Yes but we’re also more mastodon less bluesky. If a bluesky-esque clone of Reddit comes along with better UX and paving over the issues of federation then it will win, the way Bluesky has beaten out Mastodon as the Twit alternate

The choose N heroes things is also in deadlock. They require you to choose 3 and you’re given 1 based on preference and queue time. Can’t be a1-trick but you can usually get the same hero each game

There’s definitely nothing about humans that is irreproducible - but the machines aren’t even close yet. You clearly didn’t read the article.

The entire point here was that the poetry written by LLMs is valid, shallow and has appeal only to the uninformed.

Article:

In my view, the results of the study are less testaments to the “quality” of machine poetry than to the wider difficulty of giving life to poetry. It takes reading and rereading to experience what literary critic Derek Attridge has called the “event” of literature, where “new possibilities of meaning and feeling” open within us. In the most significant kinds of literary experiences, “we feel pulled along by the work as we push ourselves through it”.

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When readers say they prefer AI poetry, then, they would seem to be registering their frustration when faced with writing that does not yield to their attention. If we do not know how to begin with poems, we end up relying on conventional “poetic” signs to make determinations about quality and preference.

This is also true of AI art.

The pattern matching machines will give us more of the same: glossy and regurgitated.

You will not find a machine that will output excellent work that when found 20 years later will become a sensation. They produce gold painted dross.

This is another condemnation of art and cultural education in the West.

I’ve been an android developer for a decade at this point, I’m aware of how app deep links work.

The comparison is not “what LOE is call linking from scratch” but rather “how does call linking meshing into existing production codebases across all platforms compare in LOE to 3 buttons?” And the answer is self evidently more.

You’re minimizing the amount of effort and we’re comparing it to buttons. Adding “a few buttons” is very different than setting up 3 platforms to all use a new protocol (calls from links will require new handling - previously all calls were just based on authenticated users being allowed into webrtc calls based on their tokens. Now you have to have a new handler which joins a call with the token in the URL - that can’t be handled identically). Then we get into the Android app, much of which is still in Java, which uses multi-activity-srchitrcgure meaning you’ve gotta pass data through each layer manually, rewriting each of these activities to accept the new deep link and route to the right end.

And then you’ve got to be sure it all coordinates across iOS, Android and your backend.

It’s not hard but it’s not “a few buttons”. It’s probably 2 weeks of work for skilled and competent engineers, 1 per platform.

Do you actually have any experience in Mobile dev? You sound like a fresh outta college junior eng - cocky and confident that everyone else is wrong, making it harder than it needs to be etc.

Just like that cocky junior eng you’re too unaware of what you don’t know to realize you’re wrong. Wade through the grass a few times and you’ll realize the flowery meadow is full of snakes.

Call links are a lot more work than “a few buttons”

All of the Soviet Union’s uranium came from Kyrgyzstan?

I thought Czechoslovakia was a huge uranium source for the Soviets as well?

I heard rumors someone burned his house down. No idea if they’re true or not.

PLA is widely used as a medical plastic and its normal decomposition is into lactic acid.

Even if it is just being atomized down into smaller and smaller particles it’s safer for you than any other common plastic.

The colorants added are the only risk

Yeah that’s about the face I was expecting him to be making. It’s the “Please knock my lights out” face. The mental agony face.

Working long hours is sometimes justified: but unless you’re the CEO you should be getting extra pay or time off in lieu. Anything else is wage theft.

He has said that they already know everything they need to know to get to AGI.

OpenAI has not made a single thing that wasn’t just a wrapped LLM.

So either A: he has somehow been running a skunk works that has fundamentally changed everything we know limits LLMs and none of the researchers leaked anything or B: he thinks LLMs are the way.

Additional quote when he was asked about AGI:

“How did we get to the doorstep of the next leap in prosperity? In three words: deep learning worked. In 15 words: deep learning worked, got predictably better with scale, and we dedicated increasing resources to it,” Altman said.

This tracks with the whole “I need 1 trillion dollars of energy investments” plan to get to AGI that he’s asked for.

The guy’s either honestly convinced himself that we can get there with deep learning scaling or he’s a conman. Could be both.

It’s what Altman has constantly said was going to happen. Up to you to decide if he’s actually in the industry or not.

The fundamental architecture of an LLM is used across all these services - and that’s reaching its limits.

Heavy investments is a strong term for modest hedges around SMRs.

Tens of millions is low risk pocket change compared to the billions burned running the things constantly.

The problem is they’re all playing chicken with each other.

OpenAI will never back down. The question is will Google, Microsoft or Amazon blink first

Affinity is great

My point is that it was foreseeable and it was her goal. She never wanted congestion pricing, she wanted to run on it because it was popular and then tank it in a way that won’t hurt her reelection.

This is calculated.

She’s moving forward with it so that Trump can block it. Then she’ll say “look at me fight trump” and also “nothing we can do sorry”

I’m pro nuclear as well but we absolutely can maintain this level of energy consumption on renewables alone.

The question is cost and risk - I’m for diversification of our grid which includes nuclear.

But it is getting to the point where renewables with backups will be cheaper than coal. That’s absolutely something you can run the entire grid off of. You can balance storage requirements with excess production capacity that gets shuttered over the summer etc etc

Quote from abstract:

We find that the MTEs are biased, significantly favoring White-associated names in 85.1% of cases and female-associated names in only 11.1% of cases, with a minority of cases showing no statistically significant differences. Further analyses show that Black males are disadvantaged in up to 100% of cases, replicating real-world patterns of bias in employment settings, and validate three hypotheses of intersectionality. We also find an impact of document length as well as the corpus frequency of names in the selection of resumes.

Pretty damning… And not surprising.

Oh my God an image macro posted to the political memes board doesn’t have 60 pages of nuanced footnotes explaining how if you’re in Nebraska then your voting system works differently I’m going to literally shit my own pants out of rage

Cause and effect reversed there buddy