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To play the devil's advocate: AI allows non-tech people to bootstrap a functional application. A global good design may be missing when the code is generated in small quantities and stitched together. It's sloppy in the sense that it cannot be maintained and extended easily but it works™

The ideas underlying the implementation are not necessarily tied to the implementation given the skill gap.

No, I did not make that assumption. His answer to the investigator's question should have been what the operating handbook says and not an opinion he held.

Even he was offering an opinion as addendum (that may have been edited out of context in reporting), it shouldn't be this one.

His opinion was that the Cessna 185 simply didn’t stall.

There's your problem. Don't opine on operating characteristics of a production aircraft. Read the handbook. This incident was caused by poor airmanship.

People draw an arbitrary line of difference in the way we treat AI programs and human outputs.

A human imagining orcs and one horned horses has 'fantastical, larger than life' imagination but AI generation drawing people with strange hands is 'incorrect'.

These are not one to one examples but the point stands that with enough suspension of belief, people are more likely to take on human creations at face value than AI when they know the source.

The microwave example is very interesting.

The prompt only asked to "warm up my lunch" without specifying how.

SayCan[1] generated step-wise high level instructions using LLMs for robotic tasks. This takes it a step further by converting high level instructions to low level actions almost entirely autonomously.

[1] https://say-can.github.io/

Modern IDEs tend to support SSHing out to remote hosts to perform builds there, so as long as you're ok with source code being visible on laptops you can at least shift the "I need a workstation with a bunch of CPU" problem out to the cloud.

JetBrains has Gateway[1] and VSCode has remote Dev tools[2]

Gateway's performance is very dependent on the network connectivity. If you have bad ping, you're going to curse the world seeing the input delay.

VSCode seems to be caching the files locally and updating them separately. With bad internet, you still get the native input lag.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/remote-development/gateway

[2] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

On Device Learning 4 years ago

Taking long term considerations into account does not need to happen over a long period of time. The advantage of machines is their superior ability to parallel process efficiently so you'd expect answering questions would happen pretty quickly or even as the model parses the book.

That is incorrect. On-campus employment is allowed in the student visa and graduate student appointments are typically RA positions which qualify as employment under this definition.

Giant Pyrosome 4 years ago

We could send a small remote controlled submersible vessel through it. Get some lights in there and see it from the inside out.

I ride a bike as my daily driver and have owned and operated motorcycles extensively in the past.

Motorcycles should never ride as close to the edge of the road as bikes do. They're faster, bigger and more noticeable. They are given a wider berth compared to bicyclists in my experience since you can take up the middle of the lane without holding up traffic.

Riding a bike deeper into (relatively) high speed lanes is more dangerous. Impatient 4+ wheeled beings tend to drive past you putting the bike very close a lot of moving mass.

Slightly tangential but don't soon and ASAP mean the same with the difference of an urgency qualifier?

While I've personally never had issues with sleeping, I know someone who was having them almost everyday.

This is of course anecdata but in their case it was trying to make plans for the next day while in bed trying to sleep. It was causing anxiety of planning every night leading to poor sleep.

The solution we eventually arrived at was to not plan that late. They weren't going to stop planning for a hectic day anyway so might as well flesh out the plan earlier in the day and clear the mind.

I don't believe the intention of that test was to try and safely put a plane down in a desert. It was a remote controlled crash test. The wiki page[1] says the descent rate was 1500 feet per minute. A typical touchdown rate according to the linked MIT article about this crash[2] puts airliner landings at 10-20 feet per minute.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Boeing_727_crash_experime...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20130129040232/http://alum.mit.e...

What makes it especially toxic, I think, is its lack of separation of communities.

Interesting that you say this because Reddit users will tell you that this is a problem in itself since it creates echo chambers that validate the viewpoints you already hold.

Can I Email? 5 years ago

Continuously modifying the URL with the search term wreaks havoc on tab history. Why not wait for the user to finish typing first?

[dead] 5 years ago

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