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by jowday 2y ago
Every company knows this, the problem is that you can’t fit the compute you need for AR/VR + AI into a form factor like this, at least not right now.
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by jowday 2y ago
Also, completely anecdotal, but the only people I’ve ever seen wearing them are Facebook employees.
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by jowday 2y ago
If anything, what I’ve heard from friends at or adjacent to Meta is that they’re paring back metaverse ambitions and capabilities on their future devices because of the success of the Ray-Bans glasses and the relatively middling sales of th
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by jowday 2y ago
Dude your kid is fine. He’s going to a top tier college for his program and making a B average after his first year. Maybe he’s playing too much Roblox? Is he happy, healthy? Does he have a social life? If so, not a big deal in the grand sc
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by jowday 2y ago
What do you mean by “not great” grades? Failing, or not 4.0? It’s honestly a little weird that you’re this into your child’s business after they’ve gone off to college, especially since this doesn’t even seem like a major crises (drug or al
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by jowday 2y ago
I think it’s pretty clear that the OP meant that a downside of this is that you need a GPU to run it quickly locally, not that it being local first is a bad thing.
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by jowday 3y ago
Out of curiosity: did the name change because of issues with Blizzard?
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by jowday 3y ago
There's a lot of issues with it, but perhaps the biggest is that there aren't just troves of easily scrapable and digestible 3D models lying around on the internet to train on top of like we have with text, images, and video. Almo
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by jowday 3y ago
I gotta say, your responses in this thread more or less typify the interactions with Vercel devrel that I complained about in my parent comment. Every time I, or someone I know, complains about Next or try to raise an issue on social media,
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by jowday 3y ago
Hard to say specifically, especially because I spent about a month trying to deal with this when we first migrated from Next 12 to 13 - but it essentially seemed that if you were using any web tech that wasn't built with SSR in mind, t
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by jowday 3y ago
We've had an awful experience with Next. There are undocumented, broken things all over the place. Migrating to the App Router was a huge mistake. 'use client' didn't work as expected, and we had to install workarounds a
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by jowday 3y ago
They have this, by their own admission and from my personal experiences in the car. A detail you might be mistaken on - they’re not really fully driving the car remotely. They’re basically sitting in a call center answering questions for th
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by jowday 3y ago
Any actually-deployed driverless car has the same setup with remote operators - Cruise, Waymo, Zoox (if they've managed to deploy yet).
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by jowday 3y ago
They have that, and these cars completely depend on it for fundamental parts of the stack. If they detect that their understanding of the scene doesn't match their map, they (generally) have remote operators clarify the best course of
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by jowday 3y ago
Reminds me of Mixamo, which is entirely procedural.
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by jowday 3y ago
Or they pay for professional headshots for their LinkedIn page?
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by jowday 3y ago
The event is held several miles “into” the dry lake bed - once you get off the paved road, you drive about 1.5 miles on the dry lake bed before you get to the “gate” of the event boundaries. You can see this pretty clearly if you look up it
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by jowday 3y ago
Under the “principles of burning man” (which are largely not known or ignored by a sizable portion of of attendees in 2023), you should be prepared for this sort of event with enough extra food and water to wait it out. And I think a large
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by jowday 3y ago
Rain like this is rare buts it’s shut down exit like this before, this isn’t unprecedented. Even during a normal year they shut down entry/exit when sandstorms reduce visibility - often for a couple of hours every few days.
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by jowday 3y ago
You’re told when you buy a ticket to prepare for this sort of event - it’s happened before. So anyone who’s actually on their shit will have enough food, water, etc to wait for it to dry out and leave normally. They even explicitly advise b
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by jowday 3y ago
It was a deeply divisive event - for a very large fraction of the playerbase, it was the most fun they've had playing WoW. The entire way the game functioned changed for a week - some people set out to grief, others worked to try to cu
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by jowday 3y ago
I worked in the AV industry - not at Cruise but based on incidents like this and other things I’ve seen from riding in Cruise cars - they absolutely need a cell phone connection and will strand or pull over (or stop in the middle of the str
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by jowday 3y ago
Can you add some more context on what you mean by “inappropriate”?
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by jowday 4y ago
For people in this thread convinced that Google is scrambling to come up with a ChatGPT competitor - that’s only true on the product side. Internally, LamDA has been available with a chatGPT style interface for years (maybe more like 18 mon
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by jowday 4y ago
Publicly available satellite imagery can’t track my car in any meaningful way. At best you’d be able to figure out the color and (rough) size of it if you knew my address.
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by jowday 4y ago
Whatever API they release is going to be way more restrictive than what people can do with Stable Diffusion. I doubt we’ll see anywhere near the same amount of integrations unless OpenAI just lets you download the weights and run Dalle loca
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by jowday 4y ago
Imagen can produce images of humans - they’re just filtered out from the results by supervised models (for now). OpenAI did something similar with Dalle for a while IIRC.
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by jowday 4y ago
For a generative model to hit the quality threshold you see on this site, it’s going to need so much training data that you can presume there’s already a ton of stock photos that match that description that it scraped from the internet.
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by jowday 4y ago
If I had to guess, I'd bet they have a supervised classifier trained to recognize bad content (violence, porn, etc) that they use to filter the generated images before passing them to the user, on top of the bad word lists.
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by jowday 4y ago
Sad to say I've been dissapointed in DALLE's performance since I got access to it a couple of weeks ago - I think mainly because it was hyped up as the holy grail of text2image ever since it was first announced. For a long while w

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