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The architects you know drew mostly straight lines and arcs, i reckon.
Good question. It's a useful but incomplete term. Just like white is incomplete. There are always things to be found more white.
Carlo revelli explains in marvelous ways in "Reality is not what it seems" that all man made models of nature are wrong, but useful. Useful models get replaced by more-useful models. He starts out by explaining the once usefulness of the basic elements theory earth wind fire.
"negative price" is a bit misleading. It means you get a discount on monthly bill when consuming excess power (in fact preventing that grid voltage gets too high). It does not mean paying for producing excess. There's an easy outlet for excess so no need to scare people off installing/producing more energy.
Most time i spent in bug fixing or extending features was in code that tried to be clever and over engineered. e.g. "Let's use the visitor pattern with double dispatch to do dependency injection" vs "just adapt the methods and done".
To me the reasoning of understanding all the things you use in a rock solid way is hard to grasp.
You just typed some text and hit send. You trust that the combination of letters that form words and the combination of words that form sentences, arrive somewhere in a list of comments? But do you understand how those bytes (utf8 or utf16 or..) are transmitted (which endianness, how are they packaged, does it use sentinels or length codes), where do they end up (database, plain text), how is the text organised (alphabetical, by data, by points...)? In fact you are not sure about any of those. Still you typed and hit send. So how is that much different from writing a prompt and hit send?
HN and regular expressions are best friends.
Where I live electricity costs 30 to 40 cents per kWh, I think it's easy to go over 20 dollars per month. Also I find 20 dollars is really a small amount of money to spend on AI. AI fays itself back fast if it helps you with serious stuff.
They meant distilling in a more original sense, not per se in the LLM-era meaning of the word sense.
> No LLM in schools
The only plausible thing to enforce in practice is "no LLM usage in tests", ie using pen and paper or a fully managed digital device.
> The thing is I think there will come a time when AI tools will not be as accessible as they are now
I am very convinced that today's SOTA level will be accessible 3 years from now, but you might be right about the SOTA accessibility at that point in time.
Still with today's SOTA you need to know much less details to be able to write code than without it.
I'm sorry to read that. In fact I meant love in a more broad sense. There are many kinds of love, it does not need to be having a spouse. I work every weekday mainly for having good relations with people, money comes second.
But coming back to your story of life (ignoring the last sentence) : it's not too late to find love and also: try knowing and loving yourself, being content a bit more. When that succeeds, it is more easy to find love.
I guess your being downvoted around not being in favor of CLI is typical at HN...
I would put love above health. Suppose you are perfectly healthy and even rich but have no friends to share anything with, life must be meaningless then.
Sounds like human generated code and docs. TBH
> thinking does not require language
It requires some kind of signal. Words of a language are a signal.
We choose words for an llm to interact with us, but other transformers work on pixel values or audio sample values. There exist transformers used on brain probe generated values.
I would see human language processing as a kind of coprocessor sitting in another side of the brain. But the same can be said about transformers in general. The words side is only part of them, to be able to communicate.
How sure are you that comprehension is not a mere form of advanced pattern matching? We have the intuition that ideas and words appear trivially in people's mind, based on comprehension. I think chances are, that intuition is wrong.
I think you got a but too much negativity, from a crowd that became more easily irratated because their AI sensor became very sensitive by e.g. reviewing a lot of AI generated code and comments.
I regularly had a depression for years without even knowing it was a depression. Until a neurologist told me, after examination of brain imaging, it's best to take this pill for at least a week. Only after feeling its effect, I knew it was really depression causing the symptoms, even though I did not feel depressed! I felt exhausted and stressed and had several physical side effects like dizzyness and stomach ache.
> Undigitized data is still data. Wording, style, nuance, type, artwork, binding, metadata, attributions, citability… all of these things are permanently lost
I understand what you mean but... "permanently lost" sounds dramatic. When I trow away old pictures, old drawings or pieces made by my son at school, they are lost as well. Not that I do that often, but it begs the question, should every 'ip' made by humans be preserved?
Thanks. I found the 1822 version actually quite agreable
I think you thought a /s can be sometimes implied in HN comments
The post is quite (too?) cynical. In fact you can awe or ruminate over many things, even over the output of AI. The truth is, AI is getting so ubiquitous that our sense of awe has been numbed. That's why many things feel like slop, you know it did not take much effort.
In my math syllabus for Engineering there was a book "numeric analysis", it showed how you could find the solution to weird equations like x=ln(x)
I thought this is nowadays called gradient descent
The money is just a gauge of how much food, housing, clothing, energy,... one person can consume versus another. Money is not absolute, it is relative x/y. Ultimately, the real stuff can be produced by machines operated by say 10 percent of the world population. Machines or robots or even AI can pay taxes, their owner hands over xx percent of the income produced by it to the government who gives it as eg ubi to people.
There will be a form of UBI, because of the need for it, eventually. It will probably never be a 'fair' system (there probly will still be 1000xUBI people) but it will be necessary to prevent a lot of problems.
Think of it this way. The percentage of the population that will not have enough skills, 'smartness' and or knowledge to serve the community in a profitable way, increases over time. Today the group includes mostly the very young, the elderly (which in a way already have a 'kind of UBI', but not the complete lifespan) and people with a severe illness. Tomorrow new groups of people will be included, like people who stopped going to school at 17,18yo or so, and so on.
Suppose society provides those people with only the very minimal money to survive and no entertainment, traveling, proper housing, life choices etc. In that case not only those people, but the society as a whole will suffer because of unrest, riots etc. At a certain point in time, UBI can easily paid for by the wealth that automation will bring. Today probably as well, but the pressure of unevenly spread wealth is still able to keep it from happening, rich people still need enough poor people to work for them directly (house/boat personnel) or indirectly (mine coffee, chocolate, soy, battery minerals, ...)
Gave an upvote to compensate :)
In this case 'did you read the whole article' feels apt and correct.