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by ehsankia 4y ago
I really don't want to be defending Elon, but I think saying "Elon must be stupid because of how he handled Twitter" is as silly as "Elon had success with Tesla and SpaceX therefore he knows how to run companies". T
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Right, Twitter is absolutely nothing like SpaceX or Tesla. Twitter's problems aren't engineering issues, they're political and related to moderation. Content moderation is one of the hardest problems current which no company
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by ehsankia 4y ago
+1 Chrome on Windows. I wonder if it's just designed for touch controls?
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Meanwhile quality of Quora answers these days are basically as bad as it gets, so bad that I have it blocked from my Google results. Not once have I been to Quora and actually found an answer I was looking for.
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Eh, before the post in OP, I believe the timeline was June 2023 MV2 extensions go unlisted and January 2024 they get deleted. People do procrastinate but we're still far from 2/3 being "broken".
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by ehsankia 4y ago
oh absolutely, you have things like /r/PictureGame who have perfected the art of fooling reverse image search. Meanwhile many world puzzles put specific tricks to fool Nutrimatic, or anagrams that can't be easily brute forced
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Yeah, half the cryptics I solve is by looking at synonyms of the defition path and trying to backsolve the riddle part.
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Why does it matter? If I'm doing a Puzzle Hunt, and I give it a few cryptics to help me with, and it gets half of them right (cryptics are generally easy to verify after you get the solution), then it did what I needed it for.
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by ehsankia 4y ago
I don't think that's always true. I do a lot of puzzle hunt, and I've been using GPT-3 for cryptics in the past week, and I'd say it gets it right around 20% of the time, which isn't horrible but still impressive, a
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by ehsankia 4y ago
To me, what's scary is exponential graphs. Anything before the curve looks flat, and everything after looks nearly vertical. Everything seems fine, and right now you have time to get bored between each step, until one day it's sud
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by ehsankia 4y ago
It's also ridiculous to me that they think removing a couple naked pictures of Hunter is "censorship". As if you can truly "censor" information on the internet. You can maybe slow its spread, but if anything, the h
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by ehsankia 4y ago
From what I understand, it's not actually doing any of those things, there's enough people who have done similar things and posted it online that the AI can replicate what the answer would look like.
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by ehsankia 4y ago
https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/
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Overlooked? It's literally all anyone has been speaking of since the model came out. There are dozens of articles mentioning it [0]. If anything, it's probably discussed a bit too much. [0] https://arstechnica.com/
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Dragonfly was a prototype that never even left the design stage. How could they have been collaborating with the CCP with something that wasn't even released?
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by ehsankia 4y ago
> in this case it is not completely out of the blue, single data point.. It kind of is a single data point with a vague "users report" Also, extraordinary claims like this still require more than vague anecdotal proof. If this
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Google left China in 2010 and hasn't really gone back, other than some hardware manufacturing there. Bing on the other hand is available and fully complies with Chinese censorship.
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by ehsankia 4y ago
These look like processingjs, which has various live editors: https://editor.p5js.org/
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by ehsankia 4y ago
I only ever used Last.FM for stats/tracking purposes, and it still does that great across platforms. I have an android app which reports music from any media app I use, and similarly have a chrome extension for desktop. I still find it
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Also, maybe the original launch date a month ago was more optimal? I'm sure it's hard trying to time the perfect launch trajectory while also juggling weather and a bunch of other variables.
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Exactly, they started a decade earlier and got outdone despite the massive head start. Then again maybe without the big data they had no hope of succeeding, but they should've mentioned that specifically instead of giving a bunch of co
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Wait, this is Khomeini's house, not Khamenei. Very similar names but the former is Iran's previous leader right after the revolution, and he died a while ago.
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Not sure if it's quite the same, but Google Fit has a feature that gets your respiratory rate from the selfie camera. They also have one where you put your finger on the camera flash and it uses that to see your bloodflow. https:&#x2F
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by ehsankia 4y ago
90 is definitely on the high / addictionary side. 30-45m is very much in range of the time we spend in the day doing worthless things to relax. Are you saying watching, let's say, cat videos for 30m a day is toxic?
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Yep, you should just use the best judgement, for example for distance, time in driving_metrics: speed = distance / time is a lot clearer than for d, t in driving_metrics: s = d / t even if it's u
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by ehsankia 4y ago
If it brings him joy, and he uses it in moderation, why does it matter? It's okay to spend an entire sunday afternoon watching a dozen men throw an eggball at each other but it's an addition to watch videos that bring you joy?
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by ehsankia 4y ago
I started using TikTok long before everyone was in it, pre-pandemic, and even then it was already much better than most other apps, and quite immediately too.
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I don't understand the point. Every social media's goal is to take advantage of people's desire to be entertained. Youtube, Instagram, etc. Yet TikTik has managed to come from behind and overtake all the other apps. People ar
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Not only that, another issue that no system of moderation at that scale will ever be fully consistent, and the more detail you give, the more people will pick at the subtle inconsistencies of the moderation. The classic "X did somethin
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by ehsankia 4y ago
> This is a very good way to pitch your afforestation startup accelerator in the guise of a talk on platform moderation. /s Also for anyone have Deja-Vu, he had almost the same thread a few months ago (and probably a few more times

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