Unless you are standing still (like sitting or playing Beat Saber), that cable really is annoying. You can't spin around for instance. As for wireless communication. I also thought it would be easy, but the lack of…
What make you think it is vibe coded? There is no mention of genAI being used, and the methodology looks more consistent with hand-written code he actually understands.
Net neutrality means that providers don't discriminate based on the kind of traffic, that you get internet access, not just access to particular services. They can absolutely meter and limit your connection as long as…
You just gave your own counter argument. If they find a promising way to use psychedelics for instance, they are not going with straight LSD, they will find some analogue that they show is 0.1% better and patent it.…
The problem with psychoactive drugs, as I understand it, is not the lack of positive results. There are plenty of well recognized cases. The problem is the the unpredictability, because there are plenty of catastrophic…
It is just one approach, often referred to as method acting. But good actors trained more classically can be just as convincing by pretending. One is not better than the other, these are just different approaches, both…
> If I showed up at your place and painted some tactful ads on the walls, would you have an issue with it? Yes, because I didn't call you to paint anything on my walls. But if I hired you to paint me something on my…
I don't think it is the first time they do this, at least on one occasion, they have shown an ad for Tomb Raider on the lock screen. And I am evidently an minority here, but I don't really mind. I don't really have a…
Anubis is not free either, it is a matter of how much it costs to run Anubis vs to let bots in. When I see LKML using Anubis when the pages it serves are tens of kB, all presumably static, I wonder if they do it out of…
There is an interesting case here with the "Hadopi" law in France, a particularly controversial anti-piracy law. They scan IP addresses for illegal filesharing and if it connects to your ISP, then you get a…
I still find it crazy that piston engine aircraft still run on leaded fuel. The only reason it is still the case is mostly regulatory. We can make compatible unleaded fuel, we could have done it decades ago, but it…
And the reason it is delicious is because evolution told us it was the best food there is: safe and tons of readily available calories. Funny how in the last few decades we turned a system that has benefited us for…
> That said, particle physics history is full of 3 sigma particle "discoveries" that disappeared with more data. The idea is that because 3 sigma means a ~1/1000 chance of the thing being explained by random chance, 1…
I will go further and say that people hate on Firefox because they care. We don't see many people here hating on Edge for instance, they may hate the fact that it always wants to force itself in, but not the browser…
This argument can be applied to anything AI does. AI can do bad writing, bad code, bad graphics and bad music. But AI cannot (yet?) do the job of a skilled writer, coder, graphical artist and musician. And it is the…
> Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. Why not both? Well off tech people can have fun too. In fact, the…
This is how humans behave under anonymity, towards an anonymous crowd of people. It is something you don't see on the streets with the exception of a few assholes, but you see it a bit more on the road, where being in a…
It is kind of a culture shock between France and the US: - French visiting the US: why is the waiter coming at us, does he want us out? - American visiting France: what is the waiter waiting for, didn't he notice we are…
Has anyone had success telling a LLM to essentially code golf, with the compromise that names should still be descriptive (so no hard minification). The idea is to first make the code less verbose, LLMs tend to do that.…
> it and doesn’t have baked in orders like “be humorous and irreverent when appropriate.” It does, you just have to enter the number "5318008" :)
It reminds me of an interview with police detectives. They say that some criminals think that using weapons like swords and bows will make the police job harder because police is so used to deal with guns that they may…
It is not a skill that you will use in your day to day life, but I think it is part of the fundamentals now. Sure, LLMs are in a bubble, just like the web during the dotcom bubble, but web didn't disappear, and I don't…
Hating on Windows and Micro$oft dates back from way before 2003. People just forgot. I am sure that in 2050, there will be blog posts about Windows 11 that won't make people enrage.
If you are American, then it is you, for the most part. Most of the US government debt is owed to institution and people in the US. All these retirement funds, social security, health insurance, etc... that own part of…
Considering the saying that dogs have masters and cats have slaves, not only you are not responsible if your cat bites someone but your cat should also be responsible if you bite someone. As for agents, it depends on…
Unless you are standing still (like sitting or playing Beat Saber), that cable really is annoying. You can't spin around for instance. As for wireless communication. I also thought it would be easy, but the lack of…
What make you think it is vibe coded? There is no mention of genAI being used, and the methodology looks more consistent with hand-written code he actually understands.
Net neutrality means that providers don't discriminate based on the kind of traffic, that you get internet access, not just access to particular services. They can absolutely meter and limit your connection as long as…
You just gave your own counter argument. If they find a promising way to use psychedelics for instance, they are not going with straight LSD, they will find some analogue that they show is 0.1% better and patent it.…
The problem with psychoactive drugs, as I understand it, is not the lack of positive results. There are plenty of well recognized cases. The problem is the the unpredictability, because there are plenty of catastrophic…
It is just one approach, often referred to as method acting. But good actors trained more classically can be just as convincing by pretending. One is not better than the other, these are just different approaches, both…
> If I showed up at your place and painted some tactful ads on the walls, would you have an issue with it? Yes, because I didn't call you to paint anything on my walls. But if I hired you to paint me something on my…
I don't think it is the first time they do this, at least on one occasion, they have shown an ad for Tomb Raider on the lock screen. And I am evidently an minority here, but I don't really mind. I don't really have a…
Anubis is not free either, it is a matter of how much it costs to run Anubis vs to let bots in. When I see LKML using Anubis when the pages it serves are tens of kB, all presumably static, I wonder if they do it out of…
There is an interesting case here with the "Hadopi" law in France, a particularly controversial anti-piracy law. They scan IP addresses for illegal filesharing and if it connects to your ISP, then you get a…
I still find it crazy that piston engine aircraft still run on leaded fuel. The only reason it is still the case is mostly regulatory. We can make compatible unleaded fuel, we could have done it decades ago, but it…
And the reason it is delicious is because evolution told us it was the best food there is: safe and tons of readily available calories. Funny how in the last few decades we turned a system that has benefited us for…
> That said, particle physics history is full of 3 sigma particle "discoveries" that disappeared with more data. The idea is that because 3 sigma means a ~1/1000 chance of the thing being explained by random chance, 1…
I will go further and say that people hate on Firefox because they care. We don't see many people here hating on Edge for instance, they may hate the fact that it always wants to force itself in, but not the browser…
This argument can be applied to anything AI does. AI can do bad writing, bad code, bad graphics and bad music. But AI cannot (yet?) do the job of a skilled writer, coder, graphical artist and musician. And it is the…
> Is Burning Man fun? I got the rather cynical impression that it's mostly very well off tech people and even better off finance/political people. Why not both? Well off tech people can have fun too. In fact, the…
This is how humans behave under anonymity, towards an anonymous crowd of people. It is something you don't see on the streets with the exception of a few assholes, but you see it a bit more on the road, where being in a…
It is kind of a culture shock between France and the US: - French visiting the US: why is the waiter coming at us, does he want us out? - American visiting France: what is the waiter waiting for, didn't he notice we are…
Has anyone had success telling a LLM to essentially code golf, with the compromise that names should still be descriptive (so no hard minification). The idea is to first make the code less verbose, LLMs tend to do that.…
> it and doesn’t have baked in orders like “be humorous and irreverent when appropriate.” It does, you just have to enter the number "5318008" :)
It reminds me of an interview with police detectives. They say that some criminals think that using weapons like swords and bows will make the police job harder because police is so used to deal with guns that they may…
It is not a skill that you will use in your day to day life, but I think it is part of the fundamentals now. Sure, LLMs are in a bubble, just like the web during the dotcom bubble, but web didn't disappear, and I don't…
Hating on Windows and Micro$oft dates back from way before 2003. People just forgot. I am sure that in 2050, there will be blog posts about Windows 11 that won't make people enrage.
If you are American, then it is you, for the most part. Most of the US government debt is owed to institution and people in the US. All these retirement funds, social security, health insurance, etc... that own part of…
Considering the saying that dogs have masters and cats have slaves, not only you are not responsible if your cat bites someone but your cat should also be responsible if you bite someone. As for agents, it depends on…