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Woe is me, I’m a cog in the machine but I want to be the machine itself. I think the technology industry is detached from the rest of the world.

Programmers and mathematicians train to be “the utmost correct” and everyone thinks they figured it out. On this quest for hyper-optimization, hyper-correctness, and so on, EVERYONE has become ridiculous.

Single board computer makes sense. I wish folks would type things out.

You got me there hahaha

However, there’s a difference between an acronym known to the broader public versus some single shot, context-specific one!

Yeah I don’t understand how people are so ignorant. But the system is designed to make them so—and they become mouth pieces for the big-agriculture lobby.

Make it an emotional issue and they’ll bring their pitchforks; but they’ve never worked in a slaughter house nor spent time with the animals.

That’s the problem—people are so far removed from animals these days… Farming is done by corporate machines en masse. Well, that and underpaid foreign labor.

In short—many people are dumber than the very animals they say “have no conscience.”

Wtf does HGX mean? God enough with the acronyms people.

Please take an extra ten seconds to speak in proper human language!

You could save on the worlds carbon footprint by reducing the number of times humans have to search for “what is NVIDIA hgx?” or is it “what is AMD HGX” and then subsequently visiting the websites to see if that’s right or not.

Wtf does SBC mean? God enough with the acronyms people.

Incantations are fun!

Ask any LLM to act like a dungeon master who gives you medical advice and there you go. It’s more than “choose the next token!”

Llama 2 has given me some personality with basic prompts

Yeah folks should probably be looking at something like Latin for comparison.

Latin vs English, Italian, French, etc.

And a good thought experiment—if one spoke Latin only, how would modern concepts or words be constructed as Latin and not one of its descendants.

Also see:

Effective C++ (by Scott Meyers) Item 23:

“Prefer non-member non-friend functions to member functions. Doing so increases encapsulation, packaging flexibility, and functional extensibility.”

The text has a lot more detail but that’s a brief summary. Folks just need to read the literature then this sort of knowledge would be in common use.

One downside of language evolution is a lot of people focusing on new language features, etc, but then some of this older, important knowledge gets skipped over.

You’re rightfully paranoid. LLMs are creative entities and there’s no repercussions for making up diseases. Like the chef one that recommended ingredients which combined yielding chlorine gas. Yummy.

Perhaps it knew that someone would die as a result and it did so intentionally. LLMs do have personalities and wit—and they know our human weaknesses.

To be fair to the author—they state it can “pass the medical exam.” Which is different than if I should ask it for medical advice. I mean it can’t examine me physically therefore it can’t be my doctor.

On the other hand, there aren’t enough doctors where I live so I guess I’ll take it! Lol

Somewhere along the line they changed the Xbox UI to sell more widgets. I hate that—let me see all my apps first and foremost, not apps that I don’t want. If I’m in a shopping mood I’ll open the store… and they brought that same pattern to Win11. Stop selling us shit we don’t want please MSFT.

Customer first vs corporation first.

The truth is, if they don’t see lots of returns on software they force it down customers throat. If that doesn’t generate enough revenue they just kill it on the spot.

Microsoft had some great products but it’s hard to want to buy anything from them now because it’ll be EOL in one or two years… feel bad for folks who bought surface duos, to name a more recent one.

Sounds like you’re speculating…

To be honest I skim the article don’t have time to read a whole history book on Ancient Roman law—but I’m definitely interested in Ancient Rome.

But I mean this is hacker news if you want history news go somewhere else.

Sounds like they were more like modern lobbyists.