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mclightning

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mclightning··on Privacy consultant challenges Meta under Ireland's computer abuse law
what would we do without europe seriously
mclightning··on Cursorless is alien magic from the future
at what age, you started spending your time as a sedentary nerd? I have a theory. I have been similar to you until last year. Then I started exercising, lifting weights, fixed my posture. Then I had to take a break because of life's circumstances, and I got all the ailments and pains people have been complaining about the sedentary lifestyle; back pain and all that.

It is possible, those of us who have been nerds from an early age develop with body skeleto-muscular structure that is more forgiving to this lifestyle.

mclightning··on Daylight saving time can seriously affect your health
Oh man, Novembers are the worst in Sweden. I lived in Malmö for about 10 years, and moved to London recently. London is heaven in terms of sunlight in comparison to Malmö and that says a lot.
mclightning··on NASA’s Webb finds carbon source on surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa
technically, most exciting part of our solar system is Earth. Have you never been to Vegas?
mclightning··on Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"

So, it is "Your salary depends on your ability to convince others that you can not be replaced." basically.

Everyone is talking about "that other developer who has less experience, they will be the one to be replaced". The more I hear, the more suspicious it gets to me. Like everyone is so sure of themselves.

mclightning··on Ask HN: GPT4 Broke Me
why are people in such a denial on this point, makes me mad...

the same field who has the most imposter syndrome rants, also has most people who think they can't be replaced by someone with less experience equipped with AI.

Everyone is talking about the junior, mid-tier programmer who will replaced, but not themselves. It just sounds like willful ignorance.

mclightning··on US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles
I thought on this for a few days. The nature of scientific process, forces us to maintain absolute emphasis on our observation, to an extent which we are willfully ignoring the limitations and scope of our observations.

I wonder who is to blame, is this the current state of scientific studies? or they are actually considering these limitations in the papers, but it is ignored by public? then, is it the science communication to the public that's failing?

I feel shy even bringing up such topics among friends, because it is so far out of the common understanding that it will sound like flat-earth conspiracy to most.

People don't like to hear anything that goes like "we don't know some things at all". There is a comfort in knowing somewhere, some scientist are %100 accurate and know it all.

mclightning··on US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles
I used to be greatly tempted by the fermi paradox, but upon learning about limitations we have observing the skies.... I believe the entire fermi paradox talk, is just steeming from the fact that we think too highly of ourselves as a civilisation and the efford we put into observing the skies.

Most people, including myself until recently, don't realise that most of our astrophysics/space science is very limited to our immediate close promixity in the cosmological scale.

Correct me if I am wrong but we are only able to do science around the other stars in the Milky way (e.g. exoplanet observations)

Beyond Milky way, all the light from the stars are collapsed into a single blob along with the rests of the stars in their home galaxy.

mclightning··on It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
Well, we may go along with it, and still end up not being able to have nice things with the current economical model, because we won't be able to afford it.

Nobody knows if average consumer will be able to afford to pay for GPT-5 or whatever the next thing is.

It may not in the best interest of the companies to give access to you, if it proves valuable beyond measure.

mclightning··on It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
The intelligence is not a suitable answer for the question "who?".
mclightning··on It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
derogatory to who?
mclightning··on It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
Why would we name it estranging ourselves? Oh..., I am sorry to assume your species. Perhaps you're an AI?
mclightning··on It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
humanist
mclightning··on It’s infuriatingly hard to understand how closed models train on their input
they don't necessarily need you to press upvote/downvote buttons when the LLM can literally understand the flow of conversation.

Asked a question, got an answer, thanked or explored more -> GOOD

Asked a question, got an answer left -> OKAY

Asked a question, got an answer, corrected -> NEGATIVE

Asked a question, got an answer, got confrontational -> VERY NEGATIVE

mclightning··on XB, or eXtreme Bullshitting: a less misleading name for LLMs
you can run those models on google collab or runpod easily
mclightning··on Lawyer cites fake cases invented by ChatGPT, judge is not amused
it gave me a longer, but yet again very positive sounding summary;

> The article is about the use of large language models (LLMs) in the legal profession. The author argues that LLMs have the potential to revolutionize the way lawyers practice law, by automating many of the tasks that are currently done manually. For example, LLMs could be used to generate legal documents, research case law, and identify relevant precedents. The author also argues that LLMs could be used to improve the quality of legal services, by providing lawyers with access to a vast amount of information and expertise. However, the author also acknowledges that there are some challenges that need to be addressed before LLMs can be widely adopted in the legal profession. These challenges include the need for LLMs to be trained on large amounts of data, the need for LLMs to be able to understand the nuances of legal language, and the need for LLMs to be able to generate accurate and reliable results. Despite these challenges, the author believes that LLMs have the potential to make a significant impact on the legal profession, and that they are likely to become increasingly important in the years to come.

Here are some of the benefits of using LLMs in the legal profession:

LLMs can automate many of the tasks that are currently done manually, freeing up lawyers to focus on more complex work. LLMs can access and process vast amounts of information, which can help lawyers to make better decisions. LLMs can identify patterns and trends that would be difficult for humans to see, which can help lawyers to spot potential problems. LLMs can generate creative solutions to legal problems, which can help lawyers to find new and innovative ways to represent their clients. Here are some of the challenges that need to be addressed before LLMs can be widely adopted in the legal profession:

LLMs need to be trained on large amounts of data, which can be expensive and time-consuming. LLMs need to be able to understand the nuances of legal language, which can be difficult for computers to do. LLMs need to be able to generate accurate and reliable results, which can be a challenge for complex legal problems. Overall, the author believes that LLMs have the potential to make a significant impact on the legal profession, and that they are likely to become increasingly important in the years to come.

mclightning··on Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
I found the suggestions here pretty useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36069151
mclightning··on Ask HN: How do you not take criticism of your work personally?
It starts by not taking the work itself personally. Then any criticism of it is not personal either. You are not the result of your craft. You are the craftsman doing your best in a given environment, under certain conditions, in a given scenario.

Life is complicated. You are not omnipotent. These are very basic absolute truths.

You need to actively recognise this, and make it a part of your core mentality, and mentality drives the sentiment. Sentiments drive emotions. Emotions control how you react.

mclightning··on Rodney Brooks on GPT-4
If you used GPT-4 well enough, you would know, at this point OpenAI does not need to pay any human to engage in online conversation, aside from legal reasons if any.

I personally created some content-creating bots with GPT-4, and it succeeded to a level that I don't trust anything I see online anymore. It does a better job than me, which doesn't say much because I am an engineer not a content creator. But still, I could get same results as one with a script that I made GPT-4 write itself.

...Yes, I am losing sleep over GPT-4's performance. If you are not losing sleep over it yet, you haven't really given it a genuine try yet.

mclightning··on Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
I love this.
mclightning··on GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt
This tool (MeraGPT) looks great. But, a huge BUT, I wouldn't even trust my own local harddrive to store essence of my personality. How do you trust a site for that?
mclightning··on Show HN: Thoughts on Flash in 2023, in Flash, in 2023
I was a huge Flash nerd, all the way since Macromedia Flash 5. I learnt programming with Flash 5 and action script. I have been at it until Flash 8. Then I stopped putting effort to keep-up and eventually Flash died.

Something was lost in the internet culture. Flash was the language of web art. I don't know what is the new language for that anymore.

If anyone knows, please do tell me. WebGL? Any WebGL-powered framework? What is it?

mclightning··on OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
I feel the same. His narrative seem very calculated. It doesn't help that OpenAI is very much the most closed Saas thing to be released in recent years. I am a paying customer for sometime, have ChatGPT Plus as well. I am still in waiting list for GPT-4 API.

Not only that, but their business model is completely unclear, which is the scariest part for me, as an individual developer.

Let's go one step forward, they use our texts online including this very comment perhaps. They have a software that can analyse all our texts at scale. But we don't get even the API access to this thing.

It is the most self-serving software ever released, consuming the human creativity both the content and the future relevance of it.

mclightning··on Semaphore: A Full-Body Keyboard
Seeing OpenCV in this post-ML world, gave me some nostalgia /teary eyed emoji
mclightning··on GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500k and 20k hours
This is a bigger problem than people realise.

Think about it, how many millions of articles are posted online produced by OpenAI's GPTs to date... Good luck clearing out the training data for GPT-5.

True human content will get gradually scarce. We steer it for sure for our posts, but it is still GPTs that do the heavy lifting.

OpenAI's own classifier fails to detect GPT-4 generated text at the moment.

mclightning··on Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
I remember reading this story from back when GPT-3 was released; https://medium.com/swlh/bicameral-mind-humanoid-robot-with-g...
mclightning··on Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior
I remember someone had predicted this would happen with OpenAI's GPT-3, but perhaps now we are closer with ChatGPT...

Found it! : https://medium.com/swlh/bicameral-mind-humanoid-robot-with-g...

mclightning··on Lonely individuals process the world in idiosyncratic ways
yeah, I completely got confused because of this skewed used of the words. I have no clue he/she is saying.
mclightning··on Show HN: Live coaching app for remote SWE interviews, uses Whisper and GPT-4
Does the job actually require the knowledge behind these questions directly in live discussion environment? or are you able to get away with it by Googling/Stackoverflow/ChatGPT?
mclightning··on What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide
There is definitely some opinion-making happening by news agencies, to crash the housing market.
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