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by abraxas 2y ago
I'm not a pixel peeper but I don't find this lens all that impressive. I'm sure it's a very versatile lense with this range of zoom so it could be the one and only lens in your camera bag. But it does have the hallmarks
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by abraxas 2y ago
It's been a couple of decades since I last lived in the UK but I remember quite well that Marks & Spencer had rounded pricing (no .99 deception). I wonder if they kept it up and if they are still doing well over there.
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by abraxas 2y ago
The original Silicon Graphics logo[1] and the Nintendo 64[2]were up there with Sun's in my opinion 1. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/SGI_O2_f... 2. https://upload.wik
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by abraxas 2y ago
yeah, I agree in this case. But maybe with a more rational actor this would prove effective. Or maybe I'm deluding myself because rational actors don't launch wars to begin with.
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yeah, the day I saw one of those I thought this will end up with a gun turret rather quickly. When they gain a lot of autonomy war will become absolutely unberable for most soldiers. Death and dismemberment will be coming from all direction
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by abraxas 2y ago
Bill Gates dreamed up creating a single program that would allow you to create content regardless of whether you wanted a document a presentation or a spreadsheet. The office app was to be merged into a single unified app from which all kin
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by abraxas 2y ago
Is there a corresponding video showing dexterity?
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by abraxas 2y ago
This is fine and all but it only shows half of the information, namely the flow of the code. When it models the flow of data then it will become as powerful as the Unreal Engine Blueprints which to me is the pinnacle of visual coding.
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by abraxas 2y ago
For me it never does. Always throws me to a human agent. I haven't had a single case where a bot solved my issue.
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by abraxas 2y ago
$20,000 to run a close to state-of-the-art model is very reasonable. Well within the grasp of most startups and well off individual "gentleman scientists".
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yes, passive investing will of course outperform active investing because math. But that's not to say that there is any level of return that is guaranteed for stocks. As I said in my earlier comment, any long term analysis limited to U
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by abraxas 2y ago
I haven't followed her at all nor read any other articles. I agree with you that stocks should be owned and I own them. But I also don't shy away from gold, commodities or bonds. I believe that diversification is the best route to
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by abraxas 2y ago
Yeah, few people realize what it means to sit on a paper loss for 14 years. Not many have the mental fortitude to do that. But it's really hard to convince the millennials and younger who experienced nothing other than a roaring bull m
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by abraxas 2y ago
What kind of strawman are you building? She did not mention bitcoin once in the article. And what she's saying is something that serious investment analysts have known for years. Most investments don't pan out, at best a passive i
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by abraxas 3y ago
It's a good looking phone but... it has a fan on it! That seriously puts me off of it unless the fan can be permanently disabled in settings or firmware.
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by abraxas 3y ago
Ugh, the camera tumors are getting ever more bulky and protruding. Can we have a decent phone with a flat back again for those of us who don't use their phone as a camera?
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by abraxas 3y ago
Yeah, we could call that the... Job Simulator ;)
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by abraxas 3y ago
No. Summarizing what's within the context window of the LLM.
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by abraxas 3y ago
I think it illustrates a huge problem that those search based companies want LLMs to fulfill the role of authoritative agents where such efforts are bound to end in grief. LLMs should be used in use cases that play to their strenghts: conju
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by abraxas 3y ago
Despite having means to do so I refuse to buy a Tesla due to Musk's antics. I don't want to bankroll that man-child's descent into Q-Anon level idiocy. There are decent alternatives sprouting all around from traditional car m
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by abraxas 3y ago
I personally preferred Andrej Karpathy's CS231n taught by him and his private videos about neural nets in general and transformers in particular. He has a youtube vid where he builds one from scratch in Python! 3BlueOneBrown videos are
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by abraxas 3y ago
There is no useful information on the front page and all the "learn more" links lead to a signup wall. That is no way to court feedback from this community.
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by abraxas 3y ago
I had no idea we were still so bad at long form transcription. If WER of 9.99% is still the best we can do then its output is not usable without extensive corrections. One word in 10 being wrong is shockingly high to me.
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by abraxas 3y ago
Seems quite thorough and accurate. What LLM powers it?
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by abraxas 3y ago
Thanks to the prevalence of autotune, pop artists made themselves obsolete. If this played at my local grocery store (speaking of which, why are we subjected to bad music when grocery shopping these days?) I would have no idea that this is
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by abraxas 3y ago
This merits the black ribbon atop the HN banner, I think.
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by abraxas 3y ago
Lucky for us Bolt owners who qualified and got their packs replaced under the recall. I will hold on to my 2017 for another decade or so as it now sports a pack that's less than 2 years old. It's almost like getting a brand new ca
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by abraxas 3y ago
On the electronics front I'd beg to differ. Apple has raised the quality bar on electronics by a mile in the last couple of decades. The gadgetry I remember from the eighties and nineties was very cheaply made with plastics that warped
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by abraxas 3y ago
The main thrust of the story (the main sci-fi component) is contained in both. But it is fleshed out better in the full book. However, neither is a story that contains a ton of novel Sci-Fi ideas. For that I would direct you to stories and
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by abraxas 3y ago
This is the original short story. I recommend that people read the full book instead or at least read the book first to avoid spoilers. It's at least as good as the short story but expands on the ideas and the story line significantly.

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