I’m having fun using vanilla js with lit-html. Using string templates instead of jsx. VSCode extensions for lit make it almost identical to editing vue templates with type checking etc
I’m not a backend guy, for a hobby php site I’m trying to get Oauth2 with gmail free smtp, and the token refresh part to run on its own and even with packages like Phpmailer there’s no simple working copy/paste examples, just loads and loads of bits and pieces and outdated examples and small print about Google changed this or that… I mean wtf is the point of having a package that is supposed to abstract OAuth if you still end up having to dig for hours and having to figure OAuth2’s flow in detail?
I’m so disgusted I figured maybe I’ll do the password with 2fa on that email acct and be done with it even though OAuth shpuld be the better option.
Me too but I have to constantly manage my history.
Thankfully the AppleTV app makes this easy if you click and hold in the History view you can remove single videos after watching them (so my home is not filled with lolcats).
Like, I like Courtney Ryan but I’ll never keep a video in my watch history (only Follow), otherwise I start seeing all those Tarzan-meets-Jane podcasts etc. that the author mentions.
Mainly it seems to be about keywords so you have to kinda guess what keywords go with a video and remove it from watch history if ypu dont want the algorithm to go down that route.
It’s a shame YT doesnt have a separate history for gaming and music,along with a separate "recommened" there. I would go on binges there frequently while still being able to chill in the evening on my tv with the content I expect in the Home tab. Without this I am forced to stay away from exploring music or gaming, too much watch history maintenance.
Yes exactly and it further emphasizes the concerns Gilchrist has with his theory that there is an imbalance that has grown and shaped society.
I wonder just what influence will it have if we end up spending lots of time using chat-like interface but talking to someone who is so "left brained".
How will it change us and how we relate to one another? Probaby not in good ways I’m afraid. Especially at a time of increasing loneliness, distance relationships, online friendships, less intimacy… woke culture etc.
I think what’s fascinating about GPT developments is it may very well emulate part of our left brain hemisphere. As McGilchrist pointed out, with lots of research and studies on people with brain damage strokes etc. is that it is the left hemisphere that sees the world from an internal representation. Right hemi. sees a car as the "thing in itself" in direct experience (colours etc). The left hemisphere makes it into a category of "car", now removed from direct experience.
And just like gpt’s data set isnt necessarily truth, so is our own image of the world which as we know can be deeply distorted through abusive childhood, cults etc. In fact, all of human knowledge is simply beliefs, agreed stories about reality. For example "red" is a word/sound that points to an experience. The word alone only has meaning in context (what GPT can handle), but can never substitue for a conscious experience.
Crucially imho, software will never be able to do what the right hemisphere does. And I find it dumbfounding that even Lex Fridman doesnt see the fundamental difference between conceptual thought / language based reasoning, and direct experience aka consciousness.
Good read but it doesn’t explain anything to me, as a non-researcher who inows nothing about NLP etc.
Word prediction makes sense to me for the translation. It’s easy to intuit how training on millions of sentences would allow the algorithm to translate text.
But how can it reason about complex questions? Isn’t that entirely different from translating between languages?
How can word prediction lead to a coherent long answer with concluding paragraph etc?
What’s interesting to me is how this only works because of prior art.
BUT, when prior art will be AI-assisted if not 99% generated art, from a pool of prior human art ever so slowly diminishing… where is this going?
For one, "art" can only lessen in value. Perhaps physical art will grow in value as digital art’s "made by without AI" tag becomes unprovable and meaningless.
I think it’s bad. Whomever provides these tools is not refilling the pool of prior human art, only muddying it up. Therefore everything will converge. It was quite obvious already the way eg. most webapps nowadays have the same boring design… but this is worse.
But I don’t know it must be the inevitable evolution, perhaps this is how we will end our differences… as human’s "collective mind" becomes more and more evident.
I never understood this model. Can you imagine how much it would cost to support all my favorite streamers? I don’t even follow many. But let’s say even just 5 and now we’re looking at 25$ / month.
Obviously I must be out of the loop if this currently works… but I don’t get it.
Turbo is nice, but should be just a little cheaper. YT Premium Lite is 7 euros.
The ads are insufferable. Hate how they really want to shove it down your throat even when you back out of a stream and pick another.
Worse it’s badly implemented. Countless times I’m watching the same ads multiple times within 10-15 mins.
Only saving grace on AppleTV if you back out you can wait it out while the stream is still highlighted, with the sound off, then enter the stream again.
Maybe I’m overdramatizing but as I see it, AI will accelerate the end of ALL shallow content.
And maybe thas is a good thing. Maybe as a civilization, we need to come out of slumber, of drugging ourselves out day and night with endless tv series, super hero movies and so called "games" (about 90% of which are garbage and/or cookie clickers at their core).
So it’s fascinating : our best shot at capitalism created all this technological innovation, but also so much parasitic, essentially pointless "work" where people toil away creating "content" and "entertainment" such as games, movies etc the majority of which is consumed in our "time off" to unwind and forget about "working" (I’m thinking in particular of the movie Kooyanisqatsi which illustrates this madness).
We couldn’t imagine a different way of life - but the funny thing is, AI will help us come out of this slumber by making the majority of so called "entertainment" - which is garbage let’s face it (80/20 rule and all that) - pretty much obsolete as well as valueless.
So this seems paradoxical but I believe the best thing about AI is it will free us and drive us towards real value and authenticity in our day to day relationships and expression.