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by doe_eyes 2y ago
There's a ton of room for using today's ML techniques to greatly simplify photo editing. The problem is, these are not billion dollar ideas. You're not gonna raise a lot of money at crazy valuations by proposing to build a to
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Actual PDF here: https://elizabethalane.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/d08a8-... Note that the summary is somewhat misleading. This is about the public perception of cases , not the likelihood that the
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
But I think that's a wrong way to look at it. Or rather, it posits that we're at a point we truly consider good enough independent of cost . It's entirely possible that we want better healthcare outcomes - all the historical
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I think you're missing an important part of the equation: it's outcome quality per amount paid . If you could have gotten 20% better results but it would mean tripling the costs of healthcare because we'd need to hire a lot
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> I agree in general but the web was already polluted by Google's unwritten SEO rules. Single-sentence paragraphs, multiple keyword repetitions and focus on "indexability" instead of readability, made the web a less than i
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I think that's a reductionist view. Platforms like Twitter are pretty unique in that unlike most other social media, you don't have well-defined communities organized around topics or locations. On Reddit or Nextdoor, you join to
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> The whole modern social media / influencer sphere seems like a huge bubble that will pop eventually. Before teenagers were looking up to YouTubers, they were looking up to TV celebs, musicians, sports players, and so on. You had e
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Alignment started as a fairly nifty idea, but you can't meaningfully test for it. We don't have the tools to understand the internals of an LLM. So yes, it morphed into the second best thing, brand safety - "don't say ra
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Yeah, I went on a cruise once, and the whole idea is that you don't spend time in your cabin. It's not a train. You have cinema screens, live performances, restaurants and bars, libraries, quiet lounge areas, pools, and so on. Plu
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
For the most part, it doesn't matter how long it takes to pay this back. They borrow the money, pay installments, and still end up with a 10-15% profit per passenger from day one (and that's after deducting deprecation). But becau
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Inertia is doing things because you're used to doing them. This is pragmatism: until the arrival of mainstream Rust-based OSes, there's probably no escaping C/C++.
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
C is 52 years old; C++ is nearly 40. That's more than a generation. Yet, I'd bet that there are more up-and-coming developers learning C/C++ than Rust today. The problem isn't just personal preference or inertia. It&#x27
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The highest-ranking car is Ram 3500 crew cab long bed. It's over 14 foot long and weighs around 8,000 lbs. It's closer to colliding with a bus than with a sedan. But it's also not a truck people buy as a suburban fashion stat
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
No, sometimes it's about an IPO. In which case, if we're being cynical, the exit is funded by your 401k. But yeah, VCs generally aren't about building profitable companies, because there's more profit to be made - and so
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Why is it supposed to be an investment? If it's sufficiently cheap, it becomes something that you buy because it's useful to you, not because the government is promising you subsidies for life. Also, the other driving force here i
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Their insurer paid most of it.
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I suspect it tests your monitor and monitor calibration as much as your color perception. In particular, sRGB displays have a pretty severely limited green gamut. If you have a wide-gamut display, the test is probably gonna appear different
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Nah. Or rather, I don't doubt that some billionaires do, but they're not the target audience. First, not many billionaires spend time on Reddit. Second, if you're Warren Buffett and have obscene net worth but minimal living e
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
This kind of an explanation overlooks the obvious issue: you're exposing yourself to asset valuation risk. We don't tax unrealized gains for that exact reason. Let's say you have $10M in in index funds. You don't want to
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
I think you're looking for the kind of precision that just doesn't exist in the legal system. It will almost certainly hinge on intent and the extent to which your actions actually stifle legitimate speech. I imagine that getting
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The sustainability angle is a bit suspect, although of course it's smart of them to make that pitch. Many large motors don't use permanent magnets, and even for the ones that do, neodymium isn't all that rare and is mined in
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The main problem is that the incentive for well-intentioned people to add detailed and accurate metadata is much lower than the incentive for SEO dudes to abuse the system if the metadata is used for anything of consequence. There's a
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Above all, people often stay in abusive relationships because of what they think is a rational analysis of the trade-offs. There are concerns about financial stability, uprooting your children's lives, losing friends, etc. In reality,
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
On the cutting edge: I've seen techies using ChatGPT to make up and read bedtime stories to toddlers, or to tutor them during the day, so that the parent can stay focused on their career. I don't know that it's harmful, but
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Some infants cry a lot. Not every instance is a magical bonding opportunity, especially since you still need to get stuff done. There are high-tech child-rearing trends that I suspect might be doing harm, but a rocking bassinet probably isn
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
The problem is that many of what you describe as "terrible" jobs are just a low-overhead way for creative folks to pay their bills. You don't make a living writing timeless poems or painting masterpieces, at least not usually
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
> Maybe: there is no measurable difference between 'real' reasoning, and 'fake' reasoning. The point is, it's easier to teach an LLM to fake it than to make it - for example, they get good at answering questions
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
This is proposed as a way to measure "true" reasoning by asking a certain type of trick questions, but I don't quite see how this could be a basis of a sustainable benchmark. If this gets attention, the next generation of LLM
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
Nothing is stopping wealthy and populous states, such as California, from rolling out their own smartcard IDs. This doesn't need to happen on the federal level. The problem is that harmonized, mandatory IDs are "problematic"
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by doe_eyes 2y ago
This comes up regularly, but... is it actually true that SSN still functions as a sole authentication mechanism? I don't recall a single instance in the past decade where I could open a bank account, apply for credit, or do anything el

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