Rob Cobb
@robcobbable
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I'm absolutely right!
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Joined September 2013
the full power of the computer is generally inaccessible, to humans and ai both
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It’s maybe a little too on the nose that a 1280x720 image is around 1000 tokens. I guess a picture really is worth a thousand words
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epic prompts
@robcobbable @theogcb405 @medjedowo In the post scarcity post-human world we shall return to tradition and memorize epic prompts
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if I had not seen clips before 2024, I would suspect wemby is ai generated
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projects wikimedia should fund: - knowurmeme - archive org - scihub
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whenever that quid drops you know I’m on the lookout for that pro quo
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@robcobbable Most people already have three stages. As an aside, it sure is great that all my followers know I prefer high quality likes over retweets which risk my tweets breaking containment and exposing me to the slop-slurping plebs.
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seems bad even if it wasn’t related to the vuln I want to know when my server was hit with a request!
@alexjoelee React server doesn’t write logs. And reverse proxies usually don’t log POST request payload contents - only URLs, User-Agent, client IP and the like.
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@tszzl For anyone reading this and curious about methodology, we've published three papers on Arxiv. Our first technical report, Feb 2024: https://t.co/EEHJSPpRqs - Details basic technique, building a synthetic mirror of the human dataset, active learning/hard negative mining for FPR
arxiv.org
We present Pangram Text, a transformer-based neural network trained to distinguish text written by large language models from text written by humans. Pangram Text outperforms zero-shot methods...
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> indispensable to the Empire for their quick thought @norvid_studies
Shuddering to think of the hedonistic grotesquery uplifted hummingbirds would indulge in. Like obese angel-beasts, glittering on thrones of sugar-syrup pipework—revolting, bloated jewels, yet indispensable to the Empire for their quick thought
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list of instrumental epistemic attitudes dependent on not being descriptive claims about reality
@MechanicalDao @arithmoquine charitably, I read the OP as a kind of instrumental epistemic attitude tried on for its effects, rather than a descriptive claim about reality. like psyching yourself up for the big game even if the other team is objectively just better
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Been taking calls with Zo users (subscribers get a link to my cal). Everyone is pleasantly surprised they get to chat with me, and I get a lot out of it – I live-blog bullet notes into our team Slack and it's extremely motivating to see how excited people are about Zo. Last
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@norvid_studies @abelian_soup @osoleve @medjedowo "how normal people think X works" as a kind of futuresight because the world converges to what normies think and desire. aka hyperstition i guess
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(also we should not have standardized on bluetooth, an expensive and difficult closed-source spec, for generalized device pairing and communication. alas,we live in a fallen world)
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this actually gets at a fundamental issue that no wireless protocol can overcome to wit: wireless lacks obvious affordances that wired connections have by default this mistake is impossible with a physical connection
I just spent the last two hours debugging the Bluetooth stack *in anger* because for the last few weeks I've had to re-pair my mouse with my laptop. Every time. Remove mouse, re-pair. Turns out I had two identical mice in my backpack and I've been switching between them. It
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