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ducktective

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About ducktective

quack quack quack! :)

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    Comment #49213445

    > including isolated testing environments Given the attack vector having possible super-human capability, I'm not sure such an environment exists. "Isolated" according to who? Mayb…

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    Comment #49192565

    > Do you think Japan and the EU would be better off if our/their economies were centred around trillion dollar companies that make a product that is 20% better than the Chinese mod…

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    Comment #49192469

    I wonder about Japan and Europe these days. Back in the 80s, when Japan was pursuing the "Fifth-Generation Computers", EU and US scrambled to compete with Japan. Like, it was a big…

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    Comment #49160622

    Do LLMs generate deterministic or trustworthy answers?

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    Comment #49152838

    It's AI-assisted now but on a path to becoming AI-independent in the coming months at least due to the general public perception.

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    Comment #49147785

    I wonder what experts think of this other option: going fully native for one platform then vibe-porting it to others.

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    Comment #49143843

    No passion, no independent research, only the drive to make money with as little effort as possible

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    Comment #49126941

    Exactly. I was wondering what language would be better for heavy agentic workflow. Due to a recent blog post, Clojure seem to be the most terse [1]. But some people are suggesting …

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    Comment #49111214

    Recent posts on formal proofs usually talk about Lean, Rocq, Isabelle and (due to this post) Metamath. What do people think of F* [1]? At least, for non-mathematics projects, doesn…

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    Comment #49049345

    >that there's no daylight between the works of an individual who has taken a literal lifetime to hone a skillset and any random dilletante armed with the appropriate AI tools. Well…

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    Comment #49045469

    >a config switch between A and B is never considered And why should modern corpo maintain additional complexity to pander to 1% of privacy-aware tech-savvy users?

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    Comment #49005057

    >Still, one thing should not be forgotten, those who fail to adapt eventually fall behind. Adapt to what? Current LLM endgame is "wished-spec => code". Where do you fit in this? Yo…

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    Comment #48974867

    Thanks for the summary! Does anyone happen to know how to make a Windows machine, the extended display of a Linux machine? Both machines are on the same network. I'm looking to use…

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    Comment #48707290

    Not even that, libssh2 vul. that "scp"s malware from cloud to your machine...

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    Comment #48704054

    Before the advent of LLMs, ML was used in upscaling the assets and pre-rendered backgrounds of the first 3 classic Resident Evil games: https://www.reshdp.com

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    Comment #48704043

    Makes one wonder, why should anyone embark on learning this intricate and time-consuming art of reverse engineering when LLMs are on their way to automate it in seconds...

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    Comment #48543653

    It's not just corpo talk. The ultimate goal in LLM and AI progress is "replacement" of professional knowledge workers. In the march of the 9s of the accuracy of the generated LLM o…

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    Comment #48542453

    Please explain this "adapting". The LLM sellers' holygrail is * you just need to crank our model bro *. With this mindset, there is no adaptation needed, save a couple of weeks of …

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    Comment #46203784

    Are off-shelf GPUs (like one 3090) suitable for modern academic research on current AI advancements or is it better to rent some cloud compute?

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    Comment #46126424

    Does anyone have rough numbers (max daily users etc) on viability of SQLite vs PostgreSQL for a typical user-facing webapp or e-commerce application? I know due to some recent upda…

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    Comment #45462669

    Like imagine editor is on ws2, you open a terminal to /tmp/ to check something quick, it scrolls to the right, then jump to ws3 for your file manager and other stuff and go back to…