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by munk-a 3mo ago
Yeah - our multi TB scan from two decades ago was a dolphin brain image which is a fair bit larger than mouse - and it was a stained sample that ended up being used as our demo image frequently because the contrast dyes set well and resulte
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I used to work with images representing scans of brain tissue - for a full brain visualization at one horizontal slice terabytes was a common measure and the resolution of those images wasn't even particularly detailed - all the full r
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by munk-a 3mo ago
And, of course, Grok: Sir-not-appearing-in-this-listest
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It's also important to note that several PE firms have signed contracts with model trainers to specifically use their model in their owned companies. I know Anthropic signed a deal worth hundreds of millions to acquire users just a fe
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Most of the folks here on HN are dealing with customer feedback in systems automation in one form or another - it's pretty unavoidable in this age of LLM trendiness. The customers of healthcare (in both private and publicly funded sys
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Yeah, I didn't even want to lean out that far but I'm sure average handle time is incorporated in some manner. But, just purely semantically, the statement Kaiser gave in response was worded in a precise smug corporate America sty
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by munk-a 3mo ago
> "Nurses fear that having long calls can lead to bad performance reviews" > A company spokesperson said, "Kaiser Permanente does not use Average Handle Time to assess agent performance" So uh, average time wasn&#x
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Just to comprehend this a bit better - it sounds like the FAA had stripped Boeing of the ability to self-recertify and actually sent inspectors for the most recent certifications. After several successful certifications and what would appe
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by munk-a 3mo ago
The fact that body cameras can be turned off is insane to me. Most office workers need to suffer the same "constantly surveilled during work" and the stakes of their mistakes is so much drastically less than law enforcement offic
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Modern car thefts are just a side effect of some terrible design decisions though. If you buy a car with a physical key required to unlock it the likelihood of it being stolen is severely reduced - it's not zero, of course, window sma
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by munk-a 3mo ago
With well considered engineering it doesn't even need to be tap water. If you have a closed loop thermal conductor that interacts with the components themselves you can then use really trashy contaminated water that just needs to be c
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by munk-a 3mo ago
A fair amount of ML/AI innovations came out of the market in general. Neural networks are a useful tool to solve a variety of problems... LLMs specifically were a more recent interesting market to develop but I've yet to see anyt
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by munk-a 3mo ago
LLM training doesn't carry the same NIH risks that normal internal software bloat does. They are relatively simple to setup training for and analysis of accuracy/recall can be automated. This leaves the price differential between
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It's true, if you're spending that much money you must be worth a ton! Just look at SpaceX!
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Elon initially sold xAI as having a spicy mode and being politically incorrect. It was only deemed a bug when it became a liability - you can't simply rewrite history and expect it to go unnoticed.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Even if you personally have no qualms about Elon Musk his PR is a mess and introduces a lot of risk for long term company viability and funding that competitors just don't have.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
This ruling is very early in the process and doesn't prevent anything - but given the more likely bad path outcome of this case for OpenAI it wouldn't disallow their usage of OpenAI but instead prevent them from shutting down comp
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by munk-a 3mo ago
An excellent example of something that clearly wouldn't be distinctive since all AI related endeavors bill themselves as unicorns.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Even the US does change policies every once in a while. This is a case where Open Systems was last challenged under the old rule set when it was acceptably descriptive. Since that point standards have changed and, presumably, Open Systems
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Sugar in moderation is a fine thing the issue the US has is more focused on how pervasive sweeteners have become in what looks like savory food. A ban would be a very silly thing but at some point America needs an FDA with teeth to actuall
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Large companies that can keep themselves alive with regulatory capture - absolutely. For smaller companies that need to compete the software quality and ongoing cost of maintaining that software is a real consideration. That isn't to
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by munk-a 3mo ago
This is probably an inopportune time to make that argument with Polymarket openly lying about their "truth telling machine" and paying influencers under the table to drive engagement.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Let's have the government collect the data and private companies can engage in that as well if they wish - both parties can call the other out if there's a discrepancy. IMO the government's incentives are generally better ali
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Well let's be fair here - you either go belly up with diminishing funding or get bailed out (maybe by the government, maybe by private funds that themselves expect to be bailed out by the government). There currently is no path towards
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I suppose right now there is no federal preemption - but I fully expect gym & similar lobbying at the federal level to get a rule in place to allow preemption challenges.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Who will get you out of such a tricky situation?
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by munk-a 3mo ago
Well clearly not, but you might need an AbstractBeanFarmerFactoryAbstractFactory.
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by munk-a 3mo ago
I think it's a good idea to learn how to work through those levels of abstraction, even if only academically, since it yields a lot of insight into why our current abstraction level is the way it is. I don't personally use git CL
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by munk-a 3mo ago
The EU's position on privacy seems pretty consistent to me - they're against your data being monetized by private entities but not against building governmental tools to monitor private entities. In good faith this could be summar
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by munk-a 3mo ago
It is right and proper to view twitter as a loss leader propaganda arm.

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