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by fooker 1mo ago
Not an expert on this. Passing on what I have heard from robotics researchers at lunch conversations. My impression is that any moving part that is not an electric motor or an hinge breaks.
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by fooker 1mo ago
Yes we can do this, and if you look for it you'll find plenty of videos of this happening. But you can't buy it because it'll break in about seven days.
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by fooker 1mo ago
The bottleneck is not really the intelligence here. We can build robots that do the things you want. Arrange a visit to Amazon's robot warehouse tour. We can't ship them because they break all the time with current technology. It
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by fooker 1mo ago
You're off by ~40%. Their combined market cap seems to be around 600M.
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by fooker 1mo ago
Right, anthropomorphizing AI is a 'human experience' too. Most people just feel better treating AI as a conscious thing that 'thinks'. As a coworker or whatever. Plenty of people seem to be using AI as some sort of thera
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by fooker 1mo ago
Identical is the point here. The test of 'identical' to me is going to be mass production with economies of scale. I surely don't have the equipment to test whether it's identical, nor would I trust the marketing.
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by fooker 1mo ago
Yeah impossible was targeting a weird small niche. The intersection of 'vegan by all means', 'loves the taste of meat', 'does not care about ultra processed food', 'enough money to go for the expensive opt
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by fooker 1mo ago
For me, it would have to be mass produced and about an order of magnitude cheaper. I'd rather not be testing/tasting experimental lab stuff. And mass production bringing down the price with economies of scale is the real proof tha
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by fooker 1mo ago
The only person higher up the chain of command is the president. I guess your theory does make sense.
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by fooker 1mo ago
Yes that's how the vectors work. This overall issue has resulted in hilarious missteps in the past, including grok going off the rails and claiming to be mechahitler.
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by fooker 1mo ago
That's the best evidence I have read so far for "Attention is all you need" ;)
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by fooker 1mo ago
I remember memory size going up by a factor of 8 at every PC upgrade for the same price.
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by fooker 1mo ago
Thing you can only suspect and not define are usually open to interpretation :)
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by fooker 1mo ago
What is thought?
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by fooker 1mo ago
This is laying the groundwork for massive white collar crimes being blamed on AI. Right now, the way it works is the 'corporations are people' loophole where your company is liable for problematic things. This further fuzzes the c
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by fooker 1mo ago
Try to solve more ambitious problems. Something we don't actually know how to solve.
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by fooker 1mo ago
https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/a-701465.html https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/der-erste-computer-d... > that's saying "Nazi" btw. No more than allowing chips on drones mak
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by fooker 1mo ago
The usual culprits are government, bank, or google websites. Youtube and Google docs occasionally break in amusing ways. Definitely Google's fault to a large extent, but it is what it is. A friend recently got into making JS games, the
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by fooker 1mo ago
No sorry, I give Firefox a try about once a year and every time so far I have switched back because some random websites were unusable. Maybe it works if you are de-googling your life at the same time and consciously choose to use apps over
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by fooker 1mo ago
It's worse than 4.8/4.6 and more expensive at the same time.
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by fooker 1mo ago
Where did I mention he was a fascist or a nazi? There's a huge difference between "a conservative engineer who happened to be intelligent and live in that era" and leading a weapons lab attracting enormous amounts of funding,
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by fooker 1mo ago
You'll find that the computing pioneers we celebrate by name are largely detached from the examples you mentioned.
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by fooker 1mo ago
Sure, winners writing the history is a tale as old as time.
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by fooker 1mo ago
You missed some important points that explain why he's not celebrated. His efforts received enormous amounts of funding from the Nazis. Much of his specialized 'computers' were explicitly for the war effort, including planes.
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by fooker 1mo ago
You are saying multiple unrelated things. > On the battery life front, both Intel and AMD have caught up. Intel and AMD's cpus don't have batteries ;) Their chips are approximately as efficient as Apple's chips from ~2 yea
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by fooker 1mo ago
The build quality is not even close. And macbooks are reaching 18-20 hours usage on battery nowadays, I have stopped carrying the power adapter most of the time. Of course it’s significantly more expensive, but you do get what you pay for.
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by fooker 1mo ago
The typical corporate trick is to argue that the corporation itself is responsible for any wrongdoing, not a particular executive. I can totally see this blame being shifted to AI in a "nobody got fired for choosing IBM" way.
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by fooker 1mo ago
I understand your sarcasm but that’s what the limited in LLC is for. Unbounded liability means nobody starts a business, or they do it under the table without responsibility or taxes. Turns out we want successful private businesses much mor
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by fooker 1mo ago
It didn't happen for the original fixed function graphics though, CPUs kept eating their lunch every year or so with fun rendering techniques. We still use some of these techniques for 2d graphics. Only when they became more general wi
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by fooker 1mo ago
Computer Science history has taught us that this decision was almost always wrong. Every time a company has spent resources doing this, a competitor innovated on the software and made the custom hardware irrelevant.

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