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by fwlr 4y ago
Good Western tools are the equal of Japanese tools. The perception in the West that Japanese tools are better stems mostly from cheap Western tools (which are bad) being widely available and imitating the appearance and function of good W
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by fwlr 4y ago
I like the motivating spirit here, although I think the execution lacks in a few ways. If he builds another ten of these over the next thirty years it will be good. One suggestion he might enjoy is heavy physical switches / manual mech
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by fwlr 4y ago
I recall reading, a long time ago, of a person who was eating just meat and only meat for his diet. He was struggling for a while with it, until he intentionally allowed a small amount of meat to rot for a bit, consumed that, and from then
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by fwlr 4y ago
Presumably they have some kind of experience with water and how it feels when things get wet. Tell them after it rains, the air smells wet.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The styles that the author reviews are real trends in their market (except the paintings, which seems like an intentional publicity stunt on the part of the artists rather than a genuine trend, and it harms the piece by being the introducti
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by fwlr 4y ago
That’s like saying you can’t translate gohan/meshi as “rice” because of the deep cultural importance Japan places on rice. Sure, you can’t transmit to me the experience of growing up in a culture that has evolved for thousands of years
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Sir Roger L'Estrange tell us a Story in his Collection of Fables, of the Cock [Rooster] and the Horses. The Cock was gotten to Roost in the Stable, among the Horses, and there being no Racks, or other Conveniencies for him, it seems,
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by fwlr 4y ago
Some of those signatories are indeed interesting. Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak. Some big companies are there: the CEOs/co-founders of Skype, Pinterest, Ripple. Some AI companies are there too. CEOs/founders/head researchers from
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by fwlr 4y ago
Facial recognition AI is just facial recognition AI, all it will do is pull up that newspaper clipping. It does not and cannot make any kind of ruling on who’s a suspect - that is a decision for the police to make. Now, if you have a dim vi
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by fwlr 4y ago
It shouldn’t be hard for someone making these claims to show whois data before and after. Maybe the whois before requires some foresight, but the whois after does not. I will note that despite putting “Confirmed” in the title of their Reddi
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by fwlr 4y ago
(Disclaimer, I’m not a doctor, and I no longer have the citations to back up a lot of this stuff. Unless otherwise mentioned, a healthy body can easily dispose of an excess of these - but whenever a random internet commenter is telling you
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by fwlr 4y ago
Also plausible. Given that even when you book a year in advance you are booking a specific flight time, I don’t see many big efficiency wins for airlines here.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Maybe. My experience with booking international flights at various schedules from “tomorrow” to “1 year in advance” is that airlines don’t give a discount for booking far in advance, past about one week out it’s all the same. I haven’t inve
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by fwlr 4y ago
It is undoubtedly a feel-good story. Another “facial recognition feel good story” I’ve heard was a child porn case - the police ran the perpetrator’s image to find him and arrest him… and then ran the victim’s image to find her and inform
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by fwlr 4y ago
The poster lives in SFO and wants to visit XYZ for a week once a year. Rather than buy SFO->XYZ->SFO tickets (which are packages that consist of “a flight from SFO to XYZ on the 1st of April” and “a flight from XYZ to SFO on the 8th o
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m not an AI researcher so my answer won’t be satisfying, but I’m pretty confident that meaning is stored in the embeddings, and gun to my head I would say understanding is hiding in the weights. My handwavey argument is that the map of ac
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by fwlr 4y ago
Safari pops up a little box attached to the login text field asking you if you want to use the password for wellsfargo, so it seems like it’s asking keychain “do you have a password associated with this url?”. At least on modern MacBooks th
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by fwlr 4y ago
The FTC consistently has one of the absolute best author voices in all of government. Pick a blog post at random and see what I mean. Their index on tech is probably the area you have the most domain knowledge in and so it’s probably the be
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by fwlr 4y ago
I often think of this as the corollary to the bitter lesson: it is enough just to break some particular relationship between two things, and then throw compute at it. In the process of trying to recover that relationship, the model learns a
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by fwlr 4y ago
“After training our robot on a large set of terrains in the Berkeley campus, we verified generalization of the visual policy in the Stanford campus.” Sublime. Almost a koan for meditating on AI research.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Comparing this to atheism is very illuminating, actually. In some ways this topic is very different to atheism/theism. In the ‘belief in god’ debate both sides are trying to take away the other side’s belief; it’s important to atheists
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by fwlr 4y ago
It occurred to me after writing that post that understanding is just what the algorithm feels like from the inside. A human understands English instructions in a way that lets them apply those instructions to Chinese language tasks with t
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by fwlr 4y ago
For me, the strongest argument in this article is “There is a point where it understands is the most parsimonious explanation, and we have clearly passed it”. Those who deny that ChatGPT understands have to move their goalposts every fe
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by fwlr 4y ago
I am surprised that logistics security is lax enough to allow for (what sounds like) simple impersonation scams to work. Even before food prices went up, these containers must have been worth at least $50k, I honestly would have expected fa
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by fwlr 4y ago
That’s why I said “the practical upshot is that this strengthens your argument”, yeah.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The author’s thesis is interesting but unfortunately he makes terrible arguments for it. Here’s a completely different and much better argument: For the past half-century, this one law has ensured that the entire field of supersonic flight
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by fwlr 4y ago
“I've heard sonic booms before at air shows, and it's not some quiet little "beep". They're loud and disturbing.” I highly doubt you’ve heard a sonic boom at an airshow, it’s illegal to perform them and has been for
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by fwlr 4y ago
If engineers are making the hiring decisions, as was the trend for a while, and they make bad hiring decisions. Or if the hiring department is bad. Or if managers are good at managing but bad at hiring. Lots of ways, hiring is hard.
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by fwlr 4y ago
“It works when engineers and management are both highly skilled” is hardly a glowing recommendation for a management process. Only a management system so bad that it is tantamount to sabotage would not work when everyone involved is highl
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by fwlr 4y ago
Note I’m not claiming that one Amazon Rekognition test is the only demonstration of inaccuracy on minorities; there is obviously a lot more evidence, as you’ve capably provided. I was talking about the provenance of the belief of inaccura

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