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by Uehreka 2y ago
I’m not sure where you get this impression of AOC. From her Wikipedia article: > After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx and took a job as a bartender and waitress to help her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fig
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by Uehreka 2y ago
You know AOC was a bartender before running for congress right? While most reps are lawyers, many come from a diverse range of backgrounds, there probably is in fact someone in congress who used to manage a supermarket. This diversity of ba
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Speaking as someone who just rebuked another commenter for daring to suggest Dijkstra’s algorithm should be on that list… yeah you may have a point. Mobile phones probably belong in the S-Tier with the Internet. In 2012-2014 I lived in Thai
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5 years after Dijkstra’s algorithm was invented, could non-tech people look back and see a huge impact on their everyday lives? No. Of the things in your list, WiFi is the closest to rising to this level, but even WiFi can’t claim to be as
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by Uehreka 2y ago
There’s a thing called CLIP Vision that sort of does that, but it converts the image into conditioning space (the same space as the embeddings from a text prompt). I’d say it works… OK.
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Any assessment of Trump’s actions that implies that he personally has a cogent strategy immediately loses credibility in my eyes. If you want to say the people around him think or feel a certain way and are influencing him based on that, fi
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by Uehreka 2y ago
When I got into projection design I tried using git to keep track of my VFX workspace. After typing `git init` I heard a sharp knock at my apartment door. I opened it to find an exhausted man shaking his head. He said one word, “No.” and th
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by Uehreka 2y ago
The question of whether chatbots are “truly intelligent” is the dumbest question people regularly debate about AI. First of all, we do not and have never had a rigorous and falsifiable definition of “intelligence”, so this question can’t ac
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by Uehreka 2y ago
Back in 2021 I needed some stereo cameras for an AR experience I was building for the 2020 World’s Fair Expo (yes, it took place in 2021 but was called 2020). We looked into RealSense, and right around when we did there was some news that I
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8GB of RAM is not perfect for this. The M chips are only known for AI because unified memory allows you to get huge amounts of "VRAM", but if you're not putting absurd amounts of RAM on the phone (and they're not going t
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I’m gonna take this opportunity to clarify a comment I wrote earlier this week: Sure, polling may be difficult to interpret when uncertainty is high and margins are small, but there are many elections every year that are easily predictable
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I honestly forgot how much the word affected me until recently because for about 20 years I almost never heard anyone use it. So apparently it is in fact possible for people to by and large stop using it.
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Yes and yes? I’m an AI enthusiast interested in the article and I’m offended by that word for pretty non-hypothetical reasons. When I was in middle school I was bullied a lot by people who would repeatedly call me the r-slur. That word remi
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by Uehreka 2y ago
There’s a guy on Youtube named JRose11 who is on a quest to beat Pokemon Red with all 151 of the original Pokemon individually. He’s about 100 Pokemon in at this point. He doesn’t use crazy speedrunning tactics (he wants to approximate a no
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by Uehreka 2y ago
I find the modeling super useful, many conventional media outlets still don’t properly communicate probabilities to their audience. For instance, I vividly remember the following exchange between Nate and some news anchor in during one of t
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Yeah but if you’re buying an Ultra you’re probably more concerned with raw performance than perf-per-watt. These aren’t exactly used in laptops.
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My friend and I looked into that one to see if it would help his mood when working in his downstairs office (his apartment had a weird layout upstairs). It kind of looks like you need to have a room you can sacrifice to hold all of the equi
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Nah, AirBnB started by selling fake cereal.
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> Given partisan polarisation, my guess is Democrats will take an axe to veteran benefits next cycle I highly doubt it. The Senate “Democrat” in charge of the VA is Bernie Sanders himself, and he’s been a stalwart supporter of improving
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> We have some really dialing it in zoom folks we've hired Do you mean “phoning it in”? Being “dialed in” and “phoning it in” are opposites, it was a little unclear which you meant from context.
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Nah, you have to do better than that to be funny on Hacker News.
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Yeah, “a decent video player” feels like something that should be table-stakes commodity stuff, there are certainly a fair number of good open source video player components and toolkits with customizable skins and support for tons of playb
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If you want to pick apart my hastily concocted examples, well, have fun I guess. My overall point is that ensuring data quality is something OpenAI is probably very good at. They likely have many clever techniques, some of which we could gu
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Not necessarily, not all tactics can be used symmetrically like that. Many of the sites they scrape feel the need to support search engine crawlers and RSS crawlers, but OpenAI feels no such need to grant automated anonymous access to ChatG
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This assumes that the companies gathering the data don’t have silent ways of detecting bad actors and discarding their responses. If you’re trying to poison an AI, are you making all of your queries from the same IP? Via a VPN whose IP bloc
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Normally I balk when commenters go “well they you’re the perfect person to go do it!”, but actually… this is the kind of thing that sounds like it could be a fun project if you’re legit interested. The necessary datasets are likely not hard
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So here's the thing: Docker is the best way we have to document how to set up a project/application in a way that can be repeated on arbitrary computers. The alternative was "have a README where you list all of the things you
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I already knew about the whole “mathematically perfect corners” thing Apple does, so I was super curious how someone implemented that in CSS. I figured it was some sort of new CSS feature involving splines, but then I saw there was a folder
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Oh man, the days before blocking net send was a common school sysadmin practice… Back when I was a highschool freshman (2004-05) I wrote a batch script that would fire off net sends to everyone in the computer lab in rapid succession in an
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Do you find that it actually generates varied and diverse stories? Or does it just fall into the same 3 grooves? Last week I tried to get an LLM (one of the recent Llama models running through Groq, it was 70B I believe) to produce randomly

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