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cjg··on Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
Good luck linking to that rule.
cjg··on I am done with this shit
https://dentistry.co.uk/2024/08/01/robot-dentist-completes-f...
cjg··on They’re made out of weights
> You can take the weights and model description, write them down on a notebook

Can you though?

cjg··on New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros
Adverts.
cjg··on Industrious Dice
Or a d6 with the 4, 5 and 6 faces blank. When you roll, if the face isn't blank, that's your number. If it is then flip the die over and subtract that number from 7.

Only uses 6 pips.

cjg··on What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?
Humans have bootstrapped by training the next generation. Why not LLMs?
cjg··on Enforced Amnesia as Way to Mitigate Risk of Silent Suffering in the Conscious AI
Naive arguments aside, humans can't suffer in the same way a steak can't suffer.
cjg··on Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
> does this mean the file is clean?

No.

cjg··on Show HN: Pong Wars
Because there are a finite number of states, it will always loop.

An interesting question might be around how many distinct loops there are and whether there's some pattern to the loop lengths.

cjg··on Realtors Face an Antitrust Reckoning
For contrast, in the UK we typically don't use buyer brokers at all. Normally the seller pays about 1% to their agent.
cjg··on No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known
The first thing capable of evolving was inorganic.
cjg··on How (not) to apply for a software job
The author believes that rejecting candidates that fail in these ways will lead to hiring better employees, but I see nothing to say why that should be so.
cjg··on Being “rockstars”: when software was a talents/creatives industry
This: "Everybody is more productive when they ignore the rules everyone else is expected to follow"
cjg··on Gen-1: The Next Step Forward for Generative AI — Generating Videos
> remember we're 2 years away from self driving car since 2010

Depending on how you define that milestone, we are already there. There are multiple companies offering self-driving cars to the public in multiple cities.

I'd count that as a success.

cjg··on Wtfdoesthiscompanydo.vercel.app
The AI output was much easier to understand than your homepage.

I read your homepage for 10 seconds - I thought it was just a low resolution display.

I read the AI output - I realised there were apps and also what kind of apps were available. A completely different product.

cjg··on Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?
I know the rules of chess, but my rate of attempting illegal moves is above 0%.
cjg··on Ask HN: Why are toggle switches replacing checkboxes? Isn't on/off less obvious?
I saw a cookie opt-out a couple of days ago where right was off.
cjg··on Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss
That will be the point at which the current model of capitalism will fail.
cjg··on Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
Implementing a linked list in Rust is somewhat challenging because of the safety issues that arise. Luckily you don't have to, there's one in the standard library: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.LinkedList....

The equivalent of a generic memcpy is probably something like a .clone() call on a generic type that implements Clone.

cjg··on Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
Nice: "it’s likely that using Rust has already prevented hundreds of vulnerabilities from reaching production"
cjg··on Kraken lays off 30% of staff
You could have 300 like FTX and have completely inadequate financial controls.
cjg··on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
Contributed a patch to the Java String class that caches the hash code.
cjg··on Man ends 20-year Llandegley airport sign joke that cost £25k
Much like stonehenge.
cjg··on We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX
Just buy the assets.
cjg··on I fought the PayPal and I won
I once put the word "complaint" on the top of a letter to a UK bank who had made a mistake on a statement. It made all the difference. What had previously been dismissed as unimportant was addressed and they sent me £100 compensation.

Just taking that first step towards the Financial Ombudsman was enough.

cjg··on The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry
It's a poorly written sentence. The key idea is: "Rust got an 87% approval rate in the "most loved" category of the Stack Overflow Survey. [...] C++, meanwhile, languished at 48%"
cjg··on Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
So what? The company still generated the VAT revenue.

The customer gets a refund, but has to charge their own customer VAT on the full amount of the goods they are selling, so the VAT accumulates until it is paid by someone who cannot claim the VAT back

That's why it's called "value added tax" - each supplier in the chain generates VAT on the value they add.

cjg··on Equifax used records it collects from companies to fire employees with 2nd jobs
Even with the current tax rates, it's not clear to me that it's a net tax gain for HMRC to push contractors to being permanent. A contractor typically charges VAT - which can more than make up for other taxes - especially if their day rate is higher than it would be on an employee salary.
cjg··on I think strong general AI is coming soon
https://archive.ph/kjOTw
cjg··on Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash
https://www.coe.int/en/web/impact-convention-human-rights/ri...
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