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RobRivera

1,327 karma · joined January 14, 2020

Deez mudkips.

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RobRivera··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
What do you do for work?
RobRivera··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
I'm actually pretty convinced they're a troll or at the very least a high confrontation participant who is quick to move goal posts, ignore entire chains of logic, engage in ad hominim attacks of other posters, and is bringing zero novel insight anywhere in this thread
RobRivera··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
What do you do for work?
RobRivera··on Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft
Sounds very similar to that whole API lawsuit with oracle.
RobRivera··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
Its obvious to me.

Its obvious to you.

It isnt obvious to the person I am responding to, and it isnt obvious to majority of individuals I speak with on the matter (which is why AI, personally, is in the bucket of religion amd politics for polite conversation to simply avoid)

RobRivera··on Segagaga Has Been Translated into English
Oh boo hoo.

Just boooooo.

Disappointed. Gif

As a side bar, I found it funny how in a Stanford lecture teaching various routes to training llms on the Machine Translation benchmark, the sample used was a French to English translation of 'the teddy bear is blue' or something similar.

After the lecture I reviewed the current production grade google translate...it butchered the translation

I wouldnt trust machine translation.

RobRivera··on Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers
Actually this is the crux and the nuance which makes discussing LLM specifics a pain in the general space.

If you built an LLM exclusively on the writings and letters of John Steinbeck, you could NOT tell the LLM to solve an integral for you amd expect it to be right.

Instead what you will receive is a text that follows a statistically derived most likely (in accordance to the perplexity tuning) response to such a question.

RobRivera··on Segagaga Has Been Translated into English
Avante-garde will always be lost on an inferential technology because to 'get it' it needs to be trained on sufficient volumes.

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Edit: I may not exactly be spitting pearls, but passive downvoting for a genuine take on the matter based on professional experience in AI is a canary gasping for oxygen.

RobRivera··on Segagaga Has Been Translated into English
Based on what I read in the article, MT was used as an experiment and proof of concept, and dedicated translation was done for the full release. Was that not the case?

Was the workflow MT -> human translation?

If so thats honestly such a lazy followthru given the technical hurdles overcome wrt the font tech

RobRivera··on Segagaga Has Been Translated into English
This is absolutely amazing and I can't wait to deep dive on this.
RobRivera··on I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine
Why sad?
RobRivera··on The Iran War's Most Precious Commodity Isn't Oil, It's Desalinated Water
I couldnt tell you, stranger. Your comment is flagged.

What I can recall is you told someone to do something, demanded them.

On a forum to discuss things.

RobRivera··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
I'd understand the face value lack of roi. I go to europe.

But to judge?

Okay

RobRivera··on BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time
Whats funny is when its privatized by publicly traded companies it becomes this weird nationalized-kinda but not really thing that turns the economy into a bifercated class of first class citizens and second class citizens.
RobRivera··on The Iran War's Most Precious Commodity Isn't Oil, It's Desalinated Water
I am curious, why did you choose not choose to ask politely?
RobRivera··on Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's
.....

Are you an llm trained to troll?

RobRivera··on Nobody gets promoted for simplicity
I've stopped playing the game of 'guess what the right answer is'

I would have said the exact same thing and pushed the interview to consider 'why are we creating a tool when something off the shelf solves our business needs? What kind of runway and resources do I have to meet this goal? What is good enough for our problem here? Do we want to expand our scope to enable external data integration and downstream data consumption"

You will find better employment outside the circus, possibly even selling to the circus

RobRivera··on Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's
You seem less deductive in your reasoning than desired for a good faith discussion, and pathological in your baseless accusations.

For example, I have run my own business before I hired people.

RobRivera··on Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's
Oh you know this for an irrefutable fact, now?
RobRivera··on Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's
Eh - sometimes people get hired in bulk to show growth and then get assigned valueless work, or work not necessarily as valuable.

Both statements can be true.

RobRivera··on Iran War Cost Tracker
Oh boy - defense accounting I LOVE this game.

Quick quick, give me a quote on the coffee maker on the AWACS.

RobRivera··on Iran War Cost Tracker
People should begin quantifying the commercial freight global costs incurred from the Houthi harassment. There is a basic ROI one can do that impacts not just US interests, but global interests.
RobRivera··on Iran War Cost Tracker
Carriers routinely engage in war gaming and cruises. They dont port if they are not actively engaged in war.
RobRivera··on Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native
Ha

Hahaha

Hahahahaha

RobRivera··on Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities
Great! Let's just continue perpetuating institutionalized bias rooted in a non-metric driven hypothesis on candidate potential!
RobRivera··on Two insider cases we've recently closed
When i see those ads I legit thought it required gaming licenses. Just wow, apparently you can get away with gaming as long as it doesn't have the label.
RobRivera··on New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
Every single time I read the phrase 'I have been thinking about this a lot lately' my eyeballs roll back hard.
RobRivera··on Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter
High risk high reward - I think if I ponied up capital, I'd rather not feel obliged to 'share the success' unless it were part of a needed capital raising.
RobRivera··on US Gov Deploys Grok as Nutrition Bot, It Advises for Rectal Use of Vegetables
I seem to recall a reporter being given a Tesla to test drive and they wrote a scathing report about bad battery, range, problems with finding recharge stations, and all a flagrant tear down which would have been great reporting...had it not been for Elon having vehicle logging which revealed the flagrant misuse of the vehicle e.g. riding past recharge after recharge after recharge station, riding the car in circular routes to drain the battery, and plain misrepresentation of their experience.

Journalism does itself no service writing like this and it's exhausting

RobRivera··on Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable
Hurray!

I didnt discover this until I saw the recent post about its deactivation.

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