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Interesting that in the second image the text on the whiteboard changes (top left)

trekkie1024on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Could you share an example?

trekkie1024on Trump wins presidency for second time

Trump said he wanted to make polls that were "bad for him" illegal, and to take broadcast licenses away from networks that criticized him. DeSantis tried to take an abortion ad off air in Florida since he disagreed with it. Evidently, the Republicans don't care much about 1A so I'm not sure what you voted for.

As for hoaxes, conservative media has been highly effective at this (to the point where Joe Biden had to repudiate the FEMA hoax after the hurricane).

trekkie1024on Trump wins presidency for second time

I don't get this argument, since Trump has called tens of folks nasty names, called Harris a communist, marxist, etc. and called Democrats the "enemy within". Why is the standard different for Dems?

trekkie1024on Trump wins presidency for second time

Most of their economic policies, Medicare for Seniors, etc. apply to poor White folks as much as anyone. Harris never campaigned on trans issues whatsoever.

trekkie1024on My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

It's curious that clicking on the links doesn't take you to a /page.html but rather just /page. Is that due to Cloudflare routing?

trekkie1024on Real-Time Settlers of Catan

https://colonist.io is the browser version of Catan. I play it often!

trekkie1024on Jury finds Donald Trump guilty on all 34 counts at hush money trial

Could you elaborate on that point about structure? I’m curious what you mean.

trekkie1024on GPT-4o

You might like Gary's blog on potential AI harms: https://garymarcus.substack.com/

trekkie1024on Financial market applications of LLMs

Surprisingly, they hallucinate more than you might think.

https://x.com/lefthanddraft/status/1777495120910426436?s=46

trekkie1024on Cancer signs could be spotted years before symptoms, says new research institute

trekkie1024on World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley

> We're far removed from the 1930's "have lots of men hold on to lots of ropes" level of technology.

This morning, the airship floated silently from its WW2-era hangar at NASA’s Moffett Field at walking pace, steered by ropes held by dozens of the company’s engineers, technicians and ground crew.

That made me chuckle.

trekkie1024on Compare how GPT-2, 3, 3.5 and 4 answer the same questions

As a TypeScript dev, I’d be curious to see the conversation!

trekkie1024on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max

Looks like the latest MBA is only 0.1 lbs less than the equivalent MBP at 3.4 lbs. Feels like they used to be lighter.

trekkie1024on Show HN: AI-Less Hacker News

This post made it through as well (though it's fine since it's not about LLMs) - "Segment Anything Model (SAM) can "cut out" any object in an image".

Perhaps use GPT to determine whether a post title is ML / LLM related ?

trekkie1024on ChatGPT Plugins

I think it very much depends on the kind of "future" we aspire to. I think for most folks, a future optimized for human health and happiness (few diseases, food for all, and strong human connections) is something we hope technology could solve one day.

On the flip side, generative AI / LLMs appear to fix things that aren't necessarily broken, and exacerbate some existing societal issues in the process. Such as patching loneliness with AI chatbots, automating creativity, and touching the other things that make us human.

No doubt technology and some form of AI will be instrumental to improving the human condition, the question is whether we're taking the right path towards it.

trekkie1024on The Age of AI has begun

Agree that better public transport is the ideal solution. When do you see self driving cars becoming required?

trekkie1024on The Age of AI has begun

Personally I think there’s a distinction to be made between generative AI and that of say, self driving cars. I’d definitely consider the latter a net positive for safety.

trekkie1024on The Age of AI has begun

Don’t forget AI driven relationships, ala what happened with Replika

trekkie1024on The case for slowing down AI

I think my bigger concern with AI in the short term isn't the immediate displacement of all jobs, but something more personal.

In much of the world today, we observe the fraying of human connection and relationships due to a variety of factors [0], and this could be further accelerated by AI that can seem very human-like [1]

[0] https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...

[1] https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-ch...

Whether we should even pursue this direction of creating artificial companions to replace human connection is a whole another can of worms.

trekkie1024on Emulating Pokemon Emerald on GPT-4

100% agree. It always irks me that we’re using AI to solve “problems” that don’t exist (the automation of creativity and relationships, things that make us human) while not putting as much effort into real issues facing the world today (poverty etc.)

trekkie1024on Emulating Pokemon Emerald on GPT-4

A corollary to this: After seeing

https://twitter.com/pwang_szn/status/1635733845097037825

I'm imagining a world where everyone on dating apps is able to craft these clever messages, giving those who actually put in the effort no way to stand out apart from their looks. Creativity, wit, humor and other personality traits which were atleast somewhat important are now diminished even further.

Combined with news like https://www.thecut.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-ch..., which indicates that AI of the future could actually supplant human connection, it's very dystopian indeed.

trekkie1024on We can't all use AI. Someone has to generate the training data

Yes. That’s called fine tuning.

trekkie1024on AI: Practical Advice for the Worried

This seems well-written and explores some of the probable outcomes. One of the things that concerns me most is about AI is that it could strip away or reduce what makes us human - creativity, friendships, romance (https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-03-01/replika-users... )

Also, there's a version of the same article with more comments. LessWrong has a lot of great content on this topic (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CvfZrrEokjCu3XHXp/ai-practic...)

trekkie1024on Why are so many young men single and sexless?

Not at all, we're not completely sure why but single women: single men is 2:1

(https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...)

trekkie1024on Why are so many young men single and sexless?

As a complement, I found this piece on the topic quite insightful and well researched:

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3868557-most-yo...

trekkie1024on The End of Love

I can sympathize with the author's experiences, though I find things like

One recent man had a lot going for him. In fact he was the most promising prospect I’d had in some time. But then he mentioned that he got his daily coffee from Starbucks, and I found it hard to imagine dating someone who liked Starbucks coffee; or even if they liked the coffee, didn’t find Starbucks so odious and soul-diminishingly ubiquitous they would never go there.

to be a bit much :D

trekkie1024on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

From the livestream:

Last Q: Any plans to incorporate ads? Yusuf: Ads will be there from the start.

I wonder how that's implemented.

trekkie1024on Pipe Operator (|>) For JavaScript

I actually find the original easier to read than the piped example given for this one:

Original

  jQuery.merge( this, jQuery.parseHTML(
    match[ 1 ],
    context && context.nodeType ? context.ownerDocument || context : document,
    true
  ) );

-----------------------------------------

With pipes

  context

  |> (% && %.nodeType ? %.ownerDocument || % : document)
  |> jQuery.parseHTML(match[1], %, true)
  |> jQuery.merge(%);

I think F# pipes are ideal in more complex cases, the % can add unnecessary complexity when reading code. Alas, it looks like we're not going to get that.