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by bo1024 3y ago
It's amazing how many electric-vehicle headlines Toyota produces while being way behind the curve of so many other automakers.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Absolutely true. It would be nice to be able to separate this value from the value of being a central hub/platform.
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by bo1024 3y ago
These are good points. There is also a separate point to make, which is that YouTube doesn't (in large part) create videos, they "just" host other people's videos. YouTube wants to capture a bigger and bigger slice of th
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by bo1024 3y ago
No, I think the situation is more nuanced than this. Why do the people at the school have providers who only accept gmail? Because some extremely technical people who understand exactly what they’re doing have led the web further and furt
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by bo1024 3y ago
Yeah, how does it work!?
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by bo1024 3y ago
I see commentary that all their R1 vehicles so far are essentially for building their reputation, not financially beneficial, and Rivian will start making money for real when the R2 releases in a couple years. And maybe on the Amazon van. I
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by bo1024 3y ago
Computer Science's conventions solve these problems (although CS certainly has other problems): * papers are generally posted to arxiv.org immediately on being finished, so everyone can access them * conferences have fixed deadli
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by bo1024 3y ago
Maybe not trippy, but a simple set of examples are existence theorems, i.e. "Given these objects, X exists." An example are fixed point theorems. Theorem: For any function g from a convex, compact set to itself, there exists a fix
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by bo1024 3y ago
Lots of people pay to go in to their weekly workout class where they just do exercises they already know how to do at home. A well designed class session can be (can be) similar in that it provides a space and guidance for you to do 60 minu
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by bo1024 3y ago
And the weirdest part about the complaint is that this is an application your employees could run on their computers to write documents. It's not like the discussion is about a library or package to be included in the product you'
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by bo1024 3y ago
> It was a crazy, schizophrenic time. Or, we are currently experiencing a brief oasis of freedom in between extended periods of encryption lockdowns and controls.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Point taken, but an important point here is exactly that companies are abstractions, and they exhibit emergent behavior -- cases where the the company as a whole, responding to "its" incentives, "does" things that no ind
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by bo1024 3y ago
Wow, this was a great read! And what an unexpected twist to Switzer's story.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Great point, and I feel the same thing happens with software. Consumer products are stuffed with hostile attention-stealing software, telemetry, overcomplicated, ads, etc. Professional stuff is actually designed to work. (e.g. TVs, printers
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by bo1024 3y ago
I think they didn't do a good job making the point clear for people who just clicked the link without context. It starts off talking a lot about the Mastodon clone and then gradually starts talking about Rama as it goes.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Their point is to show off the power of Rama, I.e. it is possible to build such applications on top with little work.
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by bo1024 3y ago
If any random webpage is granted access to the microphone, I would think this could be a problem.
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by bo1024 3y ago
You might like this commentary: https://notan.app/
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by bo1024 3y ago
Didn't mean to be negative toward you, it just reminded me strongly of that passage. Later (in a sequel?) the girl is introduced and she refers to the memory of that moment in a similar way.
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by bo1024 3y ago
> And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realised what
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by bo1024 3y ago
Not to mention the outside influence and value captured by publishers and distributors (not creators).
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by bo1024 3y ago
Nice. This solution is a type of dynamic programming, in disguise.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Differential privacy satisfies a post-processing guarantee. It says that if you take the output of a differentially private process and do any amount of processing and combining with outside information, then you don't learn any more t
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by bo1024 3y ago
Differential privacy techniques are provably impossible to de-anonymize, if implemented correctly. It is possible. But fraught with possibility for error or manipulation.
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by bo1024 3y ago
Yes! I'm surprised he didn't mention that the factor is e.
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by bo1024 3y ago
On that side, reinforcement learning bleeds over into control theory, so you're partly right.
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by bo1024 3y ago
It's more some level of what they call "mathematical maturity", or just experience with math. None of this relies on math past the first or second year of college for a typical STEM degree: linear algebra and vector calculus.
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by bo1024 3y ago
I wonder if an automated stenographer would be legal even when recording isn’t. (A device that listens to the conversation and writes down the transcript automatically without recording anything.)
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by bo1024 3y ago
Yeah, I think most of this is implied in the article.
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by bo1024 3y ago
That’s a good idea, and it should be paired with grants or some other compensation/support for people who develop those open books.

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