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LesZedCB

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LesZedCB··on Am I the Unethical One?
how would they have performed if they tried to cheat but didn't find the poisoned answers? would they have had to come up with answers on their own? suppose they cheated for 10% of the answers but had to give honest effort on the remaining 90% and just made the cut?

i don't think it's very clear cut or obviously perfectly fair.

LesZedCB··on Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain
eh the highway probably has high utility value. just make it quick and painless.
LesZedCB··on What if you did the exact opposite, like rogue bees do (2020)
some ants love to work, it brings them meaning.

some ants love to mountain bike, and who can blame them?

LesZedCB··on Satellites reveal widespread decline in global lake water storage
> Globally, natural lake volume declined at a net rate of −26.38 ± 1.59 Gt year

the phrase you read said "Over half (53 ± 2%) of the large lakes experienced significant water losses" (emphasis mine)

LesZedCB··on Summarize Any Article as a Dialog Between Two People with Bing Chat
the fact this came from a "stochastic parrot" still blows my mind.
LesZedCB··on Fern leaves and cauliflower curds are not fractals (2012)
imagine publishing a whole paper to win an "Um, actually" argument
LesZedCB··on Scientists find link between photosynthesis and 'fifth state of matter'
If the Netflix show Unstable is a reliable source, a hyperdense "biomass" or recaptured carbon cement is the future. ;) it's quite enjoyable - very silly.
LesZedCB··on Whatever you do, don't autoload Rails `lib/`
services are IMO the biggest misfire of an attempted rails convention. "service" is completely domain agnostic and because there's no standard API like there is for controllers or model, the "service" API ranges from `MyService.call` to `MyService.new.call` `MyService.do_thing` etc etc.

service became the junk drawer of junk drawers even worse than lib because people at least 'believe' there is supposed to be a convention when there isn't. at least you know lib is kinda wild west.

rails has failed to channel applications into domain logic once it scales past start-up rapid development to a huge team of ICs

LesZedCB··on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
prescriptivists are a real bummer
LesZedCB··on A few words on Ruby's type annotations state
i personally really like the idea of what clojure has done with spec or malli instead of type annotations. it just feels to me more like what rubyists want: pragmatic validation of "does this quack?" but like you say, i'm not sure ergonomics can be brought up to the level of ease/happiness to be used regularly
LesZedCB··on Googlers angry about CEO’s $226M pay after cuts in perks and 12,000 layoffs
Tim Apple - 99M [1]

Satya Nadella - 54M [2]

[1] https://www1.salary.com/Tim-Cook-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Options-...

[2] https://www1.salary.com/Satya-Nadella-Salary-Bonus-Stock-Opt...

LesZedCB··on How companies use dark patterns to keep you subscribed
i bet we'll see more instances of companies like replika use chatbots to emotionally manipulate users into staying and paying.
LesZedCB··on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
what this proves to me without a doubt is that silo'd and proprietary iteration i still very clearly also a massive disadvantage. i really hope companies internalize that. if they just keep scooping up and hiding open-source improvements they very well may still be left behind.

the final quote from the doc:

> And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter. They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.

LesZedCB··on SparseGPT: Language Models Can Be Accurately Pruned in One-Shot
1 day of in-context learning and 1 night of fine-tuning on context. that's my pet theory, just shooting from the hip as a total layperson.
LesZedCB··on Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead
self-healing? can you describe them?

personally I think democracy is particularly fragile and requires constant work to continue reproducing.

LesZedCB··on Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife
idk i pay $30/session in the US and i don't have a diagnosis for anything, just my employer provided healthcare plan (which is admittedly quite good)
LesZedCB··on Chatbots are not the future
isn't it ironic that there's no autocomplete on the tool that's literally autocomplete? haha

where's the fine-tuned prompt helper model?

LesZedCB··on Replika AI: Your Money or Your Wife
people feel lonely as fuck right now, and frankly i'd rather have people soothe it with an ai chatbot they parasocially love than as road rage or being a dick to the restaurant staff or many of the worse and more fatal outlets...
LesZedCB··on Is Gmail killing independent email?
plus it doesn't seem to tune. no matter how many times i mark steam or fedex emails as not-spam, i just have to check there every now and again these days.
LesZedCB··on 1990 Impact Electric Drag Race [video]
used to be cheap :'(
LesZedCB··on ChatGPT for Hardware Design
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

LesZedCB··on US adult cigarette smoking rate hits new all-time low
you think so? I mean, i basically stopped drinking a year or so ago because it just gave me headaches and I'm aware of the negative health affects, but I find myself in an extremely small category of people who don't drink simply because they don't want to. at least for my peers in their 30s.
LesZedCB··on Show HN: CheekyKeys – A Face-Controlled Keyboard
I could see both synthesized being super powerful. maybe with eye tracking too?

like gestures on a trackpad

LesZedCB··on Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’
I've been a highly athletic veg/vegan for a decade and not had any major issues, sans maybe B12 or vitamin d occasionally. plenty of veg friends experienced the same. vitamin supplements are easy to take.
LesZedCB··on Coworking from Home
my local libaries (king county, WA) have dedicated meeting rooms you can book online ahead of time!
LesZedCB··on The Cybertruck is years behind schedule, so Tesla is launching a $30 beer
silicon valley tv show once again too accurate for comfort with its tres comas tequila.
LesZedCB··on OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
the way i see it, the expensive part should be to train the models via simulated architectures in GPUs or TPUs or whatever.

but once they are trained, is there a way to encode the base models into hardware where inference costs are basically negligible? hopefully somebody is seeing if this is possible, using structurally encoded hardware to make inference costs basically nil/constant.

LesZedCB··on Twitter lacks many features to be a true Mastodon replacement (2022)
oh my god a product isn't growing, it must be garbage
LesZedCB··on Surviving Burnout (2015)
employees behind a company labor to create value, they don't necessarily define the company - the owners do. owners set the policies, hours, hire and fire to promote a particular culture (or set the rules or expectations to). this power imbalance between employer and employee is exactly where the burnout tends to happen.
LesZedCB··on A life of splendid uselessness is a life well lived
virtue is neither real nor transcendent.
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