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by criddell 2mo ago
I'm a fan of selection by lottery for kids that can clear some reasonable bar.
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by criddell 2mo ago
This board is for the discussion of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If this article generates substantial discussion and doesn't v
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by criddell 2mo ago
An AI as a system can have memory even if some sub-system does not.
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by criddell 2mo ago
Isn't analytics the main reason for having cameras all over a store these days?
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by criddell 2mo ago
> Luna reorders products that are not selling and sometimes gets orders wrong. A recent one of Andon Market mugs with big, green smiley faces came misprinted with the faces so small, they looked like tiny dots. The mug with the tiny happ
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by criddell 2mo ago
> People just really don't understand that LLMs do not "remember" anything. Sure, but like you said, the LLM is just one part of the AI system. The occipital lobe of your brain helps out with vision but doesn't help w
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by criddell 2mo ago
Before search engines, we had personalized search results in the form of yellow pages. The yellow pages in Chattanooga are different than the Wichita. There was no global yellow pages where plumbers from Odessa were listed beside plumbers f
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by criddell 2mo ago
> getting earlier dementia and also living shorter is lose-lose That depends. I'd rather die at 70 after a year of dementia than live to 85 where the last five of those I have dementia. I want to minimize the number of years with de
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by criddell 2mo ago
Even if the front running fails, it's a cheap way to raise your profile with the president. I bet if you are paying $100k / month, your chances of the president taking your call go way up.
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by criddell 2mo ago
> It's the best purchase there is. There are more parents out there that would disagree with that than you might think.
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by criddell 2mo ago
That looks pretty limited.
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by criddell 2mo ago
It may not have been an LLM (nobody said it was) but it was definitely more than just a document search. AI systems were in use for decades before LLMs rolled around.
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by criddell 2mo ago
I tried to search for Q$ but google returned no results. What is it? For my handwriting, the ParaGraph engine inside Evernote worked perfectly. I believe it's the same system that the US postal service uses.
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by criddell 2mo ago
Being human, I think more about the number of dementia years than number of dementia-free years. Could having good dietary, sleep, and exercise habits result in living longer with dementia? I've hard about cognitive reserve and how hea
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by criddell 2mo ago
This is my favorite AI customer service story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/02/air-canada-must-... > Air Canada essentially argued that “the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsib
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by criddell 2mo ago
The second paragraph in that story lays out the main bullets. He's worth paying attention to. For the past thirty years or so that I've been aware of him he's been more prescient than most.
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by criddell 2mo ago
When I hear these stories of AI companies buying all the books, I think back to Kevin Kelly in 2008 or 2009. He talked about how books are less expensive than at any other time in history and easier to buy and that could change so it makes
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by criddell 2mo ago
You probably already knows this, but he also publishes them as a podcast where he reads the essay in one take.
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by criddell 2mo ago
My understanding (belief) is that it's going to depend on how much human involvement is there. If you write a prompt and one-shot a problem and share the source code, that source code is probably not covered by copyright. If you substa
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by criddell 2mo ago
Is it the same as the proverbial buggy whip manufacturers of 100 years ago complaining about how their business is yet another ruined by cars?
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by criddell 2mo ago
If you buy decent cables from reputable companies (CableMatters, LTT, Apple, etc...) you could end up with a drawer full of high quality mystery cables. A cheap tester is probably all you really need to sort out that mess.
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by criddell 2mo ago
> the new Oracle I think that's exactly what they are going for - enterprise and government customers.
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by criddell 2mo ago
> wayyy overpriced Maybe they consider that hiring a person to do it would have cost at least as much and taken much more time, so paying them is a bargain.
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by criddell 2mo ago
I haven't had good luck with either. The torch may have been a skill issue but the broiler just doesn't get hot enough. Mine taps out at 550 F.
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by criddell 2mo ago
Are you just heating the bare cast iron to crazy hot temperatures and then putting the steak in? I've thought about trying that, but I'd need to first strip the seasoning off the pan to avoid all kinds of nasty flavors. The second
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by criddell 2mo ago
A blow torch might be worth trying. I'd think it's still not as good as a hot broiler because it's heating a relatively small area.
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by criddell 2mo ago
I've made steak probably 100 times in the past decade (sometimes with a sous vide) and I don't think I've ever made one I would say is great. Certainly not as good as what I can get at a good restaurant. I think what my home
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by criddell 2mo ago
Isn't Planck's hypothesis really a theory? Isn't string theory really a hypothesis?
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by criddell 2mo ago
That was such a weird move for them to make. If you have AIs that are good at building software, then use them to build great software! Instead they choose lowest-common denominator solutions that are okay everywhere but not great anywhere.
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by criddell 2mo ago
Did you intend to say dark forest hypothesis ?

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