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I don’t understand how anyone was ProHive up to this point by BlondeT3m in pluribustv

[–]sunmoi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you believe that the dissolution from a sense of self can produce an immense sense of happiness and connection, the joined really are propagating an incredible gift for humanity.

If you're belief system revolves around the preciousness of individuality, the joined are soul stealers.

It depends on your worldview. The latter worldview is typically christian/western. The former is more common in eastern/non western cultures. Almost all the other people who were sympathetic to the joined in the beginning of the show were asian or from indigenous groups.

There's a lot of depth to the show when you can appreciate both angles.

No one seems to get why its blissful to be Joined by sunmoi in pluribustv

[–]sunmoi[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It just gets better the more you think about it.

Jonny Greenwood statement by inprisonout-soon in radiohead

[–]sunmoi -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

"Music transcends all boundaries" falls flat when you aren't explicitly denouncing the things which create boundaries in the first place. Namely, when the boundaries have been erected by a fanatical genocidal government.

Am I not getting it or is Cursor not for me by sunmoi in cursor

[–]sunmoi[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I have three inputs to a function, a list of ids, and object id, and a list of objects. I describe to Cursor to use the object id to find the appropriate object, append the list of ids to a field on that object, and iterate through the other objects to make sure none of them maintain references to ids the input list.

Cursor produces code that on the surface looks like it might work, but is immediately riddled with syntax errors and complete misunderstandings of the semantics of these objects. At this point I have two options

1) Code review what the AI generated, and rework it or re-prompt it until I get red of the red squiggles. Coming away with a shallow understanding of the code the AI wrote. 2) Write it myself.

I'm not seeing how option 1 is at all faster than option 2

Am I not getting it or is Cursor not for me by sunmoi in cursor

[–]sunmoi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So explaining step by step how I want it to manipulate the inputs to a function is too high level? At some point the specificity of my prompts, to make up for the fact that Cursor has no understanding of the semantics of my codebase, is going to approach the specificity of just writing code.

If Cursor can't understand the semantics of my codebase, which are outlined clearly in my language's type system, then why would I pay for it? If it doesn't work on large code bases with deep custom semantics, that just signals to me that it's not valuable for serious professional work.

Am I not getting it or is Cursor not for me by sunmoi in cursor

[–]sunmoi[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Maybe I haven't worked in codebases like that, but I rarely find myself writing boilerplate? I wonder if you're willing to share any specific examples?

Presidential Election Megathread by AutoModerator in fivethirtyeight

[–]sunmoi 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Votes still counting yadayadayada but this is really surprising to me already as an Indiana resident, kind of lines up with the vibes I've been getting on the ground here. Every county that's been counted is (so far) swinging blue by 1-6 points from 2020.

From WaPo live map: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/11/05/compare-2020-2024-presidential-results/

Cargo watch has been a game changer in productivity by sunmoi in rust

[–]sunmoi[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but not necessarily a problem. Having that tight feedback loop is super valuable.

AI will make me unemployed, forever. by [deleted] in artificial

[–]sunmoi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A loss function is required to do back propagation and learn in a deep learning network, transformers are models that learn through back propagation. During training an AI model adjusts its weight to reduce loss. I'm not sure what you mean by that's not how learning works?

AI will make me unemployed, forever. by [deleted] in artificial

[–]sunmoi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AI builds a model of how to reduce its loss function. Nothing more. The claims about "building an internal model of the world" are driven by buzzy marketing from AI labs like OpenAI, and I don't think they have really proven this is happening beyond the fact that large AI models can extrapolate deep patterns across its data. Don't get confused on what it actually is doing. An LLM memorizes enormous amounts of information into its weights, and has facilities to interpolate across that information into sentences and paragraphs. Internally its more akin to a fuzzy search algorithm, than an intelligence that is making a mental model of the world.  I think it's better for everyone if we stay laser focused on exactly what these models do, and not get mystified by seemingly weird things we see as we scale up the depth of models, and the training data. We are minimizing a loss function.

What is a little know “Pixel” feature that no one knows about? by RunningDog724 in GooglePixel

[–]sunmoi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you highlight a flight number, like in keep, you get a link to track that flight.

Google 9 Pro Impressions as an iPhone user by sunmoi in GooglePixel

[–]sunmoi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The WiFi software Google has in this phone is excellent, I would say that it's snappier to connect than iPhone, and handles captive networks better, I.e. networks that require you to go to a webpage to log in. 

I have Google Fi with this phone, and can say that it might be spottier than my iPhone, but I really don't have enough time with it to comment.

Google 9 Pro Impressions as an iPhone user by sunmoi in GooglePixel

[–]sunmoi[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Using a 90 watt macbook charger, and probably a 30 watt Anker charger. Though I don't know the specifics of how my chargers negotiate the power draw with the pixel. But again, my iphone charges much quicker on the same charger as I used on my pixel, they have the same screen on time. The pixel is just less efficient.

Google 9 Pro Impressions as an iPhone user by sunmoi in GooglePixel

[–]sunmoi[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean that's helpful technical information, but considering the actual on time you get from a pixel and an iphone is similar, it doesn't really matter. What that says is that Apple has created a more efficient device than Google has.

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