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by bentt 2y ago
Because there was some skepticism in the thread about this theory, I emailed one of the top scholars in this area to get his up to date perspective and he delivered this amazing response: "I'll be happy to give you a succinct summ
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This is an important topic and I don't think this article is really getting into all the important things that have been learned about it over the past few years, primarily by VR developers. Too much of the current dialogue is about ho
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by bentt 2y ago
Mitochondria are a descendant of early bacteria which infiltrated an Archaea cell, traded genes, and started replicating with it, forming a new organism about 1.5bn years ago. The wild part is that all mitochondria are descended from that s
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by bentt 2y ago
Yeah this is my read too. This is what people asked for. Elon has shown an affinity for creative destruction of entrenched bureaucracies. Curious what the red line is for congressional republicans.
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That is an award winning web site.
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No idea what you are talking about.
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by bentt 2y ago
There must be a dystopian scifi story about a society that willingly outsources its legal system to an AI system which can serve as a judge.
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by bentt 2y ago
Yet there will be a subset of that new generation that will be expert at harnessing AI coding tools, so we will be right back where we started… getting pwned by the top kids.
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by bentt 2y ago
Weird this came up moments after I archived my Facebook account. I am just shy of 20 years on there but Meta is just too bad. Looking forward to what’s next.
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by bentt 2y ago
Semi-related: I thought this might be why Apple put the power button on the M4 Mac Mini in that stupid position on the bottom of the device. If they can keep more of them on then they can potentially grab them when needed to do some distrib
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by bentt 2y ago
“Give us more control over your algorithm and we will let you stick around”
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by bentt 2y ago
I love the idea of owning my own feed very much. These days it feels like a local and/or private LLM that had some web crawling ability would be able to do a better job than RSS. That seems like such an obvious project that someone&#x2
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by bentt 2y ago
This will be such a fascinating moment to track statistically. Like how Covid in 2020 shows up every graph. Tiktok day might too.
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by bentt 2y ago
I'm even between these two, and I used to be very in favor of Google. At this point, Google has not improved a single product in the last 5 years.
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I want to be excited about this but I feel like I don't quite get it. What I imagined from the subject heading is like a barebones canvas with the most rudimentary implemented features, but then a neat way of building more features. If
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by bentt 2y ago
I was raised very loosely Lutheran (Christian). We barely went to church and stopped entirely after I was confirmed. I practice it exactly 0% now and have never in my adult life. However I feel like something got cooked into me, and maybe e
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by bentt 2y ago
Fruit smoothies are an interesting case of a "sugar beverage" which doesn't quite act how you'd think. Intuitively, you'd think that speedy ingestion of that much fructose with all its fiber obliterated in a blender
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by bentt 2y ago
This article makes great points, but the outcome seems to be “in progress” and not final. They have the tech stack and the right philosophy, they just botched the execution out of the gate. This is the same company that didn’t think 3rd par
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by bentt 2y ago
Too many replies are missing the point. This isn't about whether there are other ways to do this, or if X is good/bad. This is about using a local AI model to curate content we want to avoid/see. This is a big area of interes
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by bentt 2y ago
Try this as a test. Just choose an utterly random thing that has as little connection to anything in your life as possible. Then just start talking about that thing for a few minutes near your phone. Then never talk about it again. Then tel
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by bentt 2y ago
Our phones are definitely listening and serving ads based on what we say. I have personally experienced it. Most of us have if we are paying attention. It seems like we don’t want to face this because the only remedy is to throw our phones
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by bentt 2y ago
So, while I do not agree with everything Jordan Peterson says (or even most), his writing/speaking about “take responsibility for something meaningful” is good advice. You want freedom, but that is a freedom to choose. It is not an end
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As a game developer for many many years, as soon as someone says “business logic” I know they are from the other side of the tracks.
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by bentt 2y ago
I agree with this irony. That said, combining multiple ais and multiple programs together may mitigate this.
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I don’t see how it would because at the end of the day a model is like a program… input->output. This seems infinitely useful and we are just starting to understand how to use this new way of computing.
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by bentt 2y ago
Sure, strike while the iron is hot.
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My read is: “We’re going public because we want more money. We need more money for more computer time but that’s not all. ChatGPT has been so influential that we deserve a bigger share of the rewards than we have gotten.”
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by bentt 2y ago
I’m an American. I play soccer once a week with a mix of Americans and Immigrants. Recently I started meeting for coffee after with some of the guys. This was prompted by a Serbian, but in attendance regularly is a Hungarian, a Jamaican, an
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by bentt 2y ago
Growing up in Rochester, NY, where Xerox was founded and has/had the most employees... I'm just glad to hear they have enough resources to acquire something. Been a rough couple decades.
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I am looking forward to the reckoning between Musk’s belief that human caused climate change is real and the Republican line that it is a hoax.

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