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Meta Movie Gen 2 years ago

You're right, Meta shouldn't invest in a breakthrough technology. They should focus on what really matters: delivering short term value to shareholders

This outrage talk is ridiculous, you don’t have the morale high ground to judge people, they didn’t break anything, taking VC money isn’t bad, the incident was caused by sore losers looking for drama, etc etc

I Am Tired of AI 2 years ago

Hackernews when we may be on the path of actual AI "meh I hate this, you know what’s actually really interesting? Manually writing tests for software"

I Am Tired of AI 2 years ago

And by nowadays you mean since ChatGPT got released, that is less than 2 years ago (e.g. a consumer preview of a frontier research project). Interesting.

Okay but how big of a sample size do we even actually need for word frequencies? Like what’s the goal here? It looks like the initial project isn’t even stratified per year/decade

Terence Tao on O1 2 years ago

I recently built a Brainfuck compiler and TUI debugger

Highly representative of what devs make all day indeed

HN on LLMs "meh not real reasoning, in fact it's exactly the same thing as ELIZA"

HN when someone makes a trivial LLM-wrapper (but cynic!! I hate corporate ahah): 9999 comments 9999 points "this is the best thing since sliced bread"

The young ones don't understand why we oldies roll our eyes at hearing the 13th iteration of "this is ground breaking new idea"

Why not constructively contribute by explaining what could be different for the idea to work this time? Or if you hate innovation (i.e. retrying age old ideas slightly differently - hoping this time it will work), why don't you pick another industry?

The introductory example is quite illuminating. No theory behind, just a random hypothesis tested (by comparing the preferences of 10 fishes from populations separated from as little as 50 meters, what effect size did the authors expect?), with claims of generalisation (climate change ok bad?? Or climate change bad bad??)

What if psychedelics are actually not gates to an enhanced consciousness for the happy few?

What if actually your teacher was right, and they’re just dumb intoxicants that have no upside and a small chance of ruining your life?

Code interviews are great:

- filter out low-IQs

- filter out people difficult to work with that refuses to take them

- filter out people that have no interest whatsoever in computer science