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by cush 1y ago
Later renamed to Microsoft Zune, a handheld AI companion that lives in your pocket
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To me this is like early generative AI art, where the images came out very "smooth" and visually buttery, but instead there's no timbre to the voices. Intonation issues aside, these models could use a touch of vocal fry and s
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The one that exists in reality
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It's a terrible analogy because LLMs are already for audio what LLMs are for audio. You can use LLMs to create new songs and sounds. Encyclopedias don't create new songs.
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by cush 1y ago
What benefit to we get from the reductionism of "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"? It completely negates people's lived experiences with them - "An LLM is my doctor", "An LLM is my wedding planner", "A
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by cush 1y ago
This article is like a lossy encyclopedia entry on what an LLM is
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by cush 1y ago
All good points. Work from home isn’t helping us any either. People typically meet their partners at work.
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It's just a platform to allow children to gamble at this point
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> "Screen-free" is clearly implying disapproval of screen time. This is entirely an assumption on your part. Just because parents are looking for screen-free activities doesn't mean they're anti-screen. They're
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by cush 1y ago
I don't think pejorative means what you think it means
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I feel while developers continue to spend their time and energy gatekeeping how people build things, AI is going to continue to enable those people to build what they want. You'd be surprised how little people care about how a product
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Where do you see "screens" used in the pejorative?
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Just imagine for a moment what this would look like in reality... "I was going to take your original offer of $220 for this here used HP laptop, but after looking at the high number of writes to the SSD on PCFax, I can't do better
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It's all survivorship bias. Of course the top-of-the-line built-like-a-tank tech from 50 years ago still works. It doesn't mean the good enough tech from 50 years ago didn't last 20+ years
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>at the end of the day, Netflix is encoding and serving several thousand videos via a CDN. It can't be this hard Yeah maybe 10 years ago, but today Netflix is one of the top production companies on the planet. In the article, they e
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> It is fundamentally a business problem, rather than a technical problem, but it has impact on development speed, so it's secondarily a technical problem. It doesn't read from the article that they are denying that it's a
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Like say 10% of people or more
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Sure. To clarify, I'm not asserting that in two years today's 4o will be 100x more expensive, but the sum of many core offerings from various companies will be. It won't be unheard of for people to spend $2k-$10k/yr betw
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by cush 1y ago
> You can't compare an API that is profitable (search) to an API that is likely a loss-leader to grab market share (hosted LLM cloud models). Regardless of maturity lifecycle, by definition loss-leaders are cheap. If I go to the gro
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> You ask OpenAI for a product recommendation, and it recommends a product that they’re associated with, or one that a company is paying them to promote. Or maybe some company detects OpenAI’s web scraper and delivers customized content
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How could you possibly know that you know more than them about anything without knowing them? It's all assumptions It's actually like thinking that the most influential musicians in history are somehow not qualified to step up and
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"My opinion is more important than the opinions of the greatest musicians of all time, because I once built an LLM myself on 3GB of IRC logs" - superkuh, 2025
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The doodle demo is super fun https://aistudio.google.com/apps/bundled/gemini-co-drawing?s...
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Gorgeous UI
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I feel like the two types of dishwasher people are clearly delineated by those who have and have not watched the Technology Connections videos on dishwashers. 1. Powdered detergent people who sprinkle some soap in for the prewash 2. Tab peo
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by cush 2y ago
You can disable it in content restrictions settings. Yes, many issues, but mostly with apps not being able to open external links. To me it's worth it though.
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For this very reason, I uninstalled the browser on my phone. No joke
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I tried every kind of focus app and focus mode on iOS, and nothing stuck. After years of trying, this approach worked well for me: 1. Delete any app with any kind of algorithmic feed (YouTube, TikTok, etc) 2. Uninstall Safari That's ri
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Certainly, there exists a middle ground between having no options for styling and some options where we don't compromise users
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Yeah I really just don't see how you are getting these "Netflix is the most" figures, considering the scale of Disney and how they constantly push technical boundaries in production, vfx, animation, etc

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