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by kfarr 9mo ago
You know all those dark patterns in software? What if we applied the same concepts to gigantic mechanical devices, taking advantage of human psychological faults, and generate a profit margin on those? Sure seems what seems to have happened
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by kfarr 9mo ago
As much as this may have unintended consequences, I can appreciate the motivation. I can't let my kids play iPhone games unless I turn the device into Airplane mode. Almost all these pay to play mobile games have 60 second interstitial
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Show HN: LoRA Trained on SFMTA CAD Drawings to Aerial Images
5 points by kfarr 9mo ago|0 comments
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by kfarr 9mo ago
It’s a scam made of scams!
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by kfarr 10mo ago
Yeah I feel like the real ah ha moment is still coming once there is a GPT-like thing that has been trained on reality, not its shadow.
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by kfarr 10mo ago
ai-hominem
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by kfarr 10mo ago
Good thing I drink hazelnut coffee while eating eggs and bacon! It cancels out right?
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by kfarr 10mo ago
Yeah it's definitely a combination of posting for peers but also creating material that is helpful for finding the next gig
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by kfarr 10mo ago
Yes just like there are shaders for the same thing with mesh-based grass. This repo already has some animation abilities: https://github.com/sparkjsdev/spark?tab=readme-ov-file#featu...
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EngineAI T800: Born to Disrupt(twitter.com)
1 points by kfarr 10mo ago|0 comments
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by kfarr 10mo ago
Yes there are a bunch of weird niches that got a lot of Twitter traffic but found a home on LinkedIn when there's an overlap with professions. Another niche example that I see is applications for AI powered architectural visualization,
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by kfarr 10mo ago
Also self-driving cars which are hoovering this data already. Both alphabet and grok have an unusual advantage with those data sources.
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by kfarr 10mo ago
The math checks out for this campaign at least: https://www.waituntil8th.org/
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by kfarr 10mo ago
This is super awesome but to set expectations it appears that Waymo is quite limited by fleet capacity in all of its current operating zones, so as a practical matter it may be months or years before it operates in all these areas. If you&#
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by kfarr 10mo ago
Another case study to add to the maritime chapter of this timeless classic: https://www.amazon.com/Normal-Accidents-Living-High-Risk-Tec... Like you said (and illustrated well in the book) it's never just 1 thing, thes
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by kfarr 10mo ago
As a Replicate customer, I’m excited about this news. Cloudflare has the strategic incentive to invest in this line of business and it puts Replicate in the hands of a very good product marketing and sales team to get the volume it needs fo
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by kfarr 11mo ago
Add some voting and you got yourself an AI World Clock arena! https://artificialanalysis.ai/image/arena
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by kfarr 11mo ago
I mean at some point you have to evaluate the content on its merit and they have a point — a chain is functional not just decorative in its precise placement.
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by kfarr 11mo ago
Wow and here I was doing this manually all these years.
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by kfarr 11mo ago
> Everyone wants a detached home with a yard. No one wants to live in a condo, an oct or a quad, or even a row house, as a permanent life-long dream. This is easily disproven by the state of the real estate market and relative value of s
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by kfarr 11mo ago
> Obviously, this has the vulnerability that you can take a picture of a computer monitor with it, showing whatever you want to. Is this a reverse analog loophole? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole
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by kfarr 11mo ago
I’ve used memory in Claude desktop for a while after MCP was supported. At first I liked it and was excited to see the new memories being created. Over time it suggests storing strange things to memories (an immaterial part of a prompt) and
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by kfarr 11mo ago
After digging into the contact form embed it looks like this is a project from: https://futureoflife.org/
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by kfarr 1y ago
Yeah my first thought was, oh it sounds like a bunch of CLAUDE.md's under the surface :P
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by kfarr 1y ago
Insane that this happened a few years ago and all the models still fail this test on weval!
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by kfarr 1y ago
Shout out to Mr. Dybvig who taught our intro to CS course at IU Bloomington 20+ years ago! It was my first intro to recursion (of course the class was all scheme based) and gave me much more confidence in software development coming from a
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by kfarr 1y ago
They’re one gigantic organic blob?
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by kfarr 1y ago
Assuming you have to generate new content for each viewer second watched yes it won't pencil out. But if you have a library of tons of content you can keep building out...
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by kfarr 1y ago
The prospect is a p-zombie?
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by kfarr 1y ago
Ah TIL https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/22320/wha...

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