HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

hbartab

no profile record

Submissions

Hypermultiplexed integrated photonics–based optical tensor processor

science.org
1 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

LLM-Powered Industrial Sabotage

ianreppel.org
1 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

Ispace SMBC X Hakuto-R Venture Moon: Post Landing Conference

youtube.com
1 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data

restofworld.org
2 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

MSc Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

nulondon.ac.uk
1 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

You're just not welcome: researchers grapple with plan to revoke student visas

nature.com
9 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·1 comments

From Steam to Silicon: Patterns of Technological Revolutions

ianreppel.org
49 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·4 comments

Gen Z parents don't like reading to their kids

theguardian.com
6 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·2 comments

Milei shutters office investigating cryptogate $LIBRA scandal

batimes.com.ar
9 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

Missed Metric Moment

physicsworld.com
12 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

AI models are capable of novel research

nature.com
1 points·by hbartab·vorig jaar·0 comments

comments

hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
You might benefit from this overview: https://ianreppel.org/a-review-of-quantum-computing-courses/
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
> the team was able to find low-cost solutions for power generation scheduling across a range of grid scenarios, including a model with 26 generators and a full day’s worth of hourly demand.

That does not seem like a massive problem where a quantum computer provides a clear advantage: 26 * 24 = 624 values to optimize over.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Too many dark triad personalities rise to be CEOs. Not surprising at all. Levels of psychopathy are the same in C-suites and prisons, which is about 5x higher than in the general population.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
LLMs trained on comments of selfish people who compete for likes and cheap thrills rather than collaborate online appear to behave selfishly. Well, colour me surprised.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
"To know and not to act is not to know" - Yukio Mishima from the Sea of Tranquillity tetralogy
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Also seems like a really easy way to collect ideas à la Amazon to compete (with marketplace sellers)...
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
> The former manager also believes there is an urgent need for alternative offers for digital payments "that are accepted and give citizens a more secure feeling".

Honest question: have there been actual European citizens who have security concerns about digital payments or is this just politicians yapping about sovereignty? It feels as if it deflects from the real reason but I am willing to plead ignorance here.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
AIs can write code in seconds, but you may have years of regret _if_ you believe whatever it spits out without verification. The cold-war maxim "trust, but verify" is truer than ever.

The danger behind usage of LLMs is that managers do not see the diligent work needed to ensure whatever they come up with is correct. They just see a slab of text that is a mixture of reality and confabulation, though mostly the latter, and it looks reasonable enough, so they think it is magic.

Executives who peddle this nonsense don't realize that the proper usage requires a huge amount of patience and careful checking. Not glamorous work, as the author states, but absolutely essential to get good results. Without it, you are just trusting a bullshit artist with whatever that person comes up with.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Seeing as OpenAI & Co were trained on torrented books from similar places, I'm sure that ChatGPT provides an adequate search layer on top of Anna's Archive, though it is not as free from confabulations as one might hope for in a search engine.

Edit: grammar
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
So the indefinite retention would violate the GDPR? Sure, they can claim it's for legitimate purposes... yeah, right!
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Reader mode in Safari can make it readable again, though I agree it's terrible on mobile.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
A bank is more than an app. You are responsible for people's hard-earned cash, so there is, understandably, a lot of regulation and it differs from country to country.

Speaking as a customer of a bank that thinks it knows me but clearly doesn't, I would not bet on personalization. It sounds great in boardrooms but I would prefer it if my bank app just got out of my face and didn't try so hard to be a lifestyle brand I could not care less about. I also would not trust any automated investment algorithm made by some intern.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
He'll have a fit when he goes down the list to read NEW Mexico.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Chomsky has been colossally wrong on universal grammar.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-c...

But at least he admits that:

https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1269#
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
A Slackbot integration that rewrites on hitting Enter would be awesome.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
That is such a terrible piece. StackOverflow was already in decline before ChatGPT was released. The authors cherry-picked their data to show charts to prove their point.

ChatGPT accelerated the decline ever so slightly but it was already dying: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...

Typical for product management literature: story over substance.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Because engineers train the AI that'll replace them.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
https://archive.ph/A15sW
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Interesting article, though I disagree with the statement that many a government does not care:

> At a time where the government's uncaring boot is pressing down on all of our necks, the best way to fight back is to care.

They care, just not about most people, animals, or the planet. They care to get richer and consolidate even more power.
hbartab
·vorig jaar·discuss
Reader by Readwise: https://readwise.io/read