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krisoft

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    Comment #49204443

    It is not a “should”. At least not in the “we wish it were so” sense. It is more that there are multiple reasons why this idea (burning an LLM into silicone and deploying it into a…

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    Comment #49182604

    > What harness did you use? I let her do all of it without influencing her choices. She choose the web interface of ChatGPT because she already had an account and that's the tool s…

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    Comment #49176890

    Mayhaps. But Spanish prisoner letters were known much before that. Which is basically the same advance fee scam but with a different cover story. Here is a story which describes on…

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    Comment #49174757

    > What makes this anecdote hard to believe is that seemingly two things happened simultaneously What i described is what happened. I don’t appreciate the undertones where you are i…

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    Comment #49163331

    I did a test a few months ago. A friend of mine wanted to develop what i understood to be a simple single page web app. But since she didn’t have any software engineering experienc…

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    Comment #49149617

    Curious that none of the attempts draw the frog from side profile. If i have to draw this i would immediately know that drawing a recognisable frog is the easy part of job. Express…

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    Comment #49124137

    > this is a tangent but you should revisit your assumptions about giraffe anatomy I don't know. This is the scenario i was thinking of: I imagine a giraffe taking a palette of good…

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    Comment #49113266

    > giraffes for warehouses. I’m not even sure if you are joking there or haven’t thought your proposal through. Sure giraffes are tall, but they can barelly lift any weight. What us…

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    Comment #49060196

    I wouldn't think that should be a problem here if there is any sanity how the system is implemented. With a normal (short stay, long stay) parking lot it is expected that cars leav…

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    Comment #49059896

    There are some horror stories when those kind of systems break down. For example this one is about a van which got stuck in one for two years: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c…

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    Comment #49059439

    A fenced off flat parking lot with a few cameras here and there. Not sure what you expect.

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    Comment #49034267

    > Just look at the Boeing 737 MAX. That is the best example for an unstable aircraft. No. Not in the aerodynamical sense. The Boeing 737 MAX is stable. In this sense: "The term sta…

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    Comment #49009303

    Maybe. But also if the thing was not documented for years, then maybe the users learned how to use it without documentation? Or at least how to get what they need done. People won'…

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    Comment #48985074

    I don’t know if you know this but Peter Pan’s copyright is weird in the UK. There is a legislated exception in the law that it never expires and the royalties will forever go to a …

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    Comment #48980527

    That sounds good, but wouldn’t you worry that the same hackers will let themselves in via the same route again? You would need to understand first how they gained access and verify…

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    Comment #48941238

    Yeah. Stuff happens. There is the famous case of dropping the NOAA N-Prime weather satellite on the ground. They were trying to turn it from vertical to horizontal and they forgot …

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    Comment #48880007

    > 30-day survival for out-of-hospital CPR is 10% Okay. And what is the 30-day survival for cases where CPR would be otherwise indicated but are not performed? It is a bit like comp…

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    Comment #48766341

    At least yours can be in theory solved. (Given infinite amount of compute, great luck, or a very serious breakthrough in attacking the hash function.) Even harder would be an empty…

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    Comment #48701694

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    Comment #48617803

    Have you considered that maybe your sewing machine is faulty in some way? Either the model or the particular instance of it. I’m also a complete sewing machine noob. We have a sewi…

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    Comment #48590294

    > The information is there. Well. Not really? Of course a lot of information is available but still there is a lot of open questions. Just considering the Great Pyramid of Giza: wa…

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    Comment #48535953

    > it doesn't make sense to do a job you'd hate That assumes using/not using ai will make me hate the job. Which is not true at all for me. Would be perfectly happy either way. (Or …

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    Comment #48510317

    On the nuclear side I think the danger is purely reputational damage towards the company behind the LLM. If a journalist can prompt the LLM to tell them how to build a nuclear warh…

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    Comment #48498562

    It is. But doesn’t fit with the rest of the sentence. “In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.” https://en.wiktionary.org/w…

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    Comment #48339327

    > people who are full of quickly-formed opinions My quickly formed opinion is that you are emotionaly disregulated and unpleasant to chat with. That is the only opinion i hold abou…