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1 points·by SecretDreams·9 mesi fa·0 comments

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SecretDreams
·5 ore fa·discuss
Yeah, but it's multiple orders of magnitude apart.

Are we also going to start putting LLM engineers to the fire because they're accelerating the enshitification of our world? Probably not.
SecretDreams
·9 giorni fa·discuss
Where are the jet engines?
SecretDreams
·9 giorni fa·discuss
> but they’re still complex, especially the internal combustion variants.

I'm not sure China is known for their ICE designs. Like Korea, I suspect China partially pushed hard for EV specifically because the complexity in a battery + motor system is meaningfully simpler than the ICE equivalent and there's relatively little overlap in many facets outside of some first principles.

Jet engines are like ICE, but with a very reliability threshold. ICE is already complicated, but OEMs will accept a certain deviation on reliability if they need to because occurence might be low and severity is manageable. Not so in jet engine design. A single failure is a big deal.
SecretDreams
·11 giorni fa·discuss
Everyone just needs to play soccer and avoid the 50/50s if you're an adult that wants to be pain free the next day.

I love me some adult coed soccer. And it can be very high intensity intermittently if you feel like it.
SecretDreams
·11 giorni fa·discuss
Sex bots and disposable police. This is basically the future in every dystopian SciFi these politicians and oligarchs grew up watching. This is just living out fantasy.
SecretDreams
·11 giorni fa·discuss
It's crazy how much 1at could improve QOL for their citizens and also improve and diversify their economy. Alas, they're just going to subsidize ram prices for everyone when this current cycles goes from boom to bust.
SecretDreams
·12 giorni fa·discuss
All my stem exams were hand written, it's how it should be. The best part is coming out with everyone else already disheveled and then grabbing a drink (or many) after the last one is over. That's some solidarity drinking right there.
SecretDreams
·12 giorni fa·discuss
> Let's not think that we are all smarter than management at these companies.

Outside of a few well run companies, it's hard not to feel like the average IC is smarter than their leadership.
SecretDreams
·12 giorni fa·discuss
CEOs are just as, if not moreso, susceptibility to fomo than everyone else!
SecretDreams
·13 giorni fa·discuss
> One idea I like is directly funding apprenticeship. It pays for job training and classroom instruction on a per-individual basis. The jobs are in long-term career sectors like advanced manufacturing, shipbuilding, aviation, healthcare, and technology.

This is basically what grad school does too. I'm into funding education further any day of the week. For higher education, I'd only add a string attached like "must practice trade in state that funded you if job is available for x years or must pay back funding pro rated".
SecretDreams
·14 giorni fa·discuss
They're trying to do it more like a cartel where all major providers raise prices in unison. The intention is (probably) less specific entrapment and more getting people addicted to a fast LLM. From there, they all play with pricing to give a semblance of choice, without actually overly undercutting each other. At least, in the west.

This is all done to help valuations. The main revenue source are the investor dollars at the prospect that this industry will very soon actually be sustainable and highly profitable. It won't be, but if very soon stays around the corner consistently, the investor dollars keep coming.
SecretDreams
·15 giorni fa·discuss
You miss every shot you don't take. Don't be ashamed or afraid to appeal. At worst, nothing changes.
SecretDreams
·15 giorni fa·discuss
Sadly, all the time spent deferring reality ends up hurting a lot of bystanders. The debt they've run up is going to be painful, maybe moreso than the damages incurred from the anti-science and anti-transparency policies.
SecretDreams
·16 giorni fa·discuss
To be fair to Nvidia, they are not the first person to dump their waste heat to a Tmin environment. There's a reason most power plants are near bodies of water.
SecretDreams
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Perplexity still exists?

I just got major Dotcom vibes
SecretDreams
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Uni is just preparing the students for the realities of the real world =[
SecretDreams
·17 giorni fa·discuss
Agreed. Humans are also biased, but our biases are different across a lot of socio-economic factors. So when we have different people in these positions, the biases become less bias-y.

But LLMs are statistical models. They are aggregating all biases into a general super bias. And they're all converging towards the same solutions.
SecretDreams
·17 giorni fa·discuss
My point was mostly a joke about drinking beer in response to the OP drinking beer.

But the underlying darkness is that if you're paying for things using a CC, you've already given up on your privacy, but it's implicitly lost, rather than explicitly.
SecretDreams
·18 giorni fa·discuss
To be fair, I buy my beers on CC. If someone really wanted to know the best IPAs and session able beers they could get, they could audit my CC records and then cross check to the breweries and pubs to see what I was buying. Just depends how much someone wants to learns bout good beer.
SecretDreams
·19 giorni fa·discuss
Really reminds me of the Russia leadership portrayals in Chernobyl.