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A good way to accomplish this is to ask the AI to give you some good names for the project. It tends to regurgitate those, and a quick search of existing apps will flush it out.

Part of the problem here is that this college has <5% acceptance rate. Very hard to get into and prestigious. The students who get in have been minmaxing and exploiting every advan…

Banning existing billboards isn't a first amendment problem if it's not contingent on the contents of the billboard. Much like some radio frequencies are reserved, other media are …

I agree, I work on an "airgapped" BYOC system as well, that runs on data lake providers mostly, and it's a bit of a nightmare because each customer has their own labyrinthine netwo…

>Of course, woe betide those with social phobias I can see this being a problem in the US when it comes to "accommodations" in general. Students with an ADHD diagnosis can claim it…

I've actually thought about creating (maybe ironically with AI) a browser extension that just filters every submission about or clearly created with AI out. I spend all day being a…

You can actually just eliminate existing ones. The government can just do things and absolutely already does whenever politicians really want something to happen (data centers, etc…

Oh it's the AI billboards, and not the crowds of like 20 people shooting up at 7am as I'm walking from my hotel to Moscone for my work conference? I guess the AI billboards do crea…

Seems like an almost irresponsibly misleading headline.

Back in my pen testing days, the best way to get someone to do something stupid and click Accept on something like a Java Applet permission check was to annoy them. Pop up a few an…

False equivalence fallacy

Yeah one of the worst offenders of this are the leetcode problems that have a clever but extremely elegantly simple greedy algorithm (such as "return True" lol). Great example is M…

>The coding questions that require an "aha!" moment are very similar to brain teasers, and should also be avoided. The problem with these is that their solutions always seem trivia…

>Will we develop new ways to let people express their own values in democracies, or will we just get much better at manipulation? Is there even the tiniest reason to suspect that t…

The ability of an LLM to produce something not in its training data set.

"Engineer" is a floating signifier and there's no reason to pretend it's anything otherwise in the US.

If anyone wants more discussion on weird fiction, I'd recommend Fisher's The Weird and the Eerie . It's a fairly short but interesting read and not particularly political like most…

It's good to avoid anthropomorphizing them when evaluating their capabilities (all the AGI nonsense) However, it can be ironically be helpful to antropomorphize them when it comes …

Historically, owning them meant when one person upgrades, other family members could get their old ones. I use my old iPhone as a dev phone for iOS coding. I can also just enjoy ha…

They're switching to a lease model. Almost certainly because of the cost of components, but also in their interests to continue the "you'll own nothing" trend. They're even using K…

>All, without exception, point out that failure to address the emotional content is a bad idea and one of the reasons conversations become ineffective. I am not sure how you could …

>Depends on which subreddit and which flavor of groupthink. The behavior you say is upvoted is one I often see downvoted to oblivion on Reddit. Really doubt that but feel free to g…

>Open-weights models that don’t have dangerous capabilities are a public good For convenient definitions of "dangerous"

Oh, I understand. It's the nature of the voting system of comment feedback. Reddit behaves the same way. Arguments become competitions to see who can inject enough vitriol while st…