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bitwarrior
·3 個月前·discuss
For programming, I cannot recommend Soma FM [1] highly enough. There are a huge number of stations, most lyric-free (as to reduce the potential for flow interruption). I personally enjoy Groove Salad Classic and Lush.

[1] https://somafm.com/
bitwarrior
·5 個月前·discuss
Micropayments is something that I think the internet as a whole needs. However, I don't think the mental model people usually have isn't quite "micro" and frictionless enough.

Imagine a world where your web browser essentially contains and controls your wallet. You pre-pay into that wallet, say, $20. I imagine we'll probably also refer to that as "credits" so internationalization isn't so tough. So let's pretend we have 2000 credits. Now, let's start browsing the internet.

You start by conducting a web search. Perhaps there is a mechanism in HTML and the browser that basically say, "Clicking this will cost 1c". We'd probably develop a shorthand, some icon and beside it, it says the price in credits. Imagine a button like [(1c) Search].

Immediately, what is the benefit? The search engine works for you. It's like Kagi in that regard, but you didn't need to set up an account and give them your credit card information. YOU are the customer. There are no ads, they need to compete to make the search results the best, otherwise you're going somewhere else. You're no longer the product.

You see a news article in your search result. Fantastic. You visit the news website - there isn't an ad in sight. Pure news. The article starts with a title, a few lines, perhaps the first paragraph, and to read more, you click that [2c Read the Article] button. You click it, and boom, you see the entire article. No subscriptions, no popups, no ads. You are the customer. The news site wants you to be happy, not advertisers. You.

The news article discusses a new open source project that is really taking off. Cool! You click the link. Looks pretty neat! You download it, toy with it, and find that it's actually pretty useful! You go back to their repo site, and there's a little tip option. Easy peasy. You tip them 100 credits. No signing up for an account at some other site, no entering your credit card, just done and done.

I like the idea of micropayments because it makes the user the customer again. The internet has become incredibly hostile to users since we are, by and large, the product rather than the customer. We need to flip the incentive model. Does it suck to pay for things on the internet? A little. But I'd rather that and get a great experience (and also allow news organizations to have a working business model, etc) than what we have now.
bitwarrior
·6 個月前·discuss
This is somewhat the oldest advice in the book: "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have."
bitwarrior
·7 個月前·discuss
I think the salient point here is that you, as a user, have zero power to reduce hallucinations. This is a problem baked into the math, the algorithm. And, it is not a problem that can be solved because the algorithm requires fuzziness to guess what a next word will be.
bitwarrior
·7 個月前·discuss
Are you sure this even works? My understanding is that hallucinations are a result of physics and the algorithms at play. The LLM always needs to guess what the next word will be. There is never a point where there is a word that is 100% likely to occur next.

The LLM doesn't know what "reliable" sources are, or "real knowledge". Everything it has is user text, there is nothing it knows that isn't user text. It doesn't know what "verified" knowledge is. It doesn't know what "fake data" is, it simply has its model.

Personally I think you're just as likely to fall victim to this. Perhaps moreso because now you're walking around thinking you have a solution to hallucinations.
bitwarrior
·去年·discuss
> The PS3 failed developers because it was an excessively heterogenous computer

Which links to the Wiki:

> These systems gain performance or energy efficiency not just by adding the same type of processors, but by adding dissimilar coprocessors

Modern CPUs have many similar cores, not dissimilar cores.
bitwarrior
·2 年前·discuss
I think the issue here is with the word "tried" and what that communicates. I think "compared" would be far more appropriate.
bitwarrior
·2 年前·discuss
You didn't read the article.
bitwarrior
·3 年前·discuss
Rounded corners? This is the hill you are choosing to die on? How are these trivialities impacting your day to day use of Windows?

I'd say I'm quite the opposite. I'd much rather hear Microsoft working on core technical improvements rather than adjusting the goddamn roundedness of their UI.