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Comment #49125792
Lol, love this post. Every single day when I take the elevators at the office I try and figure out what the algorithm is behind it. Been too lazy to just research it. Now I know!
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Comment #48986898
I agree that using AI as a "tutor" to help teach yourself things is very useful and works great, I've been doing that myself quite a bit. How do you stop students from being able t…
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Comment #48938077
This is also how I pretty much filter LLM generated text in my head.
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Comment #48908892
Using AI to actually learn is indeed very helpful I've found... I just don't think most people use it for that. I recently wanted to build and train my own (albeit, small and simpl…
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Comment #48908636
I just recently watched some (not all) of this video "coding a machine learning library in c from scratch" and seems like he's going through a similar process in this blog as this …
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Comment #48855584
Yeah, clear example of survivorship bias... not to sound negative, but if Facebook had become nothing, odds are Boz would be nothing more than another engineer. It's all too common…
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Comment #48848407
Same here, I hate it. Instead of just reading I find myself also dedicating brain power trying to decide if it's worth reading or not based on the first few sentences... if someone…
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Comment #48848371
LinkedIn is basically unusable at this point. I actually did used to use it a fair amount before but I've since deleted it and just use email notifications to see any notifications…
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Comment #48822239
I mean, this is perhaps the most vibecoded website possible so... deff AI.
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Comment #48812200
Can you elaborate on that more? Why just a filler character?
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Comment #48811648
Really interesting paper, thanks for the share. The point their making in that paper reminds me of this paper some people shared around work earlier this year, https://arxiv.org/pd…
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Comment #48763638
Haha that's a great intro to it. I remember very clearly I was obsessed with minecraft griefing/team Avolition at the time and found it to ask if someone could make me a hacked min…
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Comment #48762599
Anyone here used to be on HackForums? I lived on there from 2011-2013/4... was pretty young back then but I learned so much and attribute it to getting to the spot i'm at now. I re…
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Comment #48732991
Typically when I ship anything that is going to be customer facing I am a nervous wreck. Although I'm only 4 years into my career. Does it get better with time?
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Comment #48720498
When I was studying my CS degree (2018-2022) it was actually encouraged to work together outside of classes with fellow students. We had a CS discord run by the school (or maybe vo…
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Comment #48687184
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Comment #48681753
"On paper, it looks like a smart decision. Reduce paper, reduce staff, reduce operating costs. But what gets overlooked is the hit to the customer experience." As always.... this p…
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Comment #48681709
There are some things that I feel really shouldn't be enshitified by AI and this is one of them. Sad world TBH.
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Comment #48681582
Lol yeah exactly, if kids want to go on social media they will 100% find a way around it.... putting in these identity requirements will literally do nothing except require us as a…
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Comment #48680666
I agree, I think kids should have limited access to the internet. I pretty much did and it worked out for me but I have seen so many reports about it causing harm in schools and pe…
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Comment #48677666
So far this is some of the best uses of ML I've seen to date! This is one of the few things you can point at and say "AI made the world a better place" IMO (this and medical resear…
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Comment #48668055
Because the transformer, which all of these models are foundationally built off of and didn't invent themselves (bar google) wasn't invented? The amount of effort it took humanity …
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Comment #48632255
Just a heads up (you may already know this) -- In the local LLM community there's a pretty strong disdain for Ollama specifically due to numerous reasons provided in this blog post…
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Comment #48587077
What are some examples of features that they have added since December that you use? I originally had setup openclaw back in Jan(?) and had it generating some news summaries for me…
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Comment #48554835
Agreed, I went through the blog post and a few other pages trying to figure out what the benefit of Iroh is since I have never heard of it... was struggling lol.