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by jaccola 7mo ago
Some would say having a choice of which healthcare to pay for, the ability to choose a provider, the right to not pay for healthcare (maybe you value an extra holiday more than being able to go to a GP) is a good thing. I'm from the UK
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by jaccola 7mo ago
Honestly the whole Silicon Valley shtick is becoming old. The fake positivity, the quirky writing style, the "I think the most important quality is sticktuitiveness" linkedin-esque bullshit. Not to mention the cargo-cult that is s
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by jaccola 8mo ago
I would hate to be one of the ~80 million people in the world who have identical faces
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by jaccola 8mo ago
The person above was being a bit pedantic, and zealous in their anti-anthropomorphism. But they are literally predicting the next token. They do nothing else. Also if you think they were just predicting the next token in 2021, there has bee
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by jaccola 8mo ago
All of the latest models I've tried actually pass this test. What I found interesting was all of the success cases were similar to: e.g. "Drive. Most car washes require the car to be present to wash,..." Only most?! They have
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by jaccola 8mo ago
I have no idea how an LLM company can make any argument that their use of content to train the models is allowed that doesn't equally apply to the distillers using an LLM output. "The distilled LLM isn't stealing the content
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by jaccola 8mo ago
Not really your point but I think the skills to create these things are much slower to train than producing chips and data centres. So they couldn't really build any of these projects weekly since the cost of construction materials &#x
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by jaccola 8mo ago
This is already hyperbolic; in most countries where software engineers or similar knowledge workers are widely employed there are welfare programmes. To add to that, if there is such mass unemployment in this scenario it will be because few
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by jaccola 8mo ago
I think this is cool! But by some definition my "Ctrl", "C", and "V" keys can build a C compiler... Obviously being facetious but my point being: I find it impossible to judge how impressed I should be by these
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by jaccola 8mo ago
Even that is underselling it; jobs are a necessary evil that should be minimised. If we can have more stuff with fewer people needing to spend their lives providing it, why would we NOT want that?
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by jaccola 8mo ago
Yeah but who can be hurt by this, these are both private companies? So whose interest is his "conflicting" with? I'm sure the shareholders will raise it with him and/or bring a lawsuit if they aren't happy (they pro
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by jaccola 8mo ago
What $$$?! The top tier of apple one is £36.95pm. If I spend 15 mins of time every month extra self hosting then it’s immediately not worth it. (Not to mention self hosting won’t be free). Also, for that price I get: 2TB cloud storage,Apple
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by jaccola 8mo ago
The initial tweet was primarily a lie though > The rendering engine is from-scratch in Rust with HTML parsing, CSS cascade, layout, text shaping, paint, and a custom JS VM. If I cloned Pixar’s rendering library and called that then added
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by jaccola 8mo ago
Interestingly, the UK PM (and allies) just blocked a would-be political rival Andy Burnham standing as an MP. One of the given reasons is because Burnham is currently mayor of Greater Manchester, and running a new election there would cost
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by jaccola 9mo ago
Funny, I’m the same. I also like taking walks to think but I’ve found that I must have my head pointing almost directly down (I.e. looking at my feet). It’s also how I stand thinking in the shower, with the warm water hitting my angled neck
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by jaccola 9mo ago
But that’s not the Turing Test. The human who can be fooled in the Turing test was explicitly called the “interrogator”. To pass the Turing test the AI would have to be indistinguishable from a human to the person interrogating it in a back
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by jaccola 9mo ago
I think this is the stated lifetime of insulated windows. But obviously single glazed windows were never insulated in the first place so there is no practical lifetime on them... In my house and on my road a lot of the glass is 150+ years o
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by jaccola 9mo ago
I mostly agree, but I would have agreed with a similar article 10 years ago, and that would have been a fairly widely held opinion (e.g. Bill Gates was famously short Tesla). So I wouldn’t be so sure as this piece is in Tesla’s downfall, an
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by jaccola 9mo ago
In the UK I would say most people are proud of the BBC^; many people I speak to are smug when comparing it to e.g. Fox News, CNBC, etc... I think this is a big mistake, and that the USA system is actually better. It's impossible for on
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by jaccola 9mo ago
The government has decided that they know what’s good for you better for you than you do. So they tax alcohol at incredibly high rates. Without this more pubs could exist. So I don’t think it’s a case of subsidising as much as removing the
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by jaccola 9mo ago
There are dozens of definitions of "intelligence", we can't even agree what intelligence means in humans, never mind elsewhere. So yes, by some subset of definitions it is intelligent. But by some subset of definitions my cal
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by jaccola 9mo ago
Ah yes potentially getting us one step closer to immortality, hardly worth killing an animal! I mostly eat vegan because I do have a strong dislike of factory farming and the way animals are treated there. But killing animals is a fact of l
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by jaccola 9mo ago
- This has been going on for well over a year now. - They always write relatively long, zealous explainers of how productive they are (including some replies to your comment). These two points together make me think: why do they care so muc
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by jaccola 9mo ago
I’m surprised Perplexity isn’t already dead! Makes me question my ability to evaluate the value/sticking power of these tools. (Unless it is dead if we could see DAUs…)
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by jaccola 9mo ago
Glad someone is rational. I believe this new wave of zeal is being somewhat driven by an Anthropic astroturfing campaign. This AI fear wave has outed that many people have not even the most basic grasp of economics, or the ability to carry
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by jaccola 9mo ago
For learning 3dgs (and its derivatives) I would recommend grabbing the original 3d Gaussian Splatting paper + repository and going through it and using an LLM to ask many questions. LLMs aren't that great at explaining concepts a lot o
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by jaccola 9mo ago
Peter Thiel says a lot of high and mighty things but has made pretty much all his money in mundane software, mostly ads. So if it offers any solace, I doubt his principles will get in the way of him making money.
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by jaccola 9mo ago
I'm sure AMSTRAD could knock up a few data centres for a couple o quid
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by jaccola 10mo ago
Constrained environments are much simpler. I believe this company is doing image (or text) -> off the shelf image model to generate more views -> some variant of gaussian splatting. So they aren't really "generating" th
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by jaccola 10mo ago
In your original comment, it sounded like you would encourage billionaires to buy yachts, solely "for the good of the economy". Scenario D: A homeowner adds 10 window to their home because the populous think he is stingy and will

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