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by dougmwne 4y ago
Sure, you could close the streets to traffic. It is unsafe for pedestrians and motor vehicles to share a road. The pedestrians are soft and squishy and are inevitably the loser in any conflict. Even poor countries can manage to build sidewa
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Oh dear lord the weather. This keeps getting trotted out. And something about Regan. Newsflash: European countries with Mediterranean climates are not overrun with all of Europe’s homeless. Regan was president over 30 years ago! California’
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by dougmwne 4y ago
This is pretty silly because governments do compete for residents. Having jobs is a major part of attracting new residents unless you are a (sub)tropical paradise. A business that doesn’t employ anyone or consume any inputs from other state
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Intel has been troubled for about 10 years now. The cracks started showing in 2013 when they delayed the 14nm process for about a year, then widened when they couldn’t get 10nm into production for several years. At this point we are allowed
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It’s likewise a bit weird that the equalizer is only accessible through the audiogram settings.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes and no. The performance does scale up with parameters, though it’s not linear. As discovered by Google in their work on their Chinchilla LLM, performance also scales up with the size of your training set. They were able to do work to de
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Find any M series MacBook even if you have to raise your budget a little. The price to performance ratio, the durability of the hardware, the portability, the ease of use, they are all unmatched. It’s the best deal in laptops. If you get yo
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by dougmwne 4y ago
An interesting note about AirPod Pros is that you can turn on assistive feature and get fine-tuned control on passthrough volume and equalization. That could potentially be useful for further reducing the passthrough volume.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I went for 6 months and earned twice as much as I had ever earned. This was 2015 when prices were lower. I worked right on Market street. It became immediately obvious that there was no job that could pay me enough to make up for the qualit
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by dougmwne 4y ago
The US is immune to demographic problems. There’s an infinite supply of young people willing to immigrate and an extremely heterogeneous society really to integrate them. Japan has never figured out how to integrate immigrants.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Well, yeah, it is unfair! But unfortunately, this is not a case of good for you, too bad for them. Unaffordable housing will cause political extremism and will increase crime as more people realize that the deck is hopelessly stacked agains
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, in Europe utilities seem to be a factor also. The office is heated and air conditioned and has good internet. Your heat might be too expensive to turn on 24 hours a day, home AC is rare in most countries and several European countries
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by dougmwne 4y ago
That’s a legal unknown. And it’s also a technical unknown how you would even determine it was descended from the same model in a way that would hold up in court.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
And I am LGBTQ+ so I get it, I really do. It’s still a little intimidating keeping up with an ever changing landscape of shibboleths. And you can never assume people’s pure intentions either. Being part of a minority group does not mean yo
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think this is an interesting phenomenon that I have also noticed. The article guesses at a few reasons like our houses are big and our commutes are long. I have a few of my own ideas: Toxic American office culture. The US workplace is a p
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I never use my home office area for anything other than work. When I’m am not working I will throw a sheet over the desk so I can’t see it so I can use the rest of the room. It’s very important to me to have some kind of physical and visual
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by dougmwne 4y ago
But even if you could copyright them, once you do some fine-tuning, they are not the same model weights!
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yes, LLaMA is state of the art in several domains. The model was trained on a much larger data set than most models which is why it is higher scoring vs other models with similar numbs of parameters. This represents millions of dollars in c
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I think you mean GPT-4 since Chinchilla is a Deepmind project. But yes, I was also suspecting that also as it seems unlikely this was the full 175b parameter model with such big improvements in speed and price. In fact, given the pricing f
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Bigscreen is a PCVR device that requires external lighthouse tracking. That approach is basically dead in the water outside of a small community of enthusiasts as it is way too high friction.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
No success is guaranteed, even when you burn billions of dollars. There are so many examples of that. Magic Leap anyone? Having a user base in the 10s of millions may not be world domination, but it could be much worse!
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I don’t totally agree with this. For sure classic AAA games with motion controls bolted on can be fun, but it doesn’t take full advantage of the platform. VR really benefits from physical engagement, get the player up and moving, sweating a
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by dougmwne 4y ago
Yet more friction. It actually takes quite a bit of space to not smack into things playing the more active games.
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by dougmwne 4y ago
There are a variety of genres that work well in VR, but I think developers are very much still figuring out the platform. A few things to check out that are not shooters: Physics based combat: Blade and Sorcery, Gorn, Barbaria, Bonelab Dior
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I would qualify as a high engagement user and I have a similar problem. I have only found a few games that really captured my interest intensely. I’ll play them for a couple of weeks, hit the end of their meager amount of content and replay
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I agree that sounds absolutely amazing. Probably also way less than 1% of Quest owners would go through the pain to do that. I’m also assuming that VR sickness would be a major issue for all but the most hardy.
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I thought that was very interesting from a Product Management standpoint. You are right, there’s way more to do in Quest than when it was released. And games are getting much better at playing to VR’s strengths. I suspect the answer is fric
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by dougmwne 4y ago
I get what you are saying, and if you are into indie titles and solo devs doing groundbreaking innovation with new game mechanics, Quest is very exciting, almost like going back in time to the first 3D graphics or the introduction of the CD
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by dougmwne 4y ago
It is a fabulous exercise device. I have also found that Thrill of the Fight is an amazing stress buster. I think it’s because it hooks into the fight or flight response and closes the loop on chronic stress by letting you punch it in the
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by dougmwne 4y ago
20 million Quest 2 headsets is no joke. That's comparable to the sales of the Xbox Series X. Meta is suddenly the 4th major game console vendor. That's significantly more sales than any other VR headset in history. Most sold less

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