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by jahewson 3y ago
My experience has been the opposite. Corporate researchers are well-funded in stable jobs, with large teams and access to proprietary data and resources beyond the imagination of most academics. Their talents are often needed for practical
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by jahewson 3y ago
Check out https://nerf.studio it can do some mind-bending stuff.
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Why shard when you can just replicate?
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Medieval refers to a specific European time period, I’m not sure what you expected. > Minstrels were fixtures of European life in the Middle Ages, but though countless references to these entertainers exist in literature from this era, n
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by jahewson 3y ago
Anthropic and Databricks have made datasets available. OpenAssistant is crowdsourcing one.
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Originally they were for lighting, where each pixel of a triangle is shaded based on its illumination. When other kinds of graphics processing functions were added (eg manipulating geometry) they kept the name.
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Having spent considerable time working on PDF parsers I can say that it’s a special kind of hell. The root problem is that Acrobat is very permissive in what it will parse - files that are wildly out of spec and even partially corrupt open
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by jahewson 3y ago
Anecdotally, I’ve never met anyone who thought this way who’s product didn’t suck.
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This is delightfully misguided because diffusion models work by learning to remove noise.
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> Now they look more like prophets. Not to me. They just look like another group claiming grand and sweeping theories of truth.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Do you… attract capricious people?
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I’m gonna stick my neck out and say that a man getting divorced did not, in fact, do everything right.
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When did you first become aware of this?
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The definition of fraud is deception with the intent of enriching yourself.
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I have a non-Tesla EV and the Ford and Rivian trucks that have now hit the market have ruined public charging. As you say, they hog the space for literally hours when everyone else needs 20mins. I finally gave in and purchased a home charge
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This is how SMT solvers deal with bounded quantifiers.
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Given that Waymo looses $5bn a year that seems like a drop in the ocean.
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Fairly basic flats cost more like £400k each to build. The developer isn’t making all that much profit. That’s one reason why all you see are luxury flats nowadays.
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Counterpoint: how do we govern global issues with a global government? I’m not sure it’s any easier.
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I’ve lived near two different fire stations, it wasn’t a big deal. They only leave with the sirens on in big emergencies, a couple of times a year. Far more disturbing was the sound of trucks and motorbikes with modified exhausts.
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Adobe Firefly already did it https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html
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No it’s mostly the second point. This is why they speak in euphemisms.
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The training data is books and the internet. Unless you believe that every book and every word written online is “truth” then there is no hope that such a model can produce truth. What it can at least do is provide an unfiltered model of it
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by jahewson 3y ago
> People who are worried about alignment issues are worried about the danger unaligned AI poses to humanity Lol I don’t believe that for a minute. They’re interested in how AI impacts and their clique personally. It sets them back in the
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by jahewson 3y ago
So tasty. Dal Makhani is my personal favourite. India has great vegetarian food!
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If the other people are selfless it won’t benefit them either.
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You can’t strengthen muscles that haven’t been stretched properly. Bad posture limits the range of motion, shortens the muscles and causes trigger points. Bad posture is like training the wrong way for 8 hours a day. It’s a problem that has
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by jahewson 3y ago
I think you’re underestimating the politics of open source and the thanklessness of making disruptive changes to something where a large and vocal portion of the user base just wants the thing to keep working as it is. Without breaking comp
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by jahewson 3y ago
This reminds me of being a kid in the 90s and installing the DOS version of Command & Conquer onto a parent’s laptop and then being asked to delete it. COMMAND.COM yep that must be it…
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Why build an app when you can just replace humanity with something different and not reflective of actual humans?

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