lonelyasacloud

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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
>> I'm trying to ascertain their incentive here... It's good for their mission and business. 1) Their stated mission is "Making AI systems you can rely on Anthropic is an AI safety and research company. We build reliabl
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
>> ... baseless ... Depends on a) How well it's believed science is able to keep up with the "creativity" and dollars of the food industry. b) The health costs to the individual and society of any subsequent problem. c)
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Highly rate her episode of the BBC’s The Life Scientific https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jmsd
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Perl 6
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
> In the Netherlands from what I've seen (at least around Amsterdam) it's almost always forbidden for houses to be rented out to a group of flatmates (e.g. students), some people go so far as to fake relationships to imply they
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Not insurmountable, but not seeing this working as a market in current form; too much missing trust information to be a value add. For instance: - Who is behind (and liable) for each agent? - How do people know it and/or each of the a
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A creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy(theguardian.com)
5 points by lonelyasacloud 1y ago|1 comments
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
"The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to ‘learn’ your child’s personality."
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Given current leaderships; it’s not hard to imagine scenarios where access to leading AI models from the US or China could be cut-off, restricted or otherwise compromised. ASML, while European, has significant exposure to Taiwan’s semicondu
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
I have one of the Garmin varia radar lights and feel exactly the same about them. > Where in the world do you live / where do you typically ride your bike? In what situations are you glad to have that radar? UK; It's handy for
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
> Instead every saving is definitely captured by the manufacturer and the consumer gets to buy a car that definitely does everything but "computer says no". Or enabling full power puts more load on the vehicle's component
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'Alarmingly high' levels of forever chemicals found at airports in England(theguardian.com)
4 points by lonelyasacloud 1y ago|2 comments
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
"in some cases thousands of times higher than proposed EU safe levels"
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Default is output_default = raw_model + be_kiss_a_system When that gets changed by the user to output_user = raw_model + be_kiss_a_system - be_abrupt_user Unless be_abrupt_user happens to be identical to be_kiss_a_system _and_ is applied wi
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
In many ways what is going on with Perplexity is reminiscent of the earlier 2000s battles between the p2p music sharing services like Napster and the music industry. Then we had wildly popular services (p2p) where most of the content was be
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
So if for whatever reason it is better for vibe coding, then legacy code aside, why would anyone not use a technology that makes it a bit easier for them to understand what the AI is actually churning out on their behalf?
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
It is very hard to think clearly about driving too fast given both how much fun it is and the monumental amounts of money that the car industry has pumped over decades into promoting their empty road, drive fast without consequences propaga
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The expert became the patient? (prosthetic osseointegration)(theguardian.com)
3 points by lonelyasacloud 1y ago|1 comments
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Long read on (and around) Osseointegration (OI) (aka direct skeletal fixation) technology which is a newish, arguably better, alternative for attaching prosthetic limbs.
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
The problem with this (and for that matter every other scientific and technical advance) is that if it works well - regardless of whatever high minded upsides exist initially - it will also have corresponding downsides. In this case, it&#x2
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
There have been a few studies that show that in certain circumstances this is the case. But doing a literature review will illustrate the bulk support the alternative hypothesis. Ultimately, whatever the hype factor there is a large number
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Almost managed to forget the horror of all those enterprise "web" pages that worked just as long as the user was on a Windows machine with ActiveX ...
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
If a professional had access to darkroom facilities pretty much everything could be done in there right down to removing people and background objects (see for instance https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulat
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
> The issue is, cameras on phones are not for taking a photo of what you see, but a way to share your life, and sharing your life in a more glamorous way is to get liked around people. Is nothing new. When film was mass market almost no
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
For the prestigious pro events samples are kept for years afterwards and are subject to re-testing at any time as science advances. If any of those re-tests fails (or if cheating comes to light through any other means) the rider would be dq
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
RideWithGPS. No affiliation with them, but have been paying for service for years. Far less glitzy than Komoot/Strava and far less paid advertising, but for my money it's better for route planning - particularly long distance off
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Basically, to get the best out Claude (or any of the other agents) it if it is possible to tell it about something ahead of time time then it is generally wise to, be that in seed skeleton code, comments, CLAUDE.md etc
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Have seen similar issues with understanding things that are somewhat orthogonal concerns to the main thing that is being worked on. My guess is that context = main thing + somewhat unrelated thing is too big a space for the models to perfo
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
Not sure. Even for small projects the optimisation criteria is different if the human's role in the equation shifts from authoring to primarily a reviewing based one.
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by lonelyasacloud 1y ago
On HN one of the things I enjoy and want more of is early news on medical breakthrough; which by its nature is unlikely to be "in humans". So from my pov if it is "in humans" then please put that in the title, otherwise

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