jmward01

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by jmward01 2y ago
Privacy is in my top two concerns for EVs (and any vehicle purchase I make). I am increasingly avoiding every privacy destroying option out there, be it cars or services in general. It is, unfortunately, becoming nearly impossible to be pri
902.
by jmward01 2y ago
I'm not an apple fan (as I type on a mac that I am forced to use) but I gotta applaud their push for power efficiency. NVIDIA actually -does- have a few cards they make that really improve power efficiency but then they generally hamst
903.
by jmward01 2y ago
'smartphones' needed a reason to exist, the internet provided that. I doubt we would have had them without it. AI will drive whole new product categories that didn't exist that will then transform our society even more.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I disagree that it was over hyped. It has transformed our society so much that I would argue it was vastly under-hyped. Sure, there were a lot of silly companies that sprang up and went away because they weren't sound, but so much of t
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by jmward01 2y ago
Every negative headline I see about AI hitting a wall or being over-hyped makes me think of the early 2000's with that new thing the 'internet' (yes, I know the internet is a lot older than that). There is little doubt in my
906.
by jmward01 2y ago
Quantity vs quality. Journalism faces the question of 'how to present in an unbiased way' and the answer often comes out as 'equal coverage' which is, as answers go, terrible. Most of the time one 'side' isn&#x
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by jmward01 2y ago
There is power to slow news. Taking time to consider what to say next and how to reply, especially if you are wrong, is very important. That also applies to when you should stop commenting, even if you are wrong. Eventually every story need
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by jmward01 2y ago
Why is it that a button that says 'DO NOT CLICK' calls out SO hard to be clicked?
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by jmward01 2y ago
It may seem a bit trite, but the answer right now is 'because SpaceX is actually doing it'. Space was in a massive rut. SpaceX is breaking that rut and I don't begrudge a single penny that has gone towards that. But a core is
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by jmward01 2y ago
I think there is an honest debate here for the tech side of the house and its implications/risks/etc, but my point is, I think, more broad than 'will we move too fast elsewhere'. I worry he will bring twitter like proble
911.
by jmward01 2y ago
I am a fan of space. I love the things that have happened with SpaceX and breaking the space industry out of a multi-decade rut, but is it possible to dsiconect the political ambitions of Musk from the technical achievements? Or, to put it
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by jmward01 2y ago
>The whole world ran on 1.44mb as a hard limit on how large files could be. pkzip spanning disks was a normal thing back then. I'm totally not showing my age by knowing that (and having used it a lot).
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by jmward01 2y ago
Thanks for pointing that out. I think this clearly shows the difference between 'allowing use' and 'supporting a use case' when it comes to bio-tech. Vaccinating a soldier is allowing use, creating a biological weapon is
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by jmward01 2y ago
There is a difference between allowing use and supporting a use case. Supporting would be, for example, adding military specific training to the model. If we were talking about a car or a tractor nobody would bat an eye. Should companies no
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by jmward01 2y ago
I haven't extensively tested v3 large or the new turbo, but hallucinations have been a known problem in previous versions of the weights. Not providing previous text helps this a lot so I suspect some creative rules like 'don&#x27
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by jmward01 2y ago
'problem' is a loaded word. The data is coming in saying that this class of drugs provides potentially massive benefits. If I get a lot of benefit but didn't fully address the root 'problem', I still get a lot of be
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by jmward01 2y ago
> You can decide for yourself whether an error like this—7 minutes out of 9 hours—makes the real data “close” to a sine wave. I think the most interesting part of this article is the bit at the end. What really is 'close'? We h
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by jmward01 2y ago
In Japan there was a requirement to make a noise when taking a picture on a phone. I'm not a huge fan of that since there are a lot of reasonable reasons to not want noise, but I would be a fan if any capture device was require to adve
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by jmward01 2y ago
I had a discussion with someone that worked on some of google's ad stuff and he swore that this type of tracking wasn't in use there. I suspect that even within these companies they try to hide the level of tracking they engage in
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by jmward01 2y ago
The missing point in your argument though is that the people doing this didn't want to go to the destination. So if this wasn't an option, getting off before the subsidized destination, they wouldn't be flying anyway and the
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by jmward01 2y ago
That doesn't explain why that would make the price cheaper to keep someone on the flight than letting them get off. It may be a meaningless difference, or even the same price, but cheaper to have the extra leg doesn't make sense i
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by jmward01 2y ago
Seems like this practice in general shows that a true free market doesn't exist in the airline industry. If it did exist then flights like these wouldn't be profitable to sell in the first place.
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by jmward01 2y ago
I think this is a trend for the future. Mico-knowledge (tm) like this will enable things we haven't thought of. Things like this 'fill in the gaps' that make it hard to create new services and take advantage of opportunities.
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Where the Digital Sidewalk Ends(smolways.com)
128 points by jmward01 2y ago|73 comments
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by jmward01 2y ago
That is one of his best videos. The title says it all: I promise this story about microwaves is interesting.
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by jmward01 2y ago
This uses SenseVoice small under the hood. They claim their large model is better than Whisper large v3, not the small version. This small version is definitely worse than Whisper large v3 but still usable and the extra annotation it does i
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by jmward01 2y ago
I have no idea why I typed that but I will accept the public shame!
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by jmward01 2y ago
This is great. I will say though that, unsurprisingly, Puerto Rico isn't part of the dataset. Sites like this could really help make the point to people that the US is bigger than the 50 states. [edit] Alaska and Hawaii aren't on
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Hell froze over in Texas – the state will connect to the US grid(electrek.co)
7 points by jmward01 2y ago|2 comments
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by jmward01 2y ago
I was supposed to be there Monday. I am flying out Friday instead. My family, obviously, doesn't have power and water yet. The best estimates they have are a month for water and power may come back in the next few days. I26 north I40 w

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