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momojo
3y ago
Genuine question, can anyone explain what the practical applications of this are to someone who's never developed with Wordpress? Is this a gimmick? A game changer? A nice-to-have?
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Agreed. During my time at an AR startup, most of our interest was from niche players or one-offs. Current company (biotech, data) is genuinely interested in VR + rendered anatomy data for client reports: https://www.syglass.io&#x
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I think "What you want to hear" is in the same spirit as an undergraduate attempting to regurgitate half-baked knowledge into an answer that will get him the grade. Maybe a better rephrasing would be "ChatGPT has been trained
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3y ago
> Dr. Hinton said he has quit his job at Google, where he has worked for more than decade and became one of the most respected voices in the field, so he can freely speak out about the risks of A.I. A part of him, he said, now regrets hi
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I don't doubt your analysis of Google, but what was OpenAI able to do differently to get them here? Aren't they just another research hub?
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I assume your goal is to reveal the short-sighted reasoning of the previous comment, but I don't think your line of reasoning is any more sound. For both premises, scientific rigor would ask us to define the following: - What constitu
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Any good resources for learning Software Project Management?
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I assume it will, judging by a comment above where it praises C++ one second, then switches to praising Python when asked what the best programming language is. So to your point, it's echoing the fanboying.
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> Became a manager myself with the intention of avoiding that. I could not. I appreciate the honesty. What was that experience like?
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Whole-mouse clearing and imaging at the cellular level with vDISCO
(nature.com)
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Humans do the same thing; which is to say we're also constrained by the amount of context we can hold in RAM. Those who write novels end up encoding and compressing that information into notes. I wonder if there's a similar way on
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I'm getting Scribblenauts vibes in a good way.
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If the word is always going to be a single word, I would clarify that with some examples in the tutorial
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It's a little of both. If I can do something with CSS, like animation, I'll take that over trying to do something custom with javascript. It's a perform But it also feels great when you can cleverly replace a piece of javascr
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4y ago
You ask some good questions. I wonder sometimes; if Facebook disappeared tomorrow, how badly would my life be affected? And it's strange to me that the disappearance of a platform which seems to pervade my daily life would only cause m
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4y ago
I have a friend who did their dissertation particle physics at a fusion lab, modeling Alcator c-mod tokamaks, and was reached out to by Helion for a R&D position. The general consensus among him and his peers is that the hardest challen
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4y ago
I don't understand where you're coming from. Can you explain?
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4y ago
What about "We should be content with not being as wealthy as our parents"?
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4y ago
> I want to be able to encode more of my memory and context to my notes with a minimum of fuss, and therefore want to embed images (gasp!), tables, hyperlinks, and even file or sound embeds in my documents I swear I'm not shilling f
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4y ago
Aren't most of the python primitives implemented in C?
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> for what I personally do on a day to day basis, it all lands under the category of premature optimization Another perspective on premature opt: When my software tool is used for an hour in the middle of a 20-day data pipeline, most opt
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I realize the Plenoxels paper is already mentioned by the author, but 2 Minute Papers does a great overview of the concepts (for those wondering what makes this different from other techniques) Here's the NeRF paper (2020) https:/
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> The overt denialists are easy villains, the monsters who look like monsters. But the rest of us, much of the time, wear pretty green masks over our self-interest and denial, and then go about our days. Then each morning we wake to a ne
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4y ago
I used to keep up with the state of this industry but not so much anymore; does anyone know how competitive Crayta is vs Roblox? They definitely seem more polished.
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> Perhaps because the the negative consequences are so visually obvious and require few intuitive leaps. Exactly this. At some point it's not feasible to calculate the impact of a technology's trickle down. Unless the impact is
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This could be a fun way to teach a class about the vulnerabilities around hashing. Strong hash != strong protection. Maybe the second half of the class could be about designing a more secure system. Or use this dilemma to explain public-pri
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> Shouldn't this be expected to a certain extent? In hindsight, sure. Given enough time someone might have predicted the phenomenon. But I don't think most of us did. What's more fascinating to me is how often this has hap
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With all the anxiety, sounds more like he's afraid of regret.
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Self driving cars come to mind as well. I remember 2015, when my friends would debate the self-driving Trolley problem over lunch. We were worried if society was ready for an owner-less car market; I seriously wondered if I would have to ha
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Great video by itself
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