macattack

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[–] macattack 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Two out of 10 Linux users agree that insert name here is the best distro

[–] macattack 10 points 1 month ago

Your reaction to the uncertainty that comes w/ quitting your job is normal. IMO that is the aspect to investigate and try to accept what is and what isn't within your control

[–] macattack 6 points 1 month ago

I also expected better from The Guardian. This feels like it should be a sentence in a Wikipedia page not an article that introduces her to the public

[–] macattack 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the update!

[–] macattack 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's audio-specific but I use Audiobookshelf's RSS feed

I have a local folder where I put downloaded youtube audio and the RSS feed updates automatically when new files are placed there. Then, I access it through Lissen or the official audiobookshelf app.

[–] macattack 2 points 1 month ago

The author from the article did. It's a bit of a stretch as are the last 2-3 pieces of the list 🤷🏾‍♂️. The first few are still pretty big.

[–] macattack 16 points 1 month ago

Reading books in the elevator got me a promotion from working in the call center -> becoming an analyst. Changed my life trajectory. The VP of Finance saw the books I was reading, we had a brief convo and then he offered me a job the next week.

Second most interesting one is I bought $180 worth of option calls on Heinz Ketchup, and then they randomly got bought out by Warren Buffett. I think it was a total of $28k in profits at a time when I was making maybe 30-40k/year

[–] macattack 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is super-intellignence smarter than all humans? I think where we stand now, LLMs are already smarter than the average human while lagging behind experts w/ specialized knowledge, no?

Source: https://trackingai.org/IQ

[–] macattack 2 points 1 month ago

Do you have an example of human intelligence that doesn't rely on pattern recognition through previous experience?

[–] macattack -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At what point do you think that your opinion on AI trumps the papers and studies of researchers in those fields?

[–] macattack 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Respectfully, none of the aforementioned examples are simple, or else humans wouldn't have needed to leverage AI to make such substantial progress in less than 2 years.

[–] macattack 1 points 1 month ago

I've been using AI to troubleshoot/learn after switching from Windows -> Linux 1.5 years ago. It has given me very poor advice occasionally, but it has taught me a lot more valuable info. This is not dissimilar to my experience following tutorials on the internet...

I honestly doubt I would ever pay for this shit.

I understand your perspective. Personally, I think that there's a chicken/egg situation where free AI versions are a subpar representation that makes skeptics view AI as a whole as over-hyped. OTOH, the people who use the better models experience the benefits first hand, but are seen as AI zealots that are having the wool pulled over there eyes.

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