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by leobg 3y ago
Interesting. Ever tried coding when drunk? So far, we’ve got programming languages named after caffeinating drinks, but none named after alcoholic ones.
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by leobg 3y ago
Best comeback for OpenAI will be if they win the lawsuit by having GPT-5 write a brief so compelling that the lawsuit gets thrown out of court. Thanks to the AI trained on all of that personal data.
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by leobg 3y ago
Germany. We got our constitution from you (assuming you’re in the U.S.). The legal system is terrible, of course. But the state at least pretends to be bound by a constitution, and provides courts and procedures, e.g. for hearings. Companie
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by leobg 3y ago
Search HN for “Ask HN: Stripe froze my account”. Make no mistake, I don’t like the government. But at least I can sue the government if they do something that jeopardizes my business without a solid reason. With these private companies, pos
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by leobg 3y ago
There was a woman on television in the 1990s who actually met Van Gogh back when she was a kid. I was surprised to hear that, just as you are surprised to see telephone poles in his pictures.
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by leobg 3y ago
Absolutely amazing. Anything like this available to play with?
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by leobg 3y ago
And the video, in turn, is a walk-through of this Colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1BiQiw31DT7-cDp1-0yS...
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by leobg 3y ago
Have you watched Dick Proenneke? Dude lived alone in the wilderness. It’s on YouTube. (Though someone inevitably suggested that there must have been some deep emotional trauma unconvinced women that made that man choose the wilderness.)
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by leobg 3y ago
There's a tension here: If you don't insulate yourself from world news, it will drive you crazy. Most of it is not actionable anyway. Then again, people have made the mistake of believing "nothing has happened so far, so noth
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by leobg 3y ago
I’m an introvert and I don’t think it’s a stupid question. When you’re alone, you’re interacting with something. A book. HN. Thoughts about what someone else did it said. Working on code on a machine built by others. So the definition of wh
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by leobg 3y ago
Stolen in the context of someone claiming “we did this all ourselves in-house”.
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by leobg 3y ago
> As a vertically integrated AI studio, we do everything in-house for AI training and inference: from data ingestion, to model design, to high-performance infrastructure. What does that even mean? They run their own GPUs vs using some cl
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by leobg 3y ago
Higher smoke point
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by leobg 3y ago
Actually, it seems like it’s just regex: regex = r"\d{4}"
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by leobg 3y ago
You haven’t followed the story at all, have you? He founded OpenAI to prevent an outcome where AGI is developed closed source by a single corporation - which he thought would likely be Google. Elon founding OpenAI actually led to him fallin
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by leobg 3y ago
Service Unavailable is what I get when I visit their website. [1] Probably true. [1] https://oceangateexpeditions.com/titanic
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by leobg 3y ago
Dude. Read the tweet in context [1]. He was responding to this headline: “The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race." Most likely, he was thinking of the dangers of AI (hence “might” - becau
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by leobg 3y ago
Misleading title. This isn’t about a drone flying the entire distance. It’s a video of drone shots from different places between South Africa and Cairo. Original title, appropriately, is simply “Africa by drone“.
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by leobg 3y ago
Indexing Discord is going to be tough. The reason is that context is all over the place: Question in one message. Then two unrelated messages. Then a partial answer by somebody. And so on. It’s even worse than indexing a PDF. Just breaking
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by leobg 3y ago
Cool. I’ve got to speed read this…
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by leobg 3y ago
This is mindblowing. Here we are, 3000 years in the future. But how many of us could make such a “primitive” thing?
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by leobg 3y ago
Out of curiosity. How is Discord a more helpful platform? I find it odd since it’s a more synchronous medium. Also, finding stuff from the past or adding thoughts to an older thread “for posterity” is a lot harder. So why do you think has i
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by leobg 3y ago
This is precisely what psychologists call “confabulation“. This is what hallucinations in language models should be called. For the same thing is happening there: An answer is given that is factually wrong, but that is plausible and consist
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by leobg 3y ago
LLMs + MTurk?
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by leobg 3y ago
Is it so hard to set up a few $50/m Hetzner servers to offer refuge to the folks leaving Reddit? Rather than posting silly pleas to not put too much load on the server. I mean, that’s the best thing to happen to this project, is it not
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by leobg 3y ago
A leg up? Interesting choice of words
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by leobg 3y ago
I don’t get it. How can social distancing NOT help during a pandemic? Quote from the book 1491: “One reason is that Indians were fresh territory for many plagues, not just one. Smallpox, typhoid, bubonic plague, influenza, mumps, measles, w
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by leobg 3y ago
Thanks not the full argument, actually. The argument is: You’ll need to solve vision anyway. Because you need to know what the object is. Is it a trash can or is it a dog? Will it move or stay? If you had LiDAR, you’d still need sensor fusi
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by leobg 3y ago
Which isn’t a dumb argument at all. It’s what got us flying in the first place, thanks to a brave Geman engineer called Lilienthal.
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by leobg 3y ago
Read somewhere of an old lady who kept her eyes sharp by facing the sun with closed eyelids every day. Don’t remember the source, but I think it might even have been on HN. Anyone else?

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