Hacker News: MonkeyMalarky

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Police sue rapper Afroman for using footage of home raid in his music videos"

MonkeyMalarky — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 03:04:34 +0000

Invasion of privacy? After entering someone else's private property without their consent? Surely they will be laughed out of court!

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation"

MonkeyMalarky — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:21:55 +0000

I don't know if it's a scam but there's been guys hanging around the local greyhound station with stories like "my phone battery died while I was on the bus, can I use your phone to call my buddy to pick me up". And I don't want to be a jerk but something about it felt a bit too pushy, and if I give then my phone I was probably never going to see it or them again. Now just giving it unlocked to a squeegee kid? Hell no, that's just plain naive.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes"

MonkeyMalarky — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:31:39 +0000

Now there's an idea! Chat with a psychologist using your dead parents voices. I wonder what Freud would make of that.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes"

MonkeyMalarky — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:39:27 +0000

So who's going to build the sex phone line where you can talk to celebrities like Marilyn Monroe?

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Psychedelic brew ayahuasca’s profound impact revealed in brain scans"

MonkeyMalarky — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:58:10 +0000

Just take this 5-strip of acid at a 3 day music festival surrounded by 20,000 people for your first time bro!

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "IPCC climate crisis report delivers ‘final warning on 1.5C’"

MonkeyMalarky — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:21:47 +0000

Die? I think it's die. Look at Biden, Putin, Xi, and Rupert Murdoch they range from old to really fucking old.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts"

MonkeyMalarky — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 15:47:04 +0000

Now it's the senior engineers and architects turn to panic!

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Meta staffers reportedly spar with Mark Zuckerberg after mass layoffs"

MonkeyMalarky — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 14:19:56 +0000

I saw that Mr. Z. was getting into MMA in his free time, but this is taking it a bit too far isn't it?

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Self-Admitted Technical Debt"

MonkeyMalarky — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:53:28 +0000

I have micro-services that haven't been touched in years because they do one thing, and the requirements of that one thing never change.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Plans to repopulate Hawaii’s forests with its crows have been upended"

MonkeyMalarky — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 13:05:55 +0000

Human contact has been a bad thing for a lot of bird species.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Mice grow ‘mini-antlers’ thanks to deers’ speedy stem cells"

MonkeyMalarky — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 23:04:06 +0000

Have a link handy?

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?"

MonkeyMalarky — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:06:03 +0000

Yeah this thread has been the motivation for me to sign up on the wait list and cost out what it would take to try fine-tuning their older models on our data. There's still plenty of work out there when it comes to building a solution to a problem.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?"

MonkeyMalarky — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 21:00:16 +0000

Also what happens to the intuition and unwritten skills that humans learned and passed on over time? Sure, the model has probably internalized them implicitly from the training data. But what happens in a case where you need to have a human perform the task again (say after a devastating war)? The ones with the arcane knowledge are gone, and now humans are starting from scratch.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?"

MonkeyMalarky — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:54:22 +0000

The price isn't even that bad, even the most expensive at 6cents per 1k tokens, it won't cost me much. It's the context size that's amazing. Gone are the days of only being able to pass ~500 tokens into something like BERT.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?"

MonkeyMalarky — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:50:06 +0000

I'm not at a big tech company, and we don't sell algorithms, but my team does use a lot of NLP stuff in internal algorithms. The only panic I have is trying to keep up and take the time to learn the new stuff. If anything, things like GPT-4 are going to make my team 10x more successful without having to hire an army of PhDs.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Xiaomi has been in violation of GPL for years"

MonkeyMalarky — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:01:08 +0000

If you're in NA, I bet there's undergrads running around campus just as skimpily dressed. What do you do, walk around with your eyes closed lest you be fired for looking at a woman in public?

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Google discontinues Google Glass for enterprise"

MonkeyMalarky — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:03:41 +0000

The sad thing is this isn't even that hot of take given what happened with Facebook and the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar...

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Reddit is currently down"

MonkeyMalarky — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:52:31 +0000

Thousands of laid off tech workers playing around with the bot / scraper / side project they always wanted to build? Maybe we'll see a flood of indie games on steam in 6 months too.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "GPT-4"

MonkeyMalarky — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 18:08:08 +0000

If it's trained on material scraped from the web, I imagine it would include all the test prep sites and forums.

New comment by MonkeyMalarky in "Chickens, cows, threatened in Ransomware on Canadian farms"

MonkeyMalarky — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:37:00 +0000

>Workers will be required to go through multiple rounds of disinfection and testing before being given clearance to enter, and won’t be able to leave the site until their next break – reportedly once a week.

I can't imagine living and working for weeks at a time in an environment like that,it sounds awfully dystopian. Imagine a cyberpunk future where the lower casts are permanent sequestered from society because they've been quarantined.