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by barnabyjones 2y ago
It is really unbelievable how much money companies will spend to avoid talking to and thoroughly understanding their users. OpenAI could probably learn a lot from interviewing 200 random people every 6 months and seeing what they use and wh
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I don't think that's necessary as app stores are already regional and easy to put additional restrictions on, and desktop internet usage is slowly being overtaken by app usage. And who knows, maybe even Windows 15 will only allow
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I think the backlash against phonics is because English just has too many exceptions which makes it frustrating, but it's still important to teach simple phonics (common uses of short and long vowel sounds). Beyond that, any rigid app
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I had considered this idea for a while so I'm happy someone built it, but I think because it's an llm it may be putting too much weight on the statements made by the company in reports/transcripts, which are generally given a
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I found the report the statistic is from [0]. But note that it says "by app," so I don't think it's actually all traffic, just the top apps. Their reported source is data from 300m customers in different regions. [0]
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I think there is far too much focus on potential productivity gains, and not nearly enough on entertainment value, which still has a ways to go but much higher potential compared to serious problem solving, which may or may not be be feasib
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
The monetary actions don't seem that important compared to fiscal, rate changes are normal and people are still buying things and making investments. But the gov't could have practically bought Dubya another Iraq war with all the
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I think Xenophon's Anabasis is an excellent treatise on leadership and crisis management, and his Hellenica is also a great look at the sources of and risks to moral authority.
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I think the key part of the UX there is the instant pop-up visibility of the linked comment when you hover over it. Navigating between comments seems like the biggest barrier for most users, where even the extra couple seconds to find out
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
>after [reaching 291 lbs], had to consume an 800-calorie-per-day diet to maintain his weight. >A more recent study aims to explain and interpret the findings The lengths highly educated individuals go to to explain away obvious fibs.
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
He probably wouldn't have been paid anything, someone else would have been chosen at random to be bumped off. This way the burden shifts to whoever it's least inconvenient for.
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by barnabyjones 2y ago
I think there is a large demo of people now who actually prefer to watch videos in portrait.
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
>And poverty reduction in China could have happened with less damage to workers in rich countries if Chinese policies caused it to save less of its national income, allowing more of its manufacturing growth to be absorbed at home. Isn&#x
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
I think the Duolingo approach has proven pretty successful, breaking things down into very small pieces with lots of encouragement and practice. Certainly it's a challenge to apply it to other subject areas, especially if you're
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
The neat thing about this speed though is you can flip through the seeds quickly. Seed 626925 is giving me a fish holding some kind of gun, with what I guess are leather gloves. This has always been the main problem with SD imo, it can&#x
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
Panettone, "Tony's bread." Or at least that's what my Italian acct. prof. insisted. Interestingly the Italian wiki entry is a lot longer than the English one and references this apparent urban legend.
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
Wouldn't storing wine in a giant plastic bag significantly affect the taste?
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
I think the fake eyes and avatars would be a lot more palatable if they ditched the realism attempt and just used cartoon eyes and faces. You could choose different styles like Western or Anime, and people already buy things like eye masks
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
They can go back to their base station and self-empty/refill a water tank for mopping now, which is an amazing upgrade over just a vacuum cleaner. Or at least in theory it is, my DreamE somehow got progressively dumber with subsequent
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
If it's demonstrated that life is able to develop independently on other planets, it seems reasonable to me to infer that any planet/moon with water and geothermal vents would have complex lifeforms. Possibly even intelligent.
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
I think the clever ones learned a while back that market research is more important than R&D, so now they make trending products like mini sticker printers, battery packs and Stanley knock offs.
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
Shoutout to Max Schrems and Noyb, even if they weren't apparently involved in this decision. That organization seems to be the main driving force behind serious GDPR enforcement by submitting regular legal complaints, the data authori
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
Wouldn't you then be reliant on community members to track down that information and feed it into the system? In which case the end result would still be a matter of how determined the community is to keep police accountable, which I
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
So I suppose the main difference with using LoRAs normally is that less of the image is changed? Because it seems most of this could be done with inpainting and increasing LoRA strength, but I admit it would be difficult to keep facial fea
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
I think his point was that using this qualifier gives more credence to the "nothing to hide" folks. The more people get used to saying it in defense, the easier it becomes to use as an attack.
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by barnabyjones 3y ago
They're testing a consumer product. They're product testers.