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  • If Trump loses his tariff lawsuit, America may have to refund businesses more than $200 billion

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  • No. That was their plan. They know what they're doing. Republican voters are the dumb ones.

  • Belgium To Recognize Palestine, Impose Sanctions On Israel

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  • This is a step in the right direction, but these sanctions are really weak. You can do better.

  • A downturn in international travel to the U.S. may last beyond summer, experts warn

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  • You might find something in Norway.

  • Three years of building no-code software for political organizations

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  • I am a dev as well, and to build a website you traditionally need a dev. Well, nowadays, you can build a website with a "no code" website builder. That's the most common "no-code" use.

    Not that it's relevant to this conversation, but that doesn't stop people from hiring me to build their website, because "no code" also means "limited customization" and/or "low quality".

    1. The OS isn't the software building anything for you.
    2. You didn't build a media center, you installed software that makes a media center. A "no-code" software that would build a media center would not make much sense, as there isn't a need for any sort of customisation that would not fit into "configuration".
    3. Your point with Minecraft does make sense, but as it does not have any use outside of Minecraft, I wouldn't call Minecraft a no-code system. However, the system itself that you used inside Minecraft to build your automatic sorter would fit the definition, imo. Redstone is a no-code system, for sure.
    4. Firefox didn't build it, you did.
    5. A parametric font isn't something that would require any code to make, so it doesn't fit the definition. What makes a parametric font useful is its support, which requires dev work, and is not no-code.
    6. A 3D print isn't something that would require a dev to do. Of course you can always model something with lines of code, but that's not how you'd sensibly do it.

    "Building something" and "Building something that traditionally requires dev work" are not the same thing.

    The software you use always needed code to make, but it doesn't aim to skip the "hire a dev" phase of your project. If it does, it is "no code".

    And for the sake of argument, let's say that Blender doesn't exist and no other software fulfilling the same purpose exists. Then you'd have to commission a dev (team) to create that software so that you can train people to create 3D models. But the dev building your 3D modeling software doesn't typically have the skills to use the software afterwards, so it does not fit the "no-code" definition.

    TL;DR: It is a "no-code" software when you can skip the "hire a dev" phase of your project and use said software instead.

  • Three years of building no-code software for political organizations

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  • No, it definitely does not cover almost all software. Most software does not aim to allow a random user to build something that usually requires a dev.

    When you use an OS, you build nothing. When you use a browser, you build nothing. When you use a game, you build nothing. When you use a graphics editor, you build something, but it's not something that a dev could do.

    I could go on with a list of almost all software like this, but that's not a good use of my time, and I hope it is not necessary.

  • ‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona

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  • Obviously not. The cause of death was overheating.

  • Three years of building no-code software for political organizations

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  • "no-code" software is a very specific category of software that aims to enable users to build something that usually is built by a dev, without needing one.

    And while "no-code" can be a weird name, it makes sense when you read the definition I just gave. Just like "serverless" does not mean there is no server involved (obviously), but simply means you don't even need to think about the server part.

  • Dance like nobody’s watching

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  • As others have stated... The problem isn't the burner, it's that you tried to out spaghetti in... cold water?

  • Trump Spotted After Widespread And Giddy Speculation He Is Secretly Dead Or Dying

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  • They won't get far without the support of Americans. Vance won't rally the Trump cultists.

    It's not an actual dictatorship. Yet.

  • Trump Spotted After Widespread And Giddy Speculation He Is Secretly Dead Or Dying

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  • At this point it is more important to not have him damage the world any further than to get justice. I'll be happy if he stops being president even if he doesn't get any sort of justice coming for him. This just has to stop.

  • Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

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  • Yeah, considering it is not impossible to geoblock per instance, they could.

  • OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police

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  • Not a single part of your answer is about how the brain works.

    Concepts are not things in your brain.

    Consciousness is a concept. It doesn't exist in your brain.

    Thinking is how a human uses their brain.

    I'm asking about how the brain itself functions to intepret natural language.

  • OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police

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  • That doesn't answer the question you quoted.

  • OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police

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  • Of course the "understanding" of an LLM is limited. Because the entire technology is new, and it's far from being anywhere close to being able to understand to the level of a human.

    But I disagree with your understanding of how an LLM works. At its lower level, it's a bunch on connected artifical neurons, not that different from a human brain. Now please don't read this as me saying it's as good as a human brain. It's definitely not, but its inner workings are not so far. As a matter of fact, there is active effort to make artificial neurons behave as close as possible to a human neuron.

    If it was just statistics, it wouldn't be so difficult to look at the trained model and identify what does what. But just like the human brain, it is incredidbly difficult to understand that. We just have a general idea.

    So it does understand, to a limited extent. Just like a human, it won't understand what it hasn't been exposed to. And unlike a human, it is exposed to a very limited set of data.

    You're putting the difference between a human's "understanding" and an LLM's "understanding" in the meaning of the word "understanding", which is just a shortcut to say that they can't be compared. The actual difference is in the scope of understanding.

    A lot of the efforts in the AI fields gravitate around imitating a human brain. Which makes sense, as it is the only thing we know that is capable of doing what we want an AI to do. LLMs are no different, but their scope is limited.

  • OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police

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  • They are talking at a technical level only on one side of the comparison. It makes the entire discussion pointless. If you're going to compare the understanding of a neural network and the understanding of a human brain, you have to go into depth on both sides.

    Mysticism? Lmao. Where? Do you know what the word means?

  • OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police

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  • You're entering a more philosophical debate than a technical one, because for this point to make any sense, you'd have to define what "understanding" language means for a human in a level as low as what you're describing for an LLM.

    Can you affirm that what a human brain does to understand language is so different to what an LLM does?

    I'm not saying an LLM is smart, but saying that it doesn't understand, when having computers "understand" natural language is the core of NLP, is meh.

  • OpenAI says it's scanning users' ChatGPT conversations and reporting content to the Police

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  • That is actually incorrect. It is also a language understanding tool. You don't have an LLM without NLP. NLP includes processing and understanding natural language.

  • Trump orders Hegseth to form National Guard unit in each state to combat crime, protests

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  • Huh. Sounds familiar.

  • Trump orders Hegseth to form National Guard unit in each state to combat crime, protests

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  • Ah yes, protect the great american companies of the 17th century