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by lacker 6y ago
About Apple's new headquarters: Shaped like a spaceship, it also suggests to the local community, which grants Apple huge tax breaks, that the company could take off and relocate anywhere in the world, whenever it wants. This seems p
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by lacker 6y ago
No, read the description. To be personal data for the purposes of the GDPR, it must be related to an identifiable natural person (ie not a corporation). I don’t see how Microsoft could relate a MAC address to a natural person.
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by lacker 6y ago
I think this is precisely true. The difference is, I usually go days and say thousands of sentences without my words degenerating into nonsense. And usually if I say some nonsense it's because I'm sleepy or drunk, so if I'm t
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by lacker 6y ago
Insurance companies don’t make a profit with every transaction, that’s the drug companies.
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by lacker 6y ago
From that link: Q. If a water bottle breaks and all the water comes out, how much water is left in the bottle, roughly? A. … Roughly half. … If the bottle is full, there is no water left in the bottle. I wouldn’t describe this as GPT-3 “sma
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by lacker 6y ago
This is basically true, but I think they underrate the improvements between GPT-2 and GPT-3. My mental model is, every once in a while these systems degenerate into surreal non sequitur nonsense. GPT-3 just does it a lot less than GPT-2. It
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by lacker 6y ago
Releasing model weights is more powerful, but far less accessible than releasing an API. You can easily waste an hour trying to get a model from a research paper running, even when everything works smoothly, just having the wrong environmen
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by lacker 6y ago
I wouldn’t say clothes-sorting is just a nice-to-have - imagine you could get a third machine that sat next to your washer and dryer, and it folded clothes for you. I bet a lot of people would buy one, if it cost a similar amount to a washe
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by lacker 6y ago
The narrative around screen time seems to have been totally overthrown by the coronavirus. A year ago the health authorities were recommending limiting childrens’ screen time. Now at a public school in California our children have mandator
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by lacker 6y ago
After all the attention OpenAI got for making the GPT-3 API semi-publicly-available, I wonder if Google has considered making some of their research models available via API. It would be pretty neat to be able to try these things out, rathe
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by lacker 6y ago
I downvoted because complaining about Tesla is irrelevant to the topic, not to express pro-Tesla sentiment.
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by lacker 6y ago
The modern natural language interfaces with limited domains are Alexa and Siri. Yes, they’re limited. But they are far more impressive and useful than SHRDLU.
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by lacker 6y ago
I’ve always been curious about the fake-fish situation but it feels like there’s nothing I can do about it. It would be neat if I could get a cheap little pocket-sized DNA tester that I could test fish with. AFAICT the technology isn’t quit
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by lacker 6y ago
I'm just glad that Microsoft couldn't use this tactic back when the web first became popular. "Want to connect to other computers and don't like how Microsoft does it? Don't buy a Windows PC then!" Imagine if t
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by lacker 6y ago
Yes, almost definitely that is what happened here. IANAL but typically you can't sue someone saying, if I did X then they would do Y and Y would hurt me. You have to actually say that they hurt you. Epic wanted to challenge Apple'
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by lacker 6y ago
They forbid you from using any other distribution mechanism on their device, though. The only reason Apple has to pay for App Store overhead for every single app is because Apple mandated it that way.
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by lacker 6y ago
It's just an estimate for an based on my experience in the industry, but I think it's a reasonable one. I did estimate based on American costs though. For example, an entry-level software engineer at Google in the U.S. makes $188,
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by lacker 6y ago
Makes sense, the app is all about exposing peoples’ personal information online to shame them.
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by lacker 6y ago
The Fix The Internet incubator doesn't look like very much money is involved. A $2500 stipend for participants, a top prize of $25,000, not that much money. Whereas layoffs of 250 people will save maybe $50 - $100 million a year. Of co
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by lacker 6y ago
"Google is an amazing company, and there's some really great technologists working there," he said. "But fundamentally, their business model is different and they're not known for shipping consumer experiences that
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by lacker 6y ago
This makes sense. If it bugs you, just upgrade to a paid account. Being able to manually verify your identity in case of emergency is a real service and worth paying money for.
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by lacker 6y ago
If Cameroon really wants to encourage a technology industry, a great start would be not shutting off the internet for months to punish regions of the country that don’t agree with the president politically. https://qz.com/af
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by lacker 6y ago
If you compare what BigBird is good at to what GPT-3 is good at, what are the relative strengths of each system?
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by lacker 6y ago
It seems like a pretty clear duopoly to me, Apple and Android are the only two mobile platforms, and rather than compete with each other on price they are just both leaving their cut at 30%. Personally it’s not even the 30% I mind so much a
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Paul Graham's “Same Way”(lacker.io)
1 points by lacker 6y ago|0 comments
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by lacker 6y ago
GPT-3 is the first AI system that has obvious, immediate, transformative economic value. I think the jury is still out on this one. It certainly seems powerful, it's doing interesting things, and it's better in many ways than an
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by lacker 6y ago
For AI on this scale, there are two important costs. The cost of compute, and the cost of engineer salaries. Scaling the compute is probably a bit above linear due to various overheads, but the cost of engineer salaries is far less than lin
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by lacker 6y ago
Yeah, it's usually a mistake for a manager to have 1 report, except in temporary situations like you are planning to have a 6-person iOS team, the team started off with just a manager and a budget, and they just hired the first person.
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Conversation with GPT-3(lacker.io)
3 points by lacker 6y ago|0 comments
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by lacker 6y ago
I really like how these stories are formatted for reading on a mobile device.

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