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by chrischen 2y ago
There’s OpenSkill https://github.com/philihp/openskill.js Also Microsoft’s TrueSkill
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by chrischen 2y ago
> that seems already underway, with Uber[Eats] drivers being the "robots". One of the primary benefits of automation is actually a reduction of costs. Uber eats did reduce delivery costs a bit, but probably not to the same orde
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by chrischen 2y ago
If you could get out of blacklists by transferring ownerships then people can “wash” domains by fake transfers.
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by chrischen 2y ago
Doesn't work if someone else violates your privacy in the first place by posting it publicly. To take it to the extreme, someone could break into your house (where you presumably do have a reasonable expectation of privacy), take photo
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by chrischen 2y ago
There are also a lot of cog-in-the-machine engineers here that totally do not get the bigger picture or the vantage point from another department.
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by chrischen 2y ago
Probably not immune but the US economy was able to latch onto software, which is still where world economy is heading, especially with AI leading the trends now.
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by chrischen 2y ago
A lot of our profile pics are actually public, and models like OpenAI's probably ingested those too.
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by chrischen 2y ago
I’ve deployed something similar for Instapainting using convolutional texture nets: https://www.instapainting.com/assets . This is some 5+ year old stuff but with hand-picked models still stands up against newer stuff albeit
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by chrischen 2y ago
It’s only tough to change your way of thinking. Most people making the switch find it tough because they are trying to find imperative techniques to do something in a functional way and struggling because they can’t find an if else statemen
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by chrischen 2y ago
I did this for a blog post many many years ago. It was surprising how accurate reproductions would be with just simple dead reckoning. No adjustments were necessary and just by having everything in the same positions it would pretty faithfu
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by chrischen 2y ago
I’m not sure if getting rid of the addiction would automatically make SF houses affordable. Certainly doesn’t help. But it’s also not SF’s job to house the entire nation’s homeless population.
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by chrischen 2y ago
Arithmetic just happens to be something we can easily and reliably verify, so it becomes painfully obvious when LLMs are just stringing together some words that sound like the right answer.
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by chrischen 2y ago
It's the sovereign right of any country to be protectionist. Protectionism is actually the default. Open markets is not the default. I'd like to think the open US market is what makes it great, and too much protectionism actually
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by chrischen 2y ago
Saving face is not just about saving face. There's also your credibility at stake. There's only so many times you can invade a country under false pretenses before the international community, or even your own constituency, starts
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by chrischen 2y ago
> The free market has never existed in an unregulated state, and since the founding of the country there have been rules and regulations on imports and what companies can operate in the United States and under what circumstances. Of cour
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by chrischen 2y ago
What does it matter what China does? If they don’t want our stuff then that’s their choice. I mean, we voluntarily use an economic blockade as a weapon against North Korea, Iran, and Russia, and it is not to their benefits. My whole second
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by chrischen 2y ago
Actually a free market is one of the main points of America. It’s not a moral argument of its superiority but a practical argument that a free market should result in the best outcome for all. I still believe in this, and if you look at Ame
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by chrischen 2y ago
The other problem is the teapot calling the kettle black. If the US has precedent, and this action follows that precedent, then our bitching and whining about Google and Facebook in China previously makes us look really contradictory. We’ll
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by chrischen 2y ago
My experiences before was that they were doing some machine learning to detect my socks proxy and slow it down eventually. Last visit I went to China a few months ago I found my Wireguard VPN running at full speed. Either technology has imp
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by chrischen 2y ago
The whole point of this study is to show that a well off person can do the bare minimum and a disadvantaged person could be doing way more than minimum, and the disadvantaged person will end up being disparaged as must have been doing the b
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by chrischen 3y ago
Along that line what if you dropped cocaine or heroine over the enemy country? These things are cheap to produce.
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by chrischen 3y ago
But this is exactly my point. We can already solve the problem of humans and we aren’t bound by technological constraints. If AI is there chugging along after all humans are rendered “useless” then is it much different than the pre-human er
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by chrischen 3y ago
If humans die then what exactly is technology “solving”?
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by chrischen 3y ago
Exactly this. We all would love to be perpetual rent-seekers but it just doesn't work for a proper society. Not to mention land is a finite resource.
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by chrischen 3y ago
The sheep was cloned from DNA so it’s not as if he brought a sheep into the country. Unless you mean the sheep itself is a pest…
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by chrischen 3y ago
AI replacing skills is a moving target. Anything can be replaced by AI (more so information jobs) but as things are replaced humans just have to work harder to be novel. AI is by definition trained on the largest pool of examples, which mea
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by chrischen 3y ago
I think the parent is more worried about the dirtied aspect.
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by chrischen 3y ago
It saves you from having to write the null check code for other cases.
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by chrischen 3y ago
I would say the Japanese influence is in the infrastructure so it's more noticeable. But the American influences may come from the overseas young Chinese that repatriate and start businesses or contribute to the modern day culture.
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by chrischen 3y ago
Open source does nothing if you can't verify the shipped code is actually running that. Plus after the whole Supermicro controversy we'd have to check what appear to be ball bearings for embedded spying circuitry.

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