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by gooseus 4y ago
My "relatively" qualifier does a lot of work... relative to projects like rebuilding transmissions or doing hobby robotics, I think adding a few bluetooth/wifi enabled sensors and a bit of logic to toggle a light is pretty si
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by gooseus 4y ago
I thought the same thing, but if we're talking about building our own smart home, I assume the solution for that would be relatively simple? For instance, add a pressure sensor under the bathmat (or seat) in front of the toilet so that
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by gooseus 4y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't matter, the market has decided that a company led by a person like this is worth many multiples of a similar company led by a regular person who would never consider doing something like this.
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by gooseus 4y ago
Yes, I'm still on the waitlist, but am looking forward to gaining access. It has been a rare day in the last couple months where I haven't found some useful way of applying it. Just last night I was showing a friend who works in A
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by gooseus 4y ago
I'm not going to have an argument on HN with someone who is going to draw any kind of equivalence between Trump and Biden. "Conservatives" right now are not anything like the conservatives who wrote the Constitution - they ar
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by gooseus 4y ago
I find this a bit ironic considering conservative / religious ideology has a pretty long track record of attempting to create uniform societies by stamping out any outlying thought. That article you posted is rather extensive covering
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Samsung Issues Fix for Dying 980 Pro SSDs(tomshardware.com)
1 points by gooseus 4y ago|0 comments
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by gooseus 4y ago
Pretty sweet, good job outta you! One thing, I'd love to be able to filter by which knives are legal in my city (NYC). An approximation that might be easier than adding jurisdiction white/black lists/flags to the data might b
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by gooseus 4y ago
What I've been telling everyone is that you can not (should not) ask ChatGPT a question that you can not independently verify that answer to yourself. This is kind of what makes it good for generating code, because everything it genera
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by gooseus 4y ago
Definite possibility, though I write sentences like this sometimes like this all the time.
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by gooseus 4y ago
> The celebrated “antinatalist” philosopher David Benatar argues that the disappearance of humanity would not deprive the universe of anything unique or valuable. I say that there is nothing in the universe more unique or valuable than a
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by gooseus 4y ago
I also think "getting what you want" is less important than "knowing what you want", the fables and folklore of every culture has cautionary tales that boils down to "be careful what you wish for". True happine
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by gooseus 4y ago
I had every rank from the first guess and then had to use two more guesses just to find the appropriate suits with the only information being that I needed to avoid putting a flush on the board. I like it, and would be interested to see som
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by gooseus 4y ago
Needs (2013) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5326511 :)
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by gooseus 4y ago
Alternate title and paper: "The “Smellicopter,” a bio-hybrid odor localizing nano air vehicle" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8968589
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It’s a moth, it’s a drone, it’s ‘Smellicopter’(opb.org)
1 points by gooseus 4y ago|1 comments
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Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI(garymarcus.substack.com)
1 points by gooseus 4y ago|0 comments
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by gooseus 5y ago
Veritaseum lost a lot of credibility to me when he released his Waymo-sponsored self-driving video where he conveniently acts like certain things (like his own videos on statistics and critical thinking) don't exist and other claims sh
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by gooseus 5y ago
"This is a solved problem.", "We're light-years ahead of the competition", or "We expect everyone with existing hardware to be able to monetize their cars as robo-taxis by the end of next year" are other g
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by gooseus 5y ago
This is a grift as old as time, promise salvation tomorrow to all those that worship today. Tomorrow is only ever a day away, and really isn't the worship and community great anyways? The doomsday cult and spiritual guru model of commu
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by gooseus 5y ago
I'd be interested in reading which of his peers in which fields have invalidated which of his ideas. Any links appreciated. What's interesting about Taleb is that given his takes on GMOs and "naive interventionism" he se
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by gooseus 5y ago
Unfortunately, Taleb being an enormous asshole does not actually negate this paper or any of his other formal arguments. I agree people would be more receptive if he wasn't a egotistical jerk, but the ironic thing is people dismissing
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Deep Learning and Shallow Data(blog.piekniewski.info)
1 points by gooseus 5y ago|0 comments
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by gooseus 5y ago
I'd say "understanding" is less one thing and more of a collection of capabilities which work together to allow understanding to "emerge". One of those capabilities would be the ability to contextual an object/
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Soon, 1 out of every 15 points of light in the sky will be a satellite(theconversation.com)
2 points by gooseus 5y ago|2 comments
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by gooseus 5y ago
The human mind is the most complex and entropy-reducing machine the Universe has ever produced (to our knowledge). If you look around the rest of the Universe you may find thing of interest and beauty, but those concepts of "interestin
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by gooseus 5y ago
I'd be interested in seeing a deep dive analysis comparing the costs in energy / environmental impact, as well as risk profiles from space debris of maintaining clouds of lower-earth orbit satellite vs constellations of higher-ear
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by gooseus 5y ago
I would like to see SpaceX outline a roadmap according to each Mars transfer window, currently don't see it[1]: 2022/08/07 - Assume no transit 2024/09/26 - First uncrewed launch (X tons of supply) 2026/11/
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by gooseus 5y ago
PS - One point that I made privately that I didn't hear Tom make was how Veritasium spends a lot of time describing the plane crash involving human error that could have been avoided with automation. What isn't mentioned is the mo
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by gooseus 5y ago
When the Veritasium video originally released I was similarly disappointed by the presentation of the video which used his very relatable Veritasium communication style to present some strongly facts while ignoring or dismissing others. I t

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