gerikson

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure this person has been watching a lot of very inappropriate anime

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago

RAF's aims were explicitely accelerationist - their terror would provoke a ferocious repressional response that would open the eyes of the masses to the repressive government and trigger a revolution.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

being performatively worried about Japanese birth rates is a HN trope, for whatever that's worth

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This morning I felt a bit burned out on AoC but thought I might as well just do some noodling around on breaks. Turns out it was

day 10

pretty dang easy

So far this is the current standing according to the finishing times of the 1st 100 answers on the global leaderboard

  1. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
  2. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
  3. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
  4. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
  5. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
  6. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
  7. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
  8. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
  9. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
  10. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
[–] gerikson@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

ya lost me there bub

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

re: 10 commentary

apparently "everyone" did this. Me too

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)

"Our righteous warriors are only supposed to kill brown people and women, not captains of industry!!"

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I had a lot of trouble because my input was truncated, despite the site warning me about that. Did I listen? I did not.

edit

day 9 discussion

Principal Skinner moment

"Did I miscopy the input?"

"No, it is my algorithm that is wrong"

kinda satisfying to figure out I was correct all along.

Part 2 is not as fast as I'd like (14s), but faster than it was. People on reddit are wittering on about search trees, me I just sling Perl hashrefs around

https://github.com/gustafe/aoc2024/blob/main/d09-Disk-Fragmenter.pl

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Time for a new thread for a new week?

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

relevant to this sub's interest is this Reddit thread about "LLM cheaters" in AoC:

https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/1h9cub8/discussion_on_llm_cheaters/

 

In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

 

[this is probably off-topic for this forum, but I found it on HN so...]

Edit "enjoy" the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38233810

 

Title is ... editorialized.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gerikson@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
 

Title quote stolen from JZW: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/10/the-best-way-to-profit-from-ai/

Yet again, the best way to profit from a gold rush is to sell shovels.

 

After several months of reflection, I’ve come to only one conclusion: a cryptographically secure, decentralized ledger is the only solution to making AI safer.

Quelle surprise

There also needs to be an incentive to contribute training data. People should be rewarded when they choose to contribute their data (DeSo is doing this) and even more so for labeling their data.

Get pennies for enabling the systems that will put you out of work. Sounds like a great deal!

All of this may sound a little ridiculous but it’s not. In fact, the work has already begun by the former CTO of OpenSea.

I dunno, that does make it sound ridiculous.

 

"Oh no! - Anyway" meme intensifies.

 

Pretty soon, paying for all the APIs you need to make sure your Midjourney images are palatable will be enough to pay a human artist!

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