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Comment · 6 hours ago
I think a lot of people know their great grandmother's name.
Comment · 7 days ago
Could be an avenue for synthetic continual learning? A powerful model could update its own weights manually given new training data.
Comment · 28 days ago
He doth protest too much.

We might be a bit suspicious of the sincerity of a man who spent 20 years evangelizing the beauty and expressiveness of code, and who felt he was a pioneer in that field, and who then finds himself and his life's work completely obsolete, when he tells us how excited he is about LLMs never letting him never write code again.

Which stage of grief is "delirium"? After we accept the death of our child, are we euphoric?

I mean, he is kind of spelling it out for you there: "there's only one play here".

Comment · 4 years ago
>I have several relatives that, in the realm of political thought, don't seem to have anything more in their head than a GPT-3 models trained on Fox News (that, just like GPT-3, can't detect any logical contradictions between sentences).

If more people were to realize that we're all probably like this, trained on some particular dataset (like mainstream vs reactionary news/opinion), I wonder if that would lead to a kind of common peace and understanding, perhaps stemming only from a deep nihilism.

Comment · 7 years ago
Are you implying another candidate has written major legislation that passed?? Or are you just singling out Sanders?
Comment · 7 years ago
Many people actually think that connecting a Ring to the local police is a good thing. Someone even announced this as a great feature at our department wide standup the other day. Was kinda shocked, but how can I be the guy to go against having more safety? All everyone wants is more safety.
Comment · 7 years ago
That is actually a great idea, hope someone from id Software sees this.
Comment · 7 years ago
SideCar was the reason I was excited for Catalina. But alas, the feature is not supported on 2015 Retina Macbook Pros, only the newer ones with the horrible keyboard, pointless touchbar, only one kind of port, etc.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is false, unfounded slander.
Comment · 7 years ago
On the bright side, as Apple continues to pervert the formerly most used *nix laptop, we may see a surge of interest in Linux.

Elementary OS is based on Ubuntu and has an OSX-like aesthetic and simplicity that might appeal to newcomers wanting to switch.

Comment · 7 years ago
Some of those jurisdictions, such as?
Comment · 7 years ago
Massacre. It wasn't just a protest. Hundreds were gunned down and their bodies squished by tanks.
Comment · 7 years ago
> The tech firm had said it was aware of civil rights concerns but had not received any reports of law enforcement clients misusing its Rekognition tool.

This really depends on their definition of "misuse", which can be molded to suit their financial goals. Eventually reports of questionable law enforcement use will come in, and I have serious doubts that any large corporation would willingly cut off sales to a large set of existing government clients. This area desperately needs regulation.

Comment · 7 years ago
How about physical buttons that can't be remapped to anything other than their proprietary Bixby service? If you don't like it you can turn it off and have a useless button.
Comment · 7 years ago
I have a 2015 Retina Macbook Pro and it is still fast enough for me. When it fails I will either buy another of the same model or get a PC and put Linux on it. What Apple has done to this product line is awful. At best it's just bad design, at worst it's exploitative.

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