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by maxutility 4y ago
Cool - I probably shouldn’t be surprised that the smart minds in machine learning and natural language processing are well ahead of me, an interested lay person! Any good links or HN comment threads that you’d recommend?
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by maxutility 4y ago
Not directly related to this API, but I’ve begun wondering if the next revolution in speech synthesis is to integrate with a natural language model like gpt-3 in order to gain semantic awareness, and use that context to produce emotional ex
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by maxutility 4y ago
I mentioned this in the iPadOS thread, but it bears repeating here: Of all the features mentioned, the one feature that I’m really excited for is the ability to mark text messages as unread. On the other hand, did it really have to take 15
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by maxutility 4y ago
Of all the features mentioned, the one feature that I’m really excited for is the ability to mark text messages as unread. On the other hand, did it really have to take 15 years to get here?
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by maxutility 4y ago
If the window you’re looking at is just below your camera, when you look at the window it almost appears that you’re looking into the camera.
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Right to Repair: Pricing, Welfare, and Environmental Implications(pubsonline.informs.org)
3 points by maxutility 4y ago|0 comments
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The rich are not who we think they are. And happiness isn’t either(nytimes.com)
4 points by maxutility 4y ago|1 comments
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Millions of South Koreans could soon get younger (on paper)(nytimes.com)
1 points by maxutility 4y ago|1 comments
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by maxutility 4y ago
> Used this way, the thin-film loudspeaker could provide active noise cancellation in clamorous environments, such as an airplane cockpit, by generating sound of the same amplitude but opposite phase; the two sounds cancel each other out
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The worst-case scenario for Elon Musk’s Twitter(newsletters.theatlantic.com)
7 points by maxutility 4y ago|2 comments
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by maxutility 4y ago
Are there specific advancements in statistics that you’re thinking of? An explanation or link would be great!
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Ask HN: What important recent technologies is the median HN reader unaware of?
3 points by maxutility 4y ago|2 comments
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by maxutility 5y ago
This post gave me a bit of an existential crisis the first time I read it. I’m used to the universe making me seem infinitesimally small. I’m not used to large numbers doing the same to the universe itself (and again ad-infinitim)
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A tour through unfathomably large numbers: From 1M to Graham’s number (2014)(waitbutwhy.com)
2 points by maxutility 5y ago|1 comments
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by maxutility 5y ago
Top Career (from the article): AI Safety Technical Research > “To mitigate the risks posed by the development of artificial intelligence, it’s imperative to research how to solve technical challenges and design problems to ensure that p
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by maxutility 5y ago
As the person who originally posted this to HN, after reading some of the refutations of Matt Y’s piece (the OP), I’ve come to believe the evidence for zoonotic origin is stronger than Matt Y gives credit for. One short rebuttal I found par
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by maxutility 5y ago
The article (by Matt Yglesias) is more nuanced than the title may suggest. Here’s a quote that gets at the gist of the piece: “The evidence really does show pretty clearly that there were one or more superspreader events at the Huanan Seafo
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I’m not convinced by the new lab leak debunking(slowboring.com)
358 points by maxutility 5y ago|316 comments
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Ethereum is a dark forest (2020)(paradigm.xyz)
40 points by maxutility 5y ago|29 comments