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by lich_king 8mo ago
As a person who has an expensive phone and a professional camera, let me retort by saying that the difference is larger than you think. On some level, it's basic physics. You get fewer photons, etc. Apple hasn't unlocked the secre
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I like the weird arms race here: phone manufacturers develop more and more computational photography techniques to convert the output from potato sensors and optics into what looks like a professional photo... and phone-based photographers
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> Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. That rule is not optional, and it was not followed here. Both from the Mastodon post of the jo
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I think the boring answer is that we waste computing resources simply because if memory and CPU cycles are abundant and cheap, developers don't find it worth their time to optimize nearly as much as they needed to optimize in the 1980s
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No. To argue for the benefit of the procedure, you need to show a difference in outcomes. Not that it can detect something, even if it could (which whole-body MRIs clearly don't). That the detection improves your chances of survival.
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Why is it good for the patient? I think that to claim this, you'd need to show a difference in outcomes. Here, you have a tool with a ~100% false positive rate, so if we start administering it to everyone, it will almost certainly cost
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> You can't compare 2000s social media to what it's become today. It's orders of magnitude larger today both in terms of volume of data and cultural impact. Why? The available computing power and bandwidth are orders of ma
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Based on experience, including a good number of experiments I've done with known-LLM output and contemporary, known-human text. Try them for real and be surprised. Some of the good, state-of-the-art tools include originality.ai and Pan
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> Or they could buy equipment with active room conditioning like Dirac. You realize that the pitch for this is basically the same as the pitch for magic pebbles? It's a cure-all box you put on the wire to make things sound better, f
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by lich_king 8mo ago
For what it's worth, both the article you're linking to and the one this story is about are immediately flagged by AI text checkers as LLM-generated. These tools are not perfect, but they're right more often than they're
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by lich_king 8mo ago
It's fashionable to dunk on audiophiles because many of their beliefs are silly and there are businesses that prey on them selling them "oxygen-free" cables and stuff like that. And some of their beliefs are auto-suggestion.
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by lich_king 8mo ago
It really depends on what you want to do. Start with a list of projects you want to build. Are they really robotics or just home automation? If you have no experience with embedded programming, I'd start with home automation or other s
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Yes, but also... that's like 90% of the interactions you get on the internet? I don't want to be too meta, but isn't that a description of most HN threads? We show up to criticize other people's work for self-gratificati
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> french revolution. A bunch of revolutionaries who carried a campaign of murder that ultimately had little bearing on the economic standing or job prospects of French citizens? I'm not saying that people will be content or that th
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I mean, there's always the job of building pyramids. But no, seriously, I don't think it's just about the ultra-wealthy. Basically, anyone better off than you. Which is basically what's going on today: you effectively wo
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by lich_king 8mo ago
I think that's revisionism. Social media existed before online advertising. Usenet was quite massive and vibrant, countless IRC servers were maintained by volunteers, web-based forums covered pretty much the same ground as Reddit does
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by lich_king 8mo ago
Neither datacenters nor chip manufacturing employ a whole lot of people. But I think you're looking at it wrong. Jobs come from people with money wanting to pay for jobs. That's not going to change. The jobs of the future may be t
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by lich_king 8mo ago
It's a press release from a vendor that constantly talks about AGI, and it's meant to showcase the capabilities of an unreleased model in an experiment you can't replicate. But my comment was less about the link and more abou
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I think this post is specifically an answer to yet another "AGI is just around the corner" post that made waves recently. Fundamentally, I think that many problems in white-collar life are text comprehension problems or basic auto
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There are known mathematical relationships between almost all fundamental physical constants? In particular, in your example, Bohr radius is calculated from electron mass and the speed of light in vacuum... I don't think this path is a
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by lich_king 8mo ago
> certain And by "certain", you mean "not certain". The core tenet are index funds, and while for the average person, they're probably better than stock-picking, you're absolutely exposing yourself to market
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> Why is this bot such a nasty prick? I mean, the answer is basically Reddit. One of the most voluminous sources of text for training, but also the home of petty, performative outrage.