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by hankman86 3y ago
This is good news! And it makes sense. OpenAI stores swaths of personal information that it scrapes off websites and who knows where else from. The “right to be forgotten” applies: individuals for whom the GDPR applies (i.e. citizens of the
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by hankman86 4y ago
It amazes me to no end that some people would feed private conversations and other sensitive data into an experimental chat bot. Don’t these people not know that ChatGPT it not a mature technology, that does not reliably isolate sessions an
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by hankman86 4y ago
While this is only a singular opinion, Google’s problems to successfully innovate are in plain sight. Google Research produces the seminal paper on Transformers - only to see others pick up their work and run with it. Android is losing mark
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by hankman86 4y ago
Everyone keeps talking about Google being caught off guard, declaring a “code red” scenario and reeling the founders back in to avert an existential threat etc. I don’t personally care about Google so much. They haven’t innovated on their c
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by hankman86 4y ago
AI feels very different from previous waves of disruptive technologies (e.g., Web 2.0, mobile, cloud, social). More than ever, negative consequences are in plain sight. AI proponents do not even deny that this is going to eliminate a lot of
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by hankman86 4y ago
I wonder what hidden benefits there are in these layoffs. Sure, companies lose skilled staff and nominally taken a hit in overall corporate output. On the flipside, people work twice as hard, eager to show their worth. That may be the cynic
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by hankman86 4y ago
Take a leaf from Seti@Home‘s book and try to come up with a distributed, volunteer-based approach to training an open source LLM. There is already an enormous amount of suitable ML hardware on end user devices.
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by hankman86 4y ago
Exactly. More to this: the incentive for SEO copywriting goes away - good riddance! On the flip side, these new generative AI search engines will have to innovate on their business model as well. Google basically pays content creators in or
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by hankman86 4y ago
Agree with your first paragraph and disagree with the second: Google really has it coming. They bred the SEO industry that has essentially turned websites into SPAM. There isn’t a single website that doesn’t have you scroll through lengthy
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by hankman86 4y ago
This is a good thing in so many ways. Imagine a search engine that summarises the world’s knowledge in comprehensible terms. That doesn’t just return a ranked list of websites, but answers that are synthesised from a multitude of sources. G
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by hankman86 4y ago
Exactly. In acquiring NeXT, Apple bought leadership and culture. And we can argue forever if Apple’s engineers could have shipped the first OSX release earlier or in a better state, had they instead acquired Be. But I doubt it. Because - ag
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by hankman86 4y ago
This deserves to be expanded on: I very much see the need for innovation in OS research. But I just don’t see anything in BeOS/Haiku that would address any of the big challenges for operating systems. Which in my mind include the follo
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by hankman86 4y ago
Beyond the nostalgia: are there any other reasons to keep contributing to Haiku? Like critical infrastructure that is reliant on BeOS/Haiku. Or anything you can plausibly do best on Haiku?
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by hankman86 4y ago
Makes me wonder whether we’re already past the point where remote work has turned from a perk into an essential skill (ie. the ability to work/collaborate effectively in a remote/hybrid setup). In the current economic downturn, it
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by hankman86 4y ago
Can someone please summarize in plain English what is the story (or “drama”) here? I had a hard time making sense of this article full of weird lingo and screenshots of some social media exchanges - about what exactly? A chat AI that gets t
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by hankman86 4y ago
I imagine it might be difficult to get FDA approval for a medical appliance like this one. WiFi is already challenging to get right for its core purpose (ie. to wirelessly transmit data with a predictable throughout).
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by hankman86 4y ago
These buildings are basically an anti-individualism ideology, cast in concrete. Which is why far left and far right regimes alike like to erect such structures. And it’s not even a thing of the past. In its most recent incarnation, the Germ
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by hankman86 4y ago
TIL that Google owns two mapping services/apps. Where’s the sense in that? And why are they only consolidating their offerings now?
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by hankman86 4y ago
Not so much sad, but rather ignorant. Heisenberg knew that an experimental physicist would sit on the panel. What kind of questions did he expect to get asked? In those days, the expectation for a physics PhD was to be well-versed in differ
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by hankman86 4y ago
This new research tells us that you actually don’t need to properly exercise, using up a lot of your time to see a positive effect on mortality rates. A few short activity bursts will do. Chances are that more people will be willing to fit
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by hankman86 4y ago
You have to remember why companies buy from the likes of SAP: compliance. That’s the one thing that SAP excels in. Sadly this means that usability falls by the wayside. And while SAP‘s user interfaces are exceptionally bad, their competitor
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by hankman86 4y ago
I miss the days of commercial UNIX workstations. Perhaps that’s because this happens to be when I was young.
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by hankman86 4y ago
Isn’t this just what naturally happens then demand outstrips supply? AFAICS, the algorithm merely removes any inhibition from landlords to ask excessive rents. It’s somewhat calming for one’s moral conscience to point fingers at the compute
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by hankman86 4y ago
It’s smart how they make a backflip on the 4080 12GB naming to distract from the price hike. That’s playing 3D marketing chess …not.
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by hankman86 4y ago
Because owning an Android means you‘re poor.
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by hankman86 4y ago
It’s about status more than anything else. A teen‘s greatest fear is that owning an Android makes you un-effable.
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by hankman86 4y ago
Nothing gives it away more clearly that you’re undateable than your Android phone.
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by hankman86 4y ago
It’s the other way around. Wealthy people can opt out of Meta’s VR surveillance apparatus, others cannot.
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by hankman86 4y ago
Is there going to be a physical release or digital only? Looking for a Christmas present.
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by hankman86 4y ago
The 90 day cap on the search history essentially turns the free plan into a time-limited trial. Slack is probably happy to part ways with whoever still cannot justify their subscription price after that time. They will have figured that the

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