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Ask HN: Tech Behind the "Magic" Company?
5 points by ChicagoBoy11 1y ago|2 comments
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by ChicagoBoy11 1y ago
Yes, but isn't it "just" 124 light years away. So, we're looking at it 124 years ago, which, in the scale of evolution, isn't particularly long ago?
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Reading through that website felt to me like trying to read the NKS book. It certainly feels like there's a there "there", but I'm either to unintelligent or can't devote the time to really get it, and then I move o
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Oddly one impact on me from reading this is that Kapwing seems like probably a nice place to apply for a job -- simple enough application process, human review, sane and respectful take-home and no live pressure coding. I'm not affilia
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
I had interpreted it as some of the answers being given during the interview had been generated by an LLM, which then choked when it was met with a more sophisticated query of how several of the answers connected together. Was this not the
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Curious to wonder how many academic papers/other kinds of analysis have perhaps come to incorrect conclusions because of these date inconsistencies!
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Not opp, but I built a real-time sensitive app for a few friends of mine and have to say I was really impressed by Firebase's realtime database. There were all sorts of issues around concurrency/first-mover that I had to deal with
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
He's only 7 months old so I have a little bit of time to get this right hehe
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
I'm marginally in the IT space... Is there anything to my reaction that at least in dollar terms this is a multiple of the dollar amount of what Whatsapp was acquired back in the day, which was a large consumer facing product that I co
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Ask HN: Path forward for IRL "magic ball" reading comapnion
2 points by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago|2 comments
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Highly recommend Apollo by Blythe Cox and Murray. Tremendous engineering history of the Apollo program, and really makes you appreciate the numerous folks and terrific stories that all had to come together to make it happen.
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Have you ever seen the Google Lightfields demo? They have a rig they concocted to essentially capture a "volume" of video to allow for the stereoscopic effect in VR AND which then cleverly presents a different combination of the f
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
When I did my flight training on a CAPS-enabled airplane, they showed us footage and stats from the military to say that there was a clear bias towards "saving" planes, especially in training, and that it led to more fatalities th
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
It all makes sense, but it must have a chilling effect on any military aviator reading this who finds themselves in a position to consider doing the same.Z Cirrus flight instruction uses the military statistic that historically military avi
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Really neat... very impressive work so far, so inspiring! It's kinda funny to see just HOW MANY of these automated chess things exist... it's like people really do want the physical experience while still playing "with"
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
No, that's my experience as well
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
This is something I've struggled with as a mostly solo dev. I've most often just stuck with vanilla javascript because of course that's good enough, but definitely there have been times where I hoped I had some typing helping
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
I work at a private school and will sadly tell you that the author's points are actually pretty severely understated when it comes to the incentives of schools regarding this phenomenon. Differentiation is a word that gets thrown aroun
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
Not the parent comment, but I think he means something like "we know folks will be addicted to this pseudo-person and that is a good thing cause it makes our product valuable", akin to reports that tobacco companies knew the harms
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
The whole "hallucination" business always seemed to me to be a marketing masterstroke -- the "wrong" output it produces is in no way more "wrong" or "right" than any other output given how LLMs are fu
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by ChicagoBoy11 2y ago
I wonder if it has to do with the fact that they so front-and-center showcased the very un-human-like capabilities, whereas the other one almost seemed to try to just be an exceptionally athletic human.
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Sadly, no. I moved back to the US and then worked on other things, but still maintained it for a few years until the ENEM microdata started to get released super behind schedule, then I gave up on the whole thing. Was called dadosdoenem.org
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I'm Brazilian and when I moved back home for a bit the country had recently inaugurated a national exam for all high-schoolers. About maybe a year after, they'd publish an anonymized data set for researchers with a nice question-b
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Until it isn't, though. When the thing you are selling is essentially a commodity, when the business model only works because you are balancing some crazy thing margins that rely on all the other gizmos to make work, when the tech supp
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
I'll have a slightly different take on this -- I suspect quite a bit of this might be a form of a "when in Rome" effect. I'm an immigrant myself, and the number of family members for whom going to a "original"
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Can only hope to unfortunately find myself with one such meeting scheduled on my calendar!
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Sincere question: To the extent that "the open internet" IS valuable data, isn't Reddit in the best possible position to capitalize on it? The mechanic of the website allows for people all over the world to contribute free-fo
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
They won best picture at the Academy award two years ago, and seem to have been focusing on TV content. And, for what it's worth, Killers of the Flower Moon was a terrific feature film in its own right, was nominated for many categorie
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by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago
Wait, what? Aren't all of the things that Altman is doing now making all of the data that Reddit is sitting on (and its capacity to generate new ones) EVEN MORE valuable? Didn't they just announce some data sharing deal to train a
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Ask HN: AI Baby monitoring state of the art?
2 points by ChicagoBoy11 3y ago|0 comments

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