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z3c0

1,298 karmajoined 7 jaar geleden
I'm a data gatherer by trade. I also enjoy civic hacking, photography, and creating music.

https://21337.tech

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z3c0
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
When measuring and reporting models to the non-saavy, I usually reframe them into odds. One failure for every 49 successes is a scary failure rate when operating at a large scale.

This is largely why I don't condone LLMs in operational pipelines. Your workflow? Fine. The company's? Hell no.
z3c0
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
> Artificial intelligence, by expanding firms' computational capabilities, is pushing markets from the competitive regime toward the collusive regime, explaining the empirical emergence of algorithmic collusion without explicit coordination.

Wow... this is quite fascinating. It has been theorized for a little while that widespread AI could form accidental trusts due to optimization around one-another. This seems to be taking it a step further and arguing that if P!=NP, then markets are certain to trend towards collusive.
z3c0
·13 dagen geleden·discuss
I miss "predictive analytics". Too boring and honest for marketers though.
z3c0
·14 dagen geleden·discuss
Growing up rural, the grift has been obvious my whole ĺife
z3c0
·14 dagen geleden·discuss
> I hope they can expose the ridiculousness of software copyrights but I won't be holding my breath.

I think it has already, but it's a hard pill for many to swallow. While I haven't actually counted, the conversations around the effectiveness of copyright/IP seem to be regular conversations now, both here and IRL.
z3c0
·14 dagen geleden·discuss
The goal is the product, but what is being exchanged is production, ie labor for a certificate of your own past production, aka money.
z3c0
·17 dagen geleden·discuss
> Heaven help me, though, should I misuse a corporation's copyrighted works, even purely personally.

This imbalance is the issue. The photographer attempted to use a fraudulent system designed for the wealthy. Hopefully the loss disillusions those among us hoping for scraps. As an amateur photographer, post all you want, and expect nothing in return. If you shoot digital, keep your raw files to harvest lower-fidelty, online-ready formats. If you shoot film, you have both the scans and the negatives.
z3c0
·23 dagen geleden·discuss
So "Play Protect" is doing all the damage to the third-party ecosystem that it'd seemed designed for.

I've slowly but surely been moving away from any service provider of any type who does not allow me to use their service without their often Play Services-dependent app. Changing vehicles would be a lot harder though.
z3c0
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
It's a retrospective analysis of an assertion made by NYTimes. The original headline wasn't clickbait, just presumptive, and even so, it's a pretty significant publication that spends a lot of time on the HN front page (alongside you, I'll add). I think it's perfectly fair, and nowhere close to a strawman, to deconstruct that claim a year later.
z3c0
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
They are a self-described 10x coder who moves AI slop, so almost certainly the latter.

I think we might be facing a cultural reckoning on what being "productive" actually means. Creating more products doesn't mean more production.
z3c0
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
That might be an even more naive take.

Can you show me one space, historically, in any industry, where a company climbed to the top of a market solely on altruistic intentions?
z3c0
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
I mean this earnestly: is this copy?
z3c0
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
I mean, I agree with your general point that copyright might need to be reconsidered, but this doesn't seem like an attempt to reconsider it. It's rather transparently enabling further cronyism.
z3c0
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
Never gotten any emails from lawyers, I see.

Copyright laws are heavily enforced, only selectively.
z3c0
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
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z3c0
·vorige maand·discuss
I believe that machines could potentially be conscious, and don't buy for a second that chess algorithms or LLMs could be themselves.
z3c0
·vorige maand·discuss
You're correct, and I've long been aware. I just... won't.

Principles haven't done much good so far, but my sleep is bad enough as is.
z3c0
·vorige maand·discuss
Interestingly (and anecdotally), as a 10-year+ experienced college dropout, I still see challenges getting hired for jobs that list degrees as a requirement. The only time I get a call back on "front door" applications is with the fateful addendum of "OR relevant work experience". (I wonder if agents and their lack of human discretion is amplifying this.) The article's assertion that a college degree still offers an edge beyond entry level still seems very much true.
z3c0
·vorige maand·discuss
Have you worked for corporations long?
z3c0
·vorige maand·discuss
> their product is struggling to do your daily job functions for you

So what's the value prop?