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by fidotron 1y ago
> Add to this that even the extremely well funded hardware startups: MakerBot, FormLabs, DesktopMetal, OnShape, etc. have all either totally failed to create better tech at all, or have been quickly commodified without a major impact to
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by fidotron 1y ago
> People seems generally uninterested in fixing this too. I mean, people can argue about how misguided it is, but this is one of the key motivations for the tariff arguments now going on.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Exactly. Bambu really showed how the overall user experience can be, while prusa etc. persist in the enthusiast niche, which isn't as big as it was now that alternatives are available.
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A generative deep learning approach to de novo antibiotic design(cell.com)
3 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
Someone at Ubisoft was doing well when they agreed to officially license this. I have believed for a while that they should be attempting to sell off the Blue Byte IP, and maybe studio, to make the most of it while the nostalgia for it stil
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by fidotron 1y ago
The other NRO telescope would be a nice start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...
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by fidotron 1y ago
There are several related things I find odd about Starlink, with the ongoing defense of the impact it has on scientific research being one of them. Having used it it is genuinely impressive, but it will inevitably lead to everyone wanting t
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Once an AI world leader, Canada is now losing the AI startup race(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
It really depends if you are talking front end/back end/mobile etc. But the best I've ever seen was to review an actual PR (from the company doing the interviewing) and discuss what is good and bad about it.
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Kodak DCS 425 – Digital Nikonos (2010)(nikonweb.com)
3 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
The fundamental difference is the JS community believe in finding the happy path that results in something they can sell before they have filled in all those annoying problem areas around it. If an LLM can be shown to be useful 80% of the t
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by fidotron 1y ago
You could make a bad analogue of such a thing using WLED - although as many people have observed it has a tendency of turning anything anywhere into looking like a vape shop. The problem is so much of the effect of a disco ball is irregular
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by fidotron 1y ago
The typical Chinese sources have been selling "digital hourglass" type ornaments that work like this for a while. There was a whole game based on this sort of thing back on the Acorn Archimedes: Cataclysm https://www.yo
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by fidotron 1y ago
That is, at best, wishful thinking. In practice the whole point is the opposite is the case, which is why this direction by OpenAI is a suspicious indicator.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I think that possibility is worse, because it implies a fundamental limit as opposed to a self imposed restriction, and I choose to remain optimistic. If OpenAI really are hitting the wall on being able to scale up overall then the AI bubbl
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by fidotron 1y ago
> It says that learning from more data via scaled compute will outperform humans injecting their own assumptions about the task into models. You are making assumptions about how to break the tasks into sub models.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Not at all, you will simply rediscover the bitter lesson [1] from your new composition of models. [1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
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by fidotron 1y ago
Going by the system card at: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card/ > GPT‑5 is a unified system . . . OK > . . . with a smart and fast model that answers most questions, a deeper reasoning model for har
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by fidotron 1y ago
The fact h264 and h265 are known by those terms is key to the other part of the equation: the ITU Video Coding Experts Group has become the dominant forum for setting standards going back to at least 2005.
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by fidotron 1y ago
> The code base is an absolute mess. This is an understatement, and honestly when I saw it the first time it was enough to make me wonder about all things Hashicorp.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Japan has a funny relationship with Apple. For example, the Felica ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa ) based ticket system is built into every iPhone globally, making life in Japan significantly easier for foreign
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Fitch Downgrades Intel's IDR to 'BBB'; Outlook Negative(fitchratings.com)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
What struck me more than the output is the absolute marketing talk of the prompting, so not only is the output kind of creepy but in order to get the best results you have to translate your intention into the worst corpo-speak imaginable.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Yes, because if you tolerate that you disincentivize actually developing the IP in question in favour of stealing everyone else's, which leads to nothing being developed.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I like to think any SGI laptop would have been slightly better looking than those mockups they did for Twister!
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by fidotron 1y ago
I appreciate the nostalgia, and will be trying the rs232 when I have the suitable connector to build the cable! There were several SGI related shocks for me, with the underlying huge one being the level of thought that had gone into IRIX wi
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by fidotron 1y ago
> You're likely being overly dismissive. Not close. A Mac Pro trashcan is not going to cause anything like the same class of problem. There was zero concern about having to increase the air conditioning capacity, for example.
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is very timely for me, because I've just come into possession of a 4D/60 "buttons box" (which normally would go with the dials). It is quite unlike the later button boxes since it's a giant cheese wedge with th
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by fidotron 1y ago
Good for those involved being offered such packages, but it really does raise the question of what exactly those offering them are so afraid of. For example, Meta seem to be spending so much so they don't later have to fight a war agai
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by fidotron 1y ago
I wonder if Google plan on keeping any of the resulting changes purely US, or if they are being compelled to do so globally. > Stop sharing money or perks with phonemakers, carriers, and app developers in exchange for Google Play exclusi

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