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by jahewson 3y ago
I had a book on DHTML in the late 90s long before ajax was a thing. It simply meant scripting the DOM. The MS version did have some fancy transition filters too.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Attorneys are all you need.
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by jahewson 3y ago
> It is also the reason why they cannot be trusted in the most serious of applications which such decision making requires lots of transparency rather than a model regurgitating nonsense confidently. Like say, in court to detect if someo
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by jahewson 3y ago
I’m using Nest without a Google Account. It nags me to migrate but I’ve never done so. I deleted my Google account because I was using a custom domain and Google moved that functionality to Workspace and wanted to charge for it, while half
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by jahewson 3y ago
100% agree. I’ve found that one way to make sure that disposable prototypes are disposed of is to build them someplace like CodeSandbox, where nobody can mistake them for the real thing.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Hinton has a much, much higher profile and much, much larger contribution to the field than those axe-grinding self-appointed “ethics” researchers, who got more than enough media coverage.
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by jahewson 3y ago
That would get you a mesh but not a NeRF.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Do you have a citation for this? I can't find any sources to back this claim.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Is it squandering the most important technical advance of a generation?
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by jahewson 4y ago
At inference time, an LLM does not have access to all its training data either.
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by jahewson 4y ago
That includes the pleas though. It’s 83% for the cases that make it to trial. Still not great odds.
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by jahewson 4y ago
They are funded by YC. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32003215
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by jahewson 4y ago
Yeah that’s what I want to know too. Is it legit?
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by jahewson 4y ago
Why would GPS use more power? It’s only receiving.
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by jahewson 4y ago
That’s not the contract. That’s the advertising.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Alpaca is the Napster or LLMs
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by jahewson 4y ago
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
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by jahewson 4y ago
That’s not true. Correspondence therapy is a thing. Plenty of research exists in the area of delivering therapy and the effectiveness of different kinds.
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by jahewson 4y ago
You’re comparing single-year market value of a commodity that is dug straight out of an open pit with multi-year capital investment into one of the most advanced technologies the human race has created, currently offered by a single company
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by jahewson 4y ago
Ha ha oh did that make me laugh. Companies like that are not suffering from a tech problem, that is only the symptom. They’re suffering from a people problem, often a big entrenched structural one. You can throw all the smart engineers you
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by jahewson 4y ago
Ha, I know people who would be fired for doing that.
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by jahewson 4y ago
I’ve said it before but the first jobs that AI will displace are those of people working in AI.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Lol no. The insane city government is why SF is a mess. It’s been this way my entire life. When I visited SF as a child, before any tech was there, it was a hot mess. Now, 30 years later it’s still a hot mess. (Though America’s healthcare a
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by jahewson 4y ago
Without all the integrated tracking the ads would be basically worthless.
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by jahewson 4y ago
> The issue is that 95% of consumers will only choose the cheap bulbs, period. The hardware stores near me, both big and small, stock only a single brand of bulb, as if they have some kind of exclusive deal.
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by jahewson 4y ago
I’ve seen “incompetent but nice” people destroy entire companies, as in those companies no longer exist.
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by jahewson 4y ago
I’ve not found that they can be taught. An inexperienced person may lack the knowledge of what to do but they can learn to ask, to read a book, to follow the state-of-the-art. An incompetent person will decide they know what to do (or wro
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by jahewson 4y ago
China is almost as bad and Norway and Sweden are worse. Basically, if you have lots of money, you have access to lots of credit.
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by jahewson 4y ago
January 2022 was the peak of Omicron, so probably not.
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by jahewson 4y ago
Less than 10% of mortgages are variable rate. And why would anybody sell their house with a 2% mortgage? They’d need to be paid a significant premium to justify this.

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