focusreact.bsky.social
Flow Artist, Burner, Software Developer, RPCV
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Next week's news : Amazon closes up shop in Raleigh, NC
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I've heard of this use case, even seem to remember reading about it somewhere. I like the idea, but I struggle to figure out we could validate what the AI produces in response to those animal sounds; we can't ask the whale if it's correct.
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Drug development is one of the very few *good* uses of LLM AIs that I can see out there. A few others I really like include battery tech, instant realtime voice translation services, and climate modeling.
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Good interview. A thought - you said that you can't think of a single thing that AI really enables, product-wise. Something that is really novel and valuable.
Question: what about research? Have you seen this use case? Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/b...
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Evidently, yes.
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heck yeah, right back at you buddy!
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Oh, it doesn't. Trump's only in it for himself, same as ever. He only pandered to working people to get their votes, you know this.
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A fool and his money are soon parted.
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Laws are only as strong as their enforcement. If enough people pretend like he has powers he doesn't actually have, at scale, this will inhibit enforcement and weaken associated laws. That said, gotta pick and choose your battles, or you're likely to burn out.
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help himb ❤️
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You're not wrong, there's a strategy in what's playing out. Problem is, Trump has never played by the rules, and somehow he *keeps getting away with it*. It's like playing Chess with a pigeon - no matter how well one plays, the pigeon will just take a shit on the board and strut about like it won.
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Yeah, good luck with that. I mean, I hope he does have mercy, but that's not really in his vocabulary, at least not for anyone except the violent mob that attacked the Capitol on his behalf. Trump wants to know what those scared people have done *for him* to deserve his mercy.
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It can't just be because of the OS tho. Why is it complaining about your video? There's got to be a reason.
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*facepalm*
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The Internet, like most technology, is a double-edged sword. Important to recognize all the ways instant global connection has benefitted humanity, while also recognizing all the ways it's harmed. IMO the real problem is Power, which Corrupts, since time immemorial. My 2 cents.
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Meanwhile...
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This will definitely help combat inflation and lower egg prices.
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Your story reminds me of a great article I read what is now a long time ago. It's aged like fine wine, hope you enjoy. You will certainly relate.
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A N G E R Y
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I drove myself a bit nuts about a month ago debugging why something wasn't working when everything definitely looked right. Discovered it was reading a property as "somestring\r" instead of "somestring" because git automatically converted "\n" to "\r\n". So helpful lol. Doesn't take much.
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That would be nice. Sadly, running capable, performant search engines takes money, and that's got to come from somewhere. There are ways to remove most ads and the like from your browsing experience. Reliable sources of truth are still out there, there's just a lot more noise to contend with too.
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Sure was. WTF
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Propaganda is only part of the equation. Allowing a foreign adversary access to the extremely intimate, detailed profiles of so many people in the US, any of those who are high value targets and who have embarrassing/taboo interests (which TikTok will know) will be susceptible to blackmail.
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It sounds to me like you probably don't understand the fundamental underlying geopolitical / national security risks associated with CCP control over such a platform as TikTok in the US.
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ah yes, okay I understand. you're referring not to the ban itself, but to the way the ban is being appropriated by Trump as a way to cast himself in a savior's light, currying favor from the one out of every two US citizens who uses it. I can see that.
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Yeah I feel that. Change is hard. But also FB sucks. I think I'll keep a presence on FB for at least a while, until (hopefully) everyone migrates here. The AT protocol that underpins Bluesky is really cool, and extensible. All it needs is an Events framework, and maybe Groups.
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And look what happened in that case - Facebook was fined $5 billion by the FTC and Cambridge Analytica had to file for bankruptcy. Not exactly a success story.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faceboo...
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How so?
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IDK if that conclusion can be drawn from the recent action against TikTok/ByteDance, which had nothing to do with "corporate personhood." As long as Citizens United stands, corporations are people too.
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They protecc
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Yeah you know, you'd think such a thing would be illegal. And yet, here we are. This simulation kinda sucks, don't it?
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None of those entities constitute foreign geopolitical adversaries that would weaponize the platform and collected data to undermine US interests. That's the difference.
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Are any of us?
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I think you're referring to US v. Microsoft in 2001 (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...), which was a thing. On a related note, I observed in Windows 10 that the active selected browser resets to Edge with every reboot, same monopolistic behavior. Win11 is better about it tho, thankfully.
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This article supports the OP argument that Google supports Mozilla as an antitrust foil. Huh. Learn something new every day.
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Okay that tracks.
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I think you're conflating "browser" with "search." Google is the most popular search engine, so it makes sense that any browser would make it the default. You can change this in your Firefox settings. To be clear, Firefox is owned by the Mozilla nonprofit, not Google.
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I can see how that could be the case, I haven't dug into Mozilla's funders. That said, it looks like Edge has roughly twice the market share of Firefox so I question why Google would even care about it as a guard against antitrust. Microsoft isn't going anywhere.
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Yeah, Firefox is OG. TBF there was a period where Chrome was much faster than Firefox, but Firefox got some updates under the hood a few years back that made a world of difference. Happy to trust the Mozilla nonprofit over Google any day of the week.
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What are you talking about? A browser prompting you to make it default is really basic, standard stuff, indie browser or not. And what's this about Firefox being "Google's anti-antitrust insurance?" That smells like unfounded conspiracy theory to me. Got any sources to back that?
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Its not about "untrustworthy figures" running things, or the "olds not getting it" - it's about geopolitics and allowing a foreign adversary to opaquely control a realtime and highly detailed feed into and out of 170M US citizens' brains. That's insane.
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FYI 2(g)(6)(B) precludes any "qualified divestiture" from data sharing agreements with any entities controlled by the foreign adversary, so "still send data to CCP" wouldn't fly. See www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...