isolli

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by isolli 9mo ago
Complete tangent, but, for me, this is where AI shines. I've been able to find things I had been looking for for years. AI is good at understanding something "continued fraction" instead of "infinite series", especi
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by isolli 9mo ago
Every time I fly, I marvel at how much engineering and know-how went into making the airport that I'm using. From the oddly shaped trucks with various functions, to mundane elements (elevators, escalators, ...) to advanced technology (
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by isolli 9mo ago
Indeed, I feel like AI makes it less lonely to work, and for me, it's a net positive. It still has downsides for my focus, but that can be improved...
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by isolli 9mo ago
This mirrors my experience exactly. We have to learn how to tame the beast.
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by isolli 9mo ago
Thanks, these rules of thumb are very useful. When you say perfectly aligned, what kind of precision are we talking about? If we aimed a receiver at a nearby star, would we be able to achieve this kind of precision?
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by isolli 9mo ago
Fair point, but waste in one domain should not be used to excuse waste elsewhere. Unless your argument is that it's generally hard for human societies to know where to best invest their scientific talent without the benefit of hindsigh
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by isolli 9mo ago
I don't know who wrote the title for this submission, but adding a question mark that is not in the linked article seems like a terrible editorial decision.
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by isolli 9mo ago
At what opportunity cost?
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by isolli 9mo ago
Hm, string theory can describe a lot of things, but it's not testable with current technology. I'm pretty sure that other mathematical constructs exist that could also describe a similar set of properties, but we just happened to
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by isolli 9mo ago
Sounds normal to me... see Eliot Spitzer [0]: > $4,300 is not an altogether alarming sum of money in the high-end sex market > In New York, it’s not hard to find sex workers who charge $10,000 per “session,” which can last for 15 minu
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by isolli 9mo ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28924751
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by isolli 9mo ago
What does BP mean, in the context of the screenshot?
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by isolli 9mo ago
No wonder the location of the oldest tree on Earth is kept secret...
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by isolli 9mo ago
Thanks for illustrating my point. Eviscerating someone is not how science should be conducted. On the contrary, it's how we got here: decades invested in an untestable, unworkable theory.
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by isolli 9mo ago
It reminds of this quote from Roger Penrose's book, Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe: “My nervousness was perhaps at its greatest because the illustrative area that I had elected to discuss, namely string
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by isolli 9mo ago
I think the analogy here is with Grok generating images of (real) people wearing bikini. It could always be done in Photoshop before (and with hand-made photo montages before that), but it's now accessible at scale to people with zero
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by isolli 9mo ago
You have to make sure that you make it read an article about a painter falling off a roof with his tools.
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AI is upending the porn industry(economist.com)
8 points by isolli 9mo ago|3 comments
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by isolli 9mo ago
There is also a loose analogy with finance: act (trade) when prices cross a certain threshold, not after a specific time.
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by isolli 9mo ago
Why is supervising one's agents to be as efficient as possible a problem for Anthropic?
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by isolli 9mo ago
Nice. This reminds me of Logitech who open sourced LMS (Logitech Media Server) when they discontinued their multiroom product (known as Squeezebox before they bought it). Still a fantastic multi-room setup to this day... I run a server as w
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by isolli 9mo ago
It's beautiful, but... I'm confused by the role of the play button. Can somebody explain how it works? I click on it and seemingly random things happen.
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by isolli 9mo ago
That seems incompatible with the parallel tasks of cleaning and cooking (at least for me, especially with kids around).
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by isolli 10mo ago
Is it a base model, or did it get some RLHF on top? Releasing a base model is always dangerous. The French released a preview of an AI meant to support public education, but they released the base model, with unsurprising effects [0] [0]
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by isolli 10mo ago
This reminds of a question I had when I played chess for a couple of years. I was a lot better (as evidenced by my ELO score on chess.com) when playing long games (1 turn per day) than short games (say half an hour total). At the time, I re
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by isolli 10mo ago
In case people don't want to click on a random link, it is actually quite interesting: Crocodile blood antibiotics hope Scientists are catching crocodiles and sampling their blood in the hope of finding powerful new drugs to fight huma
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by isolli 10mo ago
I know we're not supposed to edit titles, but I'm glad the submitter added "in mice". It avoided me quite the disappointment!
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by isolli 10mo ago
Fraud in cancer research is sadly prevalent. France cancer fraud trial begins (1999) [0] (the head of the charity was found guilty, imprisoned, and fined) [0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/352075.stm
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by isolli 10mo ago
Very nice! But you won't beat this ;) > Optical Engineer Rik ter Horst shows us how he makes very small telescopes (at home) which are intended for use in micro-satellites. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxwhCmO90UQ
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by isolli 10mo ago
Ha ha! But yes, I was confused too, especially since the title says "10 years from now"... not specifying in which direction.

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