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by Xmd5a 2y ago
>This is incredibly insulting to crows
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If you encode a business on top of this, you get differentiable management. Metrics disappear behind obscure activation vectors/embeddings, cargo cult is not possible anymore, everything traced back to measured economic efficiency.
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
https://www.brunogavranovic.com/posts/2024-03-13-my-thesis-i...
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
>I don't agree that the worker's interest is or should be in minimizing company profit - this is a very zero sum approach You misunderstood the post you're replying to. Workers vs CEOs (not companies).
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
Non-anglo celt here. Selt. Didn't know it's supposed to be pronounced kelt in english (us an uk alike). I upvote GP.
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>as of now the US is an unreliable and untrustable partner always has been. Trump is just an excuse, a façade, to make that insincerity bearable. "There are two americas". Bullshit.
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
MNIST classifier using a DNN: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00211-6
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
There are frameworks for graph-based RAG that mix both approach. One LLM encodes info as a knowledge graph, gradually building up an ontology. Another LLM is used to query this knowledge graph by emitting speculative queries. As the databas
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
>"Amazingly affordable tool." - Hacker News ctrl-f "amazing" >No matches Ditto in comments for other submissions. This is the way.
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>our [...] processing ability are not abstract powers of understanding the universe Neural nets are called universal approximators for a reason. If what you guys are discussing is true, then a neural net would not be able to learn from a
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> Hofstadter's text entitled "Why I Despise AI Systems," if taken in an unskeptical manner, gives the impression that its author (theoretically, him) is adept at fluently stringing together grandiose denunciations in an ef
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
This is exactly what the leads in my team not only thought but said to my face gratuitously. I'd be in my 69th hour of work on a Thursday and they would pass by my desk and say stuff like "what's important is not the time you
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
Plastic recycling, as commonly understood and promoted, is largely a myth. While technically possible, the reality of plastic recycling falls far short of public perception and industry claims. # The Reality of Plastic Recycling: - Low recy
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I was referring to this: >The second type of [controlled natural] languages have a formal syntax and formal semantics, and can be mapped to an existing formal language, such as first-order logic. Thus, those languages can be used as know
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
He was talking about controlled natural language; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language
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Man, mind, to remain, to remind: they all originate from the same intertwined proto-indo-european roots "men" (thinking) and "mon/man" (human). Edit: just found this etymological trail for insan: >From Proto-Semi
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pige_(mesure) (this is also called a quine) The measurements (paume, palme, empan, pied, coudée) follow a Fibonacci-like progression: Cubit = Foot + Span (52.36 = 32.36 + 20) Foo
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>One of our readers, John Frewen-Lord, speculates that the metre may be the modern version of a measure that was familiar to the Pharaohs. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/06/revealed-isa..
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
>One sixth of π is 0.5236 [one cubit] To get one sixth of π, first get one sixth of 2π. This can be done by using only a compass, drawing one circle of the same radius on the original circle, then a second circle where this circle and th
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
Length of Nippur cubit: 51.84 ± 0.02 cm Ratio to Egyptian cubit: 99/100 Divided into 28 fingers (each finger = 1.8514 cm) Relationship to Other Measurements One Roman foot = 24/25 of a Greek foot
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
I used to believe this but changed my mind when I learned about that Brazilian orphanage for deaf kids. They were kinda left on their own and in the end developed their own signed language.
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Here lies the promised land: the possibility of a precise and concise nomenklatura that assigns each thing a unique name, perfectly matching its unique position in the world, derived from the complete determination of the laws governing wha
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>In a post-accident report, NASA's Brand Commission blamed the accident on a burnt-out field crew who had been operating under on-again/off-again funding and constant threats of outright cancellation. The crew, many of them ori
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
Or Bose for that matter
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
Stumbled upon this paper when exploring the topic of "visual servoing" https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11538 Visual Servoing in Orchard Settings We present a general framework for accurate positioning of sensors a
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
It's between 20k and 30k dollars. Maybe your profession is suffering from "industrial bias": it focuses only on high-end robotics because it's the only thing that makes sense economically for now and anything super-cheap
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
Related optical encoder project I found a while back that used to rely on an FPGA but doesn't anymore: https://github.com/JamesNewton/HybridDiskEncoder
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by Xmd5a 2y ago
First I'd like to reproduce the Push-T task of the policy diffusion paper (video here: https://diffusion-policy.cs.columbia.edu/ ) Afterwards I'd like to tackle useful tasks related to gardening/botanical expe
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English is not my first language and I have communication issues. Having said that you may be onto something unironically. Respectful conversations often pack more tensions than downright disrespectful approaches, such as the way "cabr
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>repeatable positioning systems Typical in CNC, but is it really useful in closed-loop systems that use computer vision to adjust to an uncontrolled environment ? I've been wondering if I could reproduce something like mobile aloha

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