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RobRivera

1,327 karma · joined January 14, 2020

Deez mudkips.

So good

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RobRivera··on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
Lmao I got honeypotted in h.s. by one of those 'does your crush like you' astrology sites
RobRivera··on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
What kind of reporte does the CEO of IBM expect the general technology workforce to hold for them?
RobRivera··on The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends
I didn't read anything about the everyperson beung able to do this.
RobRivera··on Rethinking C++: Architecture, Concepts, and Responsibility
Honestly, I find myself reassessing my stake in the c++ ecosystem on occasion when I discover a new way I broke it. Often my post mortem reveals, yes, skill issue, and yes I agree, many of my paradigms and patterns orient around limiting the impact crater.

Honestly tho, I keep the tool in my belt because I believe it is still the best for what I use it for: low latency financial applications and game engines.

If I find some time to migrate from c++ to a different language I may for certain games, but thats a future bridge to cross.

RobRivera··on Implications of AI to schools
Giving a teacher judge/jury powers on administrative punishment jist creates a tyranny of the classroom.

Bart Simpson, we need you.

RobRivera··on Implications of AI to schools
It creates another layer of arbitrary gate-keeping. I experience this in interviews too. If I need to think about the low latency response I can give to derive djikstras algo verbatim, I get accused of reading notes on another monitor, not someone who studied for success.

It is beginning to become an awful situation where these companies are selling tools that undermine the student. Education is suppose to be the great equalizer in society, not another toggle or tool for oppression.

RobRivera··on Nursing excluded as 'professional' degree by Department of Education
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Absolutely

Adore your handle

RobRivera··on Scoop: Judge Caught Using AI to Read His Court Decisions
I am not convinced that you read the article. What specific action occurred in the narrative do you have a specific grievance with?
RobRivera··on Scoop: Judge Caught Using AI to Read His Court Decisions
Text to speech has been a technology for a very long time. This is, in my opinion, a whole article about nothing, leaning on the AI label to garner views.

Yes, we may ask the question whether or not speculative uses of AI in other manners have negative implications, and these should be asked, but that isn't the case here.

It is very much like asking the question if cars, upon inve tipn, started driving into random fields with no restraint, off-roading as if any car owner woulddo this, upon the sight of seeing a new motor carriage driving down a street. Important questions to ask of emergent technology, sure, but right now that motor carriage is on the road, let it be.

RobRivera··on Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
Whats the motorola ecosystem like these days? Its been a good 16 years for me
RobRivera··on Nursing excluded as 'professional' degree by Department of Education
Is this sarcasm?
RobRivera··on AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is
This is my conclusion as well, get the cost center down to good enough after threats from competition is relatively secured.

I think this is going to be a new golden age kf innovation. Lot of senior engineers capable of pencil whipping microservice infrastructure paired with industry experience means startup mill goes brrrr

RobRivera··on Leaving Meta and PyTorch
Good luck, good job, and may more fantastical journeys lay ahead.
RobRivera··on The Learning Loop and LLMs
I thoroughly love the meta programming features of cpp to generate code for me.
RobRivera··on The problem with farmed seafood
Splice tree dna, make groot a thing irl
RobRivera··on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
I would take it a step back and posit simply, "why does a human require certification to practice therapy, and a computer program does not?"

There should be some liability for malpractrice even if generated by an llm

RobRivera··on Advice for new principal tech ICs (i.e., notes to myself)
Hail spirit of the machine. Essence divine. In your code and circuitry the stars align.

Sorry my Omnissiah is acting up again

RobRivera··on Antislop: A framework for eliminating repetitive patterns in language models
I got a rock.
RobRivera··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
To learn tricks like this what resource do you recommend I read? System administrators handbook? (Still on my TOREAD queue)
RobRivera··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
I observed a similar thing in the post Goldwater active duty officer corps reformations.
RobRivera··on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout
>There seems to be some sort imputation that, just because someone is on an H-1b, that they are not a good engineer.

I fail to reach this interpretation in this thread.

RobRivera··on After 2 decades of tinkering, MAME cracks the Hyper Neo Geo 64
This is absolutely so on brand.

Has its pros and cons, of course.

RobRivera··on LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles
Against bigger fish.

And there's always a bigger fish.

RobRivera··on What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?
Then don't make them and be happy.

Perhaps it is a generational gap, but the idea that I have to justify NOT attempting to squeeze a hustle out of absolutely everything I do reduces my trust in any content generated in [current year] as nothing more but a carefully crafted advertising space.

RobRivera··on The Word Made Lifeless. Are we becoming stochastic parrots?
Oh hey, its that shower thought I had a few years ago.

With more seriousness, I find people who drill deep into the bedrock of knowledge and expertise will find that tact and conviction in informed opinion is a healthy counterweight to this possible habit.

RobRivera··on Nine things I learned in ninety years
I thoroughly enjoyed this read, and affirm many of these observations.

I find it incredibly challenging to come to these ideas without having walked a path which consistently challenges someone who strives to succeed through challenge, without a mentor. Ofc this is just my opinion.

RobRivera··on FDA takes action to make a treatment available for autism symptoms
The first line of defense is the power of NO as a patient.

Easier said than done and requires staying on top of literature and sourcing multiple opinions.

Maybe trips abroad to get that alternative opinion for peace of mind?

All spoken from an understanding that the average person cannot afford the time or expense associated with this idea.

RobRivera··on Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently
This style of comment really leaves a bad taste in my mouth regarding forum discussion.

1. Pass off an opinion as fact

2. Posit a straw man

3. Tether an unrelated fact as correlation.

I bet one could wire an llm instructed to such a formula to obsfucate otherwise fruitful public discourse.

RobRivera··on I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
I have a paper notebook next to my keyboard entitled 'sleep deprivation induced fever-dreams'. It is an excellent collection and useful tool so I dont let my ideas runaway with my attention.

Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list.

RobRivera··on I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode
If you browse job listings, you will find titles for 'iOS developer' and 'Android Mobile Developer'
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