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Comment · 14 days ago
I could be fully wrong here as I am not from the field. But how is this different from let's say a ramanujan-like genius dumping a bunch of solved problems with not yet understandable ways of getting there?

It seemed riveting enough for some mayor mathematicians to "decode" his solutions into readable proofs?

The only difference I spot now is that it was not an Indian man, but a machine. If that bothers you still, it seems less about the art of the craft being taken as it seems to be about who has taken it?

Comment · 2 months ago
This is well written. And it doesn't even focus on AI, which is rare these days. However, I don't fully agree that AI and the interaction it brings are just as flawed. I think used correctly, it will be a big help. Of course, like you mentioned it misses the social and emotional connection, but so do textbooks, and the interaction component is much better. To use your own words, it can lower the burden of metacognition significantly. It can handle the learning path and what exercise to handle when. Maybe even informed upfront by the author. Love it or hate it, I think there is a lot to gain in terms of human learning support in the field of LLMs.
Comment · 6 months ago
Please check their docs. I have a fw13 amd as well and there's one usb port on the mainboard that does not support video out over usb c. It could be that!
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Comment · 10 months ago
I'm not sure I do. It feels like someone might for example have compiled a full library of books, newspapers and other writing from that era, only to then limit access to that library, doing the exact censorship I imagine the project was started to alleviate.

Now were it limited in access to ask money to compensate for the time and money spent compiling the library (or training the model), sure, I'd somewhat understand. Not agree but understand.

Now it just feels like you want to prevent your model name being associated with the one guy who might use it to create a racist slur Twitter bot. There's plenty of models for that already. At least the societal balance of a model like this would also have enough weight on the positive side to be net positive.

Comment · 10 months ago
What an excellent write-up. Thank you!
Comment · 1 year ago
KDE has been crazy good for me.

It's a very complete package, it has a quick launcher that's good, a good screenshot tool and very very nice window management features.

When combined with libinput gestures, you can get macOS style three finger swipe between desktops. And not just a swap, but a nice swipe animation that pauses when you do on the touchpad.

On a laptop, this is such a big timesaver.

Its bottom bar icon handling is very good, customising is easy, and the settings panel is very clear. Everything is just so polished.

Then there is kde connect as well, it integrates so effertlessly. Kde is truly a software powerhouse, well done.

Comment · 1 year ago
What about Continue? It's an open source, bring your own api AI integration for vscode. It does everything that copilot does, including the editing-your-code-in-front-of-you diff style editor.

I don't think it has any special api access?

Comment · 1 year ago
Only if you see source code as the only valuable thing, which it isn't. The knowledge of the team, industry connections, experience etc etc are a big part of what make it so you can effectively use the source code.

We're making an industrial sorting machine. Our management is feared to death to lose the source code. But realistically, who's going to put in the time to fully understand a codebase we can barely grasp ourselves? Then get rid of all custom sensor mappings, paths and other stuff specific for us. And then develop on it further, assuming they even believe we have the "right" way of doing things?

Right, no one. 90% of companies could open source their stuff and, apart from legal nonsense, nothing practical will happen, no one will read the code.

Comment · 3 years ago
Not really. Taxes are so high because people get a lot of things for cheap/free like Healthcare and education. In countries where this isn't the case (USA for example) you'd easily pay 2 to 3 times the salary to get the same developer.

In this case even only paying the main dev a US wage would be more than the taxes on everything.

Comment · 3 years ago
I copy pasted the exact prompt into gpt4 (not the api, the webapp) and regenerated the answer 5 times.

Every time it came back with a conclusive yes. Are you sure you used gpt4 and not gpt3.5? I guess cherry picking is done both ways.

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Comment · 4 years ago
If you have a GPU, also check out Nvidia broadcast. It removes webcam background sure, but it can also do some seriously high quality noise cancellation, much like the krisp.ai service does from the article.

It can even run the same noise cancellation algo on incoming audio! So you can filter colleagues' noise for yourself if they don't want to bother

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