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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
Most people will barely read through a couple basics, so it can be a bit of a though sell to start recommending more niche stories. And part of the reason that some of these books are so successful is that they tend to have pretty widesprea
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
I was recently reading through Ursula K. Le Guin's The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, and she has so many great quotes that are directly relevant to this situation. Here's a shorter one: > “The us
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
I wonder if they'll explore other music services as well. As I understand it, Deezer, Qobuz, and Tidal can all get ripped easily enough. Although I'm not sure if they rate limit downloads past a certain point. I'm a bit sad t
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
I think one of the things that is missing from this post is engaging a bit in trying to answer: what are the highest priority AI-related problems that the industry should seek to tackle? Karpathy hints at one major capability unlock being U
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
The way that this is handled on most websites is that you show "X time ago" but you can hover over the time to get the full timestamp. For example, that's how it's handled here on Hacker News and Reddit.
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Book Review: Design Principles of Biological Circuits (2019)(lesswrong.com)
1 points by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago|0 comments
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
Maybe these researchers and experts should show up and present their suggested positions. People are tired of ivory tower proclamations, and most fundamentally, you need to reach people where they're at. That's just the kind of in
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
This is a bad example because it's solving a problem over a much more constrained domain. A UX revolution in teeth-cleaning technology would probably look like some kind of bio-organism or colony that eats plaque and kills plaque-produ
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by TheAceOfHearts 10mo ago
I'm continuously delighted by the whole open source software ecosystem. I'm using nixOS with KDE and this setup has made me feel incredibly powerful and excited about computers once again. I'm very grateful to the thousands o
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
I'm quite skeptical of the data centers in space claim, but I think a proof of concept can certainly be achieved in five years. I'm less convinced that we'll ever see widescale deployment of data center satellites. And to be
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Brood War has aged like fine-wine. As I mentioned in a parallel comment, the key to Brood War's longevity comes from the map maker. Every detail is carefully considered so that none of the races can get away with a crazy advantage. It&
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Brood War's longevity is thanks to the map maker, which has allowed the game to be balanced around maps. The size of your spawn location, the ease with which you can expand, and the paths to different bases drastically impact what kind
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
I think you shouldn't launder LLM output as your own, but in AI model discussion and new release threads it can be useful to highlight examples of outputs from LLMs. The framing and usage is a key element: I'm interested in what k
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
If progress continues, someday it'll be possible to generate the source code for any binary and make a native port to any other platform. Some companies might be upset, but it'll be a huge boon for game and software preservation.
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
It's not clear what "full access to everyone's data" actually means, isn't it limited to things that are already publicly available? So for example, I don't think researchers would get access to someone's
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
I guess one point of confusion is exactly what data is shared, because I understood it to be general access to things that are already publicly available. Furthermore, X offers paid access to the same data through their enterprise API progr
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
They could implement a similar system to what Facebook currently provides when doing research with platform data. I think they only allow access to carefully controlled data through a remote sandboxed environment. I think Twitter is already
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
What's bizarre about it? There's lots of legislation that requires companies to report on various data or to provide access to auditors. It's legally valid. I think there's a compelling case to be made for requiring larg
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
I just used Nano Banana Pro from LMArena, but if you have access to a paid account I'd love to see you try it out! I just gave it the puzzle image as an input along with the prompt: "Please solve this word search puzzle". For
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Since I think it's interesting to highlight the jagged intelligence, I have a simple word search puzzle [0] that Nano Banana Pro stills struggles to solve correctly. Gemini 3 Pro with Code Execution is able to one-shot the problem and
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A New Publishing Model in Computer Science (2009)(yann.lecun.com)
3 points by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago|0 comments
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Any consideration on sharing the unminified code? I was a bit curious to read through the code and it seems like such a shame to keep it obfuscated. From a quick perusal, it seems like the bulk of the code comes from howler.js (a sound libr
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
I think one of the key issues is that most of these discussions are happening at too high of an abstraction level. Could you give some specific examples of AI regulations that you think would be good? If we actually start elevating and refi
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Archive: https://archive.is/j1XTl I cannot help but feel that discussing this topic under the blanket term "AI Regulation" is a bit deceptive. I've noticed that whenever this topic comes up, almost every majo
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Merry Thanksgiving everyone! And a special thanks to the mods for helping to maintain such high quality discussion over the years.
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Genuinely uncertain about these claims but I think it's worth engaging: Doesn't the existence of AlphaFold suggest that there's potential AI to help with biotechnology? Also, one of the AlphaFold creators started a biotechnol
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
Yeah, I agree that there's some skills that require deliberate practice. I think LLMs will be a huge boon there as well, because you can get real-time feedback as you're solving problems. And if you get stuck you can get immediate
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
I think legacy schooling just needs to be reworked. Kids should be doing way more projects that demonstrate the integration of knowledge and skills, rather than focusing so much energy on testing and memorization. There's probably a sm
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
From the article I linked: > Brooke Nichols, the Boston University epidemiologist and mathematical modeller, has maintained a respected tracker of current impact. The model is conservative, assuming, for example, that the State Departmen
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by TheAceOfHearts 11mo ago
I knew some people that were initially very optimistic, and I tried to keep an open mind when DOGE got started despite the outlandish claims that they would be able to cut $2 trillion dollars from the budget, but it's apparent at this

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