duccinator

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by duccinator 3y ago
I don't understand how Apple is hitting home runs. What have they really innovated on post Steve Jobs? Their products are pretty much equivalent to the competition with 5% more polish at the cost of 5% more time to release. Marketing w
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by duccinator 3y ago
Whoops, deleted part of my response before submitting. My optimistic/most probable predictions about the growth rate say it's wild. Like within 5-10 years with the multiple exponentials among different fields you can easily do awa
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by duccinator 3y ago
Agreed, More clarification about the first part: What I want to convey is that the growth function will be somewhat similar to y= c + ax^n (ignoring/collapsing into c the linear and higher order terms) rather than just y= ax^n. The c h
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by duccinator 3y ago
One of your assumptions is that we will start from 1 robot per year. I believe this is not true. I assume robots will be similar to high end cars in regards to the complexity of manufacturing. Once a company develops a prototype with AGI(me
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by duccinator 3y ago
Once you have autonomous robots you can use those robots to build more robots leading to an exponential curve. The day they make the first one, we will reach a million in 2-3 years and a billion in 2-4 years after that.
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Do people understand the scale of the universe? [video](youtube.com)
3 points by duccinator 3y ago|1 comments
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by duccinator 3y ago
imo Satya is a different ball game compared to Ballmer. I wouldn't put a lot of emphasis on msft's track record pre-Satya personally.
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by duccinator 3y ago
I wonder though, considering the amount of other popular people who do not share the same achievements who you probably just ignore anyway (think some influencers and youtubers), do we really want him to shut up? His opinions and promises m
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by duccinator 3y ago
A lot of western data is public, people in China aren't aliens compared to those in the west, there are only small cultural differences so chinese data in itself is usable for many western requirements. Combine the public western data
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by duccinator 3y ago
No, please read my response again. My claim is that GPTs are better than human teachers, for most* domains, including software. However, I do think a framework needs to be developed for formally learning any particular topic. If you are sel
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by duccinator 3y ago
Yes, even GPT3.5 is better. I am in uni, and LLMs are probably the best teachers I have had the experience to learn from(and I have had some great teachers and professors). They work even better if you feed them the content of a book/m
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by duccinator 3y ago
China might not be as successful as the west(yet) but they have their own ecosystem and have alternatives for most tech products. All the tech companies in China are practically under the control of the party. China also has a billion+ peop
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by duccinator 3y ago
This is truly amazing. We are living in the future. I wonder though, if the brain already has specific regions for control of specific parts of our body, will it be impossible to add new limbs in the future? An extra arm would be helpful.
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by duccinator 3y ago
Hello Peter, thank you for the AMA. I am an Indian undergrad from a top uni, I plan to do a startup after graduating/maybe a year of work experience (I am currently working on it as a side project). What do you think are my options for
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by duccinator 4y ago
There is a chance that your photos are being backed up by some cloud service and being removed from your gallery. The most likely suspect is Google Photos. Note that Google photos not only OCRs, but it also does a visual search of objects,