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Re:Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible on Monday December 30, 2024 @04:11AM (#42547763)
One day you'll understand how valuable it was to have a person with knowledge and their own thoughts.
Re:Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:40AM (#42547089)
Whereas you would previously (for your first example) have a conversation with the guy at the video store and he'd not only tell you the movie but also recommend something else you might like.
What you really want is a story telling engine informing the world model and the humans need to generate power.
Re:Fun facts about Google Scholar on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @04:40AM (#42181595)
CiteSeer we barely knew you.
Re:We’re receiving about 3,000 reports/hour on Saturday November 16, 2024 @08:06PM (#42161076)
What are you doing here then?
Re:What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986) on Monday November 04, 2024 @10:24PM (#42048320)
Oh, so you're the sucker.

All sizzle, no steak.

Re:Nothing left to solve on Sunday October 27, 2024 @06:10PM (#41966082)
What?

If you're gunna post a blog, at least choose one that writes well.

Re:Some notes on influenceering on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:05PM (#40579438)
Not everyone cares about that.
Re:Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:01PM (#40362645)
I'll try. Thanks.
Re:Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @05:48PM (#40360541)
Dang.

As we're detached, let me say that ycombinator used to be a place that attracted the best of the best. One could come here and talk to people who knew their shit and had something to say.

What happened?

Re:Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:18PM (#40349191)
Normal physical processes are not deterministic. You don't need to speculate on a source of non-determinism, it's right there in the substrate. Penrose's entire argument is based on a fallacy (you need quantum effects for a system to be non-deterministic) and we've known this since the double-pendulum.
Re:Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:14PM (#40349163)
In which case go read fiction. There's plenty of it. Stop polluting the space with gibberish. A joke article with 50000 citations is no longer a joke.

What fiction? QNTM did a great job and it's all available for free. qntm.org

Re:Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds on Monday May 13, 2024 @06:12PM (#40349138)
I am a dumb person. Ask me about colours sometime.
Re:Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds on Sunday May 12, 2024 @05:25PM (#40337718)
Or to put it more clearly: bullshit

Every article on Roger Penrose's nonsense is just like this. It's stupid pseudoscience meant to make dumb people feel better about being meatbags.

Re:A Skeptic's Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space on Saturday May 11, 2024 @05:31AM (#40327061)
They're talking about simulating big floppy structures in space.
Re:The Ridiculous History of 'OK' on Thursday May 09, 2024 @10:09PM (#40314880)
Related: Alright is one word.

So very often it's written "all right" by folks writing the subtitles.

Re:The Shitty Technology Adoption Curve (2022) on Sunday April 28, 2024 @06:16PM (#40192468)
If you're the kind of person who goes to the comments first, I'm here to tell you there's no need to read the article. Just say "bossware" to yourself 10 times.
Re:I Should Have Loved Biology on Sunday April 21, 2024 @07:50PM (#40110240)
The second half of the article is certainly preferable to the whining at the beginning.
Re:Single vendor is the new proprietary on Saturday April 20, 2024 @12:01AM (#40094698)
Chromium is still useful but it's not Chrome.
Re:Human hair transformed into renewable energy storage on Thursday April 18, 2024 @12:40AM (#40073002)
If you take the red pill you come out of the pod bald, and then your hair starts growing. Up till now I just assumed the pod goop had growth suppression properties
Re:Human hair transformed into renewable energy storage on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @11:53PM (#40072792)
Oh, now The Matrix makes sense.
Re:OpenBSD Is a Cozy Operating System on Sunday April 14, 2024 @12:48AM (#40028746)
Do you think they understand the benefits? I think you'd have a lot better chance at enacting change than my emotional rambling has, and if not, lesson learned.
Re:OpenBSD Is a Cozy Operating System on Saturday April 13, 2024 @09:29PM (#40027907)
Which newer techniques?

Honest question.

Re:Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git on Saturday April 13, 2024 @09:00AM (#40022873)
Hey?
I just like fixing bugs.

If you have someone in your team like that, give them latitude.

Re:Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:11PM (#40007353)
Great thing about software, you can turn features on and off.
Re:Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:56AM (#39999117)
If you're going to pitch something as a game, it needs voice. Integration is simple. What's the problem? Are git incantations too powerful to be spoken aloud?
Re:Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:47PM (#39998209)
It's an open source project slowly rotting.

Things that need doing:

1. Upgrade to Godot 4

2. Integrate VoiceCraft (nobody reads anymore)

3. Find ongoing support for a Maintainer

I wondered that too, it's Google so it's going to be Tensorflow or accessible through some workbook.. and I've lost interest.
Re:Why is software quality worse than a decado ago on Sunday April 07, 2024 @06:07PM (#39964387)
I read this, came back and clicked on the wrong comment section. Funny thing, it wasn't much less entertaining.

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