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by bigyikes 3y ago
A small model might be useful for e.g. NPC interactions in a Quest game
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That's funny, I was at a 4th of July gathering this week where tens of thousands of people listened to an orchestra play "Across the Stars Suite" from Star Wars before a fireworks show.
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I think the IG graph is more similar to the Twitter graph than the FB graph. Also, IG has much more of a “cool factor” which they’re hoping Threads will inherit. I follow my grandparents on FB, and I don’t necessarily want that on my Thread
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I live in Texas and got a “smart” thermostat recently. I was delighted to find that my energy company is offering a $25/year credit for having one. It’s not much, but it’s nice to have. …or so I thought. It turns out that accepting thi
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I agree with your main point, but the bit about anecdotes is tricky. We live in a society where research and information on these substances has been suppressed. As a result, anecdotes, to a large degree, are all we have. This is gradually
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Electric cars becoming dominant seems like an inevitability to me, and it looks like many auto makers agree. It’s “just” a matter of battery costs, battery density, energy costs, and volume. What does Toyota see that we’re missing? I ask th
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I’m confused by your line of questioning. Why do you think I can’t be satisfied? I don’t have a problem with this Google poll. I think it is valuable. What would satisfy my desires is exactly what I stated in my original comment: something
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by bigyikes 3y ago
> Do you really consider people learning Rust on the job to be "Rust adopters" who are partisan? Not necessarily, but it seems not unlikely. > Is anyone who ever uses Rust a "Rust adopter" who is unable to give an
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> Rumor 5: Rust code is high quality – Confirmed! > The respondents said that the quality of the Rust code is high — 77% of developers were satisfied with the quality of Rust code. Well, that’s exactly what I’d expect Rust developers
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Yikes, I guess I’m way too sensitive to ever be a kernel dev. Kent seems way out of line. “Direct” is one thing, telling a maintainer they have no idea what they’re talking about is another. It’s totally uncalled for. Are they trying to imi
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by bigyikes 3y ago
Can also recommend, Daniel is my guilty pleasure. It’s only a matter of time before he starts making content in the Metaverse. (What? You’re telling me that the decades-old Second Life and Garry’s Mod are still more compelling than Horizon
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Apple maps has been good for a long time now. Anecdotally, I find the navigation to be more clear and the UX more intuitive. I only use Google Maps for discovery and reviews. The navigation experience is not very good.
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I like how geohot takes these concepts that seem impossibly complex to an outsider (mixture of models, multi modality) and discusses them so casually that they seem accessible to anyone. The flippancy is refreshing.
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For reference, this beat GPT-3.5 which scores 47%, but not GPT-4 which scored a massive 67%. Beating out GPT-3.5 at any task with such a small model is very cool to me. How much longer until these dumb virtual assistants (Siri, Google, Al
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I’ll bite, how do you make a self-driving submarine? There’s no GPS under the ocean? I imagine you’d need some kind of sea floor SLAM which sounds… really hard?
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Yeah. Going a bit faster on your morning commute won’t change much. But it does legitimately add up on longer drives. Not to mention, waiting behind a needlessly slow driver is just annoying. Mental costs are real, especially when operating
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It’s because Lemmy isn’t actually compelling outside of a few niche circles.
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You’re being pedantic. “Memory leak” is colloquially used when you have data in memory which accumulates and isn’t actively being used by the system.
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It’s a useful heuristic that, when combined with other factors, can give you increased confidence in someone’s ability.
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Maybe the author likes retro games and fast food? The anti-corporatism shtick is so lame. Just because something is done by a massive corporation doesn’t make the thing bad. Just because something is an advertisement doesn’t make it bad. I
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Your bit about fertile soil resonated with me. Have you taken psychedelics? Not to be that guy, but it’s good fertilizer for the mind. I feel my brain has been permanently much more accepting of non-rational (note: not irrational) modes of
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by bigyikes 3y ago
I watched Jensen’s announcement for this. He calls it the worlds largest GPU. It’s just one, giant compute unit. Unlike super computers, which are highly distributed, Nvidia says this is 140 TERABYTES of UNIFIED MEMORY. My mind still gets b
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Losing weight is easy: just do nothing! Haha, only kidding. But really, it often is easier to reduce calorie intake than it is to increase calorie expenditure. Sure, you can burn hundreds or thousands of calories a day by riding your bike
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This seems like a great idea. If all the kids are offline, there is much less peer pressure to be online. This solves the problem of kids being ostracized because their parents limited their screen time or didn't buy them a phone unt
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Wouldn’t be surprised if this was already done to some degrees for branch prediction
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Maybe a dumb question but can you recapture the evaporated water from stream turbines? Like, I dunno, put a hat on it to condense the water? Does it necessarily need to be boiled off to the atmosphere? (Not that I think retrofitting a nucle
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Throw in the videos from the rest of the internet, and you might actually do it…
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Yeah, this got me. Especially because the title is already editorialized ("just dropped"), I assumed "landmarks" was further editorialization.
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A generalized model of reality that has increased in fidelity as LLMs have improved.
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Yes. There is nothing special about modeling the world. There isn’t some threshold where the ability to model the world suddenly emerges. The AI will model the world if modeling the world is the simplest way to predict the next word. For ba

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