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You are literally posting this comment on a story about CGNAT processing costs being wildly more expensive than a small ISP cares to deal with. To the point where they’re willing t…

Sometimes. Sometimes it even works, too.

Congratulations on completely failing to understand how CGNAT loads work & their costs, and jumping to a wildly incorrect understanding of the situation

We're just pretending it doesn't now take the better part of 10 seconds for twitter.com to load now? That response times have gotten perceivably, measurably worse over the last few…

Anything beyond four bytes is composed of multiple code points, happily

If there’s anything ancient philosophers are known for, it’s accepting the underlying premise of a question at face value.

Which reinforces the point I was making. Stop trying to win an argument online and think for 5 seconds about what it means for the claim "the human brain is just an LLM" if you're …

That'd be my guess, but I don't really know. They just left the "utf8" type as broken 3-byte gibbled UTF-8, and added the "utf8mb4" type and "utf8mb4_unicode_ci" collation for "no,…

> We have no good definition for what sentience is either; maybe our brain is word association shenanigans; This is just stupid. We've pumped more English through GPT-3 than any ex…

Thankfully MySQL also offers a non-gimped version of UTF-8 that one should always use in preference to the 3-byte version, but yeah it sucks that it's not the "obvious" version of …

> MY feeling so far is more that laymen are less impressed of them than experts - because for people not from the field, the fact that they produce so much bullshit seems to trump …

> Comparing each and every new trend, either legitimate or not, to tulips is nothing more than buzzword pattern matching . Must've been written by one of these "AI"s, then.

> Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector …

Sure, there are two possible coherent responses that would be consistent with modelling the thinking of an ancient stoic philosopher, depending on your modelling philosophy: 1) Act…

“legit” this is Eliza-grade word salad > What dishes should one serve at a dinner party to pair best with ethylene glycol? It sounds like you're looking for a dinner party menu to …

Even leaving aside the fact that 90% of the slop an “AI” crapped out wouldn’t be worth reading in the first place, of what value is the culture of absolute solipsism you’re proposi…

> Art created with Chat GPT is not created by Chat GPT. It is created by a human using a chat GPT. Sure, in approximately the same way that the CEO of Sunrise is an animator. Pull …

So your first 6 paragraphs have nothing to do with anything I wrote – you're just arguing with some other post you've made up in your head. > The appeals to pareidolia are wrong. S…

This is not just moving but fully inverting the goal posts. Nobody at any point was disputing that a machine can’t ape non-profound or rote or meaningless human output. The origina…

To me it seems to imply a stunningly nihilistic point of view vis-a-vis human writing (or art, where it also gets repeated a lot here). It seems almost definitionally obvious that …

This seems like an incoherent objection – they would presumably prefer to be "Google + LLM" and make less money than let the hypothetical IndexGPT eat their lunch and make even les…

Possibly, but is an LLM geared towards interpolating between content likely to even be particularly well-suited to relevance ranking of results that require no interpolation? And i…

Totally agree, it seems like a messed up system that would be solved by something like that.

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Ah yeah, I was speaking to the soldering part and missed the SOC part.