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by brador 2y ago
Books? Yes. But IMO the prize for greatest accumulation of copyrighted digital cultural artefacts goes to the original megaupload. (The vast majority of which was lost when their servers were raided and shut down.) Maybe archive has it beat
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by brador 2y ago
Every detection capability humans have uses EM. From eyeballs to x rays to red shift. Step 1 is making a new detector, then we talk about unknown unknowns.
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by brador 2y ago
The fact that all historians still refuse to acknowledge the origin of the term “yankees”.
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by brador 2y ago
Statistically you will die before you get hacked. Secure the top, let everything else trickle down.
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by brador 2y ago
Existence of language requires 2 mutation trees, one for hearing, one for sound making. Could this be why it took so long?
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by brador 2y ago
Best alternative to move to?
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by brador 2y ago
Manifest. I’ve been looking for the perfect word for what AI allows me to do and I think manifest is it. I can conjure things and it feels like magic. Like poof here it just is. Like it was always there and I’m just noticing it.
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by brador 2y ago
Interesting separation and distinction between noisy inputs, noisy processing and noisy chains.
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by brador 2y ago
The writing and clarity of thought in this article is exceptional. I feel smarter for having experienced it.
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by brador 2y ago
Parable of the sower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Sower_(novel)
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by brador 2y ago
Actual secret trick: learn next years course this year. It takes 6-12 months for neurons to mature in a human brain. Remember how easy last years math was the next year?
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by brador 2y ago
Real reason shop was ended: cost and safety. Materials are expensive, tools are expensive. $0 for a math class, $100 for a shop class. PER CLASS. The danger of kids with tools getting stabby (and cutty). Those remain unsolved. Shop will not
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by brador 2y ago
Magpie, just because it’s common doesn’t mean it’s boring. Just watching a common magie come in to land is awesome inspiring.
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by brador 2y ago
Broccoli, due to high surface area, captures more fertiliser and pesticides that are difficult to wash out without soaking, which no one does. For this reason table broccoli is usually very high in added toxins.
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There are companies that will pay $1M+ per answer IF it comes with a guaranteed solution or full cash back refund. This is why being the top tier AI is so valuable.
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If you can’t scale with your customer base fire your CTO.
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The problem is AI current best use case is creative work, art, music, programming, but skilled creative professionals is a/the core userbase for Apple products. Apple is stuck and it’s AI will never be good enough until those creatives
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by brador 2y ago
Every senior engineer worth hiring has automated application. Apply first, check if you want to go to interview second.
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by brador 2y ago
I just want to make music with AI and it is very difficult. The meta model on hugging gives an error when used through the website and no one will ever fix it.
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You can do 8b local on the latest iPhones.
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by brador 2y ago
Chestertons fence: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
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by brador 2y ago
Or the saddam purge - https://youtube.com/watch?v=kLUktJbp2Ug
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by brador 2y ago
Amazon through the kindle is storing massive amounts of data about your reading habits. Statistically, and inevitably, this information will be used against your best interests. Maybe simply to sell you something you don’t need, to price up
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by brador 2y ago
Lead and cadmium WITH NAMES in dark chocolate: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-...
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by brador 2y ago
You can get the same effect by gluing the magnet to the outside skin. It’s not as cool but feeling EM is awesome and you can glue a variety of strengths. Fingertips.
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There is option 2: work slower, with a list.
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by brador 2y ago
Age 50, born 1974 for those curious.
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by brador 2y ago
“principles like bias for action, disagree and commit are pretty effective and cool.” Got any more? Is there a list of these anywhere?
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by brador 2y ago
Someone should collate exceptional human coding achievements to test future AI. AFAICT AI cannot replicate this, yet, will be interesting when that day comes.
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by brador 2y ago
His last post here “ Be interesting to see if climbers like it - I'd love to see Wide Boys testing it out.” Makes you think what your last will be. Whatever it is it’ll live on in some legacy database till bit rot finally takes it.

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