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ajrouvoet

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    Comment #49225398

    It is baffling to me that Python seems to insist on reinventing language features and coming up with the most incomprehensible of designs. The whole dataclass and serialisation eco…

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    Comment #49027109

    Excellent and (it goes without saying) important work. My only suggestion is to edit a file by… playing Minecraft. Extra points if you make a meaningful edit in survival mode.

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    Comment #48997952

    Yes: the human provides the qualitative judgement and the agent provides the executive function.

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    Comment #48996827

    Do you mean that specifically those models perform badly without guidance or do all models need specific instructions for technical writing? We have observed that it is a loss for …

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    Comment #48996262

    Although I’d like this to work, I have not seen evidence that AIs extract good reusable knowledge from sessions without strong guidance. I do R&D work in comp sci and usually write…

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    Comment #48919908

    I think that just highlights how “empowerment” through tech is biased towards producers, which makes sense because that aligns with the usual business propositions. For consumers, …

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    Comment #48836443

    A well designed intermediary enables both validation and control over the output independent of the AI. This changes the interaction model between human and AI from delegation to c…

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    Comment #48802720

    The announcement video has some quality that made it hard to shake the feeling that I’m watching a black mirror episode. Or a sequel to Ex Machina.

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    Comment #46738045

    This last point is the key observation.

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    Comment #45556529

    Meta just lost a court case against bits of freedom in the Netherlands, because their instagram setting to turn off the attention grabbing feed would reset every month or so. The c…

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    Comment #45543628

    Dutch newspaper Trouw also reported that their ad was rejected multiple times by Meta. After inquiry into this they found it was because it was about sustainability and hence consi…