TaylorAlexander

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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I’m sure there will be some value, especially as the LLM systems become capable of doing more of the work, but as a professional robotics engineer with a focus on mechanical engineering, OpenSCAD just cannot perform appropriately to serve a
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Deep fried oyster mushrooms are so good!
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Since we are comparing to Windows, the "disabling Red Hat telemetry from command line" step doesn't really count, since Windows out of the box is loaded with telemetry.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Gotcha thanks for the info. It's funny, Apple's new OS is called Sequoia, yet there is no environment in the sequoias (aka redwoods)! I did find some discussion about how they are made, but there does not yet seem to be a document
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
RAW is the correct format for uncompressed images, and you can shoot RAW on iphone: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119916 > I feel like PNG was a really bad format back when hard drives were 100GB You talk about &q
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I would absolutely die of laughter if Tim Cook came on stage and said "we worked really hard and we think you will agree, this iPhone is definitely in our top 3 iPhone models ever released. It is really quite good. Seriously, its nearl
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I grew up in the redwood forest and I do not always have enough time in my life to go back to them. I would love a vision pro experience where I can be in the redwoods! I think for me the teleportation experience is more important than gami
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
It is unclear to me how prevalent those fears were. The device was invented sure, someone had this fear or someone thought someone did, but how common was that really.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
The CEO of a company selling them says he likes them, and they are selling more quickly than a product which flopped. I am not particularly swayed by this information!
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well now we know at least one person uses them.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Counter point: I was able to convince Gemini that a human baby is larger than a Saturn V rocket by simply telling it as much, to which it responded that its previous statements had been wrong and I was indeed correct. The models being sycop
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
That’s fair. Hard to balance participating in open source community with standing up for our rights.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I would love it if you could help! I wonder if it would be sufficient to work on it via github issues. Here is the issue I posted, which could be re-opened. I can also post on discord for you if that is helpful. Maybe you could post your in
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well they even closed the github issue after some discussion, determining it was "not on our roadmap any time soon", but maybe I could ask again. https://github.com/OpenStickCommunity/GP2040-CE/issues&#x2
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Definitely possible, but it would ruin an otherwise nice development environment. For personal use that would be fine, but I tend to try to design things as nice complete open source projects people could use and enjoy using. Plugging in to
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Something similar that I want us USB Force Feedback wheel (and joystick) support for the RP2040. I looked pretty deeply in to this and I was unable to find any libraries which do the necessary USB magic for the chip to build devices which s
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Doesn’t X censor usage of the word “cisgender”?
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Actually I am not very familiar with the internals, I am mostly repeating what Yann Lecun said in an interview a few months ago about autoregressive models. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lHFUR-yD6I
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Agreed. I think the short term profit motive is really blinding people to the risks. Like we could have continued this in a research setting for longer to really get a sense for how to deal with these things, but folks wanted to productize
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
This is a great example of issues with LLM design, which is that they apply a constant amount of compute to both sentences (modulo a token or two).
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
It’s frustrating too seeing some people in AI say the technology has no negative implications. Of course it does. Foreign actors are using it to influence elections. But when Jeremy Howard was asked if he had done impact assessment of a lar
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Notably Apple expects each person to badge in. Google does not, and it is pretty easy to follow a group of people in to a building, but you cannot do that at Apple.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yes, correct.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Agreed! Snowden taught us a lot and sadly most people don’t seem to realize what it means. People say “the government can’t get in to Signal it’s encrypted and the protocol is well tested” and it’s like… yeah unless they can directly access
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
My next question is does Verizon know the users passwords (possibly via some other exploit we don’t know about) and did some state agency encourage Verizon to request that software so that access to confiscated devices was a subpoena or fis
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Indeed, if I actually felt like the work I was doing was directly benefiting my coworkers and community members I would be really excited about it! Hard to get motivated when all your work goes to making sure your manager gets a kitchen rem
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
One imagines that at some point they will release a pure risc-v chip, once community adoption of the new RP2350 cores is widespread.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Maybe something to do with pressure. Maybe it is higher chamber pressure and maybe higher pressure even with lower flow rates could require more power.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Sounds like they did have evidence then...
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Really don't love your condescension in this thread. It makes this place worse when people talk like that. Anyway I am not hoping, I am busting my ass in open source to contribute to the body of knowledge around what makes open informa

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