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an-allen
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About an-allen
Living and Working in Wellington, New Zealand
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Comment #47057542
Ha mate you are on the UFO, and whats coming is your understanding that YOU are flying through the universe trying to get somewhere, not waiting for it to come to you!
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Comment #47057185
Yep just a risk amplifier. We are having a global warming level event in computing and blindly walling into it.
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Comment #47051443
To be fair, Demming is a trivial systems programming theories.. “optimise wholistically” “local fixes cause global imnalance” None of this works for the system of life and consciou…
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Comment #47051354
yea that system was a lot more than he was prepared for :)
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Comment #46981740
And neither are people. And beware of anything that treats them like they are.
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Comment #46981190
Oh there are vampires. They are very old. But they are mostly illusions of light. Once the veil is removed the disappointment of hell sets in. Smoke, mirrors, DNA, sound. The Frenc…
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Comment #46981133
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Comment #46981075
The fears of mass surveillance are some of the funniest things I can think of. Do you think a tree grows a leaf and then says I don’t care what you do leaf.
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Comment #46981050
Could? Is mate. Is.
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Comment #46981023
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Comment #46666158
LoRA + SDR mesh distributed object storage fabric.
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Comment #46666004
Similar I have a script that has the following format: “q replace all onstances of http: with https: in all txt files recurisvely” And it goes the ChatGPT comes back with and runs …
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Comment #46586208
A third of humans are fed as a result of the melt of the Himalayan ice sheet. No ice sheet, no runoff, no flooding the rice paddy's, no rice…. famine.
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Comment #46585867
I think its a Kobyashi Maru - there is absolutely no way we will wield a paradigm shifting technology like language models and be able to do it safely. Language models create at sc…
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Comment #46576615
I love when people figure out that life literally is a computation - everything about it - from the molecular structure, to the reproductive strategies, to the mutation and selecti…
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Comment #46443725
LLMs are by definition computations on known public data - meaning any LLM CEO strategy will be only briefly competitive. LLMs lack networks and the ability to strategise internall…
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Comment #46408568
Interesting about the epigenetics, transposons, and other DNA augmentations… These are all fundamentally a story of how the individual encounters and uses information in their live…
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Comment #46408522
But your kids will likely not have your insights and experiences so “tuning” is another word for broadening their awareness.
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Comment #46408515
A lot of this is transmitted via the language. The stories we form as a result of events in our lives, have power to set our values in all areas. These myths of the self, have what…
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Comment #45966417
Well the centralisation without rapid recovery and practices that provide substantial resiliency… that would be worrying. But I dare say the folks at these organisations take these…
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Comment #45966334
What?! No way! Keen to see the post mortem on this. Its always DNS.
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Comment #42926111
oooo the forbidden linear algebra equation. Bold move, lets see how it plays out.
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Comment #42926074
oooo the forbidden linear algebra equation. bd move lets see how this plays out!
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Comment #41997092
Obligatory - David Olsen and Paul Eggert - thank you for your service. The world literally works because of your efforts and I don’t feel people really appreciate the ridiculous ma…