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by mmaunder 3y ago
It’s hard to have a serious conversation about black swan events because you’re a fool until they happen. Anyway, if China invades Taiwan, which appears increasingly likely, the availability of GPUs will plummet. If this occurs in about 2 y
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by mmaunder 3y ago
No, you’re not taking into account our connectedness and the velocity of ideas as a result of our connectedness.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
This is incredible!! For all the “AI is stealing our music” naysayers here consider that all art is derivative or it lacks context and makes it nonsensical, and artists learn too.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Humans evolved unsupervised. AI is highly supervised. The idea that an AI will enslave us all is as absurd as suggesting “computers” will enslave us all merely because they exist. Models are designed and operated by people for specific use
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Passthrough with a virtual computer screen was the most compelling use case we found when we tested the Meta Quest 2 as a team in a virtual office environment. Having your screen projected in front of you in a virtual environment felt like
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by mmaunder 3y ago
In 2023 we saw the first glimpse of machines becoming better at programming than humans when an AI created a new sorting algorithm that was faster than anything humans had yet created.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
I think the voting system on reddit confuses users into thinking it's a democracy. It's a business owned by Tencent and Fidelity investments with a valuation of over $10B.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
“Satya holding on line 1 for you Sam”
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever. The vast majority (75 to 90%) of silent films are lost forever. This is mostly due to fire caused by the nitrate used in the film. Projecti
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Matt is a cool guy. Generous and principled.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
We need some AI. ok! And we need to say something about it being dangerous. Ok! Ok.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Launched in 2021 and in Europe in 2022. Not much time to iterate or pivot. I’m not sure that search is a helpful way to think about AI. Search is a 90s concept that describes searching an index of what is on the web for results to a query.
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Much of todays conversation around AI mirrors conversations that occurred at the dawn of many other technological breakthroughs. The printing press, electricity, radio, the microprocessor, PCs and packaged software, the Internet and the Web
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by mmaunder 3y ago
Marketing claims have always been problematic, in every industry. But you can’t argue with results.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
I must admit as a web practitioner since 1994 I have a bit of an issue with this: > In the 2000s, the conventional wisdom selected MySQL because rising tech stars like Google and Facebook were using it. Then in the 2010s, it was MongoDB
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by mmaunder 4y ago
A few decades from now we’ll start seeing interactive AIs on emulated platforms asking about president Jon Stewart and other 2030s trivia.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
“Or: testing on your training data is a common way to cheat, but so is training on your test data” The need to hold back training data for testing, and issues around testing using variants of training data versus real world data are well kn
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Know-it-all PPLs on the flight giving other passengers blow by blow commentary while critiquing the captain. That and not wanting pax to think about being in an aluminum tube traveling 0.7 Mach while in said tube.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Here are the TFRs. Two on the 17th and 18th from 6am to 9am MDT. The yellow section. About 15 miles long and averages 7 miles wide. https://ibb.co/H41P6Md
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What to Do About AI(wordfence.com)
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by mmaunder 4y ago
LLM sizes have been increasing 10X every year for the last few years. Source is NVidia. That pace is staggering. GPT4’s lead is temporary and it’s a shiny ball distraction from doing dev on your own projects rather than being a user on some
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by mmaunder 4y ago
They’ll get someone who wants it on their resume and wants the network so they can move to private sector and sell back to the same department. The ole public-private two-step.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
As with much of film making, Dogme defined a set of rules which were a departure point, and film makers went about finding ways to break them. Some of Harmony Korine’s most important films like Gummo were influenced by Dogme but are not pur
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Came here to say this. It was also coming out of a Java applet world which was along the same lines.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
"For the safety of our children" has been the rationale behind some of the most horrific crimes humans against humanity.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
How is this AI rather than just string logic? What model was trained? Trained on what? Maybe producthunt would be a better place to post promos?
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Thanks!
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Anyone done any work on using a model for transcription on the local device using the ANE? I've heard it kills the battery. Having to transcribe voice in the cloud is a serious impediment to end to end encryption for certain applicatio
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by mmaunder 4y ago
The pre market is looking brutal: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/sq Those puts are going to pay off handsomely.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Greed.

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