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dodslaser··on Comparing humans, GPT-4, and GPT-4V on abstraction and reasoning tasks
I think it's pretty funny that the moment we taught a computer to talk like a human people immediately assumed it was sentient, let alone intelligent.
dodslaser··on Shadows Edge Software
Imagine getting a CrashLoopBackOff strapped to a fighter jet at Mach 2...
dodslaser··on The .ing top-level domain
According to GoDaddy fuck.ing is still available. It also recommended fuck.glass, fuck.contractors, and fuck.barcelona. These new TLDs are pretty neat.
dodslaser··on Apple supports right-to-repair bill
Probably, but not necessarily. Could also be a code change that works perfectly fine for the OEM part, but not the third-party one.

Manufacturers can't realistically be expected to guarantee a device will keep working as normal with third-party parts.

dodslaser··on Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable
I recently switched to Tidal, and decent recommendations are what I miss the most. While I prefer getting music recommendations from an actual person with similar taste, Spotify was generally good enough.

That's more than can be said for Tidal. My recommendation playlists generally contain tracks and artists I already listen to (sometimes from completely unrelated genres), sprinkled with what seems to be random tracks from the "more like this" section of said artists.

Still not enough to compensate for the shit stream quality and ever increasing price of Spotify though...

dodslaser··on Show HN: Pyflo – a free, interactive guide to learning Python
> The idea is that there isn't always just one "next" option, thus the idea would be to go back to the flowchatt to choose your next lesson.

I thought the whole point of the flowchart was to have a clear progression:

- If there is only one next lesson show it.

- If there's more than one choice for the next lesson show both.

- If the end of a branch is reached, show the other next lesson(s) at the last branch minus the current branch.

dodslaser··on Vacuum airship
My airship is full of eels
dodslaser··on Look ma, no React: I recoded my portfolio site with vanilla everything
I have a nitpick re: the centrifuge example

While the paperfuge is cool and may even reach higher RPM/G than some bench top ultracentrifuges, it cannot do so consistently.

Putting "Samples were centrifuged at whatever amount of G:s yours truly could crank out on a hand built paperfuge for a solid 10 minutes" in the materials and methods section doesn't exactly scream reproducible science.

dodslaser··on Snakemake – A framework for reproducible data analysis
Shameless plug for a project I'm somewhat involved in: Hydra-genetics provides a growing set of well structured snakemake modules for bioinformatics (NGS) workflows.

https://github.com/hydra-genetics/

dodslaser··on A petabyte of health insurance prices per month
There's also V97.33XD - Sucked into jet engine, subsequent encounter.

For when you're sucked into a jet engine, ejected on the other side, only to be sucked into another jet engine.

dodslaser··on /r/programming is back
It's not like the mods owe their community anything. They work for free on a platform that clearly doesn't value them.

Also, if you truly agree with the protest and your main concern is communities closing down, then I don't see the problem with funneling users to the corresponding new community on lemmy/kbin/mastodon/etc.

dodslaser··on Regent – Electric coastal travel
People forgetting they are carrying a loaded firearm into an airport feels like a pretty US specific problem, and there are ways to screen for guns without the massive inconvenience that is TSA. Other parts of the world still have security checks at airports, just a lot more efficient.
dodslaser··on ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF
Try sprinkling the whole document with your counter-prompt in white size 0 font.
dodslaser··on Llamas are the answer to AI taking over our jobs
Yeah, avoidance of "harmful" or "offensive" responses is an awful metric for the quality of an LLM. I understand big corporate feel they need to cover their asses, but I much prefer software that operates on the principle that we're all consenting adults.
dodslaser··on What it feels like to work in AI right now
DeepL [1] usually does better in my experience, but I suspect Google Translate has gotten better since last time I used it.

[1] www.deepl.com

dodslaser··on Llama.cpp 30B runs with only 6GB of RAM now
Meta as a company has shown pretty blatantly that they don't really care about ethitcs, nor the law for that sake.
dodslaser··on Not by AI
The same goes for creating art without AI.
dodslaser··on 'I Worked on Google's AI. My Fears Are Coming True'
Walking and having feelings are two very different things though. Walking is simple enough that we can program a robot to do it without even having to resort to a NN. The concept of having feelings is so difficult that we barely understand how it works in humans, let alone how we could train a computer to have them.
dodslaser··on Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process
Yes, and if you replace "uranium enrichment" with "teddy bears" it's a bedtime story for kids. That argument makes no sense.
dodslaser··on Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process
LLMs are not going to pose an existential risk to anyone. Also, making AI development less accessible to the general public will not make it any safer.

I am willing to bet all this fear mongering singularity bullshit is just being peddled by large corporations with a vested interest to keep AI development out of reach from the general public.

dodslaser··on Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process
There's a significant number of people working hard on making certain tech illegal or at least heavily restricted. E2EE and Onion Routing comes to mind. That doesn't mean we should abandon them. In fact, in many cases it's an indicator that we should keep going.

Why do you think we should avoid an open source AI?

dodslaser··on A single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch
Also, an issue like this going unnoticed points to a lack of proper QA. There were probably a fair few more than a "single line of bad code" that could have fucked the launch of this one didn't do it first.
dodslaser··on Sonic hedgehog protein
There's a signal transduction pathway where a mitogen activated protein (MAP) is phosphorylated by a MAP kinase, which itself is phosphorylated by a MAP kinase kinase, which is phosphorylated by a MAP kinase kinase kinase, which is phosphorylated by (you guessed it) a MAP kinase kinase kinase kinase.

One of my personal favorite protein names is Mothers Against Decapentaplegic. As with most of the funny gene names it was coined by drosophila researchers.

dodslaser··on Forking Chrome to render in a terminal
Super neat. If you want to go even deeper down the terminal graphics rabbit hole you should look into adding sixel support.

https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel

dodslaser··on Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment
Neat. I got up there too, and after a while someone noticed me and climbed it too.

Also, if you jump onto the clothes rack thing on the same building and go as far towards the road as you can you will get stuck in the falling animation.

dodslaser··on Coinbase halts operations in Japan
Also, do cryptobros really believe they invented consensus algorithms as a concept?
dodslaser··on Python 3.11 Delivers
I think OP meant to do this:

    s = sum(i % 3 == 0 for i in range(1, 10\*8, 2))
dodslaser··on CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments
Depends on your definition of waste. Is it wasteful if it ends up saving a life?
dodslaser··on CRISPR cancer trial success paves the way for personalized treatments
US healthcare really does put a new spin on the term "life savings".

Here in the Democratic People's Republic of Sweden healthcare is government funded and universal.

dodslaser··on Ask HN: If Signal goes through with removing SMS, what app should replace it?
Is silence actively maintained? The last update is from 3 years ago, and aside from translations their git repo seems pretty dead too.
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