Dubie

Software Developer. Liberty Hippy.

[dax @thdxr]

there's no such thing as a rogue agent man its software someone made and deployed they are responsible for what it does

cannot let this blame shifting occur

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@fjzeit VRAM will be the bottleneck until it isn't.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@anonymousedev1 @IamAroke Yes. Repetitive code is more for the LLM to read and write. When your project gets bigger the quality of your responses does tend to suffer through time cost and token cost. A good abstraction with good inline documentation is still the way.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@draginol Looks interesting, I will check it out.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@rpdthelol @IamAroke 😎

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@fjzeit Not to mention the post he was replying to was regarding robotics using visual and spatial data. LLMs had the benefit of an enormous existing corpus of training data. Robotic AI is starting from scratch - they haven't even hit their growth curve yet.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@anachron_ @HealthRanger AI assistant subscriptions are still a good deal. But if you're using it at scale (i.e. business infrastructure) it's worth considering.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@Plinz On that note, computers aren't doing anything meaningful outside of the context of a mind. They just look like patterned state changes inside silicon until the matter eventually breaks down.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@leecronin What needs to adapt in this scenario? AI, or the education process?

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

The labor shortage is real.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@leecronin A bullshitting machine that helped me fix my lawn tractor today. Bullshit or not it saves time and money.

[gabe @allgarbled]

I’m opposed to piracy but I do believe that if you buy a physical book you have a divine right to download the pdf by any means necessary

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@thebeaconsignal @zerohedge The data centers are the next iteration's great pyramids.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

DC is Hollywood for ugly people.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@getjonwithit This brand of nerd fight spans generations.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Did everyone else understand that Non Governmental Organizations, ie, NGOs, receive most if not all of their funding from the government, or was I just being ignorant?

If NGOs receive most if not all of their funding from the government, what is the basis for calling them non-governmental?

The answer according to Google is that an NGO is non-governmental because it operates without governmental control and oversight even though it receives government funding.

Why is it beneficial for there to be non-profit organizations, that is NGOs, that receive all or substantially all of their funding from our government, but don’t have any government oversight or control?

Non-profits are not known for having good governance. The combination of funding without oversight and control creates the opportunity for fraud, waste and abuse that we have seen in some of the USAID grants that have been made public in the last week or so.

In the private markets, that is the real world, a majority shareholder would have control and oversight. Why do we allow our government to make majority investments without control and oversight? It makes no sense.

It is time we scrutinize all NGOs and reconsider investing taxpayer money in private organizations without proper oversight and control consistent with what a majority investor would expect in a private corporation.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

- Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

- All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

- The DO-NOT-PAY list of entities known to be fraudulent or people who are dead or are probable fronts for terrorist organizations or do not match Congressional appropriations must actually be implemented and not ignored. Also, it can currently take up to a year to get on this list, which is far too long. This list should be updated at least weekly, if not daily.

The above super obvious and necessary changes are being implemented by existing, long-time career government employees, not anyone from @DOGE. It is ridiculous that these changes didn’t exist already!

Yesterday, I was told that there are currently over $100B/year of entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN or even a temporary ID number. If accurate, this is extremely suspicious.

When I asked if anyone at Treasury had a rough guess for what percentage of that number is unequivocal and obvious fraud, the consensus in the room was about half, so $50B/year or $1B/week!!

This is utterly insane and must be addressed immediately.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’m more concerned about the congressmen who have dementia and are still voting.

[Dubie @JeffDubie]

@scotthortonshow People like Bill Kristol exist only to provide a face to the worst ideas you've ever heard of.