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by com2kid 1y ago
The rabbit OS project is literally the only correct path forward for AI. Hopefully they go for local on device inference, as they removes cloud costs, solving the burning pile of cash problem most AI companies have. Directly driving a user&
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by com2kid 1y ago
Do you think platforms like YouTube and tiktok care? Whatever gets the views.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Look at view counts for short form videos that are 100% AI generated. The good "creators" are already making bank, helped by app algorithms matching people up to content they'll find addictive to view. The content doesn'
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by com2kid 1y ago
> Hollywood's wet dream. Except it bankrupts Hollywood, they are no longer needed. Of people can generate full movies at home, there is no more Hollywood. The end game is endless ultra personalized content beamed into people's
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by com2kid 1y ago
My first job out of coll, task 1 was improved query perf on our test result database. job 2 was "get performance tests working again." Both 100 % open ended problems.
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by com2kid 1y ago
> I wonder why people never complained so much about JavaScript not having shared-everything threading. Maybe because JavaScript is so much faster that you don't have to reach for it as much. I wish more effort was put into baseline
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by com2kid 1y ago
I disagree on many points the article makes, but it is well written and lays out its arguments well. One example - I prefer the named fields of Zig over Odin's use of positional fields. Zig's syntax is the more popular one as of l
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by com2kid 1y ago
You use a smaller model for confidence because those small models can return results quickly. Also it keeps the AI from being confused trying to do too many things at once.
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by com2kid 1y ago
Been there, implemented it, it works well enough. Better solutions are possible but even tiny models are capable of being given a partial sentence and replying with a probability that the user is done talking. The linked repo does this, it
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by com2kid 1y ago
A lot better techniques exist now days than pure silence detection - 1. A special model that predicts when a conversation turn is coming up (e.g. when someone is going to stop speaking). Speech has a rhythm to it and pauses / ends of s
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by com2kid 1y ago
Dryers can be set to dry on a lower temperature. Sure it takes 30 minutes longer but clothes last a lot longer. Best of both worlds IMHO.
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by com2kid 1y ago
I wrote a blog post about exactly this - https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-... Offline first locally hosted AI household assistants.
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by com2kid 2y ago
I helped with pgo work at Microsoft over 15 years ago, back when it was a Microsoft Research project. The issue with early pgo implementations was getting a really good profile, as you had to have automation capable of fully exercising code
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by com2kid 2y ago
This is fair enough. When I bought the original Brothers, it took me maybe 10 hours to finish, if even that. It was well worth the cost, amazing game. (Apparently the remake was badly done...) Some games are in the "experience" ca
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by com2kid 2y ago
I had a dog that you could ask to do complex tasks and he'd happily go about and do it. "Go around the corner and get your toy out of the laundry basket". He'd go around the corner and get his toy out of the laundry bask
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by com2kid 2y ago
Kind of line railroads, or ship building, or the spice trade, or automotive manufacturing, or agriculture in general. Nuclear power. Solar panels. CPU manufacturing. Weapons manufacturing. Biomed research. Capitol intensive projects require
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by com2kid 2y ago
My meta glasses can do a decent number of those, with the ideal form factor for those use cases.
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by com2kid 2y ago
I had a math prof who didn't speak English. Didn't matter, one of the best courses I ever took. He made the math look beautiful on the old fashion chalk board. Absolutely wonderful and enlightening equations.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Other laptops with beamformed arrays simply don't expose the raw mics to userland Not always true, back in the Windows XP days (!!!) some laptops would expose the array to software and let the user configure where the mics record
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by com2kid 2y ago
Over 20 years ago I had a Toshiba Tablet PC convertible that had a beam forming array of microphones and it came with software that let you point where you wanted to record from. The use case was for lectures, you could tell the laptop to j
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by com2kid 2y ago
Elevenlabs is an ecosystem play. They have hundreds of different voices, legally licensed from real people who chose to upload their voice. It is a marketplace of voices. None of the other major players is trying to do that, not sure why.
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by com2kid 2y ago
He said kids toys are a bad example because wood toys are meaningfully distinct from non-wood toys, and then explained how they are in fact not meaningfully distinct beyond a superficial level, which I brought back around to the differences
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Wood toys are a bad example because they are meaningfully distinct from plastic toys > And I'm not even convinced using wood toys has any advantage over plastic toys in terms of environmental impact or exposition to pollutants
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by com2kid 2y ago
> But even with quite hefty price increse, the conditions will still be a living hell. Local farmers markets sell animals that had quite happy lives. Some farms even have live webcams where you can check in on the animals 24/7. Hone
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I’m trying to think of a single example where one of these “vote with your wallet” certification movements have ultimately triumphed and become the new norm… Kids toys. There are a lot of successful wood kids toys brands now that exist
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by com2kid 2y ago
It was bad because they did research studies about the UI and then lied about the results of those studies so they could push the terrible Win8 UI forward. I had friends who worked on the UX team for 8 and they reported general malfeasance
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by com2kid 2y ago
I'm paying for their photo service. If their photo service gets dumbed down to become a simple file store, it makes it easier for me to migrate to a different photo storage service.
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by com2kid 2y ago
7 has significant kernel improvements that dramatically improves its performance, as well as huge changes to its graphics system that heavily reduced memory usage. (Data that was mirror in system ram wasn't anymore, dropping local RAM
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by com2kid 2y ago
This new API is so bad that it is breaking Google photo albums on Android TVs! No one wants to manually add each photo to a slideshow. Google Photos has AI that automatically makes themed albums, it works great. I point my TV at my family p
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by com2kid 2y ago
My first job at Microsoft fresh out of college, my office mate had 2 PhDs, one in chemistry and one in physics. Related - About 10 seconds into my first job I decided that staying quiet for a bit and listening to people around me would be a

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