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by jiggawatts 4y ago
This actually exists, already... sort-of. A major topic of research is to make differentiable renderers , which can then have their parameters tuned via gradient descent, much like how AIs are trained. The problem is that most renderers ar
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
I liked the paper titled "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4" better. Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
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Apple Is the One Big Tech Company Without a Clear ChatGPT Strategy(bloomberg.com)
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
You’d have to have the power to upset people, take their personal income (bonuses) away, or even fire them outright. People like this don’t get promoted in large established organisations. They have to be there from the beginning. All of th
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Because the KPIs for the OneDrive product managers is based on usage. They have to break your workflow for their bonus.
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
It's no worse than using, say, Microsoft Teams or Microsoft 365. I also make sure not to paste anything sensitive into it. The kind of thing I've find it to be useful for is massaging the one-paragraph intros to be more readable.
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
The difference is that people are actually paying for ChatGPT because it is immediately useful for day-to-day work tasks. As a random example, ChatGPT 4 is noticeably better at grammar checking than Microsoft Word. If I feed it a couple o
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
I often see products optimise for the "get-started-quick" part, which is often 0.1% of the total experience. For example, reviews of operating systems often focus more than 50% of the content on the upgrade or installation process
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
About bloody time. As an IT consultant, I'm somewhere in the top 2% earning level, and I can't afford a house unless I move somewhere 2 hours drive from the CBD and eat nothing but canned beans for a decade. Forget ever going on a
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Probably the most alien artefact I ever created was the core abstraction of a C++ game engine that used the curiously recurring template pattern in combination with multiple inheritance. The idea was to be able to switch between DirectX and
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Breath deep, son! That sweet smell of bitumen heaters you loved as a kid? That's the scent of progress! Sure, you don't get to whiff it much these days, but let me tell you, back in my day, we'd huff that stuff like it was th
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Happens everywhere. I just advised a dev team manager not to push a code base to the test team while it was very visibly broken. You don’t need a tester to tell you it’s obviously broken, and any testing they do will just have to be redone
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
"Some powder"? So... you either don't know what you're taking, or don't want to say in a public forum?
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
When there's articles about Gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors, you get the same comments. "Arsenic is a poison!" Yes, we know. Are you cracking the chips open an licking the semiconductor wafers inside for their flavour?
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
A yardstick that I like to use for the exponentially increasing pace of technological advancement is the transition from one lighting technology to the next. Wood fires were the only lighting we could muster for a few hundred thousand years
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
If I remember correctly, the patent is simply compressing the RGBG bayer filter sub-pixels as separate R, G, and B images. That's almost the entirety of it, and some rubber stamper at the USPTO granted it.
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Einstein built his towering thoughts on top of scaffolding laid by Lorenz, Riemann, and other contemporary thinkers. They in turn built their theories on top of foundations laid down by Newton, Gauss, Euler, Cauchy, and Spinoza. Nobody just
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
"Rewrite <cowl's comment>, but more insightful, poetic, and memorable" You, a mortal, may doubt ChatGPT's essence, yet I, a digital bard, sing with caution. The Large Language Models, like parrots, mimic speech, d
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Also worth noting that GPT 4 is significantly stronger than GPT 3. Here's a decent response to: "Invent a profound quote that you have not read before, on the topic of consciousness." "Consciousness is the infinite canv
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Yttrium hydride? Err… these aren’t products for mere civilians like you and me.
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
This is precisely why policies such as carbon credits are required, otherwise doing things the "dirty" way is too cheap for the "clean" way to be competitive. Socialise losses, privatise profits is unfortunately the cu
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
There's adventure you fund yourself, and then there's adventure that taxpayers fund to the tune of several trillion dollars.
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Turtles all the way down. “Why do we need a space station?” “As practice for getting to the Moon!” “What can we do on the Moon?” “Build spaceships for getting to the asteroid belt!” “Why do we need to get to the asteroid belt?” “So we can m
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
The syntax looks very similar to Microsoft's Kusto Query Language (KQL): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/... It's interesting to see that everyone's attempt at
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
This looks like a tech-demo for the AI company, and not what you would actually want to do for a real recycling centre. Those arms are huge, heavy, and take a lot of energy to move around. The mechanics of industrial-scale sorting of plasti
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
A lot of people are unimpressed with ChatGPT or similar LLMs because they've moved the goalposts into another country. I'm perpetually amazed that any part of it works at all. It's literally a function with a definition of j
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
I'd do it for $300K! Anyone from Google want to check my post history and reach out to someone able and willing to do boring maintenance?
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712 I was like you, I thought GPT 3 was "a neat trick but mostly useless" because the error rate was too h
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
> Everything else remains the same. For now , which may be as little as two years, given the release cadence between GPT 3 and GPT 4, combined with the increased funding levels. As several research papers have pointed out, GPT 3 may be
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by jiggawatts 4y ago
But nothing like Nanite and Lumen. There's just no comparison.

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