InfiniteRand

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Comment · 22 days ago
You can see with Wikipedia how it is when the bar to contribute is lower
Comment · 2 months ago
It's interesting since a lot of language simplification attempts of that era did succeed, off the top of my head, Chinese (in the PRC) and Malayalam
Comment · 2 months ago
This is what I think about grammar. Yes, it’s a little arbitrary but it makes you think a little more about your writing. That’s why I try to use correct grammar in text messages. I don’t push this on anyone because most people don’t like to think about word choice, but I am a writer at heart. Still I have to bite my tongue every time someone sends me a text message “hi am here”
Comment · 3 months ago
I wonder how they would handle a freak snowstorm
Comment · 4 months ago
I think small children learning language learn in a way similar to LLM's, just saying words that seem appropriate to the situation without any understanding of the meaning. But a key difference in my mind, is they use the reactions to this text prediction to help them construct a picture of the world, which then can interact with their thinking of what words to say.
Comment · 4 months ago
I feel like this might be the transition between an industry driven by apprentice-ship like guidance to an industry driven by credentialed training.
Comment · 4 months ago
This reminds me of actors or entertainers who clearly are going through a manic phase that is veering towards psychosis or a crash.

Sometimes leave Britney alone means actually leave her alone.

Comment · 5 months ago
This is also an option with AI patches, if your AI contribution is good enough, let it get proven in use, and then it can be considered naturally as the developers of the original project look at what's going on with similar projects.
Comment · 5 months ago
Code that works but is unmaintainable is a burden on a project, that being said with open source, you can always fork the code, add your code, and let people decide
Comment · 5 months ago
One factor here is how systems become more or less prone to creating great or mediocre men. Inbreeding, isolation, over romanticism of emotions, all these are factors that can make a dangerous inconsistent person more likely to appear in the halls of power
Comment · 5 months ago
A little off topic but my position is that a Linux distribution ought to be a series of build options, package selection and configuration. Ultimately, you should be able to do this in a few files.

The fact that it takes so much more to put together a Linux distribution is I think something that the Linux ecosystem ought to aspire to change.

Comment · 5 months ago
You can create very sophisticated simulations all you want, but in the end, you can only test the accuracy of your simulation when you try the real thing
Comment · 5 months ago
Because it's international waters
Comment · 6 months ago
I think eventually you are going to end up with every smart AI continually checked by dumber AI's to make sure they don't do anything too crazy. Which probably does bring AI closer to how human intelligence works
Comment · 6 months ago
This is something that intrigues me: "Is able to output internal representations (tokens, abstract syntax tree, intermediate representation) in machine-readable JSON form."

I'm not sure what I can do with that information but I wish I had an excuse to use it

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