asteroidz

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Chip manufacturing: an animated explainer [video](youtube.com)
2 points by asteroidz 2y ago|0 comments
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by asteroidz 2y ago
Why are you so confident that nobody will use this in real life? I know OpenAI showed only a few demos, but I can see huge potential.
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Bridge Engineers Design Against Ship Collisions [video](youtube.com)
2 points by asteroidz 2y ago|0 comments
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by asteroidz 2y ago
Twitter user @mr_james_c opined about this: 1984 ad: Monochome, conformist, industrial world exploded by colourful, vibrant human 2024 ad: Colourful, vibrant humanity is crushed by monochrome, conformist industrial press
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Princeton group open sources "SWE-agent", with 12% fix rate for GitHub issues(github.com)
307 points by asteroidz 3y ago|143 comments
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First Neuralink patient controlling a computer(engadget.com)
2 points by asteroidz 3y ago|0 comments
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by asteroidz 3y ago
> 0.2 or less I find that questionable. What does "software engineering in a business environment" require that a competent competitive programmer couldn't also learn?
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by asteroidz 3y ago
Another worrisome development: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/3/12/boeing-whistlebl... Al-Jazeera has really been on fire digging into Boeing. This video (though from 2014) was remarkable: https
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Streets with no intersection stops or traffic-lights(senseable.mit.edu)
2 points by asteroidz 3y ago|0 comments
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by asteroidz 3y ago
Certainly a bit disappointing that Lottie or SVG format export doesn't exist. Hopefully a work in progress?
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by asteroidz 3y ago
What DO people use for (cross-platform) desktop applications these days? Find it hard to believe Electron is the only one.
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by asteroidz 3y ago
This has always been my feeling about the well-known https://www.awwwards.com/ Would be lying though to say I wasn't inspired by some of the sites they showcase.
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by asteroidz 3y ago
The important question that matters is: Is the cost close to competitive vs. Bitumen, or is there any hope of reaching that threshold?
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by asteroidz 3y ago
I sometimes wonder about PMs who sign off on decisions like these, and the seeming lack of protest the developers put up.
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by asteroidz 3y ago
The "Strategies" section looks valuable. Here are a few more great resources from my notes (including one from Lilian Weng who leads Applied Research at OpenAI): - https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15
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by asteroidz 3y ago
Personally, in my locale March is usually when the crocuses start peeking out and the robins return... first signs of spring. But just 100 miles east the landscape might still be a winter wonderland well into April. If I had to hazard a gue
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by asteroidz 3y ago
Some studies/analyses are surely laundered opinions. I have a habit these days of checking if the authors have a product to sell or funding to raise. If so, pinch of salt.
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ChaosGPT: Empowering GPT with Internet and Memory to Destroy Humanity(youtube.com)
2 points by asteroidz 3y ago|0 comments
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by asteroidz 3y ago
Wise decision as far as I'm concerned. Unfettered AI experiments on production systems are an IP and (depending on your field) regulatory nightmare waiting to happen. Unless you have lawyer-vetted guidelines and oversight, use OpenAI p
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by asteroidz 3y ago
The problem with your suggested approach is the resulting lack of holistic context. The problem of OP's approach (direct parsing) is cost and context-window-limits. There has to be a better way.
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by asteroidz 4y ago
The usual caution applies here. The danger of data isn't in the data itself, but in how it's used and interpreted. In this particular case, a relatable comparison would be a book - it's just a bunch of words on a page, but th
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by asteroidz 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious: What about push notifications (at least on desktop browsers) bothers you that much? I give permission to a few (like Gmail, etc.) and that's that; it makes my life less stressful knowing that I'll get a
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by asteroidz 4y ago
Yep, and that's the difference between a big profitable company doing research as a side-hustle, and a company whose business IS the research. One interesting and somewhat scary exception seems to be Microsoft; they seem to be converti
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by asteroidz 4y ago
Who needs a never-ending smartphone feed if you can have a never-ending tile pattern to gaze upon!
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by asteroidz 4y ago
> Lanier, 62, has worked alongside many of the web’s visionaries and power-brokers. He is both insider (he works at Microsoft as an interdisciplinary scientist And his unique perspective on AI is all the more valuable (and courageous)