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I know Microsoft Office was a big deal in 1998, but I don't think in 2023 as many people are clamoring for it anymore as you think they are.
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I bought in on the presale, and have been very happy with how you guys have been approaching this project. It's obviously an uphill battle to release this device, but I love the ambition and lack of compromise you guys have in creating
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3y ago
that's a terrible alternative, the helmet has enough horsepower to run anything a Mac can run this will be so annoyingly fiddly to set up, nobody is going to use it on a regular basis why would somebody buy a "pro" device tha
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3y ago
Most comments in this thread: I don't want to have ownership of devices I pay money for, because if I don't own anything, nobody can steal it from me.
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3y ago
I want to point out that there is an excellent existing iPad app from a small developer called Callipeg, that has most of the same feature set described here (maybe everything except the effects features) I've had a great experience an
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3y ago
The OP article doesn't claim that Tesla is a worse offender AFAICT
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3y ago
If you measure a multifactor metric one way, you get one result If you measure a multifactor metric a different way, you get a different result
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3y ago
I suppose that's fair way to look at it, but people are being left with the impression that the problem is inherent in the tests, when the problem is entirely separate from the tests themselves.
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3y ago
Yes, our medical system is still in the stone age when it comes to correctly handling statistics (source: am doctor)
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3y ago
You are 100% correct in your thinking (I'm a medical doctor btw) For some reason many people will argue ad nauseum that this very obviously true and simple fact isn't true
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3y ago
100% correct But now we're no longer having a conversation about medicine we're having a conversation about our broken legal system and our broken regulatory frameworks
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3y ago
Follow up procedures should be adjusted based on whether the original test was preventative or not, titrating the amount of risk and cost appropriately The fact that we treat diagnostic results the same regardless of priors just means our m
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3y ago
It's has nothing to do with the Bayesian Base Rate fallacy. In this case we ABSOLUTELY KNOW the base rate is lower, since it was a preventative scan. The fallacy only happens if you then subsequently fail to adjust for the differing ba
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3y ago
It was what I read on forums when I learned about the process. It's possible that I am mistaken.
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3y ago
Using prompts is error-prone, especially if the prompts are complicated. You will likely be able to get better accuracy using fine tuning, because it's a "show, don't tell" process. I think gpt4 with fine tuning, used in
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3y ago
I'm not an expert on this subject, but I have done a bit of gpt3 finetuning through their api: I think it's clear that "fine tuning" with GPT is different from fine tuning something like Llama2, in that it probably isn&#
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3y ago
It seems pretty clear to me (if you've been to SF recently) that autonomous cars react to pedestrians quicker and are much more careful around pedestrians than human drivers. You can certainly take the attitude "I will only agree
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3y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence Now, this extraordinary claim doesn't even have weak evidence I think pessimism is warranted at this point
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> Steve's a talented audio engineer who's helped make some great albums and that's pretty much the only good thing about him. Also, his band Shellac is brilliant
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3y ago
I've been at maybe around 8 different Chinese dumpling restaurants in SF Every one of them had completely different dumplings than the others All of them were delicious For whatever reason SF has great Chinese dumplings, but like OP I
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3y ago
Yeah you can get fantastic food in SF but it requires maybe more effort to find than in other big Metros. I would speculate it's the fact that a lot of folks are vegetarian and therefore tend to cook for themselves at home: The fact th
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Having lived there for a year, I agree about the flakiness However, along with that comes an openness to experiences from people: If you do anything creative, you will be surprised how much the median person in the Bay will be sincerely int
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I 100% agree too few people care about true sovereignty to change the behavior of popular services
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every investment and activity has tail risks that you have to factor into your decision making, there are always things that can happen outside of your control In 2007, social media was still the "Wild West" and having expectation
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3y ago
I hate being that guy but if you have a self-hosted bitcoin account or ether account or use some of the naming services on those platforms, this isn't the case
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3y ago
when a plane is receding from us, it is more likely to contain color variation, which or eyes sees as a line. it is more likely to contain color variation simply because a plane receding from us has more surface area relative to a unit of s
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3y ago
crime in Mill valley, just on the other side of the golden gate bridge, is infinitesimal
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you should be fine. well, as long as we aren't working on embedded code for pacemakers in that case, we'll just skip to the first person in the stack of resumes who didn't start with basic
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Near as I can tell, because of the nature of the chip business, there is a limit on how fast they can pivot production towards a market segment that is seeing increasing demand (in this case, the AI chip business) So even assuming that ther
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I did view some of the source files though, and the rust ones look to be a lot longer :-)
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