bobsil1

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by bobsil1 6y ago
The Bay Area H2 shortage was fun, as in schedule your refueling between 1 and 5 am to have any chance of getting a half tank, or wait an hour in line by day.
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by bobsil1 6y ago
Even non-Sikh Punjabis tend to be extroverts :)
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by bobsil1 6y ago
Baseband pings can still track you, I think.
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by bobsil1 6y ago
Similarly I wouldn’t buy a car with a self-driving system from Facebook or Amazon.
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by bobsil1 6y ago
Yeah, it sucks for power users. It's a simplification because you don’t have pointer + data model, you only have the latter + visual highlight. But no longer the power of having a responsive pointer under exclusive user control. Dumbed
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by bobsil1 6y ago
That works until the technical PM has checkin permissions
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by bobsil1 6y ago
*for certain idiosyncratic definitions of “fully autonomous”
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by bobsil1 6y ago
And finger
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Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing [pdf](github.com)
2 points by bobsil1 7y ago|0 comments
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Unlike Wintel, Apple absorbs the lion’s share of profits in the iOS ecosystem, and seem to want apps to be free complements to their hardware.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
There’s a theory that the TB jab is protective. It’s being tested: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-30/century-o...
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Everyone covers mouths to catch asymptomatic spread, cheap testing indicates those who should self-isolate, enforce against scofflaws, econ reopens.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Similar experience with Jins (brick and mortar Tokyo chain expanding into US, nice designs, lens grinding bots, 30 min turn). $80, better than my old $600 pair.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
>a piece of the program labeled “reportInfoAndLocationToPolice” sends the person’s location, city name and an identifying code number to a server
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In Coronavirus Fight, China Gives Citizens a Color Code, with Red Flags(nytimes.com)
2 points by bobsil1 7y ago|1 comments
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by bobsil1 7y ago
I called BS with a recruiter on an interviewer who was being a dick. But that was the one who made the offer :)
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Massively parallel Baby Processing Units (BPUs)
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by bobsil1 7y ago
https://www.santacruz.org/blog/monarch-butterfly-magic-at-na...
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Lime pulls its scooters out of 12 markets and lays off staff(cnn.com)
2 points by bobsil1 7y ago|0 comments
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Betty Shannon, unsung mathematical genius, was Claude’s closest collaborator(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
5 points by bobsil1 7y ago|0 comments
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by bobsil1 7y ago
I run hill trails, and they’re so much more interesting than gyms and tracks.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
If you eat high veggies / protein and low carb / fat, you can mostly just rely on appetite.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Involuntary resting and vesting
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by bobsil1 7y ago
The hype, overfunding, bust is very Segway.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Fiber scan display in hi res would’ve required moving at 14× speed of sound: https://www.kguttag.com/2018/01/06/magic-leap-fiber-scanning...
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by bobsil1 7y ago
We've never hand-designed anything as complex and novel as what bio evolution discovers. We can't even ship error-free word processors. The more bug-free space shuttle code doesn't do much relative to AGI. "Humans create
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by bobsil1 7y ago
AGI won't require hand-designing a copy of the human brain, though knowing some of the principles would help.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
A dog brain can't design an artificial dog brain, and a human brain probably can't design a human-level AGI. It will likely be machine-evolved on cheap, massively parallel hardware, with the key problem being speeding up evolution
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Correct, they need a common sense / world model.
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by bobsil1 7y ago
Or… optimized for a different case (ease of access for small kids).

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