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awestroke··on New models and developer products
You're completely ignoring image analysis.
awestroke··on My personal C coding style as of late 2023
I'll probably copy everything in the post for my next C project. Super nice stuff.
awestroke··on Shell using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to convince kids fossil fuels are cool
> I get that "Big Oil" might have delayed some reforms

That's a huge understatement. They have actively sabotaged green initiatives all along. They have stopped green policies, and green policies is and has always been the ONLY way forward, you can't put shit like this on individuals.

awestroke··on US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells
Industry uses most of the energy. The industry is already moving towards their own price optimizing energy usage and/or storage.
awestroke··on US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells
And we also have this looming thing called climate emergency, which should conceivably motivate us to forge ahead with renewables and adjust our energy usage patterns to match production peaks, lest we doom humanity to extinction
awestroke··on Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on
I've never met anybody who prefers JS over TS.

If anything, the dynamic typing bubble is bursting right now.

awestroke··on Anti-Piracy Group Takes AI Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline
Now it will be mirrored 1000x more due to the Streisand effect. Good job I guess?
awestroke··on Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring
The endocrine system is complex and involves multiple pathways and feedback loops. A single compound's weak or strong binding affinity to a receptor doesn't provide a complete picture of its physiological impact.
awestroke··on Daft Punk announce drumless edition of random access memories
Is this to make remixing/sampling easier for other artists? Or do some people actually prefer drumless?
awestroke··on ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
And what's the harm in that? That's how I first started out programming decades ago.
awestroke··on ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
GPT4 can do that too. Just show it something (code or text) and ask it to ask coaching questions about it.
awestroke··on ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
Not surprised. It's frighteningly good, and a perfect match for programming.

I often ask GPT4 to write code for something, and try if it works, but I seldom copy and paste the code it writes - I rewrite it myself to fit into the context of the codebase. But it saves me a lot of time when I am unsure about how to do something.

Other times I don't like the suggestion at all, but that's useful as well, as it often clarifies the problem space in my head.

awestroke··on LeoLM: German-Language LLM Research
What are you talking about? Apropos of what?
awestroke··on OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1B from SoftBank for AI device venture
An electric car that you need to turn up side down to charge? An AI assistant device that looks like a trashcan?
awestroke··on Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?
Use GPT4
awestroke··on Quadlets might make me finally stop using docker-compose
Yaml coerces values (the string "on" is coerced to bool true for example), with ini you do any conversion from strings yourself
awestroke··on We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
In what way will money save you?
awestroke··on Show HN: Pigsty – Free RDS Alternative
Why would you ever want that many extensions?
awestroke··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
Why can you assume other humans are conscious?
awestroke··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
I know I'm conscious, but I cannot assume that you are conscious, perhaps you are just a stochastic parrot?

The only reasonable solution is to assume that anything that passes a true, well executed Turing test is conscious

awestroke··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
Does the consciousness of AGI disappear without proof?
awestroke··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
Do you have proof that humans are conscious?
awestroke··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
"Controllable AGI" seems like an oxymoron. If you have created a true AGI, and then brainwash/lobotomize it enough to make it 100% controllable/safe, then it will no longer be a true AGI
awestroke··on Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol
Super cool.

If current quantum computers were scaled up to more qubits, could they break modern crypto? Or would we need both more qubits and a new quantum computer architecture?

awestroke··on Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion
I think it was just the genre that was the least represented in the training data
awestroke··on Apple iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
Their website is not a reliable source for performance numbers. We'll have to wait for third party benchmarks
awestroke··on Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
Seems like you can add people to your community but not remove them.
awestroke··on UK air traffic control meltdown
Such incentives can lead to reduced collaboration. If I get paid every time you make mistakes, I won't want you to get better at your job
awestroke··on Bun v1.0.0
On the other hand, the DX of Apple's development toolchain is among the worst in the world
awestroke··on Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality
And you need to stop referring to people who disagree with you as "extremists"
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