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by akd 5d ago
I don't know about smartphone sensors, but the DXOMARK sensor ratings for full-frame digital cameras largely mirror my own experience with them, so at least there they seem to be a fair judge.
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by akd 15d ago
There definitely is. Everything runs on WhatsApp
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by akd 16d ago
"GPT-8 Galaxia - figure out where our iOS and Android apps show different doohickeys and fix them"
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by akd 26d ago
This detects cameras that are off, which a thermal camera would not.
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by akd 1mo ago
They can't do anything, everything is in China's hands and the EU does not have the hard or soft power to make China do or not do anything.
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by akd 1mo ago
"Social engineering attacks that targeted its customers" is not being hacked.
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by akd 2mo ago
Kosovo and Cyprus... what was the third?
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by akd 2mo ago
Salesforce hasn't ever been hacked to the best of my knowledge.
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by akd 2mo ago
The LLM is, in many ways, smarter than you and I: it can perform feats of advanced mathematics that have eluded mathematicians for decades. It's not at all unreasonable to think that an LLM could produce an idea better than you could h
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by akd 2mo ago
> Not to mention that if I, human overseer, don't course correct it many times a day, it goes off into Neverland. Doesn't that happen to a human engineering team if you don't course correct it many times a month (which in
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by akd 7mo ago
I'm guessing that if you just uploaded a few pages of handwritten text to ChatGPT and asked it to make a font of your handwriting it would do a passably decent job. That might be the way that this business model ends.
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by akd 7mo ago
Because a Macbook M1 is fast enough to do anything and most people aren't running local LLMs
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by akd 8mo ago
What is the purpose of ASCII diagramming today? Seems like graphics are supported by every document and communications medium that I use. Is it for including directly in code?
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by akd 9mo ago
The core of Apple's success has always been to capture the cultural leaders. Artists, musicians, journalists, etc. have used Apple at much higher percentages than the general public. Now that the iPhone made Apple much more of mainstre
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by akd 11mo ago
The "Wall Street tech sell-off" is QQQM being down 1.7% over the last five days and up 17.4% over the last six months
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by akd 11mo ago
This is how jealousy and regular ol' misanthropy manifests itself in the suburban biome
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by akd 11mo ago
ROFL. The neighbors are not "regular people" for any reasonable definition of that term.
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by akd 11mo ago
Facebook built a poker bot called Pluribus that consistently beat professional poker players including some of the most famous ones. What techniques did they use? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluribus_(poker_bot)
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by akd 11mo ago
Very cool - I would like to contact you about this. Do you mind emailing me? My email address is in my profile.
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by akd 16y ago
I find that checking Facebook is almost always an emotional experience. I see so many more new babies than I ever did before Facebook.
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by akd 16y ago
But working hard isn't ever enough to reach the pinnacle of achievement. I could have worked my ass off at basketball, from age 3, and I would have never been an NBA player. Someone with more natural gifts than me, but fewer than Michael Jo
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by akd 16y ago
A lot of reasons can sound totally justified in retrospect. "The Colts will win the Super Bowl because they have superior talent." "The Saints will win the Super Bowl because the Colts' ego will go to their head." A lot of people take actio
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by akd 16y ago
Failure can be great even if it never leads to success. Several people I've known have started a business with their own money, failed horribly, and never started another. But it gave them perspectives they never had before, and most import
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by akd 17y ago
You should make it more tailored (but not explicitly mention that) it's for dog owners to meet each other. For example, meeting other "friendly dogs and dog owners" or something like that. Everyone knows it's not for doggie breeding, most p
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by akd 17y ago
O, Thor? :)
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by akd 17y ago
How many people have the ability to actually improve something? Should those people not demand quality? I can't engineer a car - does that mean I shouldn't get mad when my airbags fail to deploy? I can't cook well - does that mean I shouldn
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by akd 17y ago
The copycat buglers would play reveille as they made their escape :)
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by akd 17y ago
Pedantry: a gigawatt is a unit of power, not energy. Perhaps you meant a gigawatt-hour? :)
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by akd 17y ago
I have 5 or so fake Facebook profiles I use for expressly this purpose.
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by akd 17y ago
A cursory search reveals no less than 8 companies already selling this

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