RivieraKid

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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
Not much, only the non-paid non-agent stuff. It's pretty impressive but my estimate is at best a 2x productivity jump for general use. My worry is that the agentic stuff is reportedly a significant improvement and getting better quickl
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
The percentage of people employed in agriculture dropped from 80% to 2%. The market will be full of people who are willing to learn everything about AI in order to have a comfortable and highly paid job. Becoming an electrician would be a d
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
Aren't people worried about their jobs? I'm surprised that this aspect is almost entirely missing in threads like this.
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
Pluribus didn't solve poker. It's limited to fixed starting stack sizes. It can't exploit weak opponents, it tries to approach a Nash equilibrium, but in multiplayer poker, Nash equilibrium doesn't have the theoretical g
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
It can write a chess engine because it has read the code of a thousand of chess engines. This benchmark measures a different aspect of intelligence. And as a poker player, I can say that this game is much more challenging for computers than
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
This would be really cool if polished and integrated with VR.
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
A thought I had about this topic, this is a simplification of reality to illustrate a point: Software developers are doing R&D, you create new stuff that continues to exist forever. This is unlike most jobs, in which you produce goods a
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
The CRI is an imperfect metric, I watch for both CRI and R9, both should be high.
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
It's been a cause of mild background anxiety for me for the past 3 years. One part is financial and the other is a potential loss of a comfortable and relatively high status job that I can get even with below average social and physica
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by RivieraKid 9mo ago
Depends on the specific lidar model. It seems that there's a wide range of lidar prices and capabilities and it's hard to find pricing info.
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
I don't think Americans would celebrate on the streets but many would be secretly happy. How would I feel? Depends on what I think would be the consequences for the world.
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
The US government is not even in the same universe as NK in regard to what they do to their population.
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
Fair point, it's not certain that this will be a win for Venezuelans. But I think it probably will be. Economically it can't get much worse.
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
NK is a dictatorship with concentration camps, where a small group of people has 20 million hostages. The US is a democracy. (For the record, I'm not American and I wanted Harris to become the president.)
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
It's a win-win, it's good for Venezuelans and US wants the country to become an ally. People behind the decision probably took both into account. In principle, it's morally good to overthrow a dictator in some circumstances.
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
But how could they beat Waymo or Tesla? At some point, these companies will offer an L4 package to car makers.
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
My first instinct is also that Rivian's strategy doesn't make sense. Self-driving is a monumentally hard problem, to be successful you need a world-class engineering and research team, resources and time. I suspect that when Rivia
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
I've been saying that it's semi-solved, in the sense that we have a decent idea of how to get there without requiring major breakthroughs. (By "we" I mean Waymo.)
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by RivieraKid 10mo ago
> Google Maps is not just indexing demand - it is actively organising it through a ranking system built on This is where I stopped reading.
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by RivieraKid 11mo ago
Yes, it's an early stage technology and the logistics of scaling is non-trivial. Yet, if you look at the numbers, they've been scaling surprisingly fast, at a sustained rate of 5x per year for 5 years in weekly paid rides.
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by RivieraKid 11mo ago
They've been scaling paid rides per week by about 5x every year for the past 5 years, that is fast in my book.
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by RivieraKid 11mo ago
Waymo have been driving on highways 15 years ago in supervised mode. And 1 or 2 years ago unsupervised.
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by RivieraKid 11mo ago
Driving at the speed limit will not meaningfully increase the chance of an accident.
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by RivieraKid 1y ago
Why? The press release is much more useful for the vast majority of HN readers in my opinion. The paper is something you read if you want to know more so the right place for it is the comments. In general, not referring to this specific cas
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by RivieraKid 1y ago
What are you working on specifically? I've been vaguely following poker research since Libratus, the last paper I've read is ReBeL, has there been any meaningful progress after that? I was thinking about developing a 5-max poker a
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by RivieraKid 1y ago
The car can ask for remote assistance, which doesn't happen often.
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by RivieraKid 1y ago
Waymo, which works and is scaling quickly.
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by RivieraKid 1y ago
Waymo's self-driving cars are scaling quickly. With some inaccuracy it can be said that the problem is solved, we have the technology for a full-scale deployment, we just need to do the boring work to deploy it everywhere.
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by RivieraKid 1y ago
This would be great if true, I need 5 years to reach financial independence, so a decade should be plenty of time.
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by RivieraKid 1y ago
We're nowhere close to solving aging. We don't even understand aging and understanding the problem should be much easier than solving it.

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