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Kataphract

9 karma · joined October 3, 2018

Neurophysiology researcher. Love learning. Especially new programming languages. Mainly Python and JS.
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Kataphract··on GPT-4
As a dyslexic person with a higher education this hits really close to home. Not only should we not be surprised that a LLM would be good at answering tests like this, we should be excited that technology will finaly free us from being judged in this way. This is a patern that we have seen over and over again in tech, where machines can do something better than us, and eventually free us from having to worry about it. Before it was word processing, now it is accurate knowledge recall.
Kataphract··on [dead]
It genuinly upsets me to see this kind of rubbish. I have otherwise happy and healthy people in my life, who I love ,who have been taken in by these conspiracy theories. I have seen them fall deeper and deeper into a pit of anxiety and mistrust of everything arround them. I have never felt more helpless. All you can do to argue aginst it is appeal to the very authority they are being convinced is evil...

I am not generally a violent person, but if I ever met the cynical people who put these kinds of productions together, I dont know what I would do.

Kataphract··on 120k-year-old footprints offer early evidence for humans in Arabia
I swapped to TalkTalk recently and have the same problem. All but the most obscure VPN sites are blocked. My guess is because using them is aginst TOS?
Kataphract··on Grid – A Lua Game Engine
Why do people use Lua in a world where we have Python?
Kataphract··on America is giving up on the pandemic?
Its nuts how big our societies have grown where hundreds of thousands could die and it wouldn't really matter (assuming you were willing to be a complete psycho about it). I really just can't see it affecting my life
Kataphract··on What is the most dangerous drug? (2019)
I'm surprised how often I see this argument in a world where Portugal succeeded in doing exactly that.
Kataphract··on Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV
"pay a percentage of your final salary" is essentially what the student loans system in the UK boils down to. However I am expected to start paying back after earning over £21,000. Maybe a shift to a graduate tax on the higher end of earners would be a fairer way to structure it
Kataphract··on Generative Coding – “The Nature of Code” Ported to Three.js
Thanks, I love these kinds of projects