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by at1as 5d ago
Can't speak to Germany, but one thing I like in the Netherlands is that if you approach an empty intersection the light will automatically turn green for you. Have never seen anything like that in North America. And the roads themselve
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by at1as 5d ago
> This is a major problem at an intersection near me that I used to have to drive through frequently. Two intersections, only about 500 feet between them In San Francisco (as well as other cities I've lived in) they put police in th
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How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)(practical.engineering)
34 points by at1as 5d ago|25 comments
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by at1as 6d ago
I feel fortunate that today's distractions didn't exist when I was younger (or I probably wouldn't read many books). Nowadays I "turn off" all the distractions that I can before bed to get a few pages in. Reading du
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by at1as 6d ago
english is my second language, but I learned it early enough that I didn't have to study the rules (and it more or less replaced my mother tongue). Years later a friend who was learning english asked me the difference between "a&q
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by at1as 6d ago
I'd assume the algorithm has changed over the last 13 years. And they're probably better off not sharing exactly how ranking (and penalties) work. It's clearly easy to mobilize armies of users (or, these days, agents) to upvo
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by at1as 8d ago
S3 has 11 9s of durability (excluding the geopolitical incidents)
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by at1as 11d ago
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GPS (2022)(ciechanow.ski)
4 points by at1as 11d ago|2 comments
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by at1as 11d ago
The Meta model (of cheaper hardware, highly subsidized) is probably not long for this world, with the recent increase in component costs. Lower volume with consumers fully covering the device cost will probably become the norm, which doesn&
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by at1as 11d ago
Many systems are explicitly built around a certain level of friction. Things can be easy and transparent (but not *too* easy or transparent). Agentic AI collapses that in ways that threaten existing business models, especially in retail (bu
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Not Regulating AI Is Still a Regulatory Choice(jasonwillems.com)
4 points by at1as 12d ago|0 comments
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by at1as 12d ago
is he broadly known? Sure, his books have done well - but have they really reached a very broad set of people? As a science educator, I think the only true household name at present is probably Neil deGrasse Tyson
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by at1as 12d ago
He's a very underrated science communicator. We need more people like him pulling physics into the cultural zeitgeist through a positive lens. Too much of the science that breaks into the mainstream (AI being the obvious example) is fr
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by at1as 17d ago
I would probably still have my iPhone 12 mini if not for what happened to its battery. Loved that form factor, but the battery went from bad to worse in just a couple of years. Hopefully these models have a longer lifespan before the batter
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by at1as 17d ago
I have no idea which iPhone version I have anymore. It doesn't feel as though it's missing anything, though.But I'd upgrade immediately if the new models truly offered better AI experience. Forgive my skepticism that Apple wi
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by at1as 17d ago
The only thing I really want is significantly improved battery life (that could last for an entire flight). But in the end, it'll be the desire to eradicate the lightning port from my life that forces my hand on the upgrade
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by at1as 22d ago
Yeah, I wouldn't purport to use this as a measure of intelligence as it applies to humans. I'd leave that to the philosophers, but my intuition is that models are still a long way off of true human-like intelligence (though benefi
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by at1as 22d ago
What does this mean? There are 1217 problems that Erdos proposed, 595 of which are open: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems Unlike traditional benchmarks, it's difficult to overfit your models to produce flat
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by at1as 22d ago
I like Erdos problems as a benchmark. Models continue to solve them, but a pretty tepid rate now that the low hanging fruit has been taken. From https://epoch.ai/latest/announcing-frontiermath-erdos > Only GPT-6 Ast
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by at1as 23d ago
I do miss that mall. When I first moved to SF I'd go for dinner and then watch movies there with friends. Became a bit of a ritual. After those options disappeared, I'd still go regularly to peruse the Bloomingdales and Nordstrom,
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by at1as 24d ago
for how long were you in this career? How did your job change (if it all) during that time?
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How Railroad Crossings Work (2024)(practical.engineering)
37 points by at1as 24d ago|20 comments
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by at1as 24d ago
I think FF is in a difficult place. The only community they have any penetration in is the developer one (in its prime non-technical people would tell me they used Firefox since IE was insecure. Their techy friends would tell them to use
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Could we dredge the Netherlands without fossil fuels? (2018)(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
63 points by at1as 1mo ago|72 comments
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Seeing Circles, Sines, and Signals(jackschaedler.github.io)
1 points by at1as 1mo ago|0 comments
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by at1as 2mo ago
I'd let the dust settle rather than trusting benchmarks. But in general a third competitive frontier model would be great. I still think that it's very possible Gemini gets its act together and becomes the true competitor to the e
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Back to the Future of Handwriting Recognition (2016)(jackschaedler.github.io)
43 points by at1as 2mo ago|9 comments
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by at1as 2mo ago
I've asked it before to write in a style similar to Orwell (either directly, or by following his published rules for writing). I do hope that continues to be supported. I just can't stand to see any more "Why It Matters.&quot
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by at1as 2mo ago
But then how will I possibly know that someone in my network achieved a new highscore in puzzle solving??

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