acchow

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by acchow 2y ago
> and how much functionality is really only available through GUI Isn't the GUI driven by code? Can anything at all in the GUI work that can't be done programmatically?
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by acchow 2y ago
The iPhone continues to run various functions while turned off (including find-my-iPhone with BLE via the global, mesh network of iDevices)
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by acchow 2y ago
The USB-C to your monitor will carry the 4K video signal, charge your laptop, and include a usb hub within the monitor itself so that you can attach an Ethernet adaptor to it. You could also attach a USB audio DAC for headphones which might
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by acchow 2y ago
> BART and MUNI still use Clipper card only. They also support Apple’s Transit card (Clipper card in your Apple Wallet) so it works by tapping your phone, without unlocking it. It should also work with your iPhone turned off (newer model
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by acchow 2y ago
> For a human who deals with student work or reads job applications spotting AI generated work quickly becomes trivially easy. Text seems to use the same general framework (although words are swapped around) also we see what I call &#x27
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by acchow 2y ago
It enables many features on the phone that people like, all without sending your personal data to the cloud. Like searching your photos for "dog" or "receipt".
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by acchow 2y ago
I was curious so looked it up. Apple's first chip with an NPU was the A11 bionic in Sept 2017. Rockchip's was the RK1808 in Sept 2019.
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by acchow 2y ago
The example is also a joke. Many things shown on screens are CGI or AI-generated, so the belief here is not justified.
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by acchow 2y ago
I think you are both right but are talking about different things. In elementary school in Canada, I was taught phonetics to help learn sounding words out. This was absolutely a government-sanctioned curriculum. I was taught that the sounds
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by acchow 2y ago
This is only true if the output is the same length (which should be exceptionally rare if the input text is different).
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by acchow 2y ago
> It's basically just a website at the moment with bunch of 3D renders which you too could get done from a web shop. They had 2 dozen vehicles with no steering wheels taking attendees around the venue. The bar was staffed by Optimus
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by acchow 2y ago
"I'm willing to bet that the results of a majority of psychology studies are not reproducible" Indeed > Study replication rates were 23% for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 48% for Journal of Experimental
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by acchow 2y ago
Given that “humans are complex” and “it’s individualized”, would advancements be greater and faster by just allowing clinicians and scientists to just talk things out instead of coming up with “studies” which pretend to be “science” with a
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by acchow 2y ago
Or less than 2.5 days of interest payments on the federal debt
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by acchow 2y ago
Apple definitely does not want bad reviews on their iPads because the VMs they are selling are crashing more often than their other offerings. Any product Apple sells for actual $ would have meet Apple’s standards of support and customer se
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by acchow 2y ago
> - YJIT has made Ruby fast. Like, _FAST_ Curious, I tried to look for some benchmarks, which still seems to show Node often being 3-10x faster https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by acchow 2y ago
They mix 225g sand with 50g of corn starch. It's more "sand based" than "corn based".
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by acchow 2y ago
I would recommend reading the article. P vs NP is one of the foundational open problems in computer science.
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by acchow 2y ago
> but is not so fast on an astronomical scale. This is something I find incredibly counter-intuitive. At the photon’s reference frame (speed of light), time stops. In our reference frame, I’d expect some kind of “divide by zero” error in
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by acchow 2y ago
> After reading this paper, I am now Is this your paper?
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by acchow 2y ago
Every app with a significant installed user base is adding AI features. OP is lamenting that Cursor and OpenAI chose to create new apps instead of integrating with (someone else’s) existing apps. But this is a result of a need to be always
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by acchow 2y ago
What it will come down to is computational efficiencies. We don’t want to retrain once a month - we want to retrain continuously. We don’t want one agent talking to 5 LLMs. We want thousands of LLMs all working in concert.
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by acchow 2y ago
“Average joe”. Humanity evolves slowly over long periods. The average joe today is far more educated than one from 200 years ago.
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by acchow 2y ago
"your password is on fire!!"
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by acchow 2y ago
> Related btw to using AI for code. And executing code. At some point in the not-so-distant past, a function call was just a jump. And then it turned into a string hash-then-lookup, then spinning up a VM, and now interpreting language? W
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by acchow 2y ago
I believe “learn any distribution of data” is his attempt at describing the Universal Approximation Theorem to the laymen.
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by acchow 2y ago
Tech jobs, especially in California, usually hire you for all your time. If your work requires overtime, you work overtime without getting paid overtime. This is called an “exempt” job. So the times you’re off on the weekends doing no work
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by acchow 2y ago
Aren’t most companies leasing their office space?
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by acchow 2y ago
He himself is not a government so he does not hold himself accountable to the same free speech laws. But he holds governments to their own laws. That is, he will comply with government censorship requests if they are within the bounds of th
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by acchow 2y ago
Brazil decided the law of its land via its Supreme Court ruling.

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