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How likely is it that this JSON structure and corresponding database schema is somewhere in the (immense) training data. Was it novel? New?

You seem to think that the way these things work is by just simply pulling up chunks of existing code from a big db. That's not actually what's happening. It's building a solution for a particular context based on its training data. This is not fundamentally different from how a human developer solves problems either. You learn through experience and once you've solved many problems, you recognize patterns and apply solutions you learned previously in a new context. It is writing new and novel code when it produces solutions.

The reality is that most of programming isn't all that innovative. Most work in general isn't innovative. Automating the boring stuff is literally the whole point. Meanwhile, it's far more sophisticated than copy pasting from StackOverflow. It can come up with solutions in a context of a specific problem you give it, and the chain of reasoning DeepSeek R1 produces is actually interesting in itself, as it reads like a chain of thought.

This itself can actually be useful for doing novel and original work because it stimulates your thinking. Sometimes you see something that triggers an idea you wouldn't have had otherwise, and you can pull on this thread. I find it literally saves me hours of work, and it is very useful.

For example, just the other day I used it to come up with a SQL table schema based on some sample input JSON data. Figuring out the relationships would've taken me a little while, and then typing it all up even longer. It did exactly what I needed, and let me focus on the problem I wanted to solve. I also find it can be useful for analyzing code which is great for getting introduced to a codebase you're not familiar with, or finding a specific part of the code that might be of interest.

It's also able to find places in code that can be optimized and even write the optimizations itself https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/11453

Based on my experience, I can definitively says that his is a genuinely useful too for software development.

The energy consumption has already been reduced drastically by reinforcement learning, mixture of agents, quantizing, and other techniques. We're literally just starting to optimize this tech, and there's already been huge progress in that regard. Second, it's already quite good at doing real world tasks, and saves me a ton of time writing boilerplate when coding.

Of course, but I don't think we should discard LLM based AI either. It's a piece of a bigger picture. One of my favorite examples of it being used effectively are neurosymbolic systems where deep neural networks are used to classify noisy input data, and then a symbolic logic system is used to reason about classified data.

I find it works well for many purposes, particularly R1 variant. I've been using it for lots of stuff and it saves me time. I don't think it's flawed technology at all, you just have to understand where and how to use it effectively just like any tool.

I think this is a perfect illustration of how technology ends up being applied under different social and economic systems. The reason AI is problematic in the west is due to the fact that it's applied towards finding ways to increase the wealth of the oligarchs. On the other hand, China is using AI for stuff like industry automation, optimizing government workflow, and so on. AI is just a tool for automating work, there's nothing inherently bad about it. The question is how this tool is applied and to what purposes.

I started using LibreWolf yesterday after the license change and it was a smooth transition. If you enable Firefox sync in it, which is disabled by default, then it'll just import your Firefox profile too. So, all your bookmarks, plugins, etc. get ported over.

The meltdown is incredible to watch honestly. Anybody who was capable of even basic material analysis knew this was the only way it could end. You don't even have to be a Marxist to figure this out. People like Mearsheimer had correct analysis from the start, and libs dismissed them as Putler puppets and what not. Now they're acting shocked as if nobody could've ever predicted this outcome.

It's the whole capitalist realism thing. It's fine to criticize the system as long as it's understood that there is no alternative. Every other system is worse, so just suck it up and accept the horror of capitalism as your only option.

That sure is a shift in the narrative:

But over half of Ukrainians wanted to see the end of the conflict as soon as possible, according to Gallup polling last year. That percentage might be higher now. Moreover, I often doubt we can trust current polls from Ukraine. Today, fear rules over a country where elections are indefinitely postponed, human rights are systematically eroded, and fear dictates daily life.

Zelensky’s authoritarian instincts were already becoming clear even before Putin’s invasion. As early as 2019, I listened as he demanded propaganda from his subordinates to flood the media with praise when his policies failed. Today, he has achieved that: a vast army of voices branding him the face of democracy and the very embodiment of Ukraine itself.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/trump-not-zelensky-is-ukraines-only-hope/

libs over at lemmy.ml are seething over this one https://lemmygrad.ml/post/7062196

Excellent analysis all around, very much agree with the thesis there. This bit in particular is key:

The world has changed: as we've seen during the Ukraine war the West unleashed its entire economic arsenal against Russia, only to demonstrate its own impotence. Russia last year was Europe's fastest-growing economy even when completely cut off from Western markets. So if the West's maximum pressure amounts to so little, its maximum friendship isn't worth much more.

The west has little to offer going forward.

I set up Zulip for some friends a while back, and I can very much recommend that as well. It's a bit like Slack in terms of use, but every conversation is threaded by default. This makes it really nice when you check messages now and then and want to see if there are any interesting conversations happening.

I agree, people who genuinely want to have a discussion and learn are fine. It's the trolls that just create noise who need weeding out.

I recently read that HTS doesn't even control most of the territory, and there are now a whole bunch of militant groups that are fighting each other.

I'm absolutely loving the meltdown techbros are having right now.

Same here, I tend to go for indie games just cause I know I have a good chance of actually finishing them. I really love games like Portal and Viewfinder. Portal Revolution was pretty amazing incidentally.

lol yeah, at this point I try games and if it doesn't click with me immediately I just go to the next

haha too many games to play, I just started playing it on the Deck and runs well :)