TaylorAlexander

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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I was very surprised you didn’t make some comment about it! It had to be going through every reader’s mind. Happy to provide that comedic release for those readers.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I hate it when the TV signal is upside down because it is coming from Australia!
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
It’s very hard to change your standard of living, and the standard of living in California is very different. We live off of tens of gallons of water a day or more. When you have to cut back, it’s difficult for your human animal to accept i
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well, bicycles have more demand and volume (presumably), so that would play in to it. But yes, bicycles are a good point of reference.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I don’t know if that’s what people are saying, tho maybe part of convincing the public to fund such efforts involves strongly suggesting that could be the case. But what else can we do but poke them harder? It’s been working so far.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I have not followed them but I got the impression that AI simply doesn’t do what they said theirs could do.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> The policy is to move all the dirty work to someone else's back yard. Whose policy? Like, which politicians and what exactly is their policy? Because that sounds more like the kind of thing people say they are trying to do, while
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I suspect that the extent to which they have done so, and its impacts, vary significantly from how things have gone in the US.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I actually think the extreme density and breadth of manufacturing in China is going to continue to outpace US manufacturing. They have multiple enormous manufacturing hubs connected by high speed rail lines over a wide geographic area. The
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yeah that’s true, instead of small diameter wide rollers, you could have large diameter narrow rollers, like for example bicycle wheels or scooter wheels. Actually you could even use tracks for the rollers, which might be an interesting inn
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I was a robotics software engineer on a project that built a mecanum wheeled robot. The big problem is that the rollers are small relative to the wheel. You know how bicycles handle rough terrain better than skateboards? The actual rollers
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Interesting. I assumed it was just sloppy journalism but it sounds like you’ve seen this confusion before. The name did not strike me as hard to remember.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I like that the article refers to the company as “Bonce Imaging” (image caption), “Bounce Imaging”, and “Bouncing Image”. Bonce Imaging is definitely my favorite.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Right but there are people who use CAD for 3D printing projects around the house too. For them a few thousand a year is extreme.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
The discussion around voter ID laws never actually revolves around expanding access to ID cards. Instead it is about restricting access to legal voters who don’t have ID, under the guise of avoiding voter fraud, a thing that is so rare as t
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yah but if you want to click around on a neat lil web page this is great.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Nice, thank you!
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I simply didn’t know the answer and the response “it would be much slower” is a perfectly acceptable reply. I disagree that it was ridiculous to ask. I was curious and I wanted to know the answer and now I do. What is obvious to you is not
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yeah. I can’t afford a freight train.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> It's kinda hard to believe that someone would stumble onto the landmine of AI performance comparison between Apple Silicon and Nvidia hardware. I encourage you to update your beliefs about other people. I’m a very technical person
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
What? No I just don’t know the difference, sorry. I am interested in learning more about running 405b parameter models, which I believe you can do on a 192gb M series Mac. The answer here is that the Nvidia system has much better performanc
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I can't quite discern the subtext here but I will say that for many people international travel is not an appropriate solution for access to health care. People who are elderly, very sick, or without a passport, travel could be infeasi
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
The other gas stations don't play pop, they play ads. The point is this business made a choice not to bombard people with ads, and I wish more places did that.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Those gas station ads are so offensive to the senses. I want so desperately for them to stop. I used to live near Cupertino, and the Valero station on De Anza and Prospect always played the local classical radio station. Driving a car is pr
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
My friend has the endless captcha loop on ChatGPT too. Does anyone know how to fix it?
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
It says my iPhone 12 Pro Max doesn’t have WebGPU, but I enabled it in experimental features and another website[1] with WebGPU demos now works. Has anyone gotten this working on iPhone? Would be nice if the web app gave more info on what fa
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well we will find out. I think the audience has value to advertisers, and I suspect that basic mechanic will continue in to the future. > social media sites are already increasingly viewed by many people I know as having dubious value I
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Only if there are no hardware limits, which seems highly unlikely.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> If AGI is actually reached, capital as we know it basically becomes worthless. The entire structure of the modern economy and the society surrounding it collapses overnight. Increasingly this just seems like fantasy to me. I suspect we
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I think LLMs are cool and that research should be focused on sample efficiency, building public copyright free datasets, and on recognizing and moving beyond the limits of LLMs. These systems are often very half-baked, and I am more interes

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