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Comment · 12 days ago
Comment · 12 days ago
This is incredibly almost $12,000 per New Mexican resident. I wonder how much they will actually pocket after attorney's fees and appeals?
Comment · 18 days ago
In the abstract, sure. But in terms of practical communication, especially something like a lightweight group discussion, you want to be seen by everyone, not just by those who happen to use live translating software on the receiving end. Because English is dominant in US-centric social media, perhaps you are rarely in the situation where you will be completely left out of a conversation you want to participate in if you only use English, but there's a real friction to leaving text untranslated. Think Reddit or even HN. Would most people even bother to translate the Farsi comment to see if it's insightful, or would they just skip it? Or even scold the author that this is an English dominant space and they should try to conform to that?
Comment · 19 days ago
About three times as many people speak English as a second/foreign language compared to native speakers, not to mention people with no English fluency at all. That's a lot of people who might use an AI writing assistant for legitimate reasons that go beyond poor character. Same as we might do if we needed to communicate in Farsi or whatever.
Comment · 24 days ago
Fun! The credits were probably the highlight for me.
Comment · 1 month ago
My suggestion is Lookdown. Kind of a play on words reminiscent of Markup/Markdown --> Lookup/Lookdown. But also a lookdown is a distinctive looking fish with a cute concave profile so you've got an instant mascot.
Comment · 2 months ago
Decitrillionaires
Comment · 4 months ago
Make-work. Managers needing to justify their promotions with a new way of doing things. Whole teams are given a reason to stay employed. OS and device obsolescence is achieved. A win all around, save for the consumer.
Comment · 4 months ago
This one was 1.3 billion light years away. Technically that is thousands of years ago. 1,300,000 thousands, approximately.
Comment · 5 months ago
How does it compare with e4b, aside from being larger?
Comment · 5 months ago
They could remove the word "AI" from each one of those feature titles, and the titles would be just as descriptive without them. At this point, it's just marketing noise, more distracting than informative. Maybe like "cyber" in the 1990s. Would you like some AI tea with your cybercrumpets?
Comment · 5 months ago
I noticed that as well. Per the docs:

  Several mathematical operations are provided for combining Counter objects to produce multisets (counters that have counts greater than zero). Addition and subtraction combine counters by adding or subtracting the counts of corresponding elements. Intersection and union return the minimum and maximum of corresponding counts. Equality and inclusion compare corresponding counts. Each operation can accept inputs with signed counts, but the output will exclude results with counts of zero or less.
Anyway, nice Counter-example ;-)
Comment · 5 months ago
If the training data is basically irrelevant, then an LLM should be able to iteratively improve the programming language it uses, resulting in a custom language optimally designed to maximize its own coding ability. The source code might not even be human readable natively, just translated into pseudocode on an as-needed basis.
Comment · 6 months ago
There's a lot wrong with the world, but it seems not unreasonable for people to more strongly critique things 1) they feel they have some responsibility for or 2) that directly impact them or 3) where their criticisms are more likely to result in positive change.

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