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by lukev 3y ago
I'd even be willing to put in the effort to learn a completely new set of finger gestures for typing, provided it was ergonomic and had equivalent speed to a keyboard after an initial learning curve. Even something like an American Sig
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by lukev 3y ago
Yeah, I haven't found a way around that. Hoping for "advanced window control" in a future version of visionOS. That and curved windows. Although, it isn't a huge deal for me now. Walking around a physical space is part o
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by lukev 3y ago
What is the purpose of this comment?
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by lukev 3y ago
After working on it for several days, I can't really disagree with anything in here. Strictly speaking, it's not better or more productive than my large double 4k monitors. But I am enjoying using it for work in a way I haven&#x27
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by lukev 3y ago
But in an LLM it is not an arbitrary computation. Very specifically, it is a single forward pass through a neural network. Neural networks are very general function approximators so yes, there is some room for emergent behavior. But it co
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by lukev 3y ago
The overall structure is the same as in "use statistics to predict the next token." With a Markov chain, the statistics are as simple as a mapping of n-grams to the number of times it appears in the corpus. With a LLM, the statist
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by lukev 3y ago
> In principle the inner working of an LLM can be anything from a Markov-chain-like predictor to a beyond-human intelligence. I'm afraid I have to disagree. Next-token prediction isn't just the interface we use for LLMs, it is
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by lukev 3y ago
What's actually happening in a LLM is many orders of magnitude more complex than a Markov chain. However, I agree that they're an amazing pedagogical tool for the basic principles of how a LLM works, even to a non-technical audi
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by lukev 3y ago
Interesting that almost all his critiques relate to the concept of a head-mounted VR-passthrough device itself , not the Vision Pro specifically.
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by lukev 3y ago
That's like saying "80% of the internet has gone to shit, might as well destroy the remaining good 20%".
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by lukev 3y ago
Kids want to communicate. Whether it's TikTok, Discord, phpBB, chatting in Roblox or Minecraft, they will if they can. If we want to "ban social media" we'll need a consistent set of guidelines about what counts as soc
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by lukev 3y ago
It'd be cool if any of the proposed bills actually suggested something like this. They do not. They specify an ID check.
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by lukev 3y ago
And what makes a site a social media site? Anywhere you can post interactive content? You do realize that laws like this would apply to sites like HN, Reddit, the comment section of every blog, and every phpBB forum you ever used? It's
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by lukev 3y ago
But the only way to do this is to require ID checks, effectively regulating and destroying the anonymous nature of the internet (and probably unconstitutional under the First Amendment, to boot.) It's the same problem with requiring ag
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by lukev 3y ago
It is a powered scooter. The box space is lightweight & mostly empty unless the seat and handlebars are folded in. It's basically a stylistic differentiation.
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by lukev 3y ago
Not only was it for real, it is for real. Honda recently re-launched it: https://motocompacto.honda.com
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by lukev 3y ago
I presume you're referring to the "Hygiene hypothesis" which links early childhood exposure to microorganisms with fewer allergies and autoimmune disorders. It's important to note that this has not been demonstrated conc
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by lukev 3y ago
I share your wish that there were materials that more clearly mapped between these concepts. There's several implicated but separate concerns: - A syntax for expressing data or rules - A semantics for data - A semantics for log
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by lukev 3y ago
I have a lot of conflicting thoughts but I will point out that the Apple ecosystem has to a large degree resisted the enshittification that has consumed others. It is strongly more consumer friendly than alternatives. I pay my money, I re
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by lukev 3y ago
Is LogicBlox open-source now? I encountered it on a project several years ago and at that point it was very much closed/commercial. Now the website isn't even loading... has the project been shuttered? I know LogicBlox was acquire
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by lukev 3y ago
A lot of people in the comments here complaining about the price, but honestly it makes a ton of sense to me. Apple isn't positioning this as a peripheral or secondary computing device. They are staking the claim (via price and otherwi
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by lukev 3y ago
So you're admitting this has nothing to do with actual concerns about academic integrity, and instead is about an "oncoming storm" to purge woke social justice lunatics? Sounds about right. Glad you have no "agenda"
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by lukev 3y ago
From Google's point of view, it's working exactly as intended. Once they've captured market share, there's no reason not to turn the screws and squeeze out every last drop of revenue. Google would love for the internet
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by lukev 3y ago
I was curious so I looked it up. Currently, geothermal energy provides 10-15% of Hawaii's energy needs. Given that it's highly volcanic, it seems like this could be increased. For comparison, geothermal power accounts for over 50%
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by lukev 3y ago
lol. lmao.
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by lukev 3y ago
The problem with systems like that is they're going to be optimized for making Amazon the most money, not necessarily what's best for the user (unless the two happen to coincide.)
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by lukev 3y ago
Oh yes, I well remember the "degauss" button on CRT monitors. We had one where it was basically a mini EMP and would make the images on nearby monitors quiver as well. Fun times. I know a magnetic field was being retained somewhe
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by lukev 3y ago
Is it just me, or does the article not actually answer the question in the title? It explains the components well, and how a magnet distorts the image, but does not describe which component is capable of being permanently altered by an ex
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by lukev 3y ago
Why would Apple take their devices off the market or disable the feature instead of parting with a minuscule fraction of the pile of gold they're sitting on for a patent license? I mean obviously for now it makes more sense for them to
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by lukev 3y ago
Evidence? I was the one asking for evidence. I question the (very dubious) claim in the post I was responding to, that English is inherently suited to a role as a lingua franca. Also, separately, your counterclaims are kind of... untrue? No

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