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by jacobedawson 1y ago
"But anything beyond writing a simple function always leads to useless junk." If that's the article writer's experience then they are simply using it incorrectly. The author seems to suggest most of their usage involves
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by jacobedawson 1y ago
Without sidetracking with definitions, there's a strong case to make that developing AGI is a winner takes all event. You would have access to any number of tireless human level experts that you could put to work at improving the AGI s
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by jacobedawson 1y ago
An underrated quality of LLMs as study partner is that you can ask "stupid" questions without fear of embarrassment. Adding in a mode that doesn't just dump an answer but works to take you through the material step-by-step is
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by jacobedawson 1y ago
Come on lads! Don't give up, we're only just past the tonsils!
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by jacobedawson 1y ago
As a heavy LLM user, professionally and personally, I use "summarize this" a lot - I find that most content in the world is low signal-to-noise and a lot of the time the salient / useful information is hidden within unnecess
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by jacobedawson 2y ago
I'd add to that that the best results are with clear spec sheets, which you can create using Claude (web) or another model like ChatGPT or Grok. Telling them what you want and what tech you're using helps them create a technical d
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GEN3C: 3D-Informed World-Consistent Video(huggingface.co)
3 points by jacobedawson 2y ago|1 comments
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by jacobedawson 2y ago
We present GEN3C, a generative video model with precise Camera Control and temporal 3D Consistency. Prior video models already generate realistic videos, but they tend to leverage little 3D information, leading to inconsistencies, such as o
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by jacobedawson 2y ago
Just to confirm though - when you 'just click there', you're taking your hand off the keyboard, moving your arm and hand to the mouse, moving the mouse to the position you see, hopefully clicking exactly where you want to go
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by jacobedawson 2y ago
"The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but thi
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by jacobedawson 2y ago
The Mars Trilogy is a slog imo because of the way it's written (e.g. insufferable dialogue), whereas the concepts and scope were just enough to keep me going. I felt the same way about his Ministry For The Future - he has great ideas w
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by jacobedawson 2y ago
I own the Voyager and it's a great piece of kit, my only wish is that it was wireless, but the team has clear reasons why they've stuck with wired boards ( https://www.zsa.io/wireless ). A trackpad would be lovely.
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by jacobedawson 3y ago
It's more often a signal to really reflect on whether you, individually as a Thanksgiving turkey, have really found yourself at the make-or-break nexus of turkey existence. The answer seems to be "no" most of the time.
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by jacobedawson 3y ago
Genuine question - I wasn't aware of this (fatalities per mwh for wind & solar), what would be the best source to find out more?
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Illuminating protein space with a programmable generative model(nature.com)
2 points by jacobedawson 3y ago|0 comments
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Rectangular log map-scheme of the Observable Universe(pablocarlosbudassi.com)
2 points by jacobedawson 3y ago|0 comments
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by jacobedawson 3y ago
Best practice in general is not to use either of those hooks unless you notice performance issues, or have a good reason to, React is optimized pretty well and unless there are serious numbers of rerenders happening they aren't noticea
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by jacobedawson 3y ago
This is an excellent book - beautifully written, easy to read, and covering so many epic events that an entire film or series could be made from what is essentially a footnote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_he
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by jacobedawson 3y ago
Alternatively, she's an entertainer on tv and she was being entertaining.
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by jacobedawson 3y ago
Codex provides access to proofread static snapshots of the FlyWire full-brain connectome - wiring diagram of Drosophila brain.
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Whole-brain connectome of the fruit fly(codex.flywire.ai)
190 points by jacobedawson 3y ago|94 comments
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A conversation with Henry Kissinger (2023)(archive.is)
1 points by jacobedawson 3y ago|0 comments
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Slack GPT(slack.com)
2 points by jacobedawson 3y ago|0 comments
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AI isn’t the app, it’s the UI(stackoverflow.blog)
1 points by jacobedawson 3y ago|0 comments
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by jacobedawson 4y ago
Agreed this is not discussed often - in a doom scenario, a quick death for everyone might be the best case
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by jacobedawson 4y ago
That's why I said it was unpredictable, in both directions.
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by jacobedawson 4y ago
I think most people see where the puck is going, and even where it is right now is very impressive. It's not hard to see that it will be likely less than 5 years before it will be able to do what you did on day 2, and much more, at a t
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by jacobedawson 4y ago
...Blackburn, however, says researchers will continue to find a way to scrutinize what’s happening on Twitter. “We’ve been mostly cut off from Facebook for years and we’ve continued to make progress,” he says. “It’s not like science is goin
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by jacobedawson 4y ago
yeah also seeing this, many such cases
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by jacobedawson 4y ago
Should have been "jumping off a Cliffs notes"

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