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gooodvibes

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    They're not. It's real world when there's a market for paying Zig jobs, not when you can list a few github repos that use it.

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    Comment #45941002

    I wonder if there's some kind of online board or forum where people post about tech... Also, have you tried working instead of twitter? Learning instead of twitter? Just no twitter…

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    Comment #45855111

    Also Vonnegut: "A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

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    Comment #45803356

    The real massive revenues that the big tech companies are having aren't going to disappear just because OpenAI goes away.

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    Comment #45773980

    You're conflating consciousness and AGI. People are certainly talking about AI, people are very broadly talking about AGI and what that term means. I don't think many people are ta…

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    Not the person you asked but I have good data - I lost 32kg over 6 months on tirzepatide, 11kg of it was lean body mass, the rest was fat (based on DEXA scans). In general, lean bo…

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    Comment #45718956

    Someone else might not, I certainly do.

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    Comment #45713090

    1. ADHD medication 2. Break things down into small tasks 3. Checklists for all tasks, preferably on paper, crossing things out feels nice 4. Work surrounded by people, I need the a…

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    Comment #45710825

    No more leaderboard too! These look like positive changes, a 2x longer event isn't 2x more fun or 2x more satisfying to participate in. After skipping the past couple of years, I f…

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    Comment #45696853

    Humans aren’t freely choosing what they want either, not sure how you can expect it from machines.

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    Comment #45682108

    > Fine tuning, reinforcement, etc are all 'training' in my books. They are but they have nothing to do with how frequent anything is in literature which was your main point.

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    Comment #45681254

    https://pytorch.org/foundation/

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    Comment #45675219

    No, my point has nothing to do with creativity. It's about the fact that their output is taylored to look and sound in a certain way in the later stages of model training, it's not…

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    Comment #45673586

    This isn’t accurate - most of the style comes from the fine tuning and reinforcement learning, not from the original training data. At some point people got this idea that LLMs jus…

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    Comment #45576789

    > I just create my .venv and pip install. Even if you only change your commands to 'uv venv ...' and 'uv pip install ...' and keep the rest of your workflow, you'll get 1. Much fas…

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    > Writing a toy database to understand how they work, implementing a small Redis clone. Now that feels stupid. Like I'd be wasting time on details the AI is supposed to handle. Why…

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    > But what's the decomposition for? To get it done correctly, that's always what it's been about. I don't feel that code I write without assistance is mine, or some kind of achieve…

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    > The entire premise of AI coding tools is that they automate the thinking, not just the typing. You're supposed to be able to describe a problem and get a solution without underst…

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    > OpenAI needs 1 trillion dollars in next four years just to keep existing. More like $115 billion based on your own link. The $1T is a guess based on promises made, far from "need…

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    When Julia came out neither Python nor data science and ML had the popularity they have today. Even 7-8 years ago people we're still having Python vs R debates.