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images of public places for others to try to track down

isn't this handled by AI nowdays? In my experiments (some time ago) AI was extremly good at it.

AI's greatest feature is that it obfuscates provenance.

maybe because people see AI not just as a clever packet manager, but also, to some degree, as a problem solving engine. Similar to humans.

Isn't this how Google operates? I have their AI subscription (about $20 per month). If you want to have a chat history (retain chats after reload) or connect the LLM to Google services (Drive, Emails) you have to activate an option which also allows training. If you don't want to allow training then the subscription is basically useless.

It's hard to show initiative without a pulse. Most agents don't have that (yet). But can't be too hard to build.

to manipulate or combine the data into a more useful format

why not build this directly into MCPs?

Which is all the stuff you have to work on before you can type in a prompt to an LLM

why not let the LLM derive what exactly was meant by the Jira ticket? I get lazy lately and if the LLM sounds like it understands the ticket I don't question it.

hmm, I got rid of WhatsApp the day it was sold to Facebook and never touched it since. I don't think anything in the app changed that day.

I had a work SO account with many questions/answers - everything fine. Later I created a SO account for use with my private projects and happened to have answered a couple questions without getting upvotes. The algorithm banned me from answering questions with the remark that I should improve the quality of my answers. You can bet that I never answered a question again on SO with any account.

They probably mean a vote which doesn't violate international law.

I came about a Google subscription which includes 2TB of storage. I filled it with crypto noise (ok, Gemini did it for me). I couldn't let it be unused. Will have to delete it when the subscriptions runs out.

Maybe all intellectual work is intellectual labor?

There's a delay between incurring costs and receiving budget notifications, so you might incur additional costs for usage that hasn't arrived at the time that all services are stopped.

This delay may be hours or days. I managed to spend $400 in 5 minutes.

aligns incentives with the good of humanity

is this possible?

Sounds like the AI was not dumb but lazy. I do it similarly when I don't feel like doing it.

I missunderstood "finite-length strings" as strings capped in length by a finite number N.

have a "Costco purchases" sub-category for "groceries". If you ever feel differently, just move it to "home". Your system has to support this though. I did multiple re-organisations in the last 10+ years.

This argument is valid for every infinite set, for example: the natural numbers.

I was wondering why uBlock is not enough since you can block Javascript globally and re-enable per site. AI's answer:

Only things uBlock doesn’t replicate:

NoScript’s anti-XSS and anti-clickjacking heuristics (uBlock just blocks the sources, not sanitize payloads).

NoScript’s control over other active content types (e.g., WebGL, media codecs, etc).

The complex objects are conceptually similar to prime numbers.

cool. There is also about:performance with cpu & memory for each tab / addon. Hmm, it looks like all extensions are combined in a single entry. So, maybe not per addon.

naaa, you just run "unfuck it" in a loop..

Try asking ChatGPT to solve a captcha for you ( character recognition in a foreign language ). AI studio doesn't refuse.

SponsorBlock needs an AI-version. Currently it relies on users.

I know multiple agencies who cut staff by 80-90% without dropping revenue.

I'm finding it hard to reconcile this with my own experiences. My whole team ( 5 people ) left last year ( for better pay I guess ) and the marketing agency in germany Im working for had to substitute them with freelancers. To offset the cost they fired the one guy who was hired to push the whole LLM AI topic. We managed to fill one junior position by offering 10k+ more then in their last job. The firm would love to hire people to replace the freelancers. We had to cut stuff lately. But mostly they closed the kitchen which wasn't used due to work from home policy. Definitely don't see any stuff reduction due to automation / LLM use. They still pay (external) people 60€ per written text/article. Because clients don't like LLM written stuff.

Take the computer which beats Magnus and restrain it to never make the best move in a position. Expand this to N best moves as needed to reach 1300 rating.

I managed to delete all records in a table a week ago ( I blame copilot ). Used time travel ( not quite inter-dimensional travel ) in bigquery to restore. INSERT INTO ... SELECT * FROM ... FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 1 HOUR)

Would the snapshot contain the same info ( beyound any doubt ) that an actual user would see if they opened LinkedIn/Facebook/Service from Canada on an IPhone at a saturday morning (for example)? If not, the snapshot is useles for some usecases and we are back to scraping.

I used to put buttons in the menu ( or even side panels ), but nowdays I draw a big button and attach a apps script function to it. Looks more bad ass.

I solved this problem in a similar way some time ago. It was impractical to assign numbers to snapshots but each snapshot had a date assigned to it. So I computed the number of days since Unix epoch for each snapshot = n. Then the largest power of 2 which divides n. m = n &(~(n-1)) I think. Then I computed the date after which I wanted to delete a snapshot n +f*m. The factor f contros the density. I chose f = 2.

Every day there is exactly one date for which a snapshot needs to be deleted and it can be computed directly. If there is no snapshot for this date nothing needs to be done.

After you make a neural network the first thing that occurs to you is that it’s useless without tons of data.

What about self-learning chess engines? All they take as input are the rules of chess. And the output (the games they play) can sometimes be described as peaces of art. My point is that it should be possible for AI to create art without tons of (input) data. Even if it is not what we experience at the moment.