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by lettergram 1y ago
The irony -- so not only was their system hacked ("hosted onsite"), but then it was also burned down onsite with no backups. In other words.. there was no point in the extra security of being onsite AND the risks of being onsite s
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by lettergram 1y ago
Back in 2016 - 2018 my work at Capital One resulted in a modified C-RNN style architecture that was producing gpt-2 level results. Using that model we were able to build a general purpose system that could generate data for any dataset (wit
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by lettergram 1y ago
They tried it last administration too -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Boar... To be honest, it's been going on for effectively forever. See operation mockingbird -- https://en
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by lettergram 1y ago
One crazy thing you can do with color spaces is dramatically improve detection algorithms and store massive data. https://austingwalters.com/chromatags/ Think of it this way, a QR code is binary. If you modify color sp
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by lettergram 1y ago
Also true, kind of ment the chip sanctions. They transitioned to China and domestic production.
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by lettergram 1y ago
Yes. Strategically, it makes sense for the US, much like Russia and China to be independent. Sanctions weren’t effective on Russia because they had most of what they needed domestically and partner markets to sell those goods to. When the U
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by lettergram 1y ago
I run a company in this space... First, China patents ~5-10x more than the US does currently on a given month. Further, China has made it required for companies to patent. The US definitely could not respect the Chinese patents, or they cou
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by lettergram 1y ago
For what it's worth, I run a company in the space -- I 100% agree with you and luckily I think with AI this will rapidly change. The USPTO is bringing on as many AI tools as possible, as fast as they can. Similarly, we've built a
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by lettergram 1y ago
There’s a reason rural folks have a higher fatality rate. That said, at least in the US, there’s the presumption that those who live more rural are more rugged, capable, and harder working. I used to live in Chicago and SF. I’ve since moved
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by lettergram 1y ago
Agreed here, the description under the headline is important: > A new Danish study finds no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions, including autism, asthma, and autoimmune diseases. The fin
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by lettergram 1y ago
The study only covers aluminum: > no association between aluminum in childhood vaccines and 50 different health conditions It's right in the title, which was omitted on submission. The concerns the public have are not aluminum, so o
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by lettergram 1y ago
Contrary to this post, I think the AI agents, particularly the online interface of OpenAI's Codex to be a massive help. One example, I had a PR up that was being reviewed by a colleague. I was driving home from vacation when I saw the
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by lettergram 1y ago
IP Copilot | Software Engineer - Integrations (Python/Ruby) | Full-Time | Remote (US) | US Citizen | https://ipcopilot.ai IP Copilot is an AI platform that discovers patentable innovations in real time and streamlines the p
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by lettergram 1y ago
Could be they need a perpetual license to the data too… so they could potentially sue everyone.
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by lettergram 2y ago
> We’re not becoming 10x developers with AI. > We’re becoming 10x dependent on AI. There’s a difference. This is true, but I also don't need 10x the ability to write cursive any more. I used to have great hand writing, now it&#x2
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by lettergram 2y ago
As part of the FBI conviction they were accused of tampering user logs and taking over accounts. So… literally none of it can be used as evidence imo.
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by lettergram 2y ago
> Jones didn't turn up for court and had contempt for the court by ignoring direct orders they probably punished him by making the sum very high. Just fyi he did, the court kept claiming he had to produce documents / analytics
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by lettergram 2y ago
IP Copilot | Full-Stack Engineer | Full-Time | Remote (US) | US Citizen | https://ipcopilot.ai IP Copilot is an AI platform that discovers & tracks innovations within companies in real-time. We integrate into slack, Jira, Go
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by lettergram 2y ago
Reading about this is fascinating — Over here they claim HPV is the leading cause of throat cancer (not smoking) - https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/basic-information.html Over here is the leading cause of cervical c
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by lettergram 2y ago
It's 100% American and has been a thing forever. It's also a free speech argument, I should be able to bet on outcomes of events. It was common all throughout US history https://users.wfu.edu/strumpks/papers&#
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by lettergram 2y ago
IP Copilot | Full-Stack Engineer | Full-Time | Remote (US) | https://ipcopilot.ai IP Copilot is an AI platform that discovers & tracks innovations within companies in real-time. We integrate into slack, Jira, Google Worksp
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by lettergram 2y ago
> While it might be easy to romanticize the rigor of early 20th-century education based on this exam, it's important to recognize that the educational system of 1912 served a very different purpose compared to today’s system. The 19
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by lettergram 2y ago
In 2016 & 2017 my team at Capital One built several >1B parameter models combining LSTMs with a few other tricks. We were able to build generators that could replicate any dataset they were trained on, and would produce unique deviat
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by lettergram 2y ago
Notably, this was started in 2020 with a $12B investment - https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm Then in 2022, TSMC invested another $18B and received $6.6B from the CHIPS act. My bet, is TSMC was give
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by lettergram 2y ago
Turns out shutting off nuclear and banning Russian imports of cheap gas means inflation & higher energy costs. https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/electricity-price https://www.macrotrends.net/glob
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by lettergram 2y ago
I regularly attend conferences regarding AI in the legal field, particularly intellectual property. My goodness, I absolutely hate listening to these IP attorneys attempt to explain AI and it's pitfalls. 50% of the time, what they desc
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by lettergram 2y ago
Ugh I guess it depends what you mean — https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23923733/douglass-mackey... https:&#
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by lettergram 2y ago
I wrote a post how to do full-text search back in 2018: https://austingwalters.com/fast-full-text-search-in-postgres... Imo custom indexes are the real key to more accuracy and speed. That said, if you have <100m documen
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by lettergram 2y ago
Haha to be fair, the team I ran was an applied research group that’d partner with teams within the organization. So every month we’d do designs & bring in ML expertise to a new project. Plus we maintained a ton of tools. This resulted i
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by lettergram 2y ago
> No plan B That really hits home for me. I decided to start my current company ( https://ipcopilot.ai ) when I had already been out of work 3 months, I had 4-6 months runway when I left my prior role. Meaning, I had 1-3 months

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