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https://xkcd.com/605/
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If you're producing in volume that's when the microcontroller and effort involved becomes worth the cost savings. For a static screen that just refreshes every 5 mins a tiny MCU can go a looong way. One could do this with 96k of R
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Is it? At the end of the day, whether it's effective or not, Duolingo sells the feeling that you are learning a language to people. Winning a competition with Duolingo means doing better at making people feel like they are learning a l
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I love these things. Sadly, it’s like an Elven artifact: a beautiful elegant thing, built for people who just aren’t quite like us. Us (the mass market, 99% of car buyers) are orcs. We look at a thing like this and can’t see the beauty or u
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Really? If Apple released OpenAI's voice mode, without calling it "AI," referring to a "GPT" or a "model" -- if it was just integrated into the iPhone with a wake word, that absolutely would satisfy Jobs.
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I gave it (part of) the classic Navy Seal copypasta. Interestingly, the safety controls ("I cannot assist with that request") is sort of dependent on the vibe instruction. NYC cabbie has no problem with it (and it's really, r
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Desalination is not trivial. It must be done on the coast and produces truly immense amounts of brine which kills everything, -- all plants, all animals -- in the vicinity. People talk about desal as if you can just plop a plant anywhere an
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by mlsu 2y ago
This is a topic near and dear to my heart! Cottons is the break directly in front of Casa Pacifica. It's a long, easy peeling left-hander (meaning: looking at it from the beach, the wave curl moves from left to right as the wave breaks
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There is a sizeable and growing group of people who legitimately do not know how to cook a meal for themselves. They actually go a to a restaurant for every meal, kitchen is unused basically. Eat at corporate cafeteria for lunch, doordash o
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Yes! The way I think of it is this. Yes, the LLM is a "general reasoner." However, it's locked in a box, where the only way in and out is through the tokenizer. So there's this huge breadth of concepts and meanings that
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Revolutionary things are things that change how society actually works at a fundamental level. I can think of four technologies of the past 40 years that fit that bill: the personal computer the internet the internet connected phone social
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I’ve used it in the past for creating a shared messaging crate that has packet definitions, handshake logic, serialization/deserialization. I think with sloppy/complex code it could start to resemble #ifdef PLATFORM complexity if
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Where I'm from, "in house" means employees. I see "contractors" and "negative earnings" in the same article. They do say that reviewers have to have some kind of aviation experience. I'd be more curio
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The key is to not focus on the money. The money flows in one direction, but the economy (things that people choose to do; where they spend their time, how they get around, etc) flows in the other direction. In some sense, money is a symbol
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by mlsu 2y ago
Corporate income tax is a bad idea. It should be cut to zero. If you run a corporation, and a larger tax bill comes, you will keep your own salary (hence, wealth) and either pass the tax onto your employees or cut employee benefits/job
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by mlsu 2y ago
Air quality is much, much better than it used to be. We used to burn leaded gasoline in our cars, coal pucks to heat our homes, smoke directly into our lungs on purpose, god knows what else. I do agree with the broader point though.
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by mlsu 2y ago
Ah, this is a great topic on its own. The other layer of website same-ification is the technology choices people make. By and large, React Apps with Tailwind look, behave, feel, "samey" no matter how many tweaks one makes to the s
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This is a recent problem with big cities and it primarily concerns the price of real estate. New York in the 60s was a truly counterculture place because with a little bit of money you could live downtown and afford to do your art. Now if y
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"Different" or "out of distribution" in the context of LLM actually means "wrong." When people are different, they are wrong relative to each other. When someone is in a far-off subculture (far left, far right,
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In many cases this is true (typical CRUD apps), the tools (react etc) are too way too heavyweight for the job. It may even be some large % the case that it is a self-induced hell. However, I think frontend is often quite underrated in its e
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Wow, incredible. Reading these brings back so many memories. I remember spending so many hours in architecture mode designing houses, reading these makes me realize how well designed the whole thing was. These design documents are incredibl
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These are fungal organisms that break apart dead matter. The ecosystem cannot survive without them.
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Connectors are actually extremely difficult to make. - you have to ensure that the metal connectors take shape and bond to the wire properly. This is done by crimping. Look up how much a good crimping tool costs for a rough approximation of
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They could have just cut anyone who filed a W2 a check, paid to the same account (or address) as last year's IRS tax refund for that filer. It would have been even easier, more equitable, and certainly less fraudulent than this program
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I can't wait for someone to invent a new language, maybe a subset of English, that is structured enough to half-well describe computer programs. Then train a model with RLHF to generate source code based on prompts in this new language
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Pure conjecture: relighting in Pixel phones. I don't think they have too many AR-like products. I'm surprised so much of this research is coming out of Google and not Meta.
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If 20% of people don't care about being correct, the rest of everyone can deal with that. If 80% of people don't care about being correct, the rest of us will not be able to deal with that. Same thing as misinformation. A sufficie
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Andrew Carnegie basically invented the public library system as we know it in the USA. He built a library in like every town. Thousands of them, I think. He credited reading books for his success and passed the privilege to everyone else.
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Such a good comment. Remember when Sam Altman was talking about raising 5 trillion dollars for hardware? insanity, total insanity.
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Gaming benchmarks has a lot of utility for openAI whether their product works or not. Many people compare models based on benchmarks. So if openAI can appear better to Anthropic, Google, or Meta, by gaming benchmarks, it's absolutely i

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