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by dist-epoch 4y ago
Compare your calculator with the Electron-like based on included in Windows or with sending a calculator query to Google. The latter still exists despite orders of magnitude more energy usage. Running neural networks will become cheaper too
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
I actually meant the LLM controlling the pixels. Seems highly inefficient, but so was every move from assembler -> C -> .NET -> JavaScript -> Electron.
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
Think about bindless as raw pointers vs handles. In bindless (pointers) you say "at this GPU memory location I have a texture with this params". In non-bindless you say "API create a texture with these params and give me a ha
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
There will be a single app in the future: a generative AI app which will synthesize pixels on the screen depending on what you are doing.
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
He has Chinese employees. Some of them will be pro China and pro censorship. And all of them are under Chinese law despite living abroad. He has no choice.
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
> Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesperson, confirmed Russia had tightened the restrictions on foreign travel for some who work in “sensitive” areas.
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
> something new based off of that But where do you draw the line? If AI imagines 3 people around a business table in front of a flip chart, is that copyright infringement on similar stock photos? Note that in the AI created image, the pe
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
I've seen people use "code words" exactly to avoid them being find by regulatory keyword searches. AI can figure out from context, a keyword search will miss it. And no, you don't know the "code words".
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
Humans photographers are also trained on copyrighted images. They look at countless numbers of them and learn what is the correct "professional style", etc. This is why you can instantly recognize most stock photos, because they a
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
Thermal batteries, the kind used on spaceships, weight 15 kg and can generate 100W for decades. The human baseline metabolism is around 100W, so with two thermal batteries and another classic battery for energy usage spikes (physical activi
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
Microsoft needs to integrate GPT into Windows, and make it available in every app and input box - in the mail app, in Discord, in browsers. You would open Chrome, go to Hacker News, login, and say in the comment box - "GPT, please read
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
Google Maps was pretty astonishing when it appeared.
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
* for some definition of "never repeat". Most people would call that pattern obviously repeating (in the shape itself).
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
If you believe the claims are ludicrous buy some longer duration calls and you'll make a crazy amount of money too.
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
From article: > This idea of surpassing human ability is silly because it’s made of human abilities At some point in history we were just "chimp abilities", so the argument would become "it's silly to imagine that s
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
But he is saying "cars are not dangerous because they are made by humans". Nuclear weapons are also made by humans abilities.
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
The same way it made it into production on POSIX? O_TRUNC is not default: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/openat.2.html
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by dist-epoch 4y ago
> How do these standards processes work? Chrome implements something, and 3 years later it's adopted as a standard because the other browser (Firefox) was forced to implement it anyway.