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by choppaface 2y ago
Or nationalize parts of it, as has been done for electricity, water, and the courts.
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by choppaface 2y ago
The AT&T app and website are so bad it takes way longer than 1 minute to log in to e.g. pay your bill. The United States needs to raise the bar for large-cap negligent operators and fine the company enough to make shareholders listen.
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by choppaface 2y ago
The large clouds will often be able to give the biggest players a big discount. Perhaps not on raw GPU prices (maybe extended trial), but if you already have e.g. 1PB in object storage then they might give you 20-30% discount. Moreover if
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by choppaface 2y ago
But imagine if these models were baked into your Instagram app and then used for ad targeting using your own compute. Then Facebook gets to look at tons of other data and for less cost (and much less litigation risk) to them. In this applic
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by choppaface 2y ago
Android is going to eat Chrome, so would not be surprised to see Fuschia team layoffs as well as Chrome OS team layoffs in the next few months. Hard to say but from a revenue perspective the non-Android teams look as redundant as much of Mo
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by choppaface 2y ago
Is Adobe only 10x more expensive? Adobe is subscription-only so it seems to be only 10x for the first 5 years and then it’s indefinitely more expensive. Adobe’s customer support is also extremely poor. They ask you for detailed OS info whe
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by choppaface 2y ago
Not to mention that the “top 10%” shifts year-to-year as much or more than HYPS admissions. Talent _development_ requires substantive feedback, or at least substantial visibility into the competition versus a binary outcome. For example, t
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by choppaface 2y ago
Waymo/Google benefitted massively from regulation (and lack of regulation) early on when they hacked up the car’s code for a demo and caused an accident with injuries https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-levandowski-
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by choppaface 2y ago
Are you really shooting to generate something full-fidelity? Or rather provide lower fidelity but empower the user to spitball and maybe test light interaction? And if it is full fidelity, how do you ensure users actually own the copyright
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by choppaface 2y ago
The main factor though is that California appears poised to hand them a monopoly.
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by choppaface 2y ago
They are starting to obstruct bike lanes just like Ubers, I’ve seen this happen 3-4 times and it’s documented here: https://sfba.social/@SafeStreetRebel/112634004752866771 Years ago they were very respectful and conser
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by choppaface 2y ago
Have also nearly been hit as a pedestrian by a Waymo. I also last week saw a Waymo blow through a yellow-red very aggressively, so I think the downvotes on above comment are intensely biased.
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by choppaface 2y ago
And thank goodness it’s disabled, or we could have another JBIG2 https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...
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by choppaface 2y ago
Re: the 4FPS example, if one renders a VR180 view as an equirectangular image and lets the headset handle the 6DOF head movement, then 4FPS is plenty. Especially if there’s one render per-eye. 110% if there are no objects within a meter o
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by choppaface 2y ago
NeRF does glass, fog, reflections, and some furs better than gsplat. Gsplat does normal surfaces as well or better than NeRF, and gsplat also provides explicit geometry (a point cloud). NeRF models the entire image rendering function while
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by choppaface 2y ago
The action is under the: "Warehouse Quota Law, which went into effect in 2022 and limits quotas for 'work that must be performed at a specified speed or the worker suffers discipline,' " So it's not just that Amazon
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by choppaface 2y ago
Yeah but this article is terrible. First it talks about naively copy-pasting code to get “a seeming 10x speed-up” and then “This ended up being incorrect way of calculating the tokens used.” I would not bank on anything in this article. I
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by choppaface 2y ago
Could be a lidar failure, or potential failure, that needed a firmware update to address.
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by choppaface 2y ago
In lidar it could have looked like a tall traffic cone or a one of those skinny flexible posts that line the boundaries of some bike lanes. Those things cause much less damage. Telephone poles are obviously much thicker but in lidar space
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Elon Musk has auto-blocked many people from Apple(twitter.com)
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by choppaface 2y ago
Most viewers just need VR180. Perhaps Apple produces a few movies using this device, and then we’ll know if it could be the new IMAX.
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by choppaface 2y ago
In the Vision Pro demo appointment reel (i.e. anybody can demo the headset for free), everything is 6DOF, most is just stereo. Immersive VR is interactivity, which is more about good UX / gamification and less about using a dual-8k st
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by choppaface 2y ago
Apple already services US Gov cloud data requests, see e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/eqg5gc/apple_compl...
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by choppaface 2y ago
geohot is shilling his product, which aims to capitalize on making accelerator manufacturers compete with each other on FLOP / tensor core throughput. the OP outlines what could be an entirely different compute paradigm for LLMs, hence
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by choppaface 2y ago
The Deep Visualization Toolbox from nearly 10 years ago is solid precedent for understanding deep models, albeit much smaller models than LLMs. It’s hard to say OpenAI’s “visualization” released today is nearly as effective. It could be t
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by choppaface 2y ago
The blog author is a very early facebook employee, the current head of the metaverse division, and one of the self-proclaimed inventors of News Feed. (I’ve seen five different ex-fb people claim they invented News Feed so who knows?) Given
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by choppaface 2y ago
Engineers typically optimize for their own learning, and the false negative rate can reflect more about how aggressively the interviewing panel wants specific peers versus how much they actually want the job done well. Suppose there was a S
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by choppaface 2y ago
> There were too many open-ended options , a lot of people who were loud online. So, the developers decided to rent an Airbnb outside the city for a week so they could really focus, isolate, and ship some code. When they got together aro
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by choppaface 2y ago
This is especially true for comments that disagree with Googlers, likely because there are soooo many Googlers now and they (and Waymo) have highly aligned perspectives. Especially on Google-launch-related posts, 5-10 point swings in 24hrs
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by choppaface 2y ago
Perhaps because some things a out how sama did the Apple deal rattled even Microsoft https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cements-c... https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112530015885532391

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