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by m-i-l 3y ago
This is all very good, but I don't think it is specific to Japan - I'd hazard a guess that most old world cultures have a history of eliminating food waste dating back to the days when existence was much more precarious thanks to
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Thanks, interesting read (it was a while ago I looked into this). I think the point still remains though - a self driving car doesn't have any general knowledge which can be applied to other areas, e.g. what a pedestrian is, or why a p
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "Yeah, it seems as if he has forgotten the G. ... I still see no path from LLMs and autonomous driving to AGI." That is exactly my view too. While LLMs and autonomous driving can be exceptionally good at what they do, they
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Back in the mid-late 1990s I worked for a software company producing anti-virus software, and scanning Word files for macro viruses was one of those things they had to do. However, they weren't able open Word 1.0 files, so they brought
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Thanks, sounds interesting, not-dissimilar from some of the query expansion techniques. But in my case (open source, zero budget) I'm doing (slow) CPU inference, so an LLM in the query chain isn't really viable. As it is there is
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "Has somebody experience with Apache Lucene / Solr or Elasticsearch?" I've been working on a RAG with Solr, and quickly hit some of the issues you describe when dealing with real-world messy data and user input, e
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by m-i-l 3y ago
"Query expansion"[0] has been an information retrieval technique for a while, but using LLMs to help with query expansion is fairly new and promising, e.g. "Query Expansion by Prompting Large Language Models"[1], and &qu
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> ... a project called "Nutch" would allow web users to crawl the web themselves. Perhaps that promise is similar to the promises being made about "AI" today. The project did not turn out to be used in the way it was
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "you lend money to someone for example if they need to buy food, and don't have the money, because you don't want them to starve? ... Charging for interests means that you are making profit of others poverty" Let&
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Hampstead Heath is actually one of the rare examples of the public successfully fighting private developers to keep land in public ownership[0], culminating in the 1871 Hampstead Heath Act which ensured the land was "always kept unincl
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "Given how much money governments spend on nonsense, why can't we take some money, and build simple, but quality and stable shelter for people?" The "Homes for All" council house building was a key part of Br
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by m-i-l 3y ago
The article suggests he got sand from the "sandy carpark". While it is true that there are parts of Hampstead Heath with a lot of natural "bagshot sand"[0], it is a bit further away from the bunker, and is fairly compact
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Same here - most of my personal site has been stuck in Google's "Discovered - currently not indexed" limbo for nearly 2 years, despite regularly submitting pages for indexing, and doing all the usual things like optimising Li
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "A blacklist would be very easy to implement and much safer from a legal point of view giving peace of mind to the app creators. All the invasive species are catalogued in public reports, to extract a list automatically from the
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "I am curious how much our body clock synchronizes with real time" Various experiments have been performed with people in caves, where they don't have "time cues" such as natural daylight. From the Michel Sif
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by m-i-l 3y ago
There are often incentives offered to encourage people to move to various underpopulated Scottish islands. The Scottish government even considered a fund offering up to £50K per household[0]. [0] https://consult.gov.scot/agr
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Didn't have an Atari Jaguar CD myself, but I did have a friend with one, and have fond memories playing with the Virtual Light Machine. Never knew anyone with a Nuon so never got to play with the VLM-2 though. Was always comparatively
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "our legs, they would be much more efficient if the knees pointed backwards. They are not the most efficient design, but simply good enough." I don't think you can say one leg type is better than another without referenc
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "As to the post failure financial effect, that was mainly on a bunch of rich folks." Although trickle-down economics is largely discredited when it comes to wealth, I suspect the same isn't the case when it comes to de
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "The moral is that a utopia where tolerance for plurality is permitted is ideologically incapable of defending itself from external threats." See also the Paradox of tolerance[0]: "Unlimited tolerance must lead to the
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by m-i-l 3y ago
With Dropbox (and most other cases) you are paying for something you don't already have, but what is unusual in this case is that you are paying to remove something you do already have. Not exactly the same I know, but the two wrongs d
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Today I learned that people pay money for an app that stops them from using a (probably expensive) phone. And not just a few people, but enough for the Freedom app to have 2 investment rounds and 11-50 employees[0]. Is it just me, or does t
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by m-i-l 3y ago
It could be soil from a battlefield - the Wikipedia article on the subject of the statue says there "are monuments to him around the world ... bringing earth from the battlefields where he had fought"[0] But I liked the anticlimac
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by m-i-l 3y ago
So should we spend the next 33 years doing the same things, just with more data and more compute power? That would be the logical conclusion of the breathless "I can't believe it is finally happening in my lifetime" and &quot
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by m-i-l 3y ago
Nice story, thanks for sharing. My parents used to take me for our "exotic foreign holiday" in Blackpool each year (I was from Scotland). I actually have many happy memories from the time. There was the Doctor Who Exhibition we we
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by m-i-l 3y ago
And according to Wikipedia LK-99 was "discovered" back in 1999, hence the name. It isn't clear if it was also first manufactured back then, but assuming it was, 24 years does seem an awfully long time to notice these allegedl
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by m-i-l 3y ago
I hope that the tech billionaires are simply blundering towards the destruction of society, rather than intentionally trying to do so with something like Effective Accelerationism. That would certainly fit with Hanlon's Razor. I have a
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by m-i-l 3y ago
>"Which would probably reach a wider audience and maybe give the creator a few quid to try other things. ... it's hard to see YouTube as a regression." Doing something purely for fun vs doing something with the expectati
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by m-i-l 3y ago
In many cultures rain on your wedding day is a good omen, e.g. the Portuguese saying which translates as "wet wedding, blessed wedding", and the Italian saying which translates as "wet bride, lucky bride".
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by m-i-l 3y ago
> "It's even simpler than that ... their goal is to extract profits" According to the article, profit has not been the primary goal for the utilities though, because there is limited scope for extracting profits from unc

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