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I think addressing people's expression of skepticism of the average motives of journalists by simply making the unqualified claim that the people expressing skepticism "know nothin…

In the author’s defense they mentioned the NASA standard, and that guide— while legendary— isn't a "lacing" guide. Of the 50+ images, only 2 show lacing (acceptable v. unacceptable…

Here’s a highly specific example about the subject matter of TFA published last month: https://nextyorktimes.com/p/boomer-predatory-crime

You’ve clearly been a victim of victims before. Your detailed analysis of these harms they’ve performed against you, and your warning not to listen to victims, is very concise, det…

This is exactly what happened in digital audio signal processing and recording, where word size represents amplitude. 12-bit audio was the first word size that provided a pretty go…

The workflow update-deps.yaml will periodically check for new updates of SBCL or the linked libraries. If an update is found, it edits build.env and creates a pull request that wil…

Only bc it’s Valentine's Day :) https://peel.fm/33e538b Nice work, fun and the repeats system is cool

McQuillan’s central point here that ChatGPT is a “bullshit generator” and not “artifically intelligent” is really apt. What we’re often working on in the industry is emulating the …

Meta comment: I understand why this was downvoted and am impressed (not complaining at all) but please keep in mind that the top of the thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

Yup, you’re dead on, that’s how "engagement" tends to work, but hook is not also line and sinker, no? So advanced speech generation models are now having to account for engagement—…

I kind of do think some people do get hired to continue to be like undergrads, and ChatGPT is turning into a pretty good undergrad. I really don’t know what the progression is goin…

Spoken like a truly based groyper. :D I understand, yes, all things are composed of atoms, electrons, etc. All computation is achieved through calculation, or to be more precise, p…

Agreed that comparing everything to our (very incomplete) understanding of human cognition & intelligence quickly gets into metaphysical-style speculation of the human vs. the anim…

I see. I call this the “all code is just a really big abacus” argument. Others call it algorithmic reductionism or essentialism, and I will argue for it too in many cases. (I don’t…

Conversely, someone could argue you might be under thinking the behavioral-style implications of what the word training means in machine decision making scenarios. Think about some…

How could you discuss this openly so brazenly? I fear for your security. Good luck, I hope you know the hand signal It’s wild how many people will split hairs lingually over models…

That's more or less correct. My post was targeted to the investor segment of HN readership about labor automation, displacement, and re-valuation. The coder/techaesthete segment ha…

Lol on the "chicken"x4 plan, here’s hoping. I’ll let you in on a tiny secret: I only really focus on the incentives exploit in one of seven sentences in the OP. I agree, the Reddit…

I couldn’t disagree more that our heuristics don’t fail constantly, especially at the group level, but please do send the link to buy the tinted lens glasses you’re wearing. I want…