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by djoldman 2y ago
> And of course there’s manure. A dairy cow produces an average of 68 kilograms of manure a day. All that manure has to be collected and the barn floors regularly cleaned. Ok that's a stat I didn't expect. 68kg! That's ~15
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by djoldman 2y ago
I perused the codebase but I'm unfamiliar with dart: https://github.com/filiph/unsure/blob/master/lib/src/calcula... I assume this is a montecarlo approach? (Not to start a flamewar, at le
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by djoldman 2y ago
Many manifestations of generative AI allow people to put concepts onto screens faster. It generally serves as a more efficient translator of "I want a contract like this one but more tailored to [new client]" or "I want to ma
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by djoldman 2y ago
Guns have little use beyond injuring or killing or threatening the same. On the good side: one could argue it's sometimes good to kill for hunting. On the bad side... well there is a lot of suicide, murder, and potential for the same.
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by djoldman 2y ago
A great example that underscores the ordinariness of AI. It's a tool and tools can be used for good/bad/neither and inbetween. Fake pics have existed since pics existed pretty much. Kids have been looking for ways to cheat
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by djoldman 2y ago
There are a few stages involved in delivering the output of a LLM or text-to-image model: 1. acquire training data 2. train on training data 3. run inference on trained model 4. deliver outputs of inference One can subdivide the above howev
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by djoldman 2y ago
Google announcement: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/r...
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Unusual Shop Tips [video](youtube.com)
25 points by djoldman 2y ago|5 comments
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by djoldman 2y ago
(31:20) > now if you want to actually run like a full stack USBC PD communication not USB or whatever just just to negotiate the power, what's on the other side or if you have any display port, prepare yourself 40KB of flash and 4KB
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USB-C and its overengineered history [video](youtube.com)
2 points by djoldman 2y ago|1 comments
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* Locating moving objects that could be anything that can move at a speed , with Cheap Cameras Without Using AI or Radar
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Global Trade Dominance: U.S. vs. China(voronoiapp.com)
1 points by djoldman 2y ago|0 comments
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Trump pauses tariffs on most nations for 90 days, raises Chinese import taxes(apnews.com)
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Reading this seems to indicate 150k email messages , not email addresses .
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Good point. Although almost everyone has a price or list of things they would change about their current job.
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Very cool. I was very curious to see how AI would do. I tried Gemini 2.5 Pro: > whats the answer to this where you replace the bracketed sections with words? > the [second rock from the [dial ([two-dimensional [your ["the of now
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by djoldman 2y ago
There's a lot to discuss here. Focusing on one thing however: > But unlike India, where UPI is run by an industry body, Pix is managed entirely by the BCB.... the BCB alone runs Pix’s infrastructure and controls the encrypted databa
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by djoldman 2y ago
LLM's are pre-trained to minimize perplexity (PPL), which essentially means that they're trained to model the likelihood distribution of the next words in a sequence. The amazing thing was that minimizing PPL allowed you to essent
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Mathematical Macronutrient Cost Optimizer (For Aldi)(macros.cheap)
2 points by djoldman 2y ago|1 comments
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I guess I could have been more specific. ...an entity A pays some other entity B to transmit some specific content to a third party to induce the third party to take action that benefits the paying entity A.
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Singapore PM's Chilling Warning to World Amid Chaotic Trump Tariffs [video](youtube.com)
3 points by djoldman 2y ago|1 comments
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Thinking through this more... All money and energy spent on advertising might be funneled into employees and workers. We would see a huge rise in promoting a company's products through their employees through any medium possible. If yo
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by djoldman 2y ago
This is a really interesting question. Some thought experiments: What do [search engines, social networks, newspapers] look like? I assume they'd all be paid and you'd get some free tastes and then decide which you'd pay for
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In the communications industry there are SOME fairly bright definitions: - Advertising and marketing are when an entity pays some other entity to transmit content - Public relations is when an entity, without paying , causes another enti
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by djoldman 2y ago
The idolatry and drama surrounding LeCun, Hinton, Schmidhuber, etc. is likely a distraction. This includes their various predictions. More interesting is their research work. JEPA is what LeCun is betting on: https://ai.meta.com&
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by djoldman 2y ago
Learning and working on this stuff almost always felt "all or nothing," (either it worked or it didn't), which was very frustrating. This looks interesting: > Like Ghuloum [2006], this course is different. Our development
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Thanks. I put it on hold at the library.
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That's an interesting perspective, and yes wholly foreign to my very American economics influenced background. Are the origins the same when looking at other intellectual property like patents? How did they deal with quoting and/o
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I don't condone or endorse breaking any laws. That said, trademark laws like life of the author + 95 years are absolutely absurd. The ONLY reason to have any law prohibiting unlicensed copying of intangible property is to incentivize t
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Yes, but a couple problems: 1. Where to put them? In Chicago these cameras unfortunately end up being a regressive tax. 2. What to do with the money? Anytime we give the government money from things like this, we create weird incentives. I&

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