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Isn't scanning also a form of copyright infringement? You are making a digital copy of a book, which is the same thing as downloading a book from the internet...

In what world is 20,179 dead children the lesser of two evils?

> I have no domain expertise that another Sr. engineer steering an LLM cannot match. Sounds like the Dunning-Kruger effect to me. "I can do this with LLMs, therefore any Sr. engine…

The weights Mason, what do they mean!?

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1sbdw29/if_youre_... https://web.archive.org/web/20260403174514/https://old.reddi...

> Those questions that it will no longer occur to you to ask (not just of the robot, but of yourself) might be the most pertinent ones! That is true, but then again also with googl…

I am surprised at the amount of comments that dismiss coding as just means to an end. Yes, every skill at the end of the day is a means to an end, but mastery of those skills is at…

it starts to sound scarily close to opioid addiction

I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1]. These at…

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No no, let him deploy to production.

Isn't "contributing little to the system" and "taking underpaid jobs" a contradiction? If you are taking a job, you are contributing to the system.

Seems like implicit bias. "Many people in my circle have an H1-B visa, thus it is far from impossible to get one."

However, an increase in computing quality doesn't necessarily mean an increase in output quality, as you need compute power + data to train these models. Just increasing compute po…

Wouldn't some sort of proof of work be a good solution to the captcha problem? Specially since all of the sudden, a bot service running hundreds of thousands of requests will sudde…