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suttontom
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Comment #49224536
It seems so obvious that a non-tech company can benefit hugely from AI for their bespoke use case, especially if no one in the company knew how to write code pre-AI. But it's also …
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Comment #49146033
I still use YNAB 4 to this day on both the Android app and my desktop. Every couple of years the Dropbox sync stops working, but someone in the community fixes it and uploads an AP…
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Comment #49130909
> I’ve spent enough time on Reddit to know Please tell me you see the irony in this.
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Comment #49100739
It's kind of amazing how badly you've misrepresented Richard Sutton's position. This is the man who coined the term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_lesson .
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Comment #49100625
That is not how LLMs work. It isn't some intelligence that is separate from and also contains a database of knowledge that you can prune at will.
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Comment #49088120
This seems like a great insight at first but: "What was the artist trying to achieve?" How is that "disarmingly straightforward"? Does that mean it's a straightforward question for…
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Comment #49061365
If you're having a manic episode or other type of mental breakdown, I hope you get help. If this is just how you typically act, and no one has told you yet, your way of communicati…
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Comment #48910379
This is interesting, would being labelled "applied" be considered an insult to them?
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Comment #48910366
I'm glad it's a few short years instead of a few long years.
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Comment #48822146
I don't think the poster meant applying the death penalty to the corporation.
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Comment #48798399
Agree with you on exercise. But staring at a painting is to meditation what curls are to building your core. People all recommend the same type of meditation for a reason--so that …
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Comment #48740265
It's crazy that you could actually use the excuse that since it's all vibe-coded, there's no way a human could have written it, so Anthropic bears no responsibility. Meanwhile huma…
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Comment #48713695
>These AI images also add to the public mistrust of AI, a growing problem for innovation in a field that is sometimes seen as biased, opaque and extractive. Oh my, how would anyone…
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Comment #48709864
Your instinct is correct, and in a lot of cases it's true. However, I've heard from enough doctors by now (a cardiologist, psychiatrist, and epidemiologist/former physician) that t…
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Comment #48676351
How did it help?
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Comment #48638595
It's a blog. He's using hyperbole. It's not a Supreme Court opinion.
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Comment #48578608
I'm asking genuinely, is there a connection between housing, education, and healthcare becoming so much more expensive and them also being the three parts of the economy that have …
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Comment #48551702
I don't want to be cynical, but maybe spending hours every day using Claude has made some of us particularly attuned to picking this up. For some reason as soon as I read "The trap…
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Comment #48507827
You're wrong in lots of ways. Some model cards do show regressions on benchmarks for newer models on specific tasks: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Ge...…
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Comment #48498946
I wouldn't agree with that. The issue with software is that the people you make things for are usually anonymous and you'll never meet them, but if you've ever built software that …
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