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kaibee
2y ago
> The term "security theater" itself is often thrown around to criticize when it's completely undeserved. Lots of people use it to poke fun at the TSA, but the term totally dismisses the fact that hijackings have plummeted
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2y ago
So? Any video generation model must necessarily be able to do this. (consider the case of generating a pan-over of a chess board where the starting input frame is only the first pawn and rook, the model should know to generate the rest of
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kaibee
2y ago
Not sure where the OP to the comment I meant to reply to is, but I'll just add this here. > I suspect the path to general intelligence is not that, but we'll see. I think there's three things that a 'true' genera
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2y ago
> I suspect the path to general intelligence is not that, but we'll see. I think there's three things that a 'true' general intelligence has which is missing from basic-type-LLMs as we have now. 1. knowing what you kn
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2y ago
> The C02 itself is literally free because it is literally in the atmosphere all around us. Not exactly. > The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2) in the atmosphere reach 427 ppm (0.04%) in 2024. Any process that tries to unmix som
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2y ago
> It’s not OK in my mind for VC to just stand-up companies that destroy parts of the economy and then go out of business because it turns out they were never profitable in the first place. Is this a real thing that happens? Can you name
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2y ago
cw: i don't actually work in ML, i just read a lot. if someone who is a real expert can tell me if my assessment here is correct, please let me know. > I have a hunch that, through sampling many AI "opinions," you can arr
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2y ago
There's no such thing.
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kaibee
2y ago
Hmm as a very stupid first pass... 0. Generate an embedding of some text, so that you have a known good embedding, this will be your target. 1. Generate an array of random tokens the length of the response you want. 2. Compute the embedding
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2y ago
ah the ol “Everything is securities fraud”. I could see it. Company posts jobs for department that is being divested/going out of business/etc, this misleads investors, ergo: securities fraud.
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2y ago
> Example of a multi-speaker dialogue generated by NotebookLM Audio Overview, based on a few potato-related documents. Listening to this on 1.75x speed is excellent. I think the generated speaking speed is slow for audio quality, bc it&
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2y ago
> Myocarditis is now officially acknowledged as a (rare) side effect of the MRNA based COVID vaccines. Sure. But the MRNA vaccines were the first ones to be available and the Myocarditis risk from getting COVID-19 while unvaccinated is
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2y ago
> True, but (a) maybe it would evolve "naturally" given enough time, You could say the same for myopia. But we still make glasses for people, which breaks the natural selection process that would drive that evolution.
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2y ago
> It's simply not. You need a plan to eventually be rid of this compromise. because..? > That we could possibly rearrange our food system so we don't need it anymore is better. Will this be before or after we fix capitalism&
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2y ago
> But we should not block people based on political views or skepticism about science or anything else that is controversial. The censorship regime of big social media platforms should be viewed as an editorial choice, under law and in p
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2y ago
Yeah, it's illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, but if you hook up the fire-alarm to a web-api, the responsibility for the ensuing chaos disappears.
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2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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2y ago
Oh I can answer this one. I've never liked chips but was still ~230lb before Ozempic. I tried various diets, but the willpower to maintain one was pretty overwhelming if anything else was going on in my life. I tried eating carrots
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2y ago
> I am trying to understand what is realistically stopping Comcast from saying that the signup process is not complete until service has been activated? Nothing I am seeing or what is being said here is telling me they could not argue th
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2y ago
Do kids consume tap-water equally? I don't know how to check this. I'd imagine one family that cooks a lot of meals where you're just cooking in tap-water (spaghetti, etc), could end up having a lot more fluoride than a fam
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2y ago
> It's just another garbage buzzword. We already have perfectly good words for this like understanding and comprehension. Yeah, try telling people that NNs contain actual understanding and comprehension. That won't be controve
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2y ago
Thanks for the reply. I guess I see your perspective, but I kinda just saw that sorta thing as like... fighting for civil rights has always been a dangerous activity? And that specific talking point to me always read like: "Oh I have t
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2y ago
> From what I've seen I more associate the issue with Democrats than Republicans, especially in the COVID lockdown days. Can you explain the chain of logic here? During the pandemic I "did my own research" which amounted
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2y ago
> Someone advertise me why vacuum cleaner needs internet? It doesn't. And it isn't like hosting a web-portal is some kinda alien technology that can only be done in the cloud. There's absolutely no reason that a robot va
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2y ago
> now we have 2 answers and 2 universes, but now randomly don't know where we are? We are in both. Both universes are equally real. Each 'copy' of you knows it's in the universe where the result matches the observat
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2y ago
Idk man, I'm pretty sure I consume a lot fewer labor hours than a billionaire with a super-yacht. The thing to focus on is how many labor-hours someone is consuming. When a billionaire allocates ~20 people of labor-hours every day to
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2y ago
> Then, property taxes go up by $200/mo. Do you think your rent won't go up by at least $200/mo as a direct consequence of the tax increase? Because it will. Because the renter is of course paying for all costs, including
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2y ago
Which one?
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2y ago
I love it. Thanks for adding some of my suggestions :). I think the last thing it needs is being able to place ball-cannons of whichever note (ie, click and drag defines the position and velocity of the projectile), instead of having them
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2y ago
I think you could 3d print TPU half shells w/ some reasonable infill (i'm sure there's one with good force transmission characteristics for this?), and then seal the magnet array inside of the two halves.
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