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by buu700 2y ago
FWIW, I use a Pixel 8 with an aramid fiber case (Thinborne), and it's pretty much a strict upgrade over the Pixel 5. Only real downside is that it's ~1.6mm thicker than a caseless Pixel 5, but on the other hand the added protectio
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by buu700 2y ago
Pretty much in the same boat here. The P9P is around the same size as my P8 (0.1" shifted from depth to width), which is great news. I would pay more for a better camera, but I care more about compactness than camera quality.
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by buu700 2y ago
I agree. The branding doesn't really matter as long as casting still works. It seems like an odd choice for Google to frame this in such dramatic terms, especially when so many people have already been burned by their tendency to kill
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by buu700 2y ago
In my mind, it would be controlling both pricing and geographic allocation of resources in a market-driven way. The idea is to be a strategy for efficiently rolling out the service at scale in a way that distributes the risks and profits, l
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by buu700 2y ago
That's a good point, agreed, I don't think Waymo would need to be the vendor of the actual vehicle. It makes more sense that existing manufacturers would sell "Waymo Inside" models that include their tech, and then servi
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by buu700 2y ago
Could the hardware price come down with scale, or is it inherently expensive? If the former, I think a viable model could be to eventually start selling the hardware (along with ongoing software updates, cloud services, maintenance, etc.).
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by buu700 2y ago
Ah okay, interesting, thanks.
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by buu700 2y ago
Got it, thanks, that makes sense. I was aware that memory was the primary bottleneck, but wasn't clear on the specifics of how model sizes mapped to memory requirements or the exact implications of quantization in practice. It sounds l
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by buu700 2y ago
I appreciate the additional information, but I'm not sure what you're claiming is a fundamental misunderstanding on my part. I was referring to running the model with quantization, and was clear that I hadn't verified the acc
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by buu700 2y ago
Ah, that's a shame to hear. FWIW, ChatGPT did also suggest that there was a lot of room for improvement in the MPS backend of PyTorch that would likely make it more efficient on Apple hardware in time.
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by buu700 2y ago
I don't have the hardware to confirm this, so I'd take it with a grain of salt, but ChatGPT tells me that a maxed out M3 MacBook Pro with 128 GB RAM should be capable of efficiently running Llama 3.1 405B, albeit with essentially
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by buu700 2y ago
On that point, I would dispute the premise that "it's impossible to have true language skills without implicitly having a representation of self and environment". I don't see any contradiction between the following two i
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by buu700 2y ago
That's wild. Google Voice has been my primary phone number since before it was called Google Voice; at this point no one except me even knows my current "real" number. I'd hate to think that someone might get in trouble
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by buu700 2y ago
Personally, I don't see fusion as relevant on a time scale that will impact the climate crisis in any significant way, but it could be a major asset in taking us from net zero emissions to preindustrial carbon levels. It could also sim
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by buu700 2y ago
I'm not sure if this is what you meant, but the concept of an alien species with a totally different subjective perception of time would be interesting. As in all of our actions/movements/speech would be experienced as being
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by buu700 2y ago
I'm personally pretty optimistic about direct air capture. Right now, we just need to stop the bleeding and get to global net ~zero emissions with the tools we have (renewables, nuclear, carbon capture, etc.). It seems like we're
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by buu700 2y ago
That's probably the case. Having said that, there are also a lot of one-off side characters which use Justin's distinctive voice style, although I can't remember specifically whether that was the case in the latest season, an
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by buu700 2y ago
I'm also curious, legally speaking, is it an issue even if Sky's actress does sound like Scarlett? What if OpenAI admits they intentionally chose someone who sounded like Scarlett? Does it matter whether she was using her natural
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by buu700 3y ago
The process of a human responding to a prompt isn't the same process an LLM follows. It involves subjectively experiencing being asked the question, having feelings about the question, possibly visualizing something related to the ques
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by buu700 3y ago
I recently read an interesting thread that laid out the case for LLMs being a path to AGI: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/13ox85j/how_do... The argument boils down to the idea that languag
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by buu700 3y ago
Agreed. I think the framing of "stealing" is a needlessly pessimistic prediction of how it might be used. If a person owns their own likeness, it would be logical to implement legal protections for AI impersonations of one's
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by buu700 3y ago
"A smooth surface which feels lumpy" seems intuitively unlikely but stranger things have happened. I wonder how well it would work if you did something similar to Force Touch, but instead of one uniform trackpad it were separate
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by buu700 3y ago
That's an interesting idea. Similarly, you could make a sort of quantum time capsule by encrypting a blob of data with RSA or ECC and publishing the cyphertext alongside the public key. You could even adjust the key size depending on h
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by buu700 3y ago
Seems straightforward to me. 0nm, -1nm, -2nm, etc.
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by buu700 3y ago
Ahh, yeah, definitely nothing like that. I'll make a note to clarify the language there in the next website update.
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by buu700 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback on the messaging. I can see how mentioning that risks painting the whole thing with a brush that won't appeal to everyone. To be clear, what you quoted is an idea that has been requested by some potential custom
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by buu700 3y ago
If we do care about the delta in security model between the web and other platforms, then we could build some kind of code bundling and signing mechanism for web applications, perhaps with some kind of transparency layer on top to make the
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by buu700 3y ago
That might actually be the lesser evil here. There could be a new category of "kid-friendly" devices which require parental unlock to (temporarily) access the open Internet, either in general or outside of a government-approved wh
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by buu700 3y ago
Seems like it'd be pretty useful if it turned out to be cheap enough to stock in first aid kits and medicine cabinets around the world.
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by buu700 3y ago
Sounds similar to my Frost River Geologist Pack, which is around the same price point and handcrafted in Minnesota. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of it while often lugging 35+ lbs of stuff, and it seems pretty much indestructible. $

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