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by inshard 10mo ago
Strange that a 9th October article shows up at the top of the feed given the events of the day in Sydney.
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by inshard 10mo ago
Everything is relative. Even the perception of effort, from the calories burned at work daily to sustain a livelihood, is subjective. What truly matters is the amount of effort required by your peers to achieve similar financial stability.
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by inshard 10mo ago
Seattle hits a doom (helped by the gloom) loop every winter. This too shall pass.
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LLMs as a new alien subset of all possible embodied intelligences(advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
3 points by inshard 10mo ago|0 comments
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AI Wet Labs – Chapter 1 [video](youtube.com)
1 points by inshard 10mo ago|1 comments
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by inshard 10mo ago
This is the worst these things are going to be.
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by inshard 11mo ago
Thorium is abundant in Sri Lanka’s mineral sands. Mined with dredgers at shallow depths 10-100m off the western coast.
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by inshard 11mo ago
I was surprised when Microsoft hired him. He always seemed to be the cofounder to Demis Hassabis who took on a philosophical tangent rather than the hard engineering needed to build transformative technologies and user experiences. I feel M
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Quadratic Gravity(quantamagazine.org)
2 points by inshard 11mo ago|0 comments
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by inshard 11mo ago
Yep, this reinforces my point. Range Rovers try to maximize scope, often at the expense of scalability and reliability. Same with Bentleys, the Concorde passenger jet and the Harrier fighter jet.
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by inshard 11mo ago
Could it be guessing via orders of magnitude? Like 145 lb * 1/4 is high confidence not the answer and 1 lb 45 oz is non standard notation as 1lb = 16oz - so it's most likely 14 lb 5 oz
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by inshard 11mo ago
US has a culture of scaling. Having lived in London and many parts of the US, I could observe that Europe has economies of scope. And the US has economies of scale. A good example would be the Ford F150 and the Range Rover. One is highly re
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Deciphering the Oil-Filled Ressence Type 3 BB2(monochrome-watches.com)
4 points by inshard 11mo ago|1 comments
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by inshard 11mo ago
AKA the OG Pixel Watch 4
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by inshard 11mo ago
Do we need to distinguish between Atlas, the control theory based humanoid tech stack vs say Optimus that may run on an end-2-end visual reasoning world model? I feel these are two different paradigms. Same for military drones. The next gen
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by inshard 11mo ago
If we are thinking about world models and embodied AI as the next big wave, I feel we need to factor the size of this market across military and civilian applications. When I hear Tesla AI4-6 plans for autonomous driving and Optimus, Apple’
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by inshard 11mo ago
Whenever in doubt about your product’s acceptance, just jack up the price and keep a straight face.
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by inshard 11mo ago
Yep. Essentially take risks, expand your world model, but above all, don’t die. There’s a tension there - like “what happens if I poke the bear” vs “this might get me killed.”
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by inshard 11mo ago
Also good context here is Friston’s Free Energy Principle: A unified theory suggesting that all living systems, from simple organisms to the brain, must minimize "surprise" to maintain their form and survive. To do this, systems a
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by inshard 11mo ago
The author misses the science of emergence. Reductionist views can’t fully explain macro-level capabilities that arise in these systems. Something emerges at higher scales from the possibility space as model sizes grow; they stop being mere
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by inshard 11mo ago
The article ignores agriculture and animal husbandry as the critical inflection point for property rights and mass conflict. You could argue proto-versions of these dynamics existed even in abundant hunting grounds—see Native American triba
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by inshard 11mo ago
I’ve occasionally seen and understood physical shapes and concepts while dreaming, which I was unable to describe or articulate in the real world once awake. It’s as if I recall how it made me feel, but I can’t describe what it was. Like th
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by inshard 11mo ago
Same sentiment. It’s still touch through a slightly less solid medium.
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by inshard 11mo ago
This misses the fundamental information problem. Your recommendation algorithm is centralized—it only knows what its signals can measure. Ads create a decentralized market mechanism where businesses themselves can signal “your algorithm is
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by inshard 11mo ago
The value of AI is in the imagination of its wielder. The Unknown Unknowns framework is a useful tool in how to navigate AI along with a healthy dose of critical thinking and understanding how reinforcement learning and RLHF work, post pre-
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by inshard 11mo ago
Local businesses with better quality usually have better ratings in maps and better economics—higher margins, repeat customers, lower acquisition costs. And since only nearby places can compete, you get real competition on merit instead of
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by inshard 1y ago
Unions are like winning the battle to lose the war, in free markets. A non unionized or automated competitor eventually kills the unionized incumbent.
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by inshard 1y ago
It is whataboutism if the reply was a reply to my post about the UN resolution denouncing the sexual slavery and exploitation of minors in the Quran. Which seems to be the case as the argument was specific to the UN resolution statement tha
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by inshard 1y ago
Funding a seed stage VC with a record of picking winners like Sequoia is probably very easy even without the few sovereign wealth funds from the Middle East. Sequoia’s checks are mainly in the early rounds where the sizes are relatively sma
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by inshard 1y ago
I am an ex Muslim. And yes, I fear the indoctrination and dogma it fosters in people. It kills countries and generations of innocent lives.

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