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by dTal 3y ago
The article makes it sound like the ferry mission wasn't quite as tight as you suggested ("barely made it"): "As a precaution, the main A40 trunk road, which runs past the bottom of the easterly end of the runway at Nort
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by dTal 3y ago
Well sort of. It's a depth-accurate warp, fed from the SLAM system. This is functionally equivalent to texturing a depth map with the cameras. It has to be this way because there's no other way to simulate having a camera in a dif
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by dTal 3y ago
What was thought provoking about it?
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by dTal 3y ago
I doubt it - the cameras are not at eye location. I expect they employ a similar solution to the Quest, which has no front-facing cameras at all - it builds a 3d model of the scene on the fly using photogrammetry on the corner cameras (if A
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by dTal 3y ago
You don't know that a nation state didn't make something ChatGPT level earlier.
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by dTal 3y ago
So to be clear, you assert, entirely without evidence, that Snowden leaked the documents to someone other than The Guardian / WaPo? And you further assert without evidence that these leaks included IP addresses? And your source is &quo
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by dTal 3y ago
It's a defense mechanism, to deal with cognitive dissonance. People hate wasps, they're comfortable being allowed to hate wasps by society, they don't want to be told they suddenly need to have compassion for an outgroup, a
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by dTal 3y ago
>I'm sure that a century ago, space was just something we would never reach. Far from it! From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne was written in 1865, and was a reasonable attempt at hard sci-fi. More scientifically, Konstantin Ts
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by dTal 3y ago
I would think if they had meant "stainless steel" they would have said so, rather than "aluminum".
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by dTal 3y ago
To be fair to him, the silence could fairly be interpreted as humility, particularly given the tweet with which he broke the silence: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705
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by dTal 3y ago
Russia did not "seem like the safest place at the time". He was en-route to Ecuador from Hong Kong, with a layover in Moscow, when the US State Department canceled his passport. In a quite direct sense, the United States put him i
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by dTal 3y ago
>I don't think America could have created a harsher punishment if we had tried. Lol. After Assange/Manning, that demonstrates a singular failure of imagination.
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by dTal 3y ago
Snowden released his intel to a single journalist each from two highly respected publications, The Washington Post and The Guardian. Releases to the general public were made in those publications only, according to the judgement and discret
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by dTal 3y ago
Coke in "aluminum" is actually coke in plastic; the cans are lined.
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by dTal 3y ago
A beautiful thought, except that Attention Is All You Need came out in 2017. ChatGPT was when the hype cycle kicked off, but I guarantee there were LLM-generated comments on it before then, possibly from nation-state-funded propaganda mills
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by dTal 3y ago
Due to Nyquist, it will be missing specular reflections with high angular frequency, which gives everything a dull, "satin" texture. You will never see anything "twinkle", "sparkle", or "glitter" in o
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by dTal 3y ago
You've been downvoted, but this is the correct question to ask. If, hypothetically, we made an AI with "superior" intelligence and ethics, then by definition we should expect to disagree with it sometimes. Set aside the nuk
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by dTal 3y ago
This is more or less a large scale version of the trolley problem. I have no point to make other than to observe that the trolley problem is specifically designed to expose how "conventional ethics", as measured by people's i
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by dTal 3y ago
6GB of VRAM! Luxury! I managed to reconstruct the lego scene using TensoRF[0] (not strictly NeRF, but a similar approach with similar results) last night on my nvidia-equipped T480 (2gb of VRAM)[1], so it's possible. >But, there are
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by dTal 3y ago
I wrote a script to try it. It's boggling that anyone could do this task in milliseconds. import os import random cols,rows = os.get_terminal_size() numchars = cols*rows randletter = lambda: chr(random.randrange(ord('
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by dTal 3y ago
It's very much of a piece with Apple's infamous "what's a computer" iPad ad. Apple have always been trying to position their products as existing in some sort of technological alternate universe ("Think Differe
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by dTal 3y ago
A Kindle 4 runs Linux and has a 750mAh battery, which when multiplied by 3.7V gives 2.8 Wh.A single AA battery has nearly 4Wh, so two of them give nearly triple the capacity of a Kindle 4. A Kindle 4 lasts for a good month under light use,
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by dTal 3y ago
It most certainly is a multiparty negotiation. You eat things that can be reasonably obtained from vendors in your area, who in turn stock things they think they can sell. You order from the items available at the establishments you visit w
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by dTal 3y ago
Why would it need to be loaded fully into system RAM at once? Couldn't it be quantized on the fly, as it's being read from disk?
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by dTal 3y ago
Always worth remembering that only the finetuned ChatGPT is so filtered. The raw GPT models accessible through OpenAI's API are not, and will happily generate violence, gore, pornographic content, etc. They never use the phrase &quot
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by dTal 3y ago
To reiterate: it wouldn't take many.
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by dTal 3y ago
It wouldn't take many disgruntled employees to scuttle it themselves. It's much easier to ruin delicate expensive equipment than to preserve it in working order.
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by dTal 3y ago
> But it appears that human intelligence is on a reverse trend A dangerous myth. Idiocracy was an entertainment film with a side order of eugenics, not a documentary.
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by dTal 3y ago
I think what they are trying to say is that Sam Altman is very smart, but misaligned. If we assume that he is 1) sufficiently smart and 2) motivated to see OpenAI succeed, then his suggestions must be assumed to lead to a future where OpenA
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by dTal 3y ago
I prefer to believe things because they're true, rather than because they're convenient. You can indeed avoid a lot of awkward moral dilemmas by simply declaring yourself more morally deserving by definition, but in doing so you l

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