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model-15-DAV commented on How OpenElections uses LLMs thescoop.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/m-hodges

Just breaking down the thought a little, we truly can't say elections shouldn't have standards, right?

model-15-DAV · 6 months ago

Elections at the local level should be governed by the locality. I do not see the need for standards at a higher level, other than for democracy to be maintained in some fashion. External data reporting certainly need not be standardized at t̶h̶e̶ ̶l̶o̶c̶a̶l̶ [sic] a higher level.

model-15-DAV commented on How OpenElections uses LLMs thescoop.org/archives/202... · Posted by u/m-hodges

karel-3d · 6 months ago

I was thinking LLMs can be long-term regressive?

As the "proper solution" here is of course not using PDFs that are hard-to-parse, but force elections to have machine parseable outputs. And LLMs can "fix in place" stupid solutions.

That's not a hate on the author though. I needed to do some PDF parsing for bank statements before; but also; the proper long-term solution is force banks (by law or by public interest) to have parseable statements, not parse it!

Like putting LLMs to understand bad codebase will not fix the bad codebase, but will build on top of it.

oh well c'est la vie

model-15-DAV · 6 months ago

I think that we should encourage elections to _not_ be standardized. The problems among various polities in the USA have many different issues and should not be forced to conform to a specific way that elections should be done. This is a social problem and we should not cram it into a technical solution. Legibility of elections should be maintained at the local level, trying to make things legible at a national level is in my opinion unwanted. As much as I would like the data to be clean, people are not so clean. Even if they used slightly more structured formats than PDFs, the differences between polities must be maintained as long as they are different polities.

The way that OpenElections handles this, with 'sources' and 'data' directories I think is a good way to bridge the gap.

model-15-DAV commented on Solving Fine Grained Authorization with Incremental Computation feldera.com/blog/fine-gra... · Posted by u/gz09

model-15-DAV · a year ago

I met some of the Feldera team last year at a conference and their knowledge of incremental computation engines is top-tier. Good luck to you all!

As discussed at the end, the storage costs for such a system may be exorbitant. How much space did the example than ran at 115k updates per second take?

model-15-DAV commented on How I run LLMs locally abishekmuthian.com/how-i-... · Posted by u/Abishek_Muthian

upghost · a year ago

> Before I begin I would like to credit the thousands or millions of unknown artists, coders and writers upon whose work the Large Language Models(LLMs) are trained, often without due credit or compensation

I like this. If we insist on pushing forward with GenAI we should probably at least make some digital or physical monument like "The Tomb of the Unknown Creator".

Cause they sure as sh*t ain't gettin paid. RIP.

model-15-DAV · a year ago

This seems as useless as land-acknowledgements; "Hey look we took your stuff and are not paying you for it, and we are still profiting from it!!"

model-15-DAV commented on Should more of us be moving to live near friends? architecturaldigest.com/s... · Posted by u/Geekette

model-15-DAV · a year ago

This is certainly a reaction to economic strangulation of a huge percentage of people in the economy. Of course, if people want to be near each other they should, but this phenomenon is a direct result of the crumbling conditions for the working class. The resurrection of third-spaces is a much better alternative than the erosion of first-spaces.

Our civil society organizations have eroded to the point that the private market has completely ended the concept of the third space. Places where community can be formed are gone; commoditized and politicized and so are not places where community can develop. Instead of the use of third-spaces we are forced to depend on our friends economically like this.

This seems like a good thing, "people are coming together, yay!" but being forced to live like this is not going to have good outcomes. These people have real issues described in the article, they need better child-care, they need closer personal roots, they need economic security. But we forcing people to make these contracts of great economic dependency, we should be more prepared to allow people to live more independently. I see this move as kin to the economic migration from the Global South today to countries like Sweden, Germany, etc. which has been causing great strife internally to those countries.

model-15-DAV commented on "Rules" that terminal programs follow jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/t... · Posted by u/charlieok

saghm · a year ago

I don't think it's part of the terminal emulator (e.g. xterm, gnome-terminal) but the shell (bash, zsh, etc.). You're correct that it's not something that's implemented as an external program though; the "current directory" is state for a currently running terminal session, so changing that state is done via the shell interface (either directly by built-in commands like cd or indirectly via external commands that use those transitively).

model-15-DAV · a year ago

True, I meant the shell, as `cd` is a shell builtin. However, `git-checkout` does implement this behavior. `git checkout -` will checkout the previously checked out branch.

model-15-DAV commented on "Rules" that terminal programs follow jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/t... · Posted by u/charlieok

model-15-DAV · a year ago

As an addendum to Rule 7, `cd -` takes you to the last opened directory. Or is `cd` considered part of the terminal emulator's job, as a built-in?

model-15-DAV commented on JSON parsers that can accept comments douglascrockfordisnotyour... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

model-15-DAV · a year ago

JSON as a data-format should not have comments. JSON as a file-format should allow comments. The problem is this conflation between the two.

model-15-DAV commented on What do we want computers to do? lmnt.me/blog/what-do-we-w... · Posted by u/zdw

doug_durham · 2 years ago

This is a reductive interpretation. If I create a modify a photo using Photoshop I'm creating. If I use ChatGPT to help write some code for a hobby project, I'm creating. These are just tools for creating like all other tools that came before. I'm not quite sure what the moral panic is about.

model-15-DAV · 2 years ago

Yeah, I am not against using tools of production. My problem is with ownership. You do not own the product you create with Photoshop[1], and you do not even own Photoshop anymore! It's all leases and terms of 'service' and no ownership of software.

Users of ChatGPT are serfs not owners. Their use of ChatGPT provides value to ChatGPT the corporation. Today we live in techno-feudalism[2], and not a time of tech ownership. So the serf gets wheat and cattle, the king stays in his castle.

I am against that these tools are actually tools of consumption. I am for software production ownership.

[1]: https://hothardware.com/news/adobe-responds-to-creator-outra... [2]: Yannis Varoufakis, former Greek Finance Minister, coined the term.