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mike741 commented on Never Update Anything   blog.kronis.dev/articles/... · Posted by u/generatorman
mike741 · a year ago
Urgent updates can be necessary every once in a while but should be recognized as technical failures on the part of the developers. Failure can be forgiven, but only so many times. The comments saying "what about X update that had this feature I need?" are missing the point entirely. Instead ask yourself about all of the updates you've made without even looking at the patch notes, because there are just too many updates and not enough time. Instead of blaming the producers for creating a blackbox relationship with the consumers, we blame the consumer and blindly tell them to "just update." That's what needs to change. It's a bit similar to opaque ToS issues.

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mike741 commented on Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer   twitter.com/8teapi/status... · Posted by u/mrpatiwi
og_kalu · 2 years ago
If they aren't great then neither are doctors and the word becomes meaningless.

Context is important. 66% accuracy on cases that stumped doctors and took extensive testing is not trivial. It's not the same as 66% accuracy for everyday diagnosis.

mike741 · 2 years ago
The study references "clinicians" rather than "doctors." Clinicians include psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, physicians, paramedics, etc.
mike741 commented on Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer   twitter.com/8teapi/status... · Posted by u/mrpatiwi
og_kalu · 2 years ago
>They are great at making word soup, but not great at diagnosis.

No they are.

>There have been expert systems since the 90's that perform better on average than doctors when diagnosing illness in patients,

No there has not been.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10425828/

mike741 · 2 years ago
66% accuracy is not "great" and definitely not the best there's ever been.

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mike741 commented on 50M tons of water vapor from Tonga's eruption could warm Earth for years   space.com/tonga-eruption-... · Posted by u/TheFreim
mike741 · 2 years ago
for perspective, here's what 500k gallons (~0.04% of the eruption) of water vapor looks like: https://youtu.be/BIpeNs5OWbo?t=103

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mike741 commented on Reddit subs with millions of followers plan to extend the blackout indefinitely   theverge.com/2023/6/13/23... · Posted by u/edsimpson
meepmorp · 2 years ago
No, it just happens in the sub as a normal thread - the mods make a post saying they're looking for more mods, people respond. Some subs do the voting offsite, sometimes the mods just pick someone to add.
mike741 · 2 years ago
oh wow. that seems like the sort of critical feature reddit should have built in.

u/mike741

KarmaCake day131June 22, 2017View Original