jb1991

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by jb1991 2y ago
You can't define intelligence by how people in any one point in time would have responded to it. A calculator is AI to people of the 19th century, but not to us. It's only in the passing of time, if something that is thought to be
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by jb1991 2y ago
It really is a simple as this. People often make it more complicated than this fundamental issue.
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by jb1991 2y ago
A calculator can also outperform a human, and there are many other devices that have outperformed humans for a very long time. Does that mean it is human-level intelligence?
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by jb1991 2y ago
Well, "pretty ok" is not a great bar coming from the mindstorms system. But even if you exclude that entire category, the Technic series overall is not the same as it used to be.
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by jb1991 2y ago
Now if only we can reliably 3D print the gears also, and ensure they still work well with other pieces.
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by jb1991 2y ago
I too am disappointed by the direction Lego has gone away from the classic Technic gears and pulleys. And the cancellation of Mindstorms without an adequate replacement. It’s the end of an era. Now everything is mostly focused on brand deal
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by jb1991 2y ago
For similar reasons why Microsoft created DirectX. It allows them to have a system where the software and hardware are more tightly integrated than using a cross-platform spec. It also allows them to situate the API within the context of th
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by jb1991 2y ago
What do you think about SYCL as a viable cross-platform GPU API?
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by jb1991 2y ago
> Nowadays OpenCL is dead for some reason... Where does SYCL fit into this picture, is it a viable replacement for cross-platform GPU access?
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by jb1991 2y ago
Some talk of OpenCL vs. Cuda in this thread, but I'm wondering what, if anything, does SYCL have to offer in this area? Do Nvidia GPUs support SYCL?
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by jb1991 2y ago
OpenCL is just a spec. It's up to companies to implement it in a successful way or not. There is no reason in and of itself that OpenCL can't compete with CUDA on performance. The fact that Apple's Metal, which is pretty good
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by jb1991 2y ago
> self-inflicted apparent inability to multiply matrices on demand Isn't it one of the fundamental applications of a GPU, whether for ML compute or more commonly for 3D graphics, to multiple matrices? In what way did AMD GPUs fail t
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by jb1991 2y ago
Despite these machines, a person can easily spend an hour or two every day on common household tasks like cleaning the kitchen and doing laundry. That’s time that many people would love to get back.
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by jb1991 2y ago
That quote has been attributed to many different people in similar forms over the last year or two.
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by jb1991 2y ago
Listening to some of these, it is so extraordinary to think an algo created and performed the music, all I find myself wondering is how much these songs resemble a particular song it was trained on.
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by jb1991 2y ago
The same occurred to me while reading it.
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by jb1991 2y ago
wikipedia says: > Brian Hook may have brought the algorithm from 3dfx to id Software.
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by jb1991 2y ago
The problem is all the shared spreadsheets that are ubiquitous in many jobs and you typically need a Google account to participate in those.
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by jb1991 2y ago
I did not know Feynman was responsible for finding the cause of the Challenger explosion. That's remarkable on top of everything else he did.
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by jb1991 2y ago
USA and many European countries deduct mortgage interest from income tax.
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by jb1991 2y ago
It makes sense because both the starter homes and the larger homes appreciated. I'm not sure why you say "why would only homes on the low-end appreciate" when the example talks about two different classes of homes.
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by jb1991 2y ago
> assuming rent expenses = the cost of interest But you cannot make even this simple assumption because rent is not tax deductible but mortgage interest usually is.
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by jb1991 2y ago
If the value of your house rises rapidly, you cannot just sell because then you have to buy another house to live somewhere, which has also appreciated. See the other comments about this.
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by jb1991 2y ago
In many countries, mortgage interest is tax deductible, while rent is not.
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by jb1991 2y ago
> many of us who have "enjoyed" the upside are actually deeply underwater relative to our preferences what do you mean by this?
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by jb1991 2y ago
It's not as simple as that. Home ownership can be a lucrative investment long-term, it depends on many factors. When property values appreciate a lot, as they have been recently, home owners have done very well.
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by jb1991 2y ago
Useful example, thanks.
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by jb1991 2y ago
Exactly. It’s so annoying when developers think they know better how a user should use their browser than the user does, at least that’s an optimistic interpretation of it. The other interpretation is that they just don’t want users to actu
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by jb1991 2y ago
I thought there was just a sign bit. If not, how does a system know if a number should be interpreted as positive or negative?
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by jb1991 2y ago
I don’t think this works on mobile, or at least it’s not working on my iPhone.

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