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by mrob 10mo ago
Searching the transcript has the problem of missing synonyms. This can be solved by the one undeniably useful type of AI: embedding vector search. Embeddings for each line of the transcript can be calculated in advance and compared with the
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by mrob 10mo ago
As somebody who's tried using a miswak [0] teeth-cleaning twig out of curiosity, I can say with confidence it's not the same experience as using a modern toothbrush. It's capable of cleaning your teeth effectively, but it&#x2
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by mrob 10mo ago
I can think of two big improvements to desktop GUIs: 1. Incremental narrowing for all selection tasks like the Helm [0] extension for Emacs. Whenever there is a list of choices, all choices should be displayed, and this list should be filte
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by mrob 10mo ago
Experienced traders can make a quick estimate of the purity by rubbing it against a touchstone, which has been used since ancient times. And by treating the rubbings with mineral acids you can make even more accurate determinations, althoug
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by mrob 10mo ago
>The quality of music and enjoyment of it isn't depending on fidelity It depends somewhat on personal preference, but also on genre. Classical music often has very high dynamic range, so analog recordings can have obnoxiously loud h
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by mrob 10mo ago
Tanashin stopped producing tape mechanisms years ago. The modern "Tanashin" tape mechanisms are Chinese clones.
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by mrob 10mo ago
I have CDs from the 80s that still play perfectly. The only CDs I've had fail were a multi-disc set that were packaged with foam padding in the case, touching the label side of the disc. The plasticizer leached out and diffused into th
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by mrob 10mo ago
Historical leaders didn't have fully automated killer drone factories. (Just an example; a real AGI will probably come up with more effective ideas.)
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by mrob 10mo ago
I'd give this the benefit of the doubt because the y section is more complex than I'd expect from AI. If it said "it's about the ubiquity of these tools", I'd agree it feels like AI slop, but "it's ab
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by mrob 10mo ago
RAM latency doesn't affect mouse response in any perceptible way. The fastest gaming mice I know of run at 8000Hz, so that's 125000ns between samples, much bigger than any CAS latency. And most mice run substantially slower. Maybe
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by mrob 10mo ago
It's not a post-scarcity world. There's no obvious upper bound on resources AGI could use, and there's no obvious stopping point where you can call it smart enough. So long are there are other competing elites the incentive i
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by mrob 10mo ago
CAS latency is specified in cycles and clock rates are increasing, so despite the number getting bigger there's actually been a small improvement in latency with each generation.
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by mrob 10mo ago
There is no scenario where AI is a net benefit. There are three possibilities: 1. AI does things we can already do but cheaper and worse. This is the current state of affairs. Things are mostly the same except for the flood of slop driving
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by mrob 10mo ago
One advantage of a motor-generator set is that it's relatively easy to get high-voltage isolation using an insulating shaft. It might be possible to build something that could survive nearby lightning strikes to the incoming AC line. I
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by mrob 10mo ago
Even if there's very little audio-frequency attenuation, it's possible for higher frequencies to produce audio-frequency intermodulation distortion, and filtering could reduce this. This is one reason "high definition" (
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by mrob 11mo ago
Correct. E.g. you can aimbot by routing the video signal to a capture card on a separate computer and run image recognition software to generate mouse movements spoofed at the hardware level. The only way to reliably prevent cheating is wit
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by mrob 11mo ago
The announcement says: >In particular, our code to parse .deb, .ar, .tar, and the HTTP signature verification code would strongly benefit from memory safe languages and a stronger approach to unit testing. I can understand the importance
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by mrob 11mo ago
>If an LLM was used in any fashion, then this statement is simply a lie. While I don't believe the article was created this way, it's possible to use an LLM purely as a classifier. E.g. prompt along the lines of "Does this
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by mrob 11mo ago
Thinking about it, "obviously written by a human" is not actually true. It's more accurate to say "no obvious signs of being written by AI".
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by mrob 11mo ago
The bug report in question is obviously written by a human: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/440183164?pli=1 It's of excellent quality. They've made things about as easy for the FFmpeg devs as possible
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by mrob 11mo ago
It's still a problem, although less consistently a problem than it used to be for the reason entropicdrifter explained. There's a crowdsourced database of dynamic range metrics for music at: https://dr.loudness-war.info
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by mrob 11mo ago
>Motion blur happens with real vision, so anything without blur would look odd. You watch the video with your eyes so it's not possible to get "odd"-looking lack of blur. There's no need to add extra motion blur on to
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by mrob 11mo ago
Six feet of separation is a reasonable defense against the larger droplets produced by talking or singing. If you're somewhere with good ventilation then these are the biggest threat. The more obvious stupidity was around face masks, f
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by mrob 11mo ago
It would be clearer with a comma after "increases". Without that it's a garden-path sentence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence You read "increases" as a transitive verb, and t
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by mrob 11mo ago
You can scrape the needles off artichoke hearts, and you can buy them canned with the needles already removed. This isn't practical with stinging nettles.
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>Once the leaves are older, there are all sorts of oxalates, and you should really avoid them if you are sensitive to kidney stones. I've heard this before but I've never seen reliable evidence for it. I searched PubMed for &qu
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by mrob 11mo ago
Stinging nettles taste good. They have a long history of human consumption. They're in a family of plants (Urticaceae) containing no other common food crops, so they increase variety of diet, which to me seems like a good idea. The mai
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by mrob 11mo ago
I believe consciousness needs some kind of mutable internal state because otherwise literally everything is conscious, which makes the concept useless. A rock "computes" a path to fall when you drop it but I don't believe roc
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by mrob 11mo ago
I don't believe LLMs can be conscious during inference because LLM inference is just repeated evaluation of a deterministic [0] pure function. It takes a list of tokens and outputs a set of token probabilities. Any randomness is part o
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by mrob 1y ago
The "PM" in PM2.5 stands for "particulate matter", so it actually is a noun and not just a unit of measurement.

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