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by awongh 3mo ago
Both things can be true. If you're truly pessimistic this is the only thing you would expect, and not the other stuff that happened- a globally coordinated vaccine rollout to every country on earth.
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by awongh 3mo ago
Since covid I’ve actually become less convinced of this. Yes there were national interests at play and there was a lot of general chaos. But. The level of international coordination with vaccine rollouts and agreements between countries was
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by awongh 4mo ago
People surprised by this don’t know that the expertise that incubated silicon chips at Stanford and around the valley was based on electrical engineering work done for world war II / cold war radar technology, among other things. Stanf
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by awongh 4mo ago
That’s what Virgin Galactic was.
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by awongh 4mo ago
I think it's clear that crypto has real market-based utility as an exchange of value. It's just that much of that utility is illegal, for a spectrum of meanings of that word. Paying crypto to murder people is not the same as wanti
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by awongh 4mo ago
The real problem is that when it matters there's no way to tell them apart. Because one wants to look like the other for very obvious reasons.
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by awongh 4mo ago
The unfortunate thing is that, while their academic position sounds plausible on paper, just like with most crypto things it's just a money grab. How many crypto people (with legitimate backgrounds just like the founders of Polymarket
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by awongh 4mo ago
In the age of AI and npm supply chain attacks I feel like there are more reasons than ever to roll your own. One other possible title of this article could just be, don’t break UI conventions. Which is not the same thing. Instead of trying
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by awongh 4mo ago
How does this compare to the other legal tech ai startup products? Harvey is valued at $11b
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by awongh 5mo ago
Of course they know, their same governments have signed some kind of five eyes intelligence treaties before. Palantir will probably have new customers now that Europe is re-arming. In any case these same governments are probably also approv
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by awongh 5mo ago
Palantir is a defense company. Meta might give away your data to the USA government spying agencies, but it's not on the same level.
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by awongh 5mo ago
The other part of the question is exactly when the "build for the capabilities of future models" becomes the present. Looking at the Mythos benchmarks, it doesn't seem like the models are that close to being truly reliable fo
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by awongh 5mo ago
We should definitely be doing better, and it's also clear that these negative externalities are not being priced in at all. I do and would want to buy tech that I'm not coerced into to throwing away after a year. It's insane
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by awongh 5mo ago
Moore's law is ending but the power laws of increased capacity and capability of computing in general continues at a similar rate- so this isn't a question of the specific technology of how many transistors you can fit in a given
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by awongh 5mo ago
It's extremely hard for me to separate where we are now from the way that Moore's law dictates a pretty insane level of planned obsolescence for chips and therefore everything with a chip in it. If we make batteries replaceable or
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by awongh 5mo ago
What I mean is like the framework laptop - an open device that you can modify and buy parts for, but is actually well built.
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by awongh 5mo ago
I wish there was a framework style open e-ink device.
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by awongh 5mo ago
At the beginning of the internet we were promised the free flow of digital information between computers, peer-to-peer. What we got was silos of content each fighting each other to make sure that the silos stay intact with DRM. I could imag
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by awongh 5mo ago
then there should be such a benchmark :)
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by awongh 5mo ago
I thought Jensen’s comparison to Huawei’s cell phone hardware infra (towers and networking) to be an interesting comparison- that shutting them out of a market was one of the causes of their current position in the market. It made them more
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by awongh 5mo ago
Not disputing this might be true, but this seems like something that should be capturable in a multi-lingual benchmark. Maybe it's just something that people aren't bothered with?
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by awongh 5mo ago
The benchmarks don’t seem to say that language ability has gotten worse?
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by awongh 5mo ago
This is helpful :) To go back to the app-by-app comment, I do know that there are like ubuntu tablet and touch setups. Are there any browsers already setup to be more touch native, or specific browser builds that are more touch native alrea
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by awongh 5mo ago
> GNOME supports I've heard that there's *support* -but is the experience of having a touchscreen on an ubuntu device actually usable and good? For example some random GUI app you're likely to use on ubuntu is the experien
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by awongh 5mo ago
How is ubuntu support for touchscreens these days? How does it compare to an ipad in terms of fidelity / responsiveness, and for native-feeling integration with ubuntu? I am, naturally, a bit skeptical that touchscreen UI would be any
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by awongh 5mo ago
I love the pure nihilisitc audacity of calling the company “Authentic Brands”.
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by awongh 5mo ago
What does Expo / React native do?
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by awongh 5mo ago
Wow, also this: > The OpenSSL project does not sufficiently prioritize testing. [... ]the project was [...] reliant on the community to report regressions experienced during the extended alpha and beta period [...], because their own tes
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by awongh 6mo ago
TLDR: - fork of django - it's opinionated - typed - comes with skills / rules / docs baked in I'm not against this idea in principle, but I'm also not sure why that is better than what's already out there, exce
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by awongh 6mo ago
> Correct me if I'm off base but these things (protein folding and drug discovery) both existed before AI, no? Yes, you are off-base. Solutions to the protein folding problem existed before, but not in the way you are implying.

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