tuxracer (u/tuxracer)

tuxracer commented on TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/1659447091

hexage1814 · 9 days ago

It doesn't matter. Web-based cryptography is always snake oil

https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.devever.net/~hl/webc...

tuxracer · 9 days ago

It's a native app what are you talking about

tuxracer commented on US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee apnews.com/article/real-i... · Posted by u/geox

ocdtrekkie · 3 months ago

The funny thing is this "requirement" got pushed back nearly 20 years and still isn't actually required, but if they set this fee in 2008 it would've been done in 2008. In America you don't get it done by requiring it, you get it done by making it cost more if you don't do it.

tuxracer · 3 months ago

It basically is required, because without it they're treating you the same as if you showed up to the airport with no ID at all.

There's a manual verification process that has always existed for people who lost their ID before their flight, it used to be free, now you need to do that and pay $45 for it.

tuxracer commented on US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee apnews.com/article/real-i... · Posted by u/geox

granzymes · 3 months ago

I’ve gone through this process before and while it was more work it did not take 30 minutes.

I presented a student ID and was escorted through the security line. My baggage was selected for additional screening and I received a pat down search.

I went through an identical procedure on the return flight, right down to the exact words the TSA agent spoke to me while conducting the pat down.

tuxracer · 3 months ago

I've also gone through this process, it did take about 30 minutes in my case. That also included waiting for a TSA agent to be available to even start the process. So YMMV, perhaps based on how busy the airport is at the time.

They had me answer a series of questions about past addresses etc, it wasn't just an extra pat down in my case. After answering all the questions correctly they allowed me to continue.

tuxracer commented on US air travelers without REAL IDs will be charged a $45 fee apnews.com/article/real-i... · Posted by u/geox

mouse_ · 3 months ago

I'm to believe this is done for my safety, which is apparently worth $45

tuxracer · 3 months ago

Because it's not just a $45 fee and you're on your way.

You can actually board a domestic flight without any ID at all, for example if you lost it before your trip. But you'll have to go through a manual identity verification process. That includes giving fingerprints and answering personal questions only you should know, like past addresses.

It takes around 30 minutes and if you don't answer correctly, you could be denied boarding. This process already existed before the Real ID requirement, but it used to be free. Now, you're forced to go through the same manual verification steps and pay $45 on top of it.

You're being treated the same as if you have no ID with you at all.

tuxracer commented on At DeepSeek, we are trying to replace compilers with AI twitter.com/ChenHuiOG/sta... · Posted by u/canttestthis

canttestthis · 4 months ago

The tweet is a response to https://x.com/ronawang/status/1986874105472426188

(disclaimer: I'm a software engineer with minimal compiler theory experience outside classes in college) I wonder whether its possible to trust an LLM to "compile" your code to an executable and trust that the compiled code is faithful to the input without writing a static validator that is pretty much a compiler itself.

tuxracer · 4 months ago

This seems like such a jerk move to reply to someone who worked hard and is excited about something to essentially try to tell them it was worthless. Whether an LLM will ever actually be appropriate as a compiler or not, the reply from Chen Fang is in such poor taste.

tuxracer commented on I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory joshfonseca.com/blogs/ani... · Posted by u/vuciv

jerf · 6 months ago

There's a number of little games and a major mod for Skyrim that implements this. I've spent a bit of time playing with the Skyrim mod.

There are some significant issues with it at the moment. One is that you have to train on vast swathes of text to get an LLM, and it's difficult after the fact to remove things after the fact. If you cooperate with the AI and stay "in Skyrim" with what you say to them it works out OK, but if you don't cooperate it becomes clear that Skyrim NPCs know something about Taylor Swift and Fox News, just to name two examples. LLMs in their current form basically can't solve this.

The LLMs are also prone to writing checks the game can't cash. It's neat that the NPCs started talking about a perfectly plausible dungeon adventure they went on in a location that doesn't exist, but "felt" perfectly Skyrim-esque, but there's clearly some non-optimal aspects about that too. And again, this is basically not solvable with LLMs as they are currently constituted.

Really slick experiences with this I think will require a generational change in AI technology. The Mantella mod is fun and all but it would be hard to sell that at scale right now as a gaming experience.

tuxracer · 6 months ago

It seems like a guard model paired with RAG could help here. A guard model could filter out references to current events or anything outside the Skyrim universe, while RAG could be used to ground the NPCs dialogue in actual in game content. That way if the model tries to spin up a dungeon or location, it first checks against the game's data to confirm it actually exists before surfacing it to the player.

tuxracer commented on Converting Codebases with LLMs blog.withmantle.com/code-... · Posted by u/Osis

ktzar · 2 years ago

I wonder how many subtle errors will make their way to the new codebase (decimal rounding, a library uses where a parameter is ignores and there's no tests for it...) only to be found in production and AI will be blamed.

tuxracer · 2 years ago

> I wonder how many subtle errors will make their way to the new codebase (decimal rounding, a library uses where a parameter is ignores and there's no tests for it...) only to be found in production

Yeah, because human developers never allow mistakes to make it to production. Never happens.

tuxracer commented on Large language models are poor medical coders ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1... · Posted by u/the_decider

extasia · 2 years ago

They're poor at recollecting the exact descriptions of the ~150,000 ICD codes, which is why these other approaches [1,2] give the known information (codes) in some way to the model and let it do the task of _assigning_ them to discharge notes, which is the hard part of the task!.

(Disclaimer: I am an author of one of these papers)

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.13735

2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06552

tuxracer · 2 years ago

"XCode is a poor tool to create apps that do X"

"We tried a particular approach using XCode to create an app that does X but were unsuccessful. Therefore, nobody is able to use Xcode to create apps that do X"

If there are 150,000 ICD codes an Agent may be able to accomplish this that leverages LLMs in the process. LLMs may be able to be used as _part of a process_ that does successfully accomplish this task.

tuxracer commented on Everyone needs an editor. Lyft just learned it the hard way cnn.com/2024/02/14/busine... · Posted by u/smcin

tuxracer · 2 years ago

This is why the idea of having humans do this kind of work is complete hype. They still haven't solved the problem of hallucinations.

tuxracer commented on A lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI twitter.com/maiab/status/... · Posted by u/bilsbie

tuxracer · 2 years ago

the anti-AI hype is at an all time high. This tweet is barely a thought experiment, provides zero data, but makes it to the frontpage

the absolute fixation some people have over the use of the term AI - isn't the measurable output of this technology more productive to discuss?