on Notion releases offline mode notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo

digdugdirk · 4 days ago

I don't quite understand what you mean by that, but you seem pretty amped about it - do you have any recommended getting started guides for logseq? I've never heard of it before, and I'm curious about the feature you described.

jrm4 · 2 days ago

It's very odd, I was looking around and none of the guides really clearly explain it, but basically, there are "Pages" (files) and "Blocks." Every page is itself a "Block," but may also contain multiple more blocks as an outline hierarchy. But what logseq seems to do differently is to let you zero in on a single block so that the block is all you see, despite ACTUALLY being merely part of a page.

jrm4 commented on Notion releases offline mode notion.com/help/guides/wo... · Posted by u/ericzawo

jrm4 · 4 days ago

While we're here; as a long time zim-wiki user, and as someone who dabbled in org-mode for a year; Obsidian never felt compelling enough to switch.

For me, this year, Logseq did. The killer concept for me is that it does org-mode hierarchy and outline collapsing, but easier; being able to "zero in" on a block, regardless of whether its its own page is excellent.

jrm4 commented on The electric fence stopped working years ago soonly.com/electric-fence... · Posted by u/stroz

jrm4 · 8 days ago

As someone who is 48 and could stand to do a bit more of this myself; I find myself alarmed and shocked at the extent to which younger folks appear to have normalized "social fear."

I remember being younger in college and me and friends were talking about dating and whatnot, and I'm just like -- look, you'll have a much better time, you just gotta get over your fear of rejection. And I was surprised then to the extent that people looked at me and got genuinely offended, like "how dare you not take how TRAUMATIC this can be seriously."

And this generation feels a lot like that. Most of those friends ended up agreeing with me, and I do get that it FEELS bad to, e.g. look stupid or whatever in such a situation -- but the fact that it's an "intense feeling" doesn't mean I'm at all wrong here -- if better socialization is what you actually want.*

*edit, and so I suppose what might be useful is to better hit this head on in our public discussions? Love this article for that.

jrm4 commented on Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks zenobiapay.com/blog/open-... · Posted by u/pranay01

jrm4 · 10 days ago

Wild how far down I had to scroll to even see "cryptocurrency" mentioned.

Normally, I'm not a fan of always relying on incentives, but you can't begin to tackle this problem without understanding, and being grossly open about the fact that it's almost certainly not a "tech capability/efficiency" problem, but a (naturally) greedy financial sector company problem.

jrm4 commented on Is chain-of-thought AI reasoning a mirage? seangoedecke.com/real-rea... · Posted by u/ingve

jrm4 · 10 days ago

Current thought, for me there's a lot of hand-wringing about what is "reasoning" and what isn't. But right now perhaps the question might be boiled down to -- "is the bottleneck merely hard drive space/memory/computing speed?"

I kind of feel like we won't be able to even begin to test this until a few more "Moore's law" cycles.

jrm4 commented on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies bsky.social/about/blog/08... · Posted by u/mschuster91

mr90210 · 10 days ago

> In some locations, we may be required to restrict access to certain features or content unless you complete an age assurance process and demonstrate that you are an adult.

Not BlueSky specific, but I am getting ready to nuke my accounts on social media and other websites as soon as they start requiring said verifications.

I truly don't what to expect from this trend.

jrm4 · 10 days ago

I mean, feels like we're going to have relearn what the tech can do.

It's possible to do all of this without permission, it's just hard...