Rebuff5007

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by Rebuff5007 2y ago
Having kids solely use a smart watch with some amount of connectedness (GPS, phone calls, a game or two) seems healthier and considerably "less tech" than a full on smartphone.
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by Rebuff5007 2y ago
How can anyone in their right mind think building AI for emoji selection is a remotely good use of time...
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
Its very amusing to me to compare "content moderation" applied to social media versus LLMs. The last 15 years we've seen some of the most awful and bizarre things happen on social media where motivating mantra seemed to be &q
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
Is this confusing? yea. Is there another company with a high volume of products that has an intuitive naming scheme across its products? I don't really think so...
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
No, but surely you can enroll more people. I can't imagine theres a dearth of physical space or qualified educators near any university. The fact that they are not growing to accommodate the demand has always boggled my mind...
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
Really feels like facebook doesnt even try to have a strategy or mission statement any more. Even as someone who is bearish on AI, i get why it is an important part of Google and Microsoft's product offerings. What in the world does a
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
Tangentially -- pretty weird world we live in where a video of someone going through a huge personal moment in their life lives two clicks way from them dancing to JACKBOYS with their cousin... https://www.tiktok.com/@britta
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
A grad student using a new language definitely definitely does not face any career risk IMO... I cant imagine a single professor or recruiter caring about something like this over material progress in their work. My guess is that grad stude
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
To this day when I have buffering problems with online videos I immediately think about his explainer-demo with confetti [1]. Love his work! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI&themeRefresh=1
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
Yes, its good engineering practice to solve the easier problems before solving the hard ones.
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
> But I hope they can maintain their Silicon Valley culture and not succumb to becoming a complete GM outpost. Silicon valley has not shipped a successful product in the space that Cruise is in, and its quite possible no company ever wil
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
Theres something so refreshing about these videos by makers (also adam savage, mark rober, lots of others) where they just emphasize how many failed attempts it takes before they end up with something "less terrible". Makes everyo
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
It boggles my mind that this is getting so much attention instead of things like digital privacy / data tracking which is actually affecting peoples lives.
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
What is the point of having all the "greatest" AI scientists in the world if you can't solve meaningful problems of these systems when used in production... This is a product failure, an engineering failure, a research failur
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
Wow, I did not realize there are easily accessible public records of Texas' current death row inmates: https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/dr_offenders_on_dr.html Credit to the guardian article for linking this.
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
A "PKM" (personal knowledge management i am assuming) community seems self-selecting for the kind of result you got. I would do the opposite -- talk to people who clearly have a need for corralling large amounts of information (au
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by Rebuff5007 3y ago
> you immediately see the need for breaking these banks up. Why exactly is this the conclusion, as opposed to suggesting the big banks need better evaluation of borrowers (whether thats with better metrics or humans in the loop)? All the
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by Rebuff5007 4y ago
The lack of advertisements, popups, cookie consent, propogandist language and fluffy content makes for such a pleasant reading experience. It's a real pity that this is not more common with modern websites, especially in the "re