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For me that’s badly played hardcore punk with an extremely loud drummer :/

Yeah integrating APIs has really become trivial with copilots. You just copy paste the documentation and all the boring stuff is done in the blink of an eye ! I love it

I like the implication that it is possible, we know how to do it, but we’re chivalrous enough to only do it when the plot absolutely requires it

Java is actually twice faster cause the name is twice shorter

Notch? The guy who codes in java?

Its frameworks still have issues with basic stuff like many to many relationships.

Not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean ORMs? Which one and when did you try it?

Good luck finding enough wood for that ! Energy was reaaaally expensive back then.

They had sewage and toilets since Roman times. It wasn’t affordable to many (and you couldn’t make it affordable) but they definitely knew how to make it.

I’d just like to interject that while traveling was rare in medieval times, it did happen. People usually didn’t get thrown in jail for it, even if they didn’t speak the local language.

Regular people didn’t really speak Latin beyond a few bits of prayer. The lingua franca was a mix of various coastal languages (think of the belter patois in the expanse), but even that was only known to traders.

You’d have a tough time for sure, but wouldn’t necessarily get in trouble.

I don’t know any AI artists (as in someone who prompts a model and then calls the result a work of art), although most traditional artists i know have come to incorporate AI one way or another in their process.

You don’t really hear about it because it’s all intermediate material used during the production phase. For example, as a hobbyist writer, one thing i struggle with is writing action scenes cause i don’t have visual memory and i tend to forget a lot about continuity and “spatial realism” (“this guy starts in this corner of the room so there’s no way he could grab that object at that point”, shit like that). With AI I can generate some kind of “story board” of my scene, which helps me write it much better. It’s just laid out visually in front of me and i catch a lot more details.

Sometimes when i’m toying with an idea i’ll also have a model generate a few variations on it, with different points of view, writing style, focus etc… Even if the writing is mediocre, it gives me a really good idea of how each version could pan out, and whether an angle works or not. I’ll then select the angle that works best and rewrite it entirely from scratch.

There’s nothing innovative about it, people have been using assistants to avoid tedious work forever. It’s just that before AI you had to, you know, be rich and able to actually pay for the labor.

I am looking for a solution for a ~1TB collection, and the Glacier Deep Archive storage tier is barely above 1$/m for the lot. You may want to look into it ! If I remember correctly, the retrieval (if you one day need to get your data back) was around 20$ to get the data in a few hours, or 2$ to get it in a couple days.

I am an aggressively mediocre singer but the 2 hour rehearsal on Monday is the highlight of my week. It’s so fucking fun man!

Baby boomers would eat their own children at the first occasion

I have one kid. Don’t really want a second one. No fucking regrets he’s a swell dude, he’s smart as fuck and has a gentle heart that just warms my soul. Also thanks to modern schooling he’s got some amazing psychological skills like identifying his and others’ emotions, processing them before reacting, etc… Coming from a stupid family that’s shit i learned to do in my 30s and he was already working on it at 3. That’s stuff he won’t need to power through with weed and alcohol in his 20s i guess.

Sure the world is considerably more shit now than it was when he was born, which is dumb because he’s only 6. But hey the world was shit before and every time period brings its own brand of anxiety and uncertainty. With kids you learn to take things day by day and not dwell so much on what you don’t control. You have to accept the universe on its own terms, that’s the whole point of psychological and philosophical integration after all.

I have to keep my LinkedIn for business reasons but recently I noticed a big uptick in fascist-adjacent posting. At first it depressed me big time but then I started blocking and a couple weeks and dozen blocks later it was over. Turns out a small number of people can really give the impression of a crowd and fuck with the whole experience.

I do it because it’s easy and it’s free but if it was difficult i’d probably still do it.

Yeah I remember when I started my career 15 years ago they were already trying to re-internalize projects after having horrible off -shore experience…

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They have no ability to actually reason

I’m curious about this kind of statement. “Reasoning” is not a clearly defined scientific term, in that it has a myriad different meanings depending on context.

For example, there has been science showing that LLMs cannot use “formal reasoning”, which is a branch of mathematics dedicated to proving theorems. However, the majority of humans can’t use formal reasoning. This would make humans “unable to actually reason” and therefore not Generally Intelligent.

At the other end of the spectrum, if you take a more casual definition of reasoning, for example Aristotle’s discursive reasoning, then that’s an ability LLMs definitely have. They can produce sequential movements of thought, where one proposition leads logically to another, such as answering the classic : “if humans are mortal, and Socrates is a human, is Socrates mortal ?”. They demonstrate the ability to do it beyond their training data, meaning they do encode in their weights a “world model” which they use to solve new problems absent from their training data.

Whether or not this is categorically the same as human reasoning is immaterial in this discussion. The distinct quality of human thought is a metaphysical concept which cannot be proved or disproved using the scientific method.

Oh yeah the John Wick hangover is a real thing !