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by jfoster 2y ago
It's a pretty heartwarming and optimistic story. Really glad it's going so well for the first person in the world to try this. For me, the scariest part about ever having a brain-computer interface is security. At the moment perha
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by jfoster 2y ago
~1 GB built into the browser is a lot better than ~1 GB being stored by several websites/apps. It is a bit of a concern for low-powered devices and mobile, though.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Reminder: eye tracking means an always-on camera. I'm not fully against it, but it's good to keep in mind the implications.
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Neuralink's First Patient: 'It Blows My Mind So Much'(bloomberg.com)
6 points by jfoster 2y ago|3 comments
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They might (maybe?) be using it to check/update open hours for places on Google Maps, but you can't make reservations using any of Google's Assistants.
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by jfoster 2y ago
They used to launch products at Google IO, then over the years it shifted into previews (some of which didn't eventuate, like Duplex), and now it's just demos of stuff they might turn into a product one day. Is there a single thin
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by jfoster 2y ago
Consumer Reports must have done similar tests to what is seen in the video (eg. just driving with these systems), yet they came out with the result that they did. What happened there?
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by jfoster 2y ago
> “The audiologist played back some of the sounds that she was responding to and they were ridiculously quiet sort of sounds that in the real world wouldn’t catch your attention during a conversation,” Mrs Sandy said. That could be probl
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by jfoster 2y ago
Not that simple. Apple seems to be creating value for shareholders & customers.
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That is true, but unless you develop an application yourself, it is always coming from somewhere else. Web apps are better than native apps from a security perspective. Browsers have fairly decent built-in debugging tools that you could use
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by jfoster 2y ago
Congrats! It's really cool. In most of the examples, there's many paths with long sequences of numbers, so it's not obvious which path corresponds to which shape in the image. I wonder if you could make it temporarily change
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"No value", meaning $0 CPM? Not really plausible unless the site has barely any human visits.
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by jfoster 2y ago
Rebooking onto another flight is often going to be the most economical option, since flights tend to be a lot more expensive on/near the date of travel.
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by jfoster 3y ago
> On the web, no one can force you change the app you already shipped and no one can change the rules under which it operates. This isn't entirely true, in practice. It's not as bad as iOS, but browsers & search engines can
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by jfoster 3y ago
Error is "xenova-segment-anything-web.static.hf.space unexpectedly closed the connection." Works on mobile network, though, so might just be my internet connection.
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by jfoster 3y ago
Thank you for the reply. Seems like all of the links are down at the moment, but it does sound a bit more feasible for some applications than I had assumed. Really glad to hear the last part. Some of the new capabilities seem fundamental en
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by jfoster 3y ago
> I think cloud hosted models will probably always be far better for most tasks It might depend on just how good you need it to be. There are lots of use-cases where an LLM like GPT 3.5 might be "good enough" such that a better
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by jfoster 3y ago
This product seems to be targeted toward short videos, like TikTok, Instagram reels, or YouTube Shorts. I'm not sure, but I don't think any of those offer built in subtitle support yet? I know YouTube does on regular videos, but I
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by jfoster 3y ago
This is super cool, but unfortunately it also seems super impractical. Models tend to be quite large, so even if a browser can run them, getting them to the browser involves either: 1. Large downloads on every visit to a website. 2. Large d
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by jfoster 3y ago
Subtitles are extremely useful if you want to watch videos without audio, though. I think the whole idea of short videos is that you might be in-between doing things and be looking for some quick entertainment. In such a scenario, you'
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by jfoster 3y ago
Indie: No one pays you. Popular: Gigs pay you. Taylor Swift: Governments pay you millions of dollars for regional exclusivity. (essentially, play 2 - 3 concerts instead of 10+) https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024&#x2
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by jfoster 3y ago
> Drivers would typically be paid a small sum for showing up on the night and then keep the delivery charge and any tips. Under that model, wouldn't drivers only want to work for the busiest restaurants? With delivery apps, a restau
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by jfoster 3y ago
It's true that delivery services add a middle-man, but you don't seem to be considering that they add a lot of value in some important ways: 1. The single website/app is not just useful for discovery, but also to provide a co
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by jfoster 3y ago
We used to have a test (Turing test) that could quite reliably differentiate between AI and our own species over the medium of text. As of now, we do not seem to have a simple & reliable test like that anymore.
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by jfoster 3y ago
Is it expensive or genius? Ultimately, enterprise businesses can definitely afford that, so it's just down to how Vercel can differentiate between them and non-enterprise. Higher usage can be purchased separately from Enterprise, not a
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by jfoster 3y ago
They can write in a way similar to how a human might write, but they're not human. The chat interfaces (Claude, ChatGPT) certainly have a particular style of writing, but the underlying LLMs are definitely capable of impersonating as o
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by jfoster 3y ago
One sector booms whilst another busts.
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by jfoster 3y ago
Could be I suppose, but what about others? I guess the problem I see is that any given webapp might need to download & store several gigabytes. If the models were built into the browser, the browser would need to download & store th
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by jfoster 3y ago
The question is more boring than that. I agree that running models in the browser would be cool. The question is, where are the models coming from? If they're downloaded & stored for each website, that's going to get out of ha
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by jfoster 3y ago
That's pretty much what I would have expected. I think it makes the most sense for users, since you wouldn't really want to download & store large models for each website. This is not what is covered in the WebNN specification

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