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by a2128 1y ago
I created a free, offline, opensource app on Google Play, no monetization or payments, as an individual. When this change rolled out I was required to verify my identity and set up a payment profile or else my app and account would be delet
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by a2128 1y ago
Whenever I visit the US I get annoyed that the prices listed on the store shelves aren't actually what I pay; in Europe all prices are VAT-inclusive, but in the US none of the prices include sales tax, they're all broken out separ
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by a2128 1y ago
I remember when they made some generative AI chess demo and when I went to visit it, it said it's not available to users under 18 or outside US. And I had to do a double-take at the idea of chess that is 18+ and georestricted
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by a2128 1y ago
Everyone shares music and art they make but nobody ever shares videos and motion capture of themselves doing laundry and vacuuming their house. Maybe we need to start sharing that instead
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by a2128 1y ago
Below the chart there's a link to a NYTimes article it was sourced from, which has more plots of more instances of this
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by a2128 1y ago
If you play around with base models, they will insert typos, slang, they will generate curse words and pointless internet flamewars
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by a2128 1y ago
What's the training process like? I have some data in my language I'd love to use train it on my language seeing as it's English-only
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by a2128 1y ago
Chat LLMs are becoming mirrors. It's bad user experience when you say something and they double down, it gets downvoted and RLHF tunes it out. I asked a question about Raspberry Pis one time and it mentioned they're great low-cost
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by a2128 1y ago
> can you even install MS-Paint anymore? Or is it Paint3D now? Paint3D, the successor to MSPaint, is now discontinued in favor of MSPaint, which doesn't support 3d but it now has Microsoft account sign-in and AI image generation tha
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by a2128 1y ago
>There are over a billion people in China making stuff. There surely can't over a billion factory workers in a population of 1.4 billion. I looked up a population pyramid, and let's say 100% of the population aged 15-64 is empl
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by a2128 1y ago
It's placing instructions AND user query at top and bottom. So if you have a prompt like this: [Long system instructions - 200 tokens] [Very long document for reference - 5000 tokens] [User query - 32 tokens] The key-v
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by a2128 1y ago
Do you think the UK just can't access most of the internet that uses SSL encryption? What makes you think encryption is illegal?
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by a2128 1y ago
My experience with their software has been horrible. A friend was messing around with Gemini on my phone and said my name is John, and it automatically saved that to my saved info list and always called me John from then on. But when I ask
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by a2128 2y ago
Don't ask me why, but airlines will often use nonsensical pricing where the total trip price with one stop can be cheaper than flying directly
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by a2128 2y ago
You can have the most secure encryption and obfuscation, and it will be useless once they trick or intimidate you into giving up your passwords. The only way is to just not bring anything of importance. Get a separate phone or wipe your exi
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by a2128 2y ago
You don't even need to deal with any XML formats or anything, they publish a complete dataset on Huggingface that's just a few lines to load in your Python training script https://huggingface.co/datasets/wikim
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by a2128 2y ago
LLMs are not a third party source of information, they're prediction engines with known hallucination behaviors. If they're faced with a difficult or impossible challenge (e.g. if the user fails to provide a diff, or fail to provi
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by a2128 2y ago
Another thing lacking on AMD machines is the software support. Not just that a lot of stuff is CUDA-only still, but AMD themselves struggle to support their own hardware for ROCm. According to their docs ROCm for HX395 is supported on Windo
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by a2128 2y ago
You can use ALVR to stream SteamVR games to your Quest 2. Some people use another app called Envision. There's a bunch of information here https://lvra.gitlab.io/
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by a2128 2y ago
I was waiting for a Waymo in Austin during the weekend storm and the Waymo suddenly cancelled on us right after a power outage that lasted a second or two. According to local news the vehicles had stopped and were blocking traffic. https:&
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by a2128 2y ago
IIRC that's basically already part of what Cloudflare Turnstile does
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by a2128 2y ago
I registered a new Facebook account solely to set up my Oculus Quest. It laid dormant for 3 years until I needed to log into it again to add my friend on Messenger. My default home feed without ever having interacted was full of horrible AI
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by a2128 2y ago
I don't know if automotive is that resource and money constrained. People will spend tens of thousands on upgrades if they see the value, and there's plenty of space in there to put a powerful GPU cluster. But of course reliabilit
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by a2128 2y ago
There is some use to bringing deepfakes to mass adoption. The thing is that since the tech exists, powerful actors with lots of resources will develop these tools for their own use either way. The question is whether they'll be able to
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by a2128 2y ago
Monopolies lead to no competition, leading to reduced innovation, economic stagnation, consolidation of wealth and power. That directly harms the American people and if left unchecked other countries may actually start to get ahead, especia
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by a2128 2y ago
I went to a CeX recently and they have a bunch of Xbox 360 Kinects laying around for 8 euros. Even my hometown which doesn't have a lot of tech stores, has Xbox 360 Kinects laying around at some mall shops for pretty cheap. I can go ou
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by a2128 2y ago
I'm shocked every time I use a Flutter web app. Not even one of the highest-end desktop GPUs on the market is enough to animate a dark mode toggle at more than a choppy 2fps. In one app with a login page, my password manager fills out
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by a2128 2y ago
I think about this a lot. AI in the current state is like working with an intern who is on a stranded island with no internet access or compiler, they have to write down all of the code in forward sequence on piece of paper, god help them i
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by a2128 2y ago
From my experience playing social VR, I think Facebook Meta has it all wrong. If you go around VRChat communities you'll find an overwhelming amount of anime girls and furries make up the user base and creator base. In VR, your avatar
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by a2128 2y ago
It's a difference of intent. Paying Netflix as an individual with the intention and expectation of watching content legally is very different to torrenting terabytes of pirated books on company laptops for training a commercial AI to r

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