adi_kurian

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by adi_kurian 9d ago
I had some experience similar to this and found that after some months, when logging in on an extremely familiar to Google setup, that there was an additional prompt where it asked for some old passwords IIRC and then let me in.
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by adi_kurian 21d ago
I am unsure what China's contribution has been beyond slave labour that destroyed the American middle class? I did like Parasite.
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by adi_kurian 1mo ago
illegitimi non carborundum
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
Thank you so much for sharing that URL! Works in US of A.
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
I lived two blocks from a Costco in Manhattan for quite some time. I totally get where you are coming from, just offering a counter. I have observed that the packed like tinned sardines is one kind of life, typically lived by transient folk
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
Not even. It's literally "yeah bro, you gotta get a Mac Mini".
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
There are four Costco's in NYC, all but one in working class neighborhoods, and full of large families getting deals.
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
If the stats in this are true, Amazon’s warehouse workforce turns over at 25 times the rate of Costco’s workforce, for almost the same wage. That is remarkable.
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
Just thinking about that little big neck of the world puts me to sleep. In the best of ways. I love West Texas.
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
Not my argument. I agree that we need structures in place to penalize misuse of the tool.
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by adi_kurian 3mo ago
Colonoscopy detection has gotten modestly better with AI assistance. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39216648/ https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2023... https:/&#x
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Zune was low key pretty damn solid. (Yes, I lived in Redmond as a teenager.) In fact I may even say it was their last gasp of a solid user interface. Right before Vista.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Is there a better Maps app? I guess those gaussian splats on Apple Maps could be p. neat.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
https://www.google.com/maps/search/england+chai+london/
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Yes. This is good insight.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
I was asking about the kids!
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Do any of said PhDs gain anything positive from LLM usage? Or does it only lead to declining thinking skills in your view?
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Alone? No.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Yes.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
The vernacular around prompts, text, and docs, is quite amazing. Marketing really is value creation.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Or the model could just be shite.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
1mm context window is pretty big. Even if dumber, opens new avenues. For the record I don't think we ever got better than 4 and 4.1.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
There is an uncanny valley effect to websites where FE is created in full via an AI. These sites have the immediate scent of 'high design', with errors that no 'high designer' would dare make. The italics give me nausea.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Uncle Sam likes tax payers. I believe the current administration, in general, appreciates those with $$. https://www.trumpcard.gov/
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Uncle Sam likes tax payers.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
By bearable do you mean it exists? It's fucking shite.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
How so?
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Anyone in the arts is aware that creativity is not the new, it is the repackaging of what already exists into something that is itself new.
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by adi_kurian 4mo ago
Are the Met lying in these FOI request responses? https://www.met.police.uk/foi-ai/metropolitan-police/disclos...
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by adi_kurian 5mo ago
I remember feeling like a made man when I got my green card. Seems to be treated like a farm-work visa now?

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