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great_psy··on How to know if a job makes a difference
In an odd twist of faith, the person(Fritz Haber) who’s method is used to get fertilizer, is also invented zyklon b and was used to have a different type of impact.
great_psy··on Fastest camera drone vs. F1 car (ft. Max Verstappen) [video]
Does it really have a lot of military applications ?

I presume weight is heavily optimized to get 300kmph. So it won’t go that fast if it carries explosives. Could be used for high value target killing. Like literally a bullet you can control, might be able to make that work.

But for reconnaissance can’t the drone just go high up ? And then can’t really be shot down with a rifle ? You just need better optics.

great_psy··on Sora: Creating video from text
My point is not that I stop liking to paint.

My point is that I am an aspiring artist, who is waiting tables and I invest all my spare cash and time to get better at my craft and hopefully allow my craft to support me financially.

Any hope of financial benefit coming from my craft is quickly taken away by Dall-e. This has nothing to do with how much I enjoy my art.

great_psy··on Sora: Creating video from text
Photographers totally became obsolete.

When cameras were harder to use, you had national geographic taking you all over the world to photograph different locations because only you and a handful of people knew how to take a picture properly. Now you just hire a local person with a camera to go take the picture you want since it’s much easier to use a camera.

You had people doing photography for ads, now stock photography will do for most brands.

You had people buy high school portraits, I am not sure if people buy those anymore, but a picture of what you looked like in high school is worth a lot less when you can take a selfie every other day.

great_psy··on Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)
What is the intended use for this ?

Notes app seem like an odd place to ask Google like questions.

Is it supposed to help me with writing long for text? Am I supposed to use it as a spell/grammar checker ?

This is not directly a question for your integration, but more of a general question for using local LLMs for long form text.

great_psy··on Sora: Creating video from text
I don’t even think the moat is the issue here. We are giving the enjoyable parts of life to a computer. And we are left with the drudgery.

I’m sure some people would be more ok to work a shitty job with the hope that they might make it as an artist.

Now that it’s becoming more and more obvious they will not be an artist that’s better than AI, what do they have left to hope for ?

great_psy··on The Sinusoidal Tetris
Cool idea, but pretty much impossible on iPhone safari.

Clicking the controls too fast just zooms in and out

great_psy··on Flash photography used to be pretty wild [video]
I also got shocked by one of those capacitors once… And then I proceeded to connect different wires to figure out how to recharge the capacitor and touch it with a screwdriver which proceeded to melt just so slightly that it got stuck to the lead.

Good memories.

great_psy··on LA Times to lay off 20% of newsroom in newspaper's largest staff reduction
I suspect newspapers are on a downward trajectory and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. I think most people are consuming the articles through some middle service like Facebook, and many people don’t bother to read more than a few lines.

So really you end up with very few ads to display to customers.

great_psy··on Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time
Would you also have that belief about how much weight a human can lift ?

Just because a human can lift 500lb, we will never build a machine that can lift more than that ?

Why is it so crazy to think that we, the tool building animals that we are, could also build a machine that things better than us, just how we built a crane ?

great_psy··on Yann LeCun: Human-level artificial intelligence is going to take a long time
I don’t see why human level is needed.

You can have 10 different ai systems, each one sub human intelligence and it would still disrupt the world in a huge way.

If you have a system that all it can do is take project requirements write java code really really well. That will already have a huge impact on everyday life.

Positive view: What would a world look like where everybody can program ?

great_psy··on American Consumer Sentiment Just Logged Its Biggest Jump in Decades
The funny thing about humans is that sentiment very much affects where things are headed.

People feel good about the future, they will buy that new TV or start that new business. And those actions will have very real consequences.

great_psy··on American Consumer Sentiment Just Logged Its Biggest Jump in Decades
Would this really be considered greed ?

I think the survey mostly says that people think they will be able to afford food and shelter. I don’t think this is greed in the same sense.

Also the jump is big, but the actual value is pretty low considering historical values.

great_psy··on Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?
How many people act like they know this?

Given how many people are willing to burn themselves out because of their job I’m going to guess not too many.

great_psy··on Thailand discovers nearly 15M tonnes of lithium
I think there’s different ways: - take random samples from the area and statistically come up with that value - put a radar/sonar/ xray etc in a hole and get an outline of how big the deposit is.

I did not work in this field explicitly, but worked on Gaussian processes which were first used as a way to aggregate data like this from multiple sources to minimize the number of drillings required to find oil.

great_psy··on Wavecoder – a CodeLLM with 6.7B params scoring just behind GPT4
See mixture of experts. It’s likely what chatGPT does in the backend.
great_psy··on Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?
Given the cloudflare CEO responses, I think it’s safe to assume that one is real.
great_psy··on Workers are filming their layoffs, then posting to TikTok. What could go wrong?
While the risk is obvious, what is the alternative ?

You can go down as a number on the spreadsheet, or you can show everyone else they are also numbers on a spreadsheet.

Her behaviour is a first step towards a different workplace. The effectiveness is questionable, but what more can a single, non organized individual can do ?

great_psy··on Wavecoder – a CodeLLM with 6.7B params scoring just behind GPT4
This a pretty strong claim with zero data to back it up
great_psy··on The Naz.API Credential Stuffing List
I also had a western digital nas that got bricked by a software update.

And I am also on the nas.api list.

great_psy··on AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let's Make Sure It Benefits Humanity
The counter point to that, is that in order to get AGI you will need long term memory.

In which case we will design a long term memory at first to gather the benefits that came come AGI.

great_psy··on AirLLM enables 8GB MacBook run 70B LLM
I did not dig too deep in the technicalities of it, but is there anything that would stop openAI from also implementing something like this ?

Presumably any advances open source community makes towards running on cheap hardware, will also massively benefit the big guys.

great_psy··on Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)
Maybe in 5 years apple with release a native version of this.
great_psy··on Microsoft nears glass storage breakthrough; could make ransomware attacks harder
Not really… You have a signal that has noise, and the goal is to get eliminate the noise.

In 200 years the goal will be the same, and hopefully we will have a better algorithm of eliminating the noise.

great_psy··on Microsoft nears glass storage breakthrough; could make ransomware attacks harder
I don’t think the reading method is a substitute for checksums and so on.

You would still read the exact same data you write, even if part of the process is not deterministic.

great_psy··on Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces
So I am a bit confused about the part where you go k distance out from the centroids.

Since there are ~5000 dimensions, in which of those dimensions are we moving k out ?

Is the idea you just move, out, in all dimensions such that the final Euclidean distance is k ?

Seems that’s how they get multiple samples at those distances.

Either way I think it’s more interesting to go out in specific dimensions. Ideally there is a mapping between each dimension and something inherent about the token, like the part where a dimension corresponds with the first word of the token.

We went through this discovery phase when we were generating images using autoencoders, same idea, some of those dimensions would correspond to certain features of the image, so moving along them would change the image output in some predictable way.

Either way, I think the overall structure of those spaces says something about how the human brain works ( given we invented the language). I’m interested to see if anything neurologic can be derived from those vector embeddings.

great_psy··on Mapping the semantic void: Strange goings-on in GPT embedding spaces
Search for the string “children” in the context of children books/stories
great_psy··on Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges $12.3M
They threw it away for 12M.
great_psy··on Ex-Amazon engineer pleads guilty to hacking crypto exchanges $12.3M
Why does it have to be about their ex employee ? Is Amazon involved in this?

Seems odd that their ex employer is all they could say about him

great_psy··on Why Is Everyone So Unhappy at Work?
Yea I’m sure there’s plenty of jobs where nothing of value is produced.

Think about all the startups that fail. People work really hard for two years, and then the whole thing fails with nothing to show for it.

In the grand scheme of things, no value was created, even though each day the people worked, value was created.

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