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by Rebuff5007 5mo ago
I'd argue that the engineers of 20 years ago were better than the engineers of today because they were significantly more resource constrained and for example, would never use a 300mb javascript library for a profile page.
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by Rebuff5007 6mo ago
Not sure why this is hitting the home page right now but people may also be interested in Mujoco Playground [1] which is the latest RL environment wrapper of mujoco, implementing both classic deepmind-control benchmarks, and some very new i
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by Rebuff5007 6mo ago
Snowdens document leaks happened in 2013 (implying the surveillance state was set up well before then). So this is more a leisurely stroll than a sprint.
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by Rebuff5007 6mo ago
I see your point, and think its valid, but here is a counter: Content is graded on both instant appeal (e.g. rotten tomatoes "popcornmeter") and artistic appeal (e.g. rotten tomatoes "tomatometer"). I firmly believe that
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by Rebuff5007 6mo ago
Very interesting discrepancy in the attached example: - "removing the kettlebell" led to removing the visual representation of the kettlebell as well the deformation it makes on the pillow - "removing the hands" removed
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by Rebuff5007 6mo ago
> I bet OpenAI genuinely believes What does this even mean? Who is being "genuine"? This is far to naive a take for a company thats burning through hundreds of millions of dollars, and constantly striving to set the tone of AI
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by Rebuff5007 6mo ago
Of course it is... we are in an era where a well-timed blog post showing "SOTA results" on a benchmark can net millions in funding
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by Rebuff5007 7mo ago
I share this dilemma too. Just a thought -- I feel less okay with AI processing "data made for humans" (i.e. the images themselves, audio recordings of speech) and more ok with it processing "data made for software" (exi
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by Rebuff5007 7mo ago
The UK government is trying to regulate a service used by UK citizens / residents. What part of this seems unreasonable?
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by Rebuff5007 7mo ago
I dont think this is right... most people I know care more about not doing the "wrong" thing than feeling entitled for doing the "right" thing.
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by Rebuff5007 7mo ago
> it's very hard to see how anyone could look at what just happened I think what you are missing is their annual comp with two commas in it.
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by Rebuff5007 8mo ago
I worked in some fully autonomous car projects back in ~2010. I would say every single company and the industry at large felt HUGE pressure to not have any incidents, as a single bad incident from one company can wreck the entire initiative
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by Rebuff5007 8mo ago
Do you also audit every part of every car you buy or medicine you take? Or do you rely on large well-established institutions to do that for you? "Dont trust google" imo is the wrong response here. We are at the mercy of our insti
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by Rebuff5007 8mo ago
I've also been quite skeptical, and I became even more skeptical after hearing a tech talk from a startup in this space [1]. I think the best way to think about it is that its an engineering hack to deal with a shortcoming of LLMs: f
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by Rebuff5007 9mo ago
OF COURSE! The fact that tech leaders espouse the brilliance of LLMs and don't use this specific test method is infuriating to me. It is deeply unfortunate that there is little transparency or standardization of the datasets available
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by Rebuff5007 9mo ago
I've heard a lot of such anecdotes. I'm not saying its ill-intentioned, but the skeptic in me is cautious that this is the type of reasoning which propels the anti-vax movement. I wish / hope the medical community will addres
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by Rebuff5007 9mo ago
Few things that go overlooked from someone that works in industrial robotics: - note that google already has investment in industrial robotics with intrinsic ai (that is the confluence of OSRF, bot and dolly, and a few other robotics/a
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by Rebuff5007 9mo ago
I generally don't place "conspiratorial" motivations to explain the decisions of tech companies, but I can't help but think this is a move from apple to keep their ludicrously powerful M-chips busy with mundane UI becaus
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
Well, they picked it back up with Jax...
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
Hot take: they have always been firing on all cylinders. The marketing it just a bit different now. Everything you mention is the result of significant long-term investments.
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
Hot take: i'm not sure this is actually bad for actual diversity and inclusion. From my experience (not at msft), companies continue to have many internal goals related to equal pay, gender balance, etc. Whats changing is how this is
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
Both of those sound like expertise in building a website, and not like expertise in business strategy. To be clear, I would personally have a similar view to the author here. I'm just surprised that they think their opinion on the stra
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
The expertise offered here is "how to build a website". If the client is insisting that the dev use a specific javascript library, that would be odd. The client here is just requesting specific content on their website , similar
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
This whole post is coming of a bit naive to me... I highly doubt this client is just an inspirational design meeting away from changing their offering and make a massive investment in customer support. I also don't get why a web-develo
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
Thats true, but I think the blame is more on "American society" and not the kids working through the system. 50 years ago, college was cheaper. From what I understand getting jobs if you had a college degree was much easier. Soci
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
But why not? AI also has very powerful open models (that can actually be fine-tuned for personal use) that can compete against the flagship proprietary models. As an average consumer, I actually feel like i'm less locked into gemini&#x
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
I think the good news is that open-source models are a genuine counterweight to these closed-source models. The moment ads become egregious, I expect to see and use services for an affordable "private GPT on demand, fine-tuned as you w
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
Hot take: a flagship silicon valley startup built on hype and overzealous ambition crashing and burning in 2026 is exactly what the industry needs right now.
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
You seem to be complicating your thinking here. They are spending more money than they are bringing in. This means they are losing money.
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by Rebuff5007 10mo ago
Amazon had a product on day 1... particularly one that was unique and made a lot of sense for the moment it was introduced.

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