emiliobumachar

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Comment · 1 month ago
I really like the chessbot analogy.

I cannot predict its next move - that's intrinsic in not being as good at chess as it.

I can predict it will win.

Comment · 2 months ago
What?? The predator is after a meal, not up for doing harm for harm's sake.
Comment · 3 months ago
Piling on. Why? Are class sizes that different? US and China have many more professors too, is it not proportional?
Comment · 4 months ago
I heard the old batteries, when giving high current would depress voltage long enought to trigger the shutdown, plausibly long enough to mess up the processor if it didn't shut down, but could genuinely give a lower current for a long time, such that rounding the charge down to zero would be harmful. It's easy to argue it's better to keep the phone slower then just shut it down when it can't reliably go fast.
Comment · 7 months ago
"size of a machine divided by the smallest critical engineered component of the machine"

Computer processors probably take that cake.

Comment · 8 months ago
"BotXPTO has been trained with the entire internet circa 2026" is arguably attribution enough.
Comment · 8 months ago
As I understand it, the anti-AI stance of open source software people in particular has nothing to do with AI learning from code bases, and everything to do with AI slop clogging all unrestricted community feedback channels.
Comment · 9 months ago
This is conflating two entirely different claims pretty hard:

- The old point that AI speech isn't real or doesn't count because they're just pattern matching. Nothing new here.

- That many or most cool posts are by humans impersonating bots. Relevant if true, but the article didn't bring much evidence.

That conflation brings an element of inconsistency. Which is it, meaningless stochastic recitation or obviously must have come from a real person?

Comment · 9 months ago
Might be a tool against them. Note that Mt. Everest isn't on the list. If the Earth was flat, all the tallest peaks would be seeable from one another unless a specific peak taller than one of them was exactly in the way.
Comment · 11 months ago
Semantically, it sounds like anyone who develops for a big company, normally an employee or contractor.
Comment · 1 year ago
Okay, I'm more then halfway through and still don't get what DSL is an acronym for. Any light?
Comment · 1 year ago
Hum, I remember it as "What about now, Mr M?" ("E agora, Mr. M?")
Comment · 1 year ago
It wouldn't, but, if the vendor somehow made it require one, despite the very impressive technical feat, I'd feel cheated. Robbed, even.
Comment · 1 year ago
My toilet doesn't officially support crapping without an internet connection either. I'd argue that in both cases it's implicit unless very explicitly disclaimed.
Comment · 2 years ago
Turning it over seems unnecessary. Good point overall, though.

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