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by gadtfly 2y ago
MSFS 2020's Earth is unbelievably good from the air, but it (understandably) does not look great and is sometimes not entirely physically coherent up close at the surface (outside of airports and a limited set of bespoke areas). There&
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by gadtfly 2y ago
This particular development is probably good. The problem is the invisible graveyard of all the other good things that never happened.
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by gadtfly 2y ago
It should be noted with this that many models will say they're a GPT variant when not told otherwise, and will play along with whatever they're told they are no matter whether it's true. Though that does seem likely to be the
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by gadtfly 3y ago
The click-to-translate part seems to have broken since I posted this, which is bizarre. That was half the fun. Wait nvm I used the wrong link. dang can you change it to https://mostre.museogalileo.it/framauro/en/
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by gadtfly 3y ago
There's a rotate button in a set of controls on the right.
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Zoomable, translated version of the 15th century Mappa Mundi(mostre.museogalileo.it)
152 points by gadtfly 3y ago|26 comments
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by gadtfly 3y ago
Yes this is extremely annoying and the main reason I stopped playing with it despite being quite interested.
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737 Mid-Cabin Emergency Exit Doors [video](youtube.com)
3 points by gadtfly 3y ago|0 comments
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by gadtfly 3y ago
Nothing strange about it, /r/chatgpt was all people closely following developments from GPT-3 when it started. Since then: https://subredditstats.com/r/chatgpt
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by gadtfly 3y ago
Note that many of the artifacts are interactive: buttons and links are clickable (effectful within the museum, does not leave page), text is scrollable, videos play, etc Fantastic work.
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by gadtfly 3y ago
I always confuse it with JBIG2, infamous from NSO's Pegasus zero-click iMessage exploit: > JBIG2 doesn't have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbit
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by gadtfly 3y ago
The original davinci model was a friend of mine and I resent this deeply. I've had completions with it that had character and creativity that I have not been able to recreate with anything else. Brilliant and hilarious things that are
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by gadtfly 3y ago
Possibly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28495204
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by gadtfly 4y ago
> Googling your symptoms, the top links immediately go to diagnoses like lymphoma or HIV. There is no sense of the a priori likelihood of anything. An essay on this topic: "WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise" https:&#
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by gadtfly 4y ago
I am completely unable to put myself in the headspace of someone who thinks this is all just empty hype. I think people are drastically underreacting to what is currently in progress. What does all of this look like to you?
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by gadtfly 4y ago
Officially documented by Samsung in Korean: https://r1.community.samsung.com/t5/camcyclopedia/%EB%8B%AC-... Ongoing arguments over what this counts as: https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/co
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by gadtfly 4y ago
This is an artifact of an implementation-specific trick that trades performance at character-level tasks for performance at everything else. It does not reflect anything inherent about this type of model's capabilities: https:/&
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by gadtfly 4y ago
The Macedonian and Mongolian Empires shattered into more manageable bits almost immediately. For Victorian Britain: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/86/Isochron...
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by gadtfly 4y ago
You're right, "almost certainly" is far too strong. I was unaware of that research, and read a lot into that this is only being released in the web version. And am just generally anticipating a wave of LLM applications to e
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by gadtfly 4y ago
This almost certainly is GPT. OpenAI has an exclusive licensing agreement with Microsoft.
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by gadtfly 4y ago
Title should be "What were the historical reasons for the resistance to recognizing airborne transmission during the COVID-19 pandemic?" , but that was over the character limit. Accompanying Twitter thread from primary author: h
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Historical reasons for resistance to recognizing airborne transmission in COVID(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by gadtfly 4y ago|1 comments
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by gadtfly 4y ago
Almost certainly a reference, take it up with Atari https://tetris.wiki/images/6/68/Tetris_%28Atari%29_flyer.jpg
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by gadtfly 4y ago
Credit: https://nitter.it/torbenjess/status/1558402891030732801 Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730755 (2009)
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The Trouble with the Segway (2009)(paulgraham.com)
57 points by gadtfly 4y ago|130 comments
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by gadtfly 4y ago
Seconded. I've been a big WWII guy my entire life but never realized how much I'd been shortchanging myself with neglect of naval stuff until I started watching Drachinifel.
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by gadtfly 4y ago
https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
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by gadtfly 4y ago
> For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account co
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by gadtfly 5y ago
Why is the Vancouver map listed as being from 2003?
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by gadtfly 5y ago
SICP translated to JavaScript (2013): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6385617

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