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by mckirk 3y ago
I don't really know why, but at this point whenever I read any new OpenAI news, Yakety Sax starts playing in my head.
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by mckirk 3y ago
What on earth is going on over there? Is this what it looks like from the outside when a company accidentally invents Shiri's Scissor[1]? [1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial&#
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by mckirk 3y ago
"If we don't build the atomic bomb, the Germans will beat us to it." (I assume)
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by mckirk 3y ago
I'm sorry you had to find out this way...
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by mckirk 3y ago
Cool to see that you kept the idea alive, thanks! :D I'd have totally forgotten to post again, even though I also considered doing it at some point.
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by mckirk 3y ago
This seems a good summary of the case I was talking about: https://massivelyop.com/2020/02/28/lawful-neutral-cheating-c...
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by mckirk 3y ago
Given how liberally the DMCA is applied, you definitely don't want to be on the wrong side of that. I remember some guy that wrote a WoW bot and got sued using the DMCA, with the argument that his bot was circumventing the anti-cheat a
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by mckirk 3y ago
It is different, because this doesn't need cellular connectivity and can even bridge air gaps. Afaik, your iPhone will happily cache found FindMy beacons and send them out once it has internet connection again.
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by mckirk 3y ago
People value trustworthiness, and Musk's track record with public statements about his businesses definitely isn't the best in that regard -- though that largely concerns the utopian predictions/promises he likes to make, I s
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by mckirk 3y ago
I'd suggest looking up 'heart rate variability'. If the headphones are sensitive enough to measure that, it would be quite possible to build a stress-response profile of you with regards to different content.
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by mckirk 3y ago
There's also this other variant of Trackmania AI that's trained on the visual content of the screen as the input instead, which I found really interesting as well: https://youtu.be/9juZgQc4D7U
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by mckirk 3y ago
I'm sorry, I probably should have advertised that better.
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by mckirk 3y ago
My absolute favorite application of this tech so far is The Beach Boys singing 'Hurt'. It's the first time I seriously didn't notice any artifacts, and it just works so well even though it really shouldn't. Enjoy:
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by mckirk 3y ago
If you are in the EU, I can wholeheartedly recommend omega3zone[1]. Their fish oil actually tastes pretty nice and absolutely not like fish, keeps in the fridge for quite a while and has insane concentrations of the 'good stuff' (
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by mckirk 3y ago
I sadly don't have experience with either, but I'm curious what you decided on and what your experience has been so far.
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by mckirk 3y ago
I think this is essentially the source for newsasfacts.com, which I like a lot.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Whenever it links me to a 'shitty song' I've apparently listened to, that link just 404s. Also, my favorite artist definitely isn't Taylor Swift, lol.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Damn, thanks for letting me know! I suspect then that I was prompted to re-discover this by some fnording guy in a submarine, using mind control satellites or something.
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by mckirk 3y ago
That's the spirit!
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by mckirk 3y ago
The first rule of pentamester club is: we do not talk about February 29th ;)
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by mckirk 3y ago
As an interesting side-note, 365 has two prime factors: 5 and 73. That means you can cleanly divide the year in five 'seasons' (or 'pentamesters', I suppose) of 73 days each, which somehow seemed... beautiful to me from
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by mckirk 3y ago
Are there any pointers you could share on what would be a good way to go down the electronics rabbit hole? I'm great with software, but still often notice a glaring lack of knowledge when it comes to hardware topics.
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by mckirk 3y ago
Yeah, that one made me actually laugh. Keep it classy, GGPT.
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by mckirk 3y ago
That's a good point. Basically the only thing you could do to restore integrity of the system would be to use a more accurate sensor and re-register the people (and even then you have to take care that you don't accept faked data
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by mckirk 3y ago
It has definitely gotten worse. At least its performance when prompted in German has degraded noticeably, to the point where it's making grammatical mistakes, which it never has before.
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by mckirk 3y ago
That's fascinating. I'm pretty sure you could post that as its own submission (if you find a suitable link) and it might do quite well.
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by mckirk 3y ago
I can definitely relate to that. I don't think it's necessarily an effect of your brain 'figuring out the trick', but more an issue of a part of your 'identity' getting shifted in an unhelpful direction. When I
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by mckirk 3y ago
You might want to make it clearer that these are quotes by prepending '>'s. At least to me, this wasn't clear at first. That being said, I think it is interesting context to remind people of the immediate reactions to the
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by mckirk 3y ago
On Saturday it produced grammatically incorrect German text (when prompted in German), which it certainly never had done before. It was quite concerning to see.
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by mckirk 3y ago
I've had the same problem, but found a solution: a standard eye mask that would slip off on its own, held in place by one of those 'Buff' tube scarves.

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