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by dougmwne 4y ago
The offices are unoccupied and can’t be lived in. The people who used to go to them now desire more space at home since they now spend much more time there. Big demand for residential square footage while companies are trying to shed their
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by dougmwne 4y ago
An extremely second rate phone platform compared to iOS where the customers don’t spend nearly as much money and they have minimal control over their hardware partners.
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From my use of Bard, I think it’s main issue is poor alignment due to lack of RLHF dataset. Open AI has been curating its data set for years as it aggressively pushed to productization. Google never cared about getting its models into the h
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by dougmwne 4y ago
For the most part there seems to be no connection at all. This is a new and interesting tool that anyone can go use in whatever way they see for to improve their creative or productive process. I used it this week to teach me some of the fi
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I think this misses this biggest cultural revolution to happen in decades, which is AI assisted art and creativity. It’s been ages since I saw a new paradigm in art that really caught my attention. It seems like elite artists have not had m
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I have yet to see anyone explain or explore why text could not be trained on multiple times. And is there any reason a text passage wouldn’t be just as good run backwards as forwards? Predicting the previous word in a sentence seems just as
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by dougmwne 4y ago
No, it is just an arbitrary version number for this series of models from OpenAI. They will flip to 5 when they make an architecture change that will force them to begin training from scratch. Until then they will continue to produce more r
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think Dall-e 3 basically exists in Bing. It is significantly better than Dall-e 2 and is close but not quite at the quality of Midjourny v5. I just generated a series of about 40 portraits and even the hands are significantly closer.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Based on published research from Google and Meta it is somewhat known how much more capability is possible with the current approach, but it would require an extreme increase in compute and training set to achieve it. There are diminishing
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Actually I agree with them a new name would be helpful. I would propose inorganic intelligence to try to pick a term with less value judgments. AI is really an overloaded term that includes 70 years of snake oil, Skynet, the Singularity and
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Oh sure, I thought it was a clever twist on the more typical ping pong table. Collective office perks work wonders. I suspect this more personalized strategy, in combination with other good retention policies pays dividends, not as cheap as
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I want to dismiss this as poorly written drivel, but I suspect he is absolutely right and on multiple levels. We are materialistic and we are ego driven. You load up each worker with Bose QC headphones, that 4k monitor they were looking at
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by dougmwne 4y ago
https://www.gaysonoma.com/2023/04/gay-cash-app-founder-bob-l... Setting aside the label, this does appear to potentially have been a crime of passion, which has specific legal consequences. https://www.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It will be far away from a thing you wear all day or slip in your pocket. It will sit in drawers and on shelves at home.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It seems like a silly meme. There was an “AI Winter” with a catchy name once so everyone is always waiting for another one. It’s exactly the kind of stochastic parrot thing that makes LLMs seem so human.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I suspect it will be a technical marvel that will still break, not make. It’ll be an amazing vision of what will eventually replace phones decades from now. Think Apple Newton to the iPhone. I think it will be the high water mark in this ge
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I love VR and AR. I think it’s incredible and will eventually replace phones as the primary UI. It’s just too versatile, ambient computing around you all the time, anywhere from a single button to a virtual interactive world. I think though
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Take a trip and visit one. There are many computer history museums around. The best one I have been to is at Bletchley Park outside of London.
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He should obviously sue Apple for endangering his family. I’m sure there’s a decent payout in this for him.
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What are the regulations around flying these? I remember doing it as a kid, but I could also walk to the store as a kid and play unsupervised with fireworks.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Because it’s unprofitable. Think of the IRS like the sales staff of a business. Taxes are the revenues. No business would be rewarded for wasting marketing and sales budget on chasing customers who have no ability to pay. Sure you could go
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is the self driving car argument applied to things it doesn’t fit. Sure, unless a self driving car is several 9’s reliable, it’s not terribly useful for society. That’s because there’s no way for a human to be safely in the loop at hig
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think it would be easier to run for president than do something at this scale through private enterprise. Thank goodness he is ineligible.
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There are certainly some headwinds for VR, even given the massive success of the Quest 2. I am very optimistic about AR/VR tech in the long term, but pretty mild on it in the short term. I think immersive computing and 3D displays are
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by dougmwne 4y ago
From what I understand, it is an affront to their regime. It’s an island of free, prosperous and democratic Chinese people. It’s a repudiation of everything the CCP stands for. In a very real sense, Taiwan is not a separate country, but a u
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by dougmwne 4y ago
You must carry around your own alternate reality bubble. I was in SF for 6 months in 2015, by all reports a much safer time than now. I lived adjacent to the Berkeley campus and took the Bart to market street. Got chased into the street twi
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Did you really have those 15 words in your head all at once or did you just predict 15 next words that would form a good reply to my words?
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In a very rough sense, looking at Geekbench, the M2 MacBook Air has 5x the single core performance and 10x the multi core performance. Granted, if your workload is typing things into Vim, using the terminal and reading Hacker News, you migh
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by dougmwne 4y ago
A proton port would be amazing. I look at the incredible M chips but have no workload for them without games. I suppose I could run some ML models locally, but that’s hardly a requirement.
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I suppose that might mean paying people in corporate currency. Paying your employee directly contributes to your sales. The employees can trade away the currency, but someone ends up with it and spends it on you.

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